Bicycle, crash hat and accident

Mrcheerful writes:

My household insurance covers cycles and third party claims while
cycling. I expect that a lot of them do.

25 percent of homes do not have such insurance.

How do you know it is not the same 25 percent of homes which do not have
any cycles or do any cycling?

--
Mark

JNugent writes:

He means Vehicle Excise Duty. Originally introduced to help pay off a
war debt, under the guise of paying for road improvements and
maintenance.

What is this "Vehicle Excise Duty"?

One will search in vain for the words "excise" or "duty" on a [V11]
form.

But you'll find "road" and "tax" easily enough.

Though, strangely enough, not next (or near) to each other. Most odd.

You _will_ find the word `vehicle' on there. Many times---and usually
in conjunction with `tax'. Yet you have conveniently omitted to mention
that. Also the acronym `MoT', even though this has been a bit of a
legal fiction for some decades now.

--
Mark

On 31/08/2014 18:19, Mark Williams wrote:
writes:

He means Vehicle Excise Duty. Originally introduced to help pay off a
war debt, under the guise of paying for road improvements and
maintenance.

What is this "Vehicle Excise Duty"?

One will search in vain for the words "excise" or "duty" on a [V11]
form.

But you'll find "road" and "tax" easily enough.

Though, strangely enough, not next (or near) to each other. Most odd.

You _will_ find the word `vehicle' on there. Many times---and usually
in conjunction with `tax'. Yet you have conveniently omitted to mention
that. Also the acronym `MoT', even though this has been a bit of a
legal fiction for some decades now.

Assuming you had one, and assuming that you know what it is/was (not a
safe assumption, I accept), what is your point?

On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 18:19:14 +0100, Mark Williams ]
wrote:

JNugent writes:

He means Vehicle Excise Duty. Originally introduced to help pay off a
war debt, under the guise of paying for road improvements and
maintenance.

What is this "Vehicle Excise Duty"?

One will search in vain for the words "excise" or "duty" on a [V11]
form.

But you'll find "road" and "tax" easily enough.

Though, strangely enough, not next (or near) to each other. Most odd.

You _will_ find the word `vehicle' on there. Many times---and usually
in conjunction with `tax'. Yet you have conveniently omitted to mention
that. Also the acronym `MoT', even though this has been a bit of a
legal fiction for some decades now.


Google:

Vehicle Excise Duty : About 225,000 results

Road Tax: about 6,940,000 results


Most odd.

(I guess the 225,000 were cyclists and the 7 million were not)

On 31/08/2014 23:55, Judith wrote:

On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 18:19:14 +0100, Mark ]
wrote:

writes:

He means Vehicle Excise Duty. Originally introduced to help pay off a
war debt, under the guise of paying for road improvements and
maintenance.

What is this "Vehicle Excise Duty"?

One will search in vain for the words "excise" or "duty" on a [V11]
form.
But you'll find "road" and "tax" easily enough.

Though, strangely enough, not next (or near) to each other. Most odd.

You _will_ find the word `vehicle' on there. Many times---and usually
in conjunction with `tax'. Yet you have conveniently omitted to mention
that. Also the acronym `MoT', even though this has been a bit of a
legal fiction for some decades now.

Google:
Vehicle Excise Duty : About 225,000 results
Road Tax: about 6,940,000 results
Most odd.
(I guess the 225,000 were cyclists and the 7 million were not)

Williams also changed "road tax renewal form" by substituting "V11 Form".

No, I too don't know why a sane person would do that. It suggests more
than a small measure of OCD on his part.

On 27/08/2014 09:56, Peter Keller wrote:
On Tue, 26 Aug 2014 19:33:45 +0100, JNugent wrote:

On 26/08/2014 09:24, Peter Keller wrote:
On Mon, 25 Aug 2014 17:26:38 +0100, Mr Pounder wrote:

wrote in message
...
Mr Pounder wrote:

So it is not really a viable and practical means of transport.

Careful, being truthful will get you all sorts of abuse!

This is a very polite group which is only spoilt by cyclists posting
to it.

Is that why it is called uk.rec.cycling?

And not "uk.rec.cyclists", you will note.

What sort of poster do you reckon a newsgroup called
"uk.politics.fracking" would largely call into being?

Mainly oil exploration engineers? Or a different group of people with a
different view of things?

Perhaps "fracking" has been mis-spelled.

Not in my post.

Care to venture an answer to the question?

Or is it to be left as a rhetorical observation?