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There isn't any, Mandy. I was writing with my tongue in my cheek and forgot that that doesn't always get across in messages. Your point about tax and insurance is very apt. Let's hope the MoT gets things right if indeed they are intending to change the ebike regs.

You're a real inspiration, Harry. If getting a bit more limber also means I lose a bit of weight it will be a great boon. My size is something of a genetic thing as I really don't eat excessively. All my family (11 on my mother's side and 12 on my father's) and my brother and sisters were just...

The keeping fit factor, which I entirly overlooked, may well be the most important factor of all I suspect. I'm hoping to get myself at least fitter than I currently am, but if I were forced into a daily journey regardless I've no doubt I'd get fit a great deal faster! :confused:

That must be what it was of course. I thought there was something odd in my pal's account. I'll explain it to him next time I see him. He's an irascible type and I'll let you know his response. Should be interesting! :D

I've seen the Vectrix and it looks very nice - but the PRICE!!! Let's design the ideal commuter bike for 10 or so miles. Let's keep the pedals but modify them remembering that they will very seldom be used. Perhaps one can be allowed - from the handlebars - to move through 180degrees and...

I can well see this is useful if the commuting trip is unwelcome. But I can't help feeling that if that is so it would be even better to have something going faster still. For instance perhaps the optimum speed for a daily journey of ten miles or so might be between 30 and 40 mph. If properly...

That's an interesting idea that I had never thought of. I can see just how true it is now it's been mentioned. A lot of the camouflage techniques in the war used the principle of broken areas of colour to hide shapes.

As ever you have the chapter and verse, Flecc! What a fount of information you are. But I didn't mean to take the mickey out of the people wanting to unrestrict their bikes. My message was not well thought out I'm afraid. I can understand the annoyance of having some thick government...

Some of you "go faster" lads ought to time yourselves over a 10 mile course, including some urban miles, at your maximum deregulated speed, and then again at between 10 and 12 mph. I suspect that you might be astonished at how little time is actually saved. A friend of mine has been telling me...

These grandads are made of stern stuff. Why some youngsters would have used a trailer for something like that! :p

They do look very good. Wish we had them. Our council has provided the space but not understood the requirement. It's the same with cycle paths. As the government insists that cycle tracks be provided so do our council provide them - by painting lines on the road! Cars drive in them, park in...

Well Flecc, it sounds as if I've been fretting rather unnecessarily. I suppose one is bound to mother a brand new bike a little. And the snapping of the prop stand as I flicked it down DID give me a hell of a shock actually - more than I mentioned. I thought that a couple of pieces had just come...

That's a real piece of lateral thinking on your part, John! Two propstands. I wouldn't have thought of it in twenty years! But it couldn't work on the Agattu as there just isn't room there at all. The chain stay area is incredibly crowded with motors and things!!

John - I felt that holding the bike in an upright position, as a double legged one does, produces much less strain generally. To be safe from winds a single leg one has to allow the bike to lean at a decent angle and then the lengthy lever of the leg must be producing a hefty wringing stress on...

Felixstowe is fortunate in that there are plenty of bicycle stands around, at supermarkets, town square, and outside the public library. But they are all stands such as I would never use, just holding the bike upright by means of the front wheel being held in a slot of some kind. Even those with...

So kind of you, Flecc and deeply appreciated. However all that was written after dark and I don't have lights in the bike shed! This morning a very cursory glance is enough to show, with the help of your very clear photo, that the job would at least need extensive alteration and quite likely be...

Thanks so much, Flecc. I've found the site and the stands and £15 doesn't sound too hefty a price. I would certainly feel MUCH more comfortable with one of those on the Agattu as the stresses would very obviously be much less. Do you suppose it would fit the Agattu satisfactorily? I've...

I've just spent four pounds in ordering a yellow hi visibility waistcoat on the web. I've been noticing that a number of cyclists do wear these fluorescent items and have felt that they are very sensible. I would really have preferred a Sam Brown Belt but they were three times the price. Do...

Many years ago, way before prop stands were usually fitted to bikes, and one had to use a pedal on the kerb to hold the thing up, I bought a double armed prop stand that I wish I could get again. It had two arms so the bike rested on them without putting strain on the frame, and these two arms...

While I am sure you are right in general terms, Flecc, that wasn't the case with my particular problem. I had hardly used the stand - certainly not roughly in any way being well aware of my weight putting stress on the bike generally. The arm snapped cleanly in half, not while the bike was...