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Boris Johnson can't do serious though. A lifetime of wilful dishonesty cannot be so easily overcome. Even his apologies to the HoC about Partgate rang false, no matter how hard he tried to convince of his attrition. .

The OP has said he will convert to new rims and brakes, a front hub motor with disc brake and if possible, a combined hub gear and brake for the rear wheel. .

Which is still wrong, since the accumulation was so disproportionate to the original offence. What next, life imprisonment for refusing to pay a parking fine? We saw the same idiocy from the moronic Matt Hancock with the Covid fines. First £100 which didn't work, so he upped it to £1000...

I still remember an example of Boris's numeracy some years ago. Speaking to the press corps, he spoke on these lines: "Since whenever it was we started it, we've boosted it from er, er, whatever it was, to er, er, er", looking around for inspiration, then triumphantly ending with, "to whatever...

I used to ride one of these on Saturdays as an 11 year old in the 1940s, delivering weekend joints and collecting the money for the local butcher. This style of trade bike always had 26" wheels. The BPM motor that sjpt mentioned would be a good powerful front wheel choice, but the battery...

Yup, 86 years old and still at it ! ;) .

Almost entirely untrue. We've had numerous traffic laws since 1835, but the first ever Highway Code wasn't published until almost a century later, in April 1931. Furthermore, much of our modern vehicle law since 1972 followed EU law as part of harmonisation to enable borderless travel. Our...

It wouldn't. The sheer strength of the reaction would simply paralyse the country. It's not possible to act in that way against three quarters of the electorate old enough to drive. Especially when it's only to benefit the at most 3% who regularly cycle. It never has and never will. Unless...

There's another view on this: 2. Your home is in a really awkward location for public transport. Move home, save time, protect badgers. .

Lets keep it accurate, the prosecutions and convictions have been for careless driving/driving without due care and attention, not dangerous driving. So still not dangerous. and since neither the police nor the courts have acted in this way until now, presumably they didn't even view it as...

There is no such requirement in law. You've done exactly what the authorities are guilty of doing, taken something advised as desirable and translated it into a legal offence of carelessness with a disproportional penalty. That is fundamentally wrong. .

Fine, then lets continue with just over a 100 cyclists killed every year and the same large numbers seriously injured every year. The fact that these remain unchanged year after year is proof enough that the measures I listed don't work. Doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different...

The new highway code is wrong and misusing it as law is fundamentally wrong for the following reasons: The Highway Code is and always has been advisory, recommending the ideal while recognising that the ideal is not always possible or even desirable or necessary, according to circumstances. If...

But the video showed there was no victim. The pass was safe and perfectly normal and routine in cities all over this country. This arbitrary 1.5 metre allowance in all circumstances is wrong. Cyclists often don't even give us six inches, even when they are travelling at speed. .

I agree with you, from a practical point of view there is no way that is too close or unsafe. The £2000 fine is grossly excessive. We don't have vast road widths in this country and have to make do with what we have. I'm all for punishing dangerous driving, but heavily fining for technical...

Bitcoin has a sound basis though, so should recover once the rest are disposed of. But the recovery will be nervous for a while. .

Fine out on main roads in the countryside, but life for drivers is potentially getting very difficult now in London, since a metre is about all most passes get or is even possible. As things stand our cycling commuters dont expect so much space, indeed they ride into confined space in fast...

You've spelt decay wrongly. :) .

. Mentally yes. Physically, no chance. I went to bed last night at 11.50 pm. I woke up this morning, just about. It was 25 minutes to 11. So that was 10 hours 45 minutes of not giving anyone a run for their money. The other 13 hours 15 minutes is being spent weary and sometimes exhausted. .

The motor might, but that doesn't always set the upper limit. It's the controller feeding the motor supply that does that. .