Make adult bike riders pay tax and insurance

I have ridden bikes in my 71 years as an old git, but the bike riders, who ride along footpaths, undertake at traffic lights, ride across red lights, are a nightmare.

I was driving down Langley Road, Merry Hill, and there were two cyclists riding two a breast. OK, they looked like young boy riders. They had the helmets on the Lycra shorts – leaving nothing to the imagination – but would they move into single file so I could pass? Would they ‘ek are like’. The traffic was gaining up behind me so I pipped my horn. The response was one finger stuck up in the air. When I finally managed to manoeuvre past them I pulled up to remonstrate with them, they weren’t young kids – they were grown men.

Their response to my questioning their bad manners was ‘do you think you own the effing highway?’. My response was ‘yes I do, I pay £300 a year to insure my car plus £157 road tax for six months. The sooner all adult riders are made to pay road tax and insurance the better.

Keith Parton

Wolverhampton