New Qld Bike Laws

[silentC]

Now what does Glenn McGrath have to do with it? :)

[rustynail]

I'm not making the argument, you are!

Let's summarise shall we.

You expressed the opinion that cyclists need to be familiar with the road rules and that licensing those who don't already have a drivers license would aid that. The departed Doug extended your argument by suggesting that licensing would prevent people who otherwise would not qualify for a drivers license from taking to a push bike. You agreed.

My point was that the people you are talking about there are, in my opinion, very much a minority when we are talking about the kind of cyclists that you and several others are whinging about. The overwhelming majority of that group, I am certain, are adults who already have 'competency' in the form of a drivers license.

I don't think I need numbers to make that point. If you disagree, well I suppose that's your prerogative. But if you think that most of these cyclists do not have a drivers license and are not already familiar with the road rules then I think you are misguided.

Therefore your insistence that licensing cyclists who don't already have a drivers license (your stipulation, not mine) will help prevent the type of behaviour that you have complained about in this thread is based on a weak premise.

That's as clear as I can put it. Maybe try reading what I wrote instead of latching on to some pedantic point in it and we might get somewhere.
Your last paragraph I will take as your autobiography.

[Big Shed]

Thank you linesmen, thank you ball boys.