"If you want to ride in the middle of the road pay road tax!"

I use this tactic every so often ... however I been using the far less aggressive "what are you giving me grief for I am just trying to get home" expression.

Other than that I've found catching them up and not even acknowledging their existence after them revving past you seems to work a treat since they will hopefully feel throughly foolish.

Harsh - I do that sort of thing to cars if they block my route... I pull infront of them at the lights really blocking their way and make sure to start up nice and slow when it goes green just to piss them off... dead satisfying and its a good revenge to any f****r that blocks a bike lane!

+1 I've started doing this, start up reaaally slow and pretend they're not behind you while they rev and beep the horn.

Yep. This behaviour dissapoints me :)

Very sorry, but I did'nt want to sullen my red veloflexs on his dirty toyota. Had it been a worthy car such as a lambo.....;)

makes note 'must try harder'

I apologise, start crying and ask how I can make it up to them....

Or start reciting "Bismillah e errahman e erraheem" In the name of Allah most merciful PBUH

Yup, leaving out the verbal response and cycling very slowly and deliberately just in front of them is my favourite tactic. Whistling a little tune as you go definitely adds style points too. And only once has the driver actually had the balls to drive close enough to hit my back wheel.

listen, I usually go with the "there's no such thing as road tax" but then I looked it up when my roommate insisted, and found this:

http://www.parkers.co.uk/cars/road-tax/#

wtf?

The term is generic, people call it that, but its not really?

buuuut...isn't that covered by having to pay for the license every year?

http://ipayroadtax.com/

"Use the Parker's VED Calculator to find out how much your car tax disc will cost."

it is VED, not road tax

roads are paid for by council tax etc

just beaten by aroogah

http://ipayroadtax.com/

I know, I could say all that but then there it was, right on the official effing website: ROAD tax. And googling did not bring up that ipayroadtax website unless I missed it.

Thanks, guys!

One ridiculous argument went "Yes, well, I still pay car tax and you don't". And? Does that somehow make it not ok for me to be on the road? It's your fault you choose to drive a car!

Parkers is not the official website this one is - http://www.dft.gov.uk/dvla/vehicles.aspx

Oh, hang on, they call it tax too....

Disabled driver pay £0 road tax so they should get off the road and don't get me started on electric cars....

yeah, I think it's fine to call it a "tax". Wait, maybe not. there's a difference between a tax and a fee. I forget what it is, though. hang on, wikipedia to the rescue.

What's the difference? A tax takes a cut of some other transaction for the purposes of raising revenue that's not connected to the activity being taxed. A fee, on the other hand, is a charge connected to the actual direct governmental cost of the activity. For example, the sales tax doesn't just recoup the city's direct expenses that result from having sales take place. Revenue from the property tax funds a variety of programs, not just services to property owners. But if property owners paid a direct charge that went to trash collection from their property, we could call that a fee.

That guy that passed me today in an old MGB GT V8 (lovely sound BTW) pays no road tax so he can fuck right off the road too!

Haha! I like these little examples, very helpful to have them to whip out to spluttery motorists.

Stealth tax is probably a good coverall

Haha! I like these little examples, very helpful to have them to whip out to spluttery motorists.

Probably a better idea than a d lock

[ame]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_excise_duty[/ame]

'Road tax' is just a confused generic term that stems from ancient history, when the 'Road Fund' was hypothecated to pay for roads. For some reason, the 'road' component has stuck. It's incredibly difficult to dislodge an urban myth once it's taken hold in English. If you have to explain it on the street, just simply say something like: 'There are several reasons why you have to pay tax on your vehicle but I don't have to pay tax on mine. There is no tax on roads.'

To car driver -I pay car tax, truck tax and two lots of motorcycle tax now I'm kind enough to cycle so worship me. Or make a pass at them.

I like that answer, Oliver. The roommate I was trying to show there's no road tax did bring up a valid point about cyclists not being required to carry insurance to use the roads. I think it would be very helpful to us and also to motorists who get hit by cyclists when it's the cyclist's fault.

Is an uninsured motorist (road user) policy required for motorists in this country?

"You're right I don't pay road tax.. I don't pay any tax as I'm an illegal immigrant funded by al qaeda to carry out attacks on cars and trucks across Great Britain."