Bicycle Registration

A bit more than wrote in message . ..
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 20:54:18 +1000, "kingsley"
wrote:

If you can call them roads. Deep ruts and washaways were very common
100 years ago.

Here in the good old US of A it was the clamoring by the bicycling
public that caused the improvement and paving of roads. Even the Via
Appia was great for carts and foot traffic but would have been hell on
bicycles.

It seems that "we have been hoisted by our own petard".

Jerry

A bit more than wrote in message . ..
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 20:54:18 +1000, "kingsley"
wrote:

If you can call them roads. Deep ruts and washaways were very common
100 years ago.

Here in the good old US of A it was the clamoring by the bicycling
public that caused the improvement and paving of roads. Even the Via
Appia was great for carts and foot traffic but would have been hell on
bicycles.

It seems that "we have been hoisted by our own petard".

Jerry

On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 22:54:46 +0800, "Theo Bekkers"
wrote:

Err, what crap is that? The bicycle I was riding in WA in the 1950's
had a standardised numberplate, as did everybody else's. Yes, we had
registration, it cost 2/6 ($0.25) per annum. Attaching the numberplate
was not a problem.

But but but ... Theo! What about the turbulence effecting the
aerodynamic handling at normal commuting speeds? As far as I know, most
bicycles haven't been wind tunnel tested or designed to cope with the
perturbations in air flow that a number plate would cause.


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Cheers

PeterC

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On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 22:54:46 +0800, "Theo Bekkers"
wrote:

Err, what crap is that? The bicycle I was riding in WA in the 1950's
had a standardised numberplate, as did everybody else's. Yes, we had
registration, it cost 2/6 ($0.25) per annum. Attaching the numberplate
was not a problem.

But but but ... Theo! What about the turbulence effecting the
aerodynamic handling at normal commuting speeds? As far as I know, most
bicycles haven't been wind tunnel tested or designed to cope with the
perturbations in air flow that a number plate would cause.


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Cheers

PeterC

[Rushing headlong: out of control - and there ain't no stopping]
[and there's nothing you can do about it at all]

"Theo Bekkers" wrote in message
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"Andre S." wrote

they also think its a simple matter to attach standardised number
plates to every bicycle!
none of which have been designed for such.

Err, what crap is that? The bicycle I was riding in WA in the 1950's
had a standardised numberplate, as did everybody else's. Yes, we had
registration, it cost 2/6 ($0.25) per annum. Attaching the numberplate
was not a problem.

About 25 years ago I paid an organisation called the Bicycle Register Co. to
provide 'registration' of my bike (really just keeping their own record)
with insurance coverage against theft. They gave me a numbered disc a bit
bigger than a 50c piece, simple to attach with one bolt to a rack eyelet or
brake mount. Trouble was of course, any fool with a spanner can nick it too.
I didn't perservere with the insurance for long.

We're not in the 50s. These days the security of our bikes is a more serious
issue. We have enough trouble ensuring the bike, or it's pedals, saddle,
wheels...etc. don't get stolen. How would VicRoads deal with me when I tell
them my rego plate was stolen?

Cheers
Peter

"Theo Bekkers" wrote in message
...
"Andre S." wrote

they also think its a simple matter to attach standardised number
plates to every bicycle!
none of which have been designed for such.

Err, what crap is that? The bicycle I was riding in WA in the 1950's
had a standardised numberplate, as did everybody else's. Yes, we had
registration, it cost 2/6 ($0.25) per annum. Attaching the numberplate
was not a problem.

About 25 years ago I paid an organisation called the Bicycle Register Co. to
provide 'registration' of my bike (really just keeping their own record)
with insurance coverage against theft. They gave me a numbered disc a bit
bigger than a 50c piece, simple to attach with one bolt to a rack eyelet or
brake mount. Trouble was of course, any fool with a spanner can nick it too.
I didn't perservere with the insurance for long.

We're not in the 50s. These days the security of our bikes is a more serious
issue. We have enough trouble ensuring the bike, or it's pedals, saddle,
wheels...etc. don't get stolen. How would VicRoads deal with me when I tell
them my rego plate was stolen?

Cheers
Peter

In article ,
says...
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 20:54:18 +1000, "kingsley"
wrote:

Did horse & carts ever have to pay rego?
... but we still had roads right ?

If you can call them roads. Deep ruts and washaways were very common
100 years
ago.



Hmmm, not much different to the northern end of the Merri Creek bike
path.

I can't see bicycle registration fixing this problems, or indeed any
other problems, after all a bike path is a "road" "designed" (in a very
loose sense of the word for bicycles and therefore any registration
attacted from bicycle registration should address such problems first
IMHO.

In article ,
says...
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 20:54:18 +1000, "kingsley"
wrote:

Did horse & carts ever have to pay rego?
... but we still had roads right ?

If you can call them roads. Deep ruts and washaways were very common
100 years
ago.



Hmmm, not much different to the northern end of the Merri Creek bike
path.

I can't see bicycle registration fixing this problems, or indeed any
other problems, after all a bike path is a "road" "designed" (in a very
loose sense of the word for bicycles and therefore any registration
attacted from bicycle registration should address such problems first
IMHO.