Quote Originally Posted by ms pepperpot View Post
On a slightly odder note, yesterday I had a more bizarre anti-cyclist incident (presumably by a motorist). My bike was locked up in central london while I went to an exhibition. When I went to collect it someone had built a little cage around it out of orange plastic panels usually placed around roadworks. There were 4 walls and one on top. then written in chalk on the pavement was:

"not paid road tax, tut tut",

with an arrow pointing towardsd my bike. Just really quite odd.
While I've never heard of anyone making an exhibition of it.... around here we get a lot of people calling for bike registration and rider licensing. They think that we should pay a vehicle tax just like the cars as we are not paying our fair share for the roads...(and thus should stay off of them...) They conveniently ignore the fact that vehicle taxes don't really pay for roads, that's mostly done with property taxes, which cyclists pay their fair share of already, that we don't damage roads the way cars do and that many if not most of us do actually own cars and do pay tab taxes anyway even though we destroy the roads much less, by driving less....