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That's because they are twats of course. 20" or 16"or below make real differences, but there's often very little meaningful difference between 26", 27.5", 28" or 29er. Most use the same 700c rim and some with a skinny little slick tyre on that rim are smaller diameter than my 26" rims with...

He was alongside enough on the wrong side of the road to cause her to look twice as the van's sudden presence alarmed her. That lost time was crucial for her to stay looking ahead to see the car slightly earlier and be able to slow or stop enough to not have had the accident. And for what? To...

I'm not going to comment on the car driver, everything that should be said has been said already. I am going to harshly criticise the van driver. In overtaking the cyclist to turn right in the middle of a junction he caused her to take a momentary double look right, obviously startled by the...

The lottery depends on who the police officer is. I suspect most are like my friend of over 20 years who for the last ten years has been a Met police officer. When he knows what his job is he does it diligently, but with ridiculously over complicated regulations like the assisted bicycle and...

Very smart job Frank, good to see you posting here again. .

This is page 2 from the 6th April 2015 amendment to the EAPC regulations: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/24/regulation/2/made See item 3 (b) (3) In regulation 3— (b)for “bicycles and tricycles”, substitute “pedal cycles with two or more wheels”. So you can have as many wheels as...

Not true, I'm safe from this because I've never fallen for the smartphone and pager scams. Like my forebears over as much as 100,000 years, I've had and still have a very satisfying life without such rubbish. It doesn't always help anyway. Yesterday a 90 year old who I work with in our...

But they don't go after them do they, there is no policing to speak of. They'll probably just make more unsuitable regulations that are a nuisance to us all, kidding themselves that it's a problem solved. The most likely main threat is that every kit, modified or home constructed EAPC will...

To further highlight just what a mistake it is for us to call our machines e-bikes, short for electric bikes, I've just noticed this at the head of a Halfords web page: "PLEASE NOTE: In the UK you must be over 14 years old to purchase and ride an electric bike but you won't need a licence, nor...

And that is precisely the trouble, brought upon ourselves in increasingly costly ways. Our careless loose generic naming even led to our UK politicians lumping e-scooters in with our machines, despite them being motor vehicles requiring a driving licence and ours not. .

Peter's omission, not mine, since at his motor repair centre he only repairs mid drives, so I could only quote what he actually said. .

I've previously argued long and hard in here that we should not be calling our machines e-bikes, it's just asking for this sort of trouble, so I'm pleased to see at the end of the article that Peter Collard argues similar: "I personally feel that before irreparable damage is done to the...

This program is more then two months old. .

Going about it the wrong way, they should not be trying to put out the flames. The best way has been shown to be letting the fire continue under controlled conditions.

Big cats will eat Chinamen though: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-38793011 .

If your electric bike conforms to the regulations for pedelecs (EAPCs), it is a bicycle in law and the following all applies: Cyclists can ride on the pavement in some circumstances, details quoted below. Read right through to the end, showing this still applies: "On 1st August 1999, new...

For the first two decades from the start of this millennium Kinetics in Glasgow were the cycle dealer with the Heinzmann agency. They also had a lot of expertise with NiCad batteries which Heinzmann exclusively still used at that time. .

I'm not concerned with the Oxford experiment and it didn't any raise money to build new schools, doctors surgeries or kids playgrounds. I'm not disagreeing with the idea that politicians are anti car, indeed I've been posting many times how they regret ever letting car ownership become so...

Nobody is stopping people travelling anywhere, or even having their own vehicles. They can have any of the forms of electric vehicles, indeed governments are spending heavily on charging infrastructure and encouraging low energy use transport like our pedelecs and e-scooters. .

The LEZ and ULEZ origins were not Sadiq Khan's, he has just continued with them. Towards the end of 2006, the Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, proposed changing the congestion charge fee, from being a flat rate for all qualifying vehicles, to being based on (VED) bands.[8] VED bands for new...