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Driver says cyclists should pay ‘road tax’ – then admits to owning an electric car

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by: swldx...@gmail.com - Thu, 7 Apr 2022 16:10 UTC

HOHO.

In the ‘why don’t cyclists pay road tax’ genre of anti-bike online trolling, this one surely must go down as a classic own goal.

Responding to a tweet – from GB News of all places – about the Land Rover driver who was fined £1,000 for causing a cyclist to fall off their bike, motorist Jonathan came up with this wholly unique and not-at-all-tired and misinformed critique of people who ride bikes:

This morning, a few cyclists gathered on Twitter to educate the motorist about the realities of ‘road tax’:

Cycling Mikey’s tweet about 4x4s appeared to irk Jonathan, who quickly – and perhaps naively given the inevitable response – attempted to dispel such a notion, but instead placed his foot neatly in his mouth:

Cue the fits of hysterics erupting throughout Cycling Twitter:
QUOTE:
@TBStevesPix
and 2 others
I have an electric car *********

https://road.cc/content/news/cycling-live-blog-7-april-2022-291737#live-blog-item-33151

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by: JNugent - Thu, 7 Apr 2022 16:25 UTC

On 07/04/2022 05:10 pm, swldx...@gmail.com wrote:

> HOHO.
>
> In the ‘why don’t fairy-cyclists pay road tax’ genre of anti-fairy-bike online trolling, this one surely must go down as a classic own goal.
>
> Responding to a tweet – from GB News of all places – about the Land Rover driver who was fined £1,000 for causing a fairy-cyclist to fall off their bike, motorist Jonathan came up with this wholly unique and not-at-all-tired and misinformed critique of people who ride fairy-bikes:
>
> This morning, a few fairy-cyclists gathered on Twitter to educate the motorist about the realities of ‘road tax’:
>
> Cycling Mikey’s tweet about 4x4s appeared to irk Jonathan, who quickly – and perhaps naively given the inevitable response – attempted to dispel such a notion, but instead placed his foot neatly in his mouth:
>
> Cue the fits of hysterics erupting throughout Fairy-Cycling Twitter:
> QUOTE:
>
> @TBStevesPix
> and 2 others
> I have an electric car *********
>
> https://road.cc/content/news/cycling-live-blog-7-april-2022-291737#live-blog-item-33151

It'd be nice if fairy-cyclists were insured against the third-party
risks they cause.

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Driver says cyclists should pay ‘road tax’ – t	swldx...@gmail.com
Re: Driver says fairy-cyclists should pay ‘road	JNugent
Re: Driver says cyclists should pay ‘road tax’	swldx...@gmail.com