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NC Republican Proposes DMV Bicycle Registration

Thursday, 28 February 2019, 15:15 BFH Uncategorized 45

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A new proposed bill could impact North Carolina bicyclists.

House Bill 157, sponsored by Wilkes County Rep. Jeffrey Elmore, would require bikes driven on North Carolina roads and highways to be registered at the DMV.

The bill summary reads:

Requiring that bicycles used, by a person 16 years or older, on a public street or highway be registered with the Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV). A certificate of title is not required. Sets the registration fee at $10 and requires that the fees be used for bicycle safety related projects. Requires DMV to issue a registration card and suitable plate. Violations are an infraction punishable by a fine of not more than $25. Effective Dec 1, 2019. Requires issuing warning tickets only for the first six months.”

Nicole Lindahl with Bicycling in Greensboro, Inc. (BIG) is adamantly against the proposed bike registration bill.

“It’s a regressive tax that is going to put a terrible strain on those with lower incomes and no income, those who depend on bicycles for their modes of transportation,” she said.

Lindahl said those who already can’t afford a car would have to worry about their bike too.

“People without transportation that are getting a bicycle because they need to get from A to B are going to have a much harder time to get to the DMV to get their bike registered.”

The bill states the $10 registration fee will go toward North Carolina Department of Transportation safety projects like bike lanes and helmet grants for children.

One Greensboro cyclist WFMY News 2 spoke with likes the sound of that.

“I think it’s just nothing, $10 is what, a pizza? Haha! I think it will be great.”

But there is plenty of opposition.

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45 Comments on NC Republican Proposes DMV Bicycle Registration

  2. What a flaming idiot. That guy is definitely not a conservative nor is he a Republican (except in name only). Anyone knows that the $10 will NOT go to help with bike safety. It is just another way to get tax money to fund the government.

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  3. It’s about time!
    Except $10 is too little – should be $100 or more.
    And annual safety inspections.
    And a special tax on bicycle tires and parts.
    And a road-use tax.

    It’s only FAIR!

    izlamo delenda est …

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  8. Way back in the dim distant past, I had to get a license on my bike. You stuck it to the rear fender or hung it from the seat. It was not seen as a big deal. You filled out a card and paid a small fee. They handed you a license.

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  9. Although the revenue angle is certainly relevant, I look at this as a power grab by the government, more nanny stating. This seemingly innocuous bill gets their foot in the door; the $10 fee this year will go up to $20 the next, then a driver’s license will be required to operate bikes, then proof of insurance, then mandatory gear like helmets, reflectors, certain types of tires. The cops will then be able to pull over bikes for inspections; sufficient tire tread, properly lubed chains, handle bars a specific height, all remedied with a citation costing the driver even more money.

    In California they have blurred all lines of legality and common sense, such as if you get behind on your spousal or child support payments, they can suspend your driver’s license, please tell me how on earth these 2 are related, but they do it………because they can.

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  14. Speaking of them riding in flocks – There was a flock of about 30 of them holding up morning rush hour traffic last summer, being guarded and escorted by a huge crew of police officers. I found out later they were riding to raise awareness of missing and exploited children. My first reaction, other than them holding up people trying to get to work and making them late, was why in the hell were the police officers wasting resources on these goobers instead of spending their time actually LOOKING for the missing children.

    It was nothing more than a virtue signalling waste, so that a little group of people could get in everyone’s way so they could feel good about themselves for doing nothing more than riding a d’md bicycle.

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  17. Rich Taylor nails it.

    Admit it, those that have an irrational hatred of cyclists will still HATE cyclists.

    If they want to tax cyclists they need to carve out special protective roads for cyclists, protecting them from speeding, raging angry steel asswagons.
    If they do this it would mean better safety for all.
    A win-win.
    Less cars on the road, and no cyclists slowing down the entitled snowflake drivers that can’t fucking share a road.

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  18. Did i ever tell you the story of when the people of Richmond gathered in the west end, post 9/11, to wish the troops well? Then Governor, now Senator Mark Warner pedaled his bicycle from the Governor’s mansion and jumped up on the stage, resplendent in his form fitting spandex, his junk being at eye level.

    Not expecting to need bleach for the occasion, an early exit was required.

    As for the rest of bicyclists, i live in the country on a bicycle route. I hate those people. A lot.
    Tax them off the asphalt.
    They are a nuisance and a menace.

    As for Richmond itself, bike lanes have been expanded. Bus lanes and islands have been expanded. Car traffic has not been reduced and theyve created a bubbling caudron of lunacy. Fun to watch from a distance.

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  22. A long time ago I busted my jaw on a parade bike like the one in the photo. We had welded it up and the frame broke on a steep hill. Thirteen teeth busted. Now the dentist loves me. When I got up out of the road I thought I had gravel in my mouth, turns out it was my broken teeth I was spitting out. Yes, I did ride it again. I think we have way too much government and not enough freedoms.

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  23. Charge them insurance as well, with the under 25 crowd paying double or more just like the crap they did to me when I had my first car.

    Put your money where your big mouths are, greentards.

    We’re also going to tax you heavily for abortions that also include background checks before you can have one. You’ll also have to wait 10 days before you can have one. Plus, we’ll devise a abortion tax that basically amounts to a monthly amount of what having the child would cost, that way women who murder their own children out of convenience can help pay for a mother who wishes to have a birth.

    How do you like your green taxes now?

    The best part; you’ll still be sent to Hell after God judges you.

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  24. ” bike lanes have been expanded. Bus lanes and islands have been expanded. Car traffic has not been reduced and theyve created a bubbling caudron of lunacy.”

    My friend in OR and another in CA said the same thing. The traffic is still horrendous.
    And when I saw the reporter asking people in CA about the traffic, some guy said- Nobody is going to drive around with 10 bags of groceries on their bicycle and they’re not going to take their kids to karate or ballet classes on the back of their bicycles.

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  26. Earlier there was a post about a dopey professor at UC Davis. The city of Davis is a bike city, way more residences and students own bikes than cars, more leftist virtue signaling to save the planet.

    The Bay Area is equally woke. A few times a month downtown S.F. is shut down for whatever SJW cause they can come up with. They even have the annual naked ride, talk about scaring the dogs.

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  29. I’m not going to be polite about sharing any road that doesn’t have a bike lane. My horn will be tested frequently every time I’m forced to, right as I go by Speedy Speedo.

    I don’t mind cyclists who know their place in the vehicular food chain and stay out of the way of traffic, but I have NO TOLERANCE for those who insist on being treated like a car or truck while doing 11 mph on a two lane road, knowing no one can pass them. Go find a track or big parking lot to ride on–you’re just showing off anyway.

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  36. Yes, go with the “cyclists don’t pay taxes” angle.
    Yep, cyclists don’t own homes, cars, have jobs, buy goods, etc.
    They simply live on their bikes rent free.
    Sounds like a legitimate democrat argument.

    Now lets talk about childless couples paying for schools they don’t use.

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  38. Political Hypcrites, all of them.

    They are so addicted to your fuel taxes, they tax alternative transportation that doesn’t require fuel, “for the kids.”

    Conservatives:
    “Big abusive government is terrible! Let’s find way to screw people out of $10 and wait in the DMV line!”

    Liberals:
    “Let’s save the environment, by punishing those who actually do things to save the environment! The money will be used for the environment!”

    I hate all these people…

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  40. Most bike riders are the most insufferable assholes on the road, they are the most entitled shitheads that you will ever come across.
    Here in Seattle we spend 25 million a year on new bike paths,and do you think they use them, no they don’t, they still ride on the main roads and clog up traffic and still want more bike lanes.
    I squeeze them every chance I get.
    Laws, bike riders don’t need no stinking laws. Assholes almost all of them.

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  42. Geoff, a few cities around here have given them bike paths and you’ll see maybe one or two on them, but the rest are blocking traffic, running stop signs, turning in front of traffic without signaling.
    I despise cyclists because they do not care when they’re on a damn highway with a minimum speed limit refusing to get the hell out of the way, what’s even worse is when it’s a highway full of hills and curves and you come up on them and almost crash to avoid hitting their dumb asses.

    Did none of them ever get taught as kids that vehicles are bigger than you and move out of the damn way?

    Every now and then I like to go bike riding, but when a car is coming I get off the road and let it pass and I’m always paying attention and I sure as hell don’t ride down the middle of the road.
    We have an old man out here who started riding a bike daily to lose weight and get in shape. He rides regardless of the weather, but nobody has a problem with him because he only gets on the road when he has to and he gets in the grass when a vehicle is coming.

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  45. Oh, yeah, and a special, premium, add-on, value-added tax on those stupid-looking dick-head-shaped hats!
    Do those morons really believe that a Styrofoam hat’s gonna protect their coconuts from impact with a dump-truck? Huh? Do they ride their bykes with such imbecilic abandon because they believe that?
    Sheesh!

    izlamo delenda est …

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