nigel farage has gone mad.

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im angry now. 

I paid 66 quid for my kawasaki, 90 odd for the suzuki, 150 for my corsa and 255 for the truck , in VED. Thats more than most people pay! Why does this stupid road tax myth keep coming back???? no emissions, no VED, very simple?

No, hoardes of cyclists racing eachother or out for a ride in country lanes are riding the most sensible way- if a car cannot fit past then it must wait behind until a wider point- no space to overtake cyclists single file, the car must wait behind.  It would be exactly the same if the car followed a tractor, it wouldnt try to squeeze past would it?

The cyclists in town are moving around very effectively and quickly, thats why they catch up to his car at red lights. If they drove cars, the queue would increase further.

It isnt bloody hard to understand how to pass cyclists, or hard to grasp why so many people have taken to it. We're in a new era of bicycles now, light weight, super aero, allowing people to get from place to place without using a bus or a car. Thats only a good thing.  Its not as though there are still thousands of cars blocking the way for lorries, truck drivers and bus drivers every day across the country is it? You never see a long line of stationary cars with single occupants dawdling on a 60 mph limit road do you? You never see hundreds of cars stuck in a car park because the vehicles dont posess the ability to manouvere in tight spaces, meaning they get stuck? Bikes dont have that problem. Bikes are superbly agile, maintain an average speed regardless of traffic. It isnt US on bicycles that cause a problem to anyone, its people who cannot operate cars properly or think logically that are the problem. If we suddenly took nigel, into a garage and made him strip down a car engine, would he have the faintest clue what to set the valve clearances to? Where top dead centre was? Would he be able to put the piston rings on and set the timing so the interference  type engine didn't smash a valve when its restarted? Could he change the crank bearings? Could he do anything remotely mechanical at all? No, and nor could most people who have this utter hatred and disregard for bicycles. If we take away their engine, they won't move and then they can't have a problem with us, because without an engine, they are the slowest road users.  I think Nigel, you'll find bike lanes were put in to stop traffic congestion becoming worse, which would have worked if you left them in place and allowed the car drivers to slowly make their way onto a bicycle for that journey. It could take a few months, but gradually, it would happen. The traffic in london especially is not there because of bicycle lanes, it is being EASED by bike lanes. You just dont see it atm because time hasnt taken effect yet. If you put in coned off bike lanes that connected places to other places and kept riders safe, whilst still allowing cyclists to go a good pace, of course the jams would ease up. Thats the whole bloody point. The jams happen because to many cars, which have no way of out manouvering other cars, have been pushed into a road space and now cannot go very fast because they are hindered and stuck behind other cars. If they are hindered and stuck, that is the problem of the car as a design- not the fault of a bike lane running alongside it! Motorbikes dont get stuck in these jams car drivers complain of, and bicycles never do- i wonder why? Perhaps its because vehicles with two wheels are extremely agile and have the ability to get around other vehicles easily, whereas cars will never gain this power, due to the fact they are too wide and have too many wheels. You cant swing a car in through small gaps like a bike can, you cant turn it in one smal space or on the spot like a bike can. Thats why cars end up having to just line up one behind the other, whereas bikes can nip in and dart around it. Ie nigel, it isnt bikes that are the problem, its your lack of ability to THINK things through logically.