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Hence my last sentence. .

You have a bloody nerve posting that. I never force my way past and with 70 years of cycling experience have always left plenty of space, being fully aware of the risks. I illustrated to you how some cyclists force the drivers into dangerous passing situations in breach of this measure...

Maybe members of The Badger Trust. ;) Some say it's better to be noticed than ignored. .

A huge, unnecessary rant at me, since after 70 years of cycling, 68 years of driving and 54 years of motorcycling I've never hurt anyone, not even myself, In other words, I use the roads sensibly and carefully, but still insist the arbitrary 1.5 metres is wrong. Not least because cyclists are...

They can ony be fined if the cycle lane is delineated with an unbroken line. Most are only marked with broken lines so are not mandatory. .

Not any longer. As so often happens with government online information, it disappears. You can find numerous references to the order online from lots of cycling organisations and individuals, including my own of course. However, you've seen my full copy of the information which contains the...

I've done the same Andy. On one occasion a trio of them stepped aside to clear the way for me, so not just permission but approval. .

It wasn't a separate act, that was just shorthand to avoid lengthy explanation. It was a Ministerial Order with force of law made by Home Office Minister Paul Boateng in 1999, regulating the application of the Cycle Track Act 1984. That act permitted Highway Authorities to designate part or...

I understand that, and it's where the police should be acting firmly. But once again we dont have the police on the beat any more, only ineffectual PCSOs and the like, and them too rarely. Laws we have aplenty, but almost no-one to enforce them any more. .

The was the logic of 1835, when the government of the day passed the Highway Act 1835, which banned all locomotives (motor vehicles) from the roads. It is still law, have you noticed any lack of motor vehicles on the roads? Fortunately what is logical changes according to circumstances, so...

No it wasn't, that was just more empty words. Unnecessary too, since existing laws cover all eventualities adequately. I've posted further just above your reply. .

In addtion to my reply above, I'm returning to show that this statement in italics that you quoted does not mean what it appears to mean, it is deliberately fluffed. The mention of the 1888 act is to show a bicycle is a carriage in this law. The mention of the 1835 act is to show that the...

Of course they wonder, and protest at the police inaction in letters to their local press. The reason is nothing to do with this Boris era since it long predates that. It is as I've explained, quite deliberate, intentionally to increase pavement use by cyclists, but responsibly done. The...

Johnson is right that he is Churchill's natural successor. For his whole life Churchill was nothing more than a hopelessly incompetent windbag with a consumate ability to fool the public with his oratory and humour, while taking the credit for what others achieved and in denial about his...

Don't worry, they are after the most blatant ones, such as those with huge Chinese DD motors from 1000 watt upwards, sometimes capable of 40 mph. If your bike just has a 250 watt motor boosted by a controller or voltage change, they won't even notice or know how to check it. .

They don't check. So long as the motor looks original and/or is marked or listed as 250 watts, they will be content. The only times we've ever known of a check is after an accident, but even then it isn't by any form of measurement, they just go by what the motor or bike is marked as or...

You really are desperately trying to convince that cyclists can never use the pavement, but you don't understand the purpose of the 1999 law and the extensive guidance on its use. It wasn't to stop pavement cycling, it was to encourage some of it. Prior to that cycling on the pavement was...

Almost every pedelec on the market exceeds 250 watts of actual power output much of the time when under load, 500 to 700 watts is not unknown and it's perfectly legal Eventually reaching a point there the motor/controller overheat and fail, but theres no specifcation of when that should happen...

Never been on it, video below, but I know other similar switchbacks; .

Depends which hat I'm wearing. The Treasury are right, big pay rises would be very damaging to the enonomy right now, so as government, out of the question. But the RMT are right that a big pay rise is necessary just to hold on to present living standards. And not just for the RMT, for...