Licenses for Bicycles? Seriously?

[smokey30725]

Let'em tax all the wanna-be Lance Armstrongs that tie up the 2 lane road into town every weekend with their Tour-De-Look-At-Me-In-My-Itty-Bitty-Stretchy-Shorts. I pay taxes and fees to use the roads, they can as well. Not to mention all the times on the Chattanooga Riverwalk that they have nearly run my wife and kids and myself off the walkway. Screw 'em.

 

[Aegis]

I'm not sure that analogy works.

the FOID Cards in Illinois are exactly that. If they introduced that here. You would be up in Arms, its the same, different activity.

 

[Proximal]

Not a fair comparison. Bikes use public roadways and have potential for endangering themselves and other citizens using public land. When "going to the range", the activity takes place on private property and will only affect those who willingly take the risk to enter.

This is exactly what I was thinking. I didn't think drawing a parallel to firing ranges was quite right. Public property vs. private property.

 

[b.a.customkydex]

You want to have to buy a license for it? perhaps you want an FOID Card?

Shoot on wma's and you need a licence, shoot at a range and you pay for the rental of the range, become a member of a range and you pay for it.

Buy a bike and think you can ride anywhere for free?

 

[alnen]

I'm seeing alot of "if I'm taxed to drive my vehicle, cyclists should be taxed too". Why not fight for NOT being taxed via registration and license for either? I highly encourage you to research your right to travel. Right, not privilege.

 

[hamburglar3]

Buy a bike and think you can ride anywhere for free?

And do it while not following any rules?

 

[GeauxLSU]

wait, so you're for Government Databases of Bikes, how about guns?
and...criminals will simply take a philips head and remove the plates...so... what is the benefit?

While I'm going to assume your post was simply reaction to a building angernade thread and I probably shouldn't respond....
1) There is no Constitutional right to own or ride a bicycle on public road ways and since it has never occured in recorded history nor have any logical basis for concern, the threat of government confiscation of bicycles concerns me not one whit.
2) Why is a bicycle license plate different than a car license plate?
3) Bicycles have serial numbers, like VIN numbers on cars. You file the serial number, like altering the VIN on a car, you get to 'splain yourself to the man....
I read the bill, considering it's exactly like trailers etc... with a $15 annual fee or $48 one time lifetime fee, I doubt it will get passed.

 

[alnen]

And on a side note, I concur that most road cyclists are douche nozzles. Not all, but most.

 

[Proximal]

I'm seeing alot of "if I'm taxed to drive my vehicle, cyclists should be taxed too". Why not fight for NOT being taxed via registration and license for either? I highly encourage you to research your right to travel. Right, not privilege.

Again, I'm not sure I follow. We pay taxes to maintain roadways. You are correct about having a right to travel, but the means by which you do it is what matters. You don't have a right to drive a car, but you do to walk/run. If you choose to drive a car you must get licensed and tagged to do so. The roadways aren't a naturally occurring thing and thus require some form of tax to be supported.

 

[Aegis]

Let'em tax all the wanna-be Lance Armstrongs that tie up the 2 lane road into town every weekend with their Tour-De-Look-At-Me-In-My-Itty-Bitty-Stretchy-Shorts. I pay taxes and fees to use the roads, they can as well. Not to mention all the times on the Chattanooga Riverwalk that they have nearly run my wife and kids and myself off the walkway. Screw 'em.

they do. but your example of a few jerks at the Riverwalk running you off the road is like the democrats argument using the psychopaths in mass shootings to why legal and safe gun owners shouldnt have them.
Punish the guys that aren't riding safe in your example....not every bike owner.

You're making an emotional decision, not a logical one.

Everyone that isnt a MOOCH is paying for the roads...and paying for the 15 guys standing around watching the 1 guy repair the road too. Our taxes are already ridiculously high and wasteful, you think another tax is going to help?