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Depends where the sign is. It it is a pedestrian crossing or legally another pedestrian only facility, the sign cannot be ignored since someone on a bicycle is not a pedestrian. Here is a related legal ruling: a rider either seated on a bike or with a foot on a pedal as in scooting is not a...

Actually it wasn't you I was thinking of David ! I'd stuck a "flecc" nametag on my shirt to get as many Pedelec members contacts as possible, but those few who did all had, shall we say, a substantial presence. It was them my brother was thinking of, as he explained his comment by saying their...

The DfT are taking the liberal view and saying kit bikes can have throttles. Because the type approval pedelec exemption from being motor vehicles only applies to manufactured e-bikes, technically all kit bikes are illegal since they have no specific permission to be on the roads, necessary in...

They are not concerned about you having a throttle, as usual with the police, for them its all about excess speed, riding dangerously and not obeying road signs and signals. Policing throttles is virtually impossible anyway. For the exemption from being a motor vehicle, the law says a pedelec...

Something to amuse you David, You may remember I was with my older brother who, despite his 74 years, was a roadie and keen club cyclist. After that event I asked him his impression, expecting a comment about the e-bikes. His reply was, "I've never seen so many fat people in all my life". .

Indeed, and three years after I first met David in person at a pedelec event he staged when I was 70 and still cycling. .

"The inside of the space-based Microwave Array for Power-transfer Low-orbit Experiment which emits collected energy across empty space using an array of transmitters (right) to two receivers (right) to illuminate an LED." One LED. Wow!! .

Indeed. But we still won't be able to get our crops picked and into the supermarkets. 'tis a wondrous thing, human progress. .

Greta believes what she is saying, but is in danger of getting trapped on an Ixion's wheel of her own devising. I don't support any war anywhere since all wars are pointless and achieve nothing. .

I can help you with that, it's all about keeping the population under control, as the old saying predicts, idle hands make work for the devil. While there's a war the population are kept busy worrying about and dealing with the fallout from that. But in peace with time for us to be nuisances...

I didn't for one moment think it would be voluntary. However, having said that, voluntarism is creeping in. When the Chinese gave up on their one child policy there was no return to the old trend towards 2 billion. Instead the population have stayed inclined to remain with 1.4 billions. And...

Now you are talking my sense, these are the real answers. Drastically reducing the population to a sustainable long term level, eventually no more than half a billion. The other eight billion we don't need and haven't done since our scientific and engineering advances in robotics and mechanical...

Dead easy, our Chancellors of the Exchequer do it all the time. .

But that is on small scales, something we are very good at. It's on the large scale that we fail due to our own fundamental size limitations. Far more important than nipping off to Mars is blocking the Bristol Channel at both the Atlantic entrance and part way in. Which with phased water...

Fully agreed, completely delusional, as is talk of our space travel. Going to the moon isn't space travel, it's metaphorically just going from the back door to the end of the garden. Similar is travelling anywhere in the solar system since it is a single locked together system. Space begins...

Your reply inadvertantly takes advantage of my shorthand, I was not forecasting the sudden end of all biological life of course. My final line: "Our early demise would save biological life on this planet." Would better have been expressed as: "Our early demise would save much other biological...

What I posted was very true and I'm afraid you are a bit out of sequence. Callaghan had become a figurehead since the IMF were running our economy as a condition of bailing us out, so effectively Thatcher took over from what they did. She did in fact initially very rapidly reduce inflation for...

That's the best possible outcome and good news in my view. I've long maintained that the human race is a disease fulfilling all the conditions for that designation. Particularly that of infecting to an overwhelming degree its host, planet earth, to the point of its own eventual destruction...

That's good to learn, it's something I did twice over thanks to some good fortune. Coming out of the army at 24 and with plenty of savings I wasn't ready to settle down and didn't know where I would yet. My parents had never been well off and were renting at a time of worrying rapid rent...

No, between 1.2 and 1.9 miles at three different school levels, but the 1.9 miles I had to run twice each lunch hour to somehow fit in the two way journey and midday dinner. In those very different 1940s days mothers like mine felt inferior if their kids had a school lunch, a sort of social...