increase in motorcycle tax

taken from the march issue of scootering magazine..........

Alistair Darling has plans to double the road taxfor bikes in 2009, making it more expensive to tax a viable green alternative than it is for some cars.

Changes to the law mean cars emitting less than 100g of CO2 per km would be exempt from paying Vehicle Excise Duty while motorcycles are still required to pay. Even more polluting but low emission cars will still cost little, for example a 1.6 diesel Peugeot 207 cost £35 to renew last year while the anual charge for a typical 125cc commuter bike is set to grow from £15 to £33 in 2009

An online petition to Number 10 has been organised and runs until April 11

petition is here..........

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/motorcycle-tax/#detail

what do you expect they hate us still living with that 70's stereotype most of the government have of us.

[Messie]

Not again!!

see

http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.p...+road+petition

which is one of at least 3 other threads on this nonsense!

1. Hitler Bike.
2. I've just had a quick search on google. By the time you get to the third page it's no longer about bikes. For those first two pages, it's either forums & heresay, or it's MCN links.

Hmmm...

Originally Posted by Baph

1. Hitler Bike

Hmmm...

what's that got to do with anything

only just read it, thought you all might want to know

[Messie]

Stoppy - look particularly at Northwind's response in the link. That's why we need to apply brains to what we read and not just have kneejerk responses

http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.p...+road+petition

bike=cuts through stationary traffic and uses fuel to its max.
green car=stands in traffic for hours burning fuel at an alarming rate whilst listening to ELO mr blue sky.
life seems so unfair at times.

i agree 100% it's wrong in everyway and make's complete hypocritical nonsense out of all the green claim's for the tax band's but unless you actually kick up a real stink they'll just do whatever the hell they please.

[timwilky]

Originally Posted by zsv650

what's that got to do with anything

so many Hitler bike video threads were started by people that thought that they had found something new and that we had not seen before that the term "Hitler Bike" has become a euphanism for "Oh my god, not that again"