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Are you sure all your local bike shops are shut? Bicycle shops are among the businesses specifically allowed to stay open as they offer an essential service. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/24/uk-bicycle-shops-and-repairers-see-a-surge-in-business-during-coronavirus-lockdown

That list is not accurate by any means. A handful of heavily polluted cities do have such a scheme eg Athens but is restricted to a very small area of the city centre. It's a complete lie to include Paris, Oslo, Milan, Rome etc in that list as they do not have any form of permanent...

That's a bit hypocritical considering the long list of bicycles in your .sig:) How many do you need for goodness sake?

Thus delivering a knock out blow to the economy reeling from the effects of coronavirus.

We need to have some perspective. The chances of any of us dying from COVID-19 are only about the same as dying of any cause over the next 12 months. About 600,000 people die every year in the UK. That's around 1700-1800 deaths per day at this time of year. There may be 1000 deaths per day of...

It's not the excess annual death rate that's the issue although this could be anywhere between zero & 600K. The problem is having that excess annual death rate all in the next month or two. The lockdown isn't about saving lives although that's how it's interpreted by many. The lockdown is...

The significant demographics mentioned in the report on COVID-19 ICU admissions in the UK were 35% non-white, 75% male & 75% obese.

It might be sensible to have a sunset clause but that isn't what it says on the page I linked to. The extension is for 6 months from the date your MOT is due if it's due after 30th March 2020 not just extended to 30th September 2020. It specifically gives the example that if your MOT expires on...

If your MOT is due on or after Monday 30th March 2020 then the expiry will be automatically extended by 6 months. This means that your car will have a valid MOT & there is nothing for the insurance company to quibble over. The MOT on one of my cars was due to expire on 4th April so I took it in...

There are about 600K deaths in the UK each year so the true number of people dying each week is about 11.5K. People do die from single causes eg MI, asthma, pneumonia, intracranial haemorrhage etc etc

How reassuring for anyone with an underlying health condition as common as eg high blood pressure.

FFS where do you get your ridiculously stupid figures from? If 14,000 people die every day 365 x 14,000 = 5,110,000. Do you really thing over 5 million people die every year out of a population of 65 million? Your numbers don't add up. The issue as I posted earlier is not necessarily the...

You obviously don't understand what is going on & your numbers are nonsense eg 14,000 x 365 = 5,110,000 deaths per year. There are not 5 million deaths per year. The real annual death rate is about 600,000. The issue isn't really the disease itself which is like a particularly nasty 'flu with...

I would have thought that the ridiculous cost & almost total lack of charging infrastructure would put more people off buying an electric car than the rather remote chance of it spontaneously combusting. I mentioned on another thread how I considered replacing my existing Smart with a new one...

That's incorrect, ANPR flags cars whose registered KEEPER doesn't have an insurance policy covering the vehicle, not the validity of the insurance policy of the driver.

I would put the bikes inside the caravan.

Unfortunately apart from limited range that demonstrates another enormous flaw of current electric cars as that Zoe ZE50 is priced at £25K ie around £10K or 65% more expensive than the petrol powered Brabus ForTwo I wanted. Performance is worse too with 0-60 11.5 sec vs 9.5 sec. I can't see...

I wanted to buy a brand new Smart Fortwo to replace my 10 year old Brabus model. Unfortunately Smart have switched entirely to electric power & it's impossible to buy a new petrol driven one any more. There really isn't much incentive to buy when the car is more expensive & range is only 70...

Everywhere in France there are 30kph (18.75mph) limits near schools but increasingly smaller villages now have the 30kph limit throughout.

You can drive a mini-car in France without a licence. They reduced the age to 14 a few years back as a safer alternative to kids riding mopeds or s-pedelecs https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35210572