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The new article 219-bis second comma of the Highway Code that is present in the law on the security package will come into force in August. It provides for severe penalties if the violation is committed while driving a vehicle for which a driving licence is not required.
Now, a cyclist that doesn’t respect the Highway Code can have points on their driving licence, always assuming that they have one. But not just a cyclist, because I had a look at the dictionary: for the word “vehicle” it says “any mechanical means of transport driven by man. Terrestrial vehicle, airplane, amphibian, with an engine, pulled by an animal, space craft or with an air cushion”.
Anyone who owns a horse, a mule, a skateboard, roller skates, carriages, 4-wheel drive wheelchairs risks a fine and can lose their driving licence.
The hang gliders. I want to understand this. The hang gliders, if they land in a “place that is not permitted”, how many points are involved? The law has penalties for car drivers that make a mistake, the incorrigible ones that prefer not to drive, that want clean air and want to get to their place of work under their own steam without polluting. They are boycotted.
Italy is a perfect country for fining cyclists, because there are no parking places for bicycles and the fine for parking in a forbidden place is inevitable unless they steal your bicycle. There are no cycle tracks. There are cycle tracks in the whole world. You have to go on the foot path. But if you are on the footpath they can fine you because it belongs to the pedestrian. The cyclists, where do they have to go?
The cycle tracks are occupied by cars and they are used like authorised parking spaces, like depots for the car demolition operators.
Have you ever seen a Police officer giving a fine to a car on a cycle track. I haven’t.
The vehicles that are differently polluting provide no advantage for the GDP, they are light, they are made from few materials,. They should invest in them. They are the future. I have seen Palo Alto in California, where half are Nobel prize winners and half have four degrees, they go around on bicycles: they each have three cars but they leave them at home and go to work by bike. The city with the highest number of bicycles in the world is Palo Alto in California, not in China.
If this has to be the means of transport of the future, the industries should invest in these , to be able to transport things, when it rains you cover up … the technology exists, by bike, to discover that they are marvellous things.
Instead, what do we do? We accept “il grano” from all sides.
Yesterday, for example, I was on a mountain road, and I saw a horse coming down the road on the wrong side. What would happen to its owner? Would they have punished him? Would they have sent him off to do a “re-education” course at Giovanardi’s house? Would they send the horse off to Arcore to “Accappatoio Selvaggio”? What will happen? A question that all cyclists will be asking: anyone who loses their licence for this reason, will they still be able to use a bicycle? And this is what is incredible!
In Naples they are already ahead! There’s the tandem with the “abusive one” that is driving: the tandem with the proletarian that has no driving licence and he takes you where you want in spite of all the Highways codes of The whole world.
We’ll always be ahead of you! Buon 168!

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Question to Stefano - I did not know they had introduced 10 miles per hour speed limits in the UK? I know they have lowered the 60 miles an hour speed limit in the countryside to 50 miles an hour because of the amount of people killed on country roads and that seems like a good idea, but the 10 miles an hour I did not honestly know about - please enlighten me.

Posted by: Thomas | August 26, 2009 08:20 AM


The recent law targeting cyclists is politically motivated. Most of the people riding bicycles tend to vote for the center left as they understand the negative consequences of driving a car such as pollution, global warming, and the extra cost of buying insurance for your car. In addition to the center left voters, the new law passed by the psycho dwarf and his mafia supporters and neo-fascist minions from the Lega Nord, know that immigrants and people of lower economic class ride a bicycle more than the pariolini.

Posted by: paul Scaglia | August 25, 2009 11:15 PM


The recent law targeting cyclists is politically motivated. Most of the people riding bicycles tend to vote for the center left as they understand the negative consequences of driving a car such as pollution, global warming, and the extra cost of buying insurance for your car. In addition to the center left voters, the new law passed by the psycho dwarf and his mafia supporters and neo-fascist minions from the Lega Nord, know that immigrants and people of lower economic class ride a bicycle more than the pariolini.

Posted by: paul Scaglia | August 25, 2009 11:13 PM


Dear Beppe,

you might like to know, ( and you should not be suprised ) that these same, ever more malevolent and, apparently, absurd legislations, are being introduced in the UK as well, and I am pretty sure across any other country in the EU, at the same time.

In the UK they have recently introduced a 10 miles per hour speed limit, which will be enforced with radar guns, against all these "criminals" and "terrorists" that might pedal their bicycles at 12 or 13 miles an hour,or more ( God forbid ).

I had observed for a few months prior to its introduction, some activities like the setting of speed traps, in areas I happened to cycle through, which must have been used to monitor the average speed of these "criminals" on two wheels, for the bureacrats to have a better idea as to how low to set the limit, in order to guarantee to themselves the biggest possible profit in extra fines, when the moment would have come that it would have been introduced, as they have been ruthlessly doing, over the years, on an ever increasing number of things, no matter how petty, but very useful as endless excuses for taking enormous amounts of extra money from people, with the usual "You pay or else", kindness and love, that you would expect from a Nazi Brown Shirt, no matter what colour the uniform they wear is, in their particular country, the right attitude and mentality is what matters to those who hire and control them.

It is most important to realise, in my opinion, that behind this ever increasing wave of "apparently" petty, absurd, malevolent laws, on many "apparently" disconnected areas of our lives, is in reality, the very well co-ordinated effort to bring about a de facto police state, which controls all aspects of our lives down to the most petty details, and certainly not for "our safety" or to "protect us" as the usual cover stories go.

This is already a reality, but it is now moving into the details, as even things as innocent as using a bicycle ( which should be encouraged and
commended ) are being transformed into "criminal activities ".

Money is obviously a HUGE factor behind all these "Zero Tolerance" policies( for petty things and ordinary people only. If you happen to serve the system, of course, anything will go, like beating innocent people to a pulp ) used by local and central governments to rake in the biggest possible amount of extra money, under the guise of "enforcing the law", as the big bankers want to collect their interest on the national debtsthey have covertly manipulated all countries into, and if their political and other puppets do not deliver the money, by constantly betraying and deceiving the people they officially pretend to serve and represent,the big banks will get rid of them, and replace them with others who will.
And of course, this is a reality that officially does not exists, like these people never lie.

This policy of using ever more malevolent rules and regulations ( with ever larger numbers of police and military in the streets to enforce them "for our security" ) to gradually transform officially democratic countries, into de facto police states, is of course Licio Gelli's ( and those he was working for ) "Piano di Rinascita Nazionale", and others like him have been working on the exact same task, on the various target countries they have been assigned, in creating a situation where a country keeps the appearances of being a democracy on the outside, whilst in reality everything is strictly centralised and controlled by a few, and enforced with the truncheons, and surveillance cameras everywhere.

So, we better wake up and pay more attention to all these apparently "insignificant, little things", like bicycle legislations, introduced for "our security" as these are the sheep clothes that the wolves wear to get safely closer to us, until it will be to late.

Posted by: Stefano | August 25, 2009 10:56 PM


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