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I took Andy's meaning to be as he explained, at 15.5 mph. This whole issue has become a terrible mess, and it is almost enirely the fault of British pedelecers, thanks to their constant demands to have throttles. In the continental countries where they ride pedelecs en masse in ways we've...

Like all EAPCs they total 250 watts Maximum Continuous Rated Power, NOT 250 watts actual maximum power. .

We've moved on since then. We no longer call them necessary unemployment slots, now we call them Non-employed slots, people of working age who no longer want to work all their active lives. I'm an early example. I made up my mind at the very young age of 16 that I intended to retire at...

This protection obsession dates back to when motorcycles AND assisted bicycles had front number plates, nicely placed to slice a pedestrian into two. They got rid of those and have never stopped looking at two wheelers ever since.

Indeed, explaining the widespread political view. You surely don't think I want my driving to be more expensive and more controlled and restrictive, or that I want to be forced to use public transport? Of course I don't, my early driving and riding was in an even more free age than yours and...

Wrong, I have never said that. I have reported in detail that this is clearly the ambition of the politicians in many countries, including Great Britain. I strongly disagree with their alternative personal transport policies which are impractical, but as reported, if we dont wake up, they...

Plastic headed pins are ideal if you have any around, since the domed head stops legs shorting against each other if inserted the same amount...

Not strange at all, it's the same as an annual MOT. With the piece of paper, legal. Without it, illegal. The only difference is being inspected for compliance. .

The DfT have confirmed to us that the 10% tolerance applies to all UK speed limits. .

Actually the launch will be on 10th October. The Tesla CEO has boiled his investment case down to a binary bet on whether his team can crack the code for unsupervised full self-driving (FSD)—a technology so complex he’s likened it to a baby form of artificial general intelligence. Currently...

No I didn't. I'm not following US politics at present for two reasons: It's too messy at this stage to tell what the trend is. And since the USA has appointed itself the world's police force, while clearly being unfit for that role without strong supervision, we should ALL have some form...

It's still the battery cost problem. Citroen have launced their new Citroën Ë-C3, aimed at a low price point, but it's still nearly £22,000. And only down to that due to it's historic range of 170 miles, as low as below half that in Winter, thanks to to it not having heat pump aircon to keep...

Agreed. Probably all part of our schizophrenic thinking about alcohol: We mustn't drink and drive but allow and even encourage pubs and licenced premises to have vehicle parks. We have whole isles of supermarkets full of alcohol, teaching our kids from babyhood onwards that drinking alcohol...

So it was a very sharp curve to the right, but still on a road junction where he'd caught up to be alongside her , unnecessarily causing her to be startled enough to take a double look at the van. By the time she looked ahead again she was already colliding with the front corner of the car...

If that was addressed to me, no motorcycle accidents at all on the roads, never spilled off one. Fell off in competition a few times but always wearing ACU helmets then of course. .

By all means wear a helmet if you wish and do take care anyway, but I've never worn one in over 70 years of cycling and have just celebrated by 88th birthday! Cycle helmets hadn't even been invented for the first 40 years of my cycling so the choice didn't exist then, and I survived my first...

Key things though are that: The US isn't the world, and as I posted well over a decade ago, it was the least suitable place in the world to introduce e-cars in their early developmental years. The adverse factors there are the very long distances, the temperature range from Alaska to...

What a load of rubbish, the anti EV crowd can't stop this sort of exaggeration: "How common are EV fires after flooding? The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has been researching this problem since it was first seen after Hurricane Sandy struck the Northeast in 2012. But no one...

He was alongside her as he turned right, having caught up with her. That is what caused her to take a brief double look as she was startled by his presence. Look at the narrow width of the road. If you are right that there was 2 metres space as the front of the van was alongside her at...

Probably true, indeed I commented earlier on the nervous nature of a woman cyclist which made a contribution to her accident. But I think we need to change that thinking. The roads are for everyone, from the overlessly nervous to the supremely over confident and they should all feel safe as...