London's new ULEZ zone dodged!

[Athame57]

My beloved Honda CB400F2 was officially registered as 'Historic' on April 1st in that she is 40 years old, as most of us know that means I didn't have to spend £66.00 on road tax or £35.00 on an MOT certificate, nor will I have to anymore at all. But the real saving is that I will not, unlike most people after April 12th, have to pay £12.50 a day for the privilege to ride in central London! The new ULEZ is Sadiq Khan's stealth tax for his pet projects I bet, because very few people drive in central London if they don't need to, and it means many people will simply take the long way around. I know how to navigate the place and on two wheels so I go there often, it helps having heritage between my legs!!! To check if you are affected (you probably are not) here is the ULEZ checker... https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/driving/ultra-low-emission-zone/vrm-checker-ulez?fbclid=IwAR1wvdHPzUNlgxQ6F2rpCDIg3aRKk7pjn8GqNn4KdVSYg_DuL7gqrU_FuRE

[Laverda Dave]

Well done for avoiding the charge. I didn't know the historic status applied as a way of avoiding the charge.  the bad news is there are plans to extend the ULEZ charge in a couple of yearss to anything inside the north and south circular so in other words, everybody will pay!
In my opinion if they want to protect the future generations from pollution in London the first thing they should do is to ban the daily school runs made by parents who are too lazy to walk their kids to school and give them some much needed excercise! It's chronic around Ruislip where I live in the mornings and afternoons with SUV's carrying one child with the parent stopping on the yellow 'no parking' zigzag lines outside the school! It's strange how parents insist the goverment do something about greenhouse gases etc and yet they themselves pollute the air around the very schools where their kids are taught! There are three underground lines around here and about 10 bus routes (on which the kids get free travel) and still the parents insist on taking kids to school in cars in case of boogey men! I run in the mornings and you can taste the diesel fumes at road junctions (and it was the goverment who insisted we all buy diesels!).
When I was a kid in the 60's/70's I had to walk two miles to school and back, we couldn't afford a car, strange though that I'm fit and healthy, most likely due to daily excercise taken from an early age!
Dont forget the ULEZ charge will only apply to working class people with old cars and motorbikes, the rich in their new cars and company cars will still drive in for free just paying the congestion charge.
Rant over, shall we discuss #@%$ now to lighten the mood  ......

[Davelu88]

Dont mention the B word 

[SumpMagnet]

Hmm.....so if I buy another pre '79 frame.....and then drop in a modern motor and running gear.....I have a 'historic' vehicle

[Green1]

One of many reasons I stopped working in London.
I was offered a small fortune kitchen painting but I would rather travel three times the distance in the opposite direction for half the money.

[mike the bike]

I asked my neighbour why she drove to the gym,  less than a mile away.  She looked at me as if I were simple.
"I won't know how many steps I did then, will I" she said.
Some people never had the plot to begin with.

[Athame57]

Rant over, shall we discuss #@%$ now to lighten the mood  ......

I ride past those Remainers outside the Houses of Parliament quite a lot....I always shout '#@%$ now!'  My sister came over from Germany to visit me, she had to stop me getting into a fight with a star painted clown with a blue face. I told him to visit my referendum mascots page because he has a message for you! http://www.seawitchartist.com/#@%$-the-Bear.htm
Here is my piccie at the recent Brexiteers march on the 29th....

[adespin]

Rant over, shall we discuss #@%$ now to lighten the mood  ......

I ride past those Remainers outside the Houses of Parliament quite a lot....I always shout '#@%$ now!'  My sister came over from Germany to visit me, she had to stop me getting into a fight with a star painted clown with a blue face. I told him to visit my referendum mascots page because he has a message for you! http://www.seawitchartist.com/#@%$-the-Bear.htm
Here is my piccie at the recent Brexiteers march on the 29th....

You are in danger of stirring up a hornets nest! as we all have different opinions on #@%$, best left out of a forum on Hondas.

[K2-K6]

Yes for any newcomers,  site unwritten rules are no #@%$ discussion.

There's enough of it about anywhere you care to look. 

[Moorey]

A lesson in how to lose 17,000,000 potential customers. Put stuff like that on a site you are trying to sell things on.

[Bryanj]

Pull a wheelie! On an RE 250 you must be joking!t

EDIT this was put in the wrong place by mistake, should have been the golden era one.

My excuse is i am old

[SteveD CB500K0]

#@%$ now in the censored words list.




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[mike the bike]

Sanity is restored. 👍

[SteveD CB500K0]

I’m still a mod on the .net site.

OK they have 10x as many members as us, but

Religion
Politics
Guns


... drives me nuts.


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[Athame57]

OK...I'll button it, but I never started it! Meanwhile one of the insurance quotes I got was for over............£10,000!!!!