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You can only delete one of your own posts within 24 hours of posting it. During that period a Delete button appears in the post. You cannot delete a post if it is the first one starting a thread. However you can edit in the first 24 hours it to say it is cancelled, invalid etc. .

The trouble being that we've kept cycling illegal on pavements while also having ministerial permission to cycle on them. Little wonder the police dont know what to do for the best. The Japanese far more sensibly don't ban pavement cycling and even enforce it in congested areas. The only...

Like our "single point of failure" obsessed member ! :) I've owned crank drive and hub drives front and rear, but the only chain I ever snapped was in my unassisted days, just using my own strength in hill climbing. .

Distortion, the Chinese don't ride the sort of pedelecs they mainly sell to us. They ride what are mopeds with circa 700 watt ratings with either no pedals or vestigial pedals that can only propel at very low speeds which they never use. They have also sent those to us but the takeup here has...

You keep repeating this but it is not true. The sale of no throttle pedelecs in the EU and EEC countries and Japan has long vastly exceeded their sales anywhere else in the world. The same no throttle law exists in a number of other countries as well. The main exception using throttles to...

This is the case in Japan where cyclists actually have to use footpaths in large urban areas. Then they are restricted to 13 kph (8 mph) maximum and have to give way to pedestrians where advisable. That would be a good law for us to adopt and enforce. .

I wasn't speaking of permission, just explaining why I'd added a funny which later looked so odd after your amendment. Removing it was simply a courtesy on my part. .

Careful, people have been certified for less strange views! .

I agree, a spoiler I don't understand. Unusual for Juncker who is usually very astute, despite the way he gives the opposite impression at times. Perhaps he really doesn't want the UK back in the fold. .

You've done it again! After I posted a Funny to your comment on Soundwave's running over people , you added more to your post making my Funny inappropriate, so I removed it. Beetop obviously doesn't know that cyclists can be on any pavement out of genuine fear of the traffic. LINK .

It was a shared use path so the cyclist wasn't in the wrong. She was in full control of her bike until that furious woman stood in her path wildly gesticulating and forcing her off the shared use path. Regarding the offender being challenged, she is clearly able to live an independent life in...

Another case of tolerance exercised for an elderly person, the lady driver being 74 years old. And she was also fined £734 which may well be a savage cost for a pensioner, not knowing her circumstances or whether she cares for someone else. At 74 and with an inevitable huge increase in her...

The lady cycling was 77 years old. If we are to have as many as possible cycling as in the Netherlands where they cycle into their nineties, we have to expect slower reactions and the occasional poor decision resulting. So tolerance is called for to accommodate those less capable citizens...

I strongly disagree, the offender forced the cyclist into the road and under the car, giving the driver no chance, so I applaud the police response: DS Mark Dollard, of Cambridgeshire police, said: “This is a difficult and tragic case. Everyone will have their own views of cyclists on pavements...

I agree, and its why I want publicity for the sentence. However they surely should know since most shared use paths are plastered with painted images of walkers and cyclists. However, pedestrians and cyclists are the two groups who don't need any licence or testing for competence, so I suppose...

Former EU chief Jean-Claude Juncker undermines Rishi Sunak's deal: Jean-Claude Juncker, who was the president of the European Commission during most of the Brexit negotiations, has said the Northern Ireland protocol deal gives more authority to the EU than some in Britain are suggesting. In an...

As ignorant as most are about a cyclists right to use shared pavements, or even any pavement on occasions, 49 year old pedestrian Auriol Grey receives a three year sentence for manslaughter after causing the death of a 77 year old retired midwife. I hope this sentence receives widespread...

This is where I have to disagree with the latter part of your sentence since I believe the EU law is excellent with only one minor fault. However I totally agree that it is a farce to provide a throttle for motor only operation on a 250 watt rated machine, since they cannot possibly have...

The housing ownership market is in a mess though, many cashing in some of their property value while still in residence. Having used property for investment previously, I always intended this when old enough with the property I live in. So in late 2007 when it was obvious to me that a...

Thanks David. I've added this footnote to my post: "So there's no need for anyone with a 250 LPM machine to worry, they will definitely not be prosecuted for using a full throttle, even though the law still does not allow one." Just as no London taxi driver was ever prosecuted for not having...