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We'd need their sun to come here at the same time. .

Very wrong. Completely the opposite. The countries who came up with the 25 kph (15.5mph) were the ones who had always cycled, always far, far more than we have and still cycle far more. Up until about 1960 we in Britain cycled like them, typically at about 10mph and rarely at 12 mph when...

That's very parochial, speaking only of Britain. Cargo bikes are 100 times more common in The Netherlands and Denmark and pedicab use is increasingly common in France. They don't seem to have problems with them. A 250 watt continuous rating doesn't preclude very high power, it just has to...

Those in the extremes of leadership such as the Far Right, the Far Left and Religious rule have a vested interest in an uneducated, shallow minded, unquestioning population. She'd probably close the OU if she could. .

We accept her family fleeing from Kenya but she now wants others to be stopped !! Seems it's her mental well being that needs some attention if she thinks that. She's our enemy, on the hard right she wants to abolish the Human Rights Act which protects us from politician's abuses. .

Indeed, and why our legal name for them is EAPC: Electric Assist Pedal Cycles And in the EU, EPAC, almost but not quite the same thing. .

Speed limit yes, but definitely not a weight limit. We've only recently got rid of them to allow cargo bikes and pedicabs which we want to encourage. The European parliament tried to get the EU Commission to get rid of all power limits, leaving that to designers, and just have the strict...

Reference 2008, S-pedelec maximum rated continuous power was increased from 250 watts to 500 watts at one point, which I believe was after 2008. That was driven by the fact that 250 watts couldn't realistically drive much above 20 mph, well short of their 28 mph legal limit. In practice the...

Russia prefers to invite itself to visit. .

Didn't you see my smiley? As for a "little leeway", you have to be kidding. There are almost no legal pedelecs, they are almost all capable of from 400 to over 700 watts of net power for extended periods, and that vagueness is part of the trouble. It would be much better of the law specified...

But of course this is the negative of legality. A huge proportion of the e-bikes out there are illegal, either kit builds or dongled and the like. So if we did successfully take them all off the road, the numbers "cycling" would sharply reduce. We only have to look at all those who join...

Ah but they are driven by highly skilled operators, trained and tested to prove their high degree of proficiency. One only has to see they way they skim past cyclists and pedestrians at high speeds with only inches to spare to realise the superb degree of co-ordination and roadcraft skills...

We just can't catch a break. As if we don't have enough expense with Brexit, Covid and the Ukraine war fallout, we now have to pay for a international scale State Funeral, a Coronation and an Investiture (Prince of Wales). As Anthony Newley once said, "Stop the world, I want to get off". .

Yes, totally OTT, but I'm always prepared for it. I currently have 103 unwatched TV programs on my Freeview TV recorder that I constantly draw on and top up with fresh ones. Plus links to 36 Radio 4 programs I haven't listened to yet. Plus around 80 Podcasts of past informative Radio 4...

My calculations show there's room for a rise of 11% to achieve that hold to a cap of £2500. Not enough to make your new scheme worthwhile. .

You think that is bad. The BBC have very foolishly done the same as it did with Diana's death: They've scrapped the schedules and put a non stop News Special on the Queen on BBC 1 and BBC 2, plus their radio channels and shut down BBC 3 and BBC 4. ITV, Channel 4 and 5 as well all evening, so...

Don't despair, we'll never see her like again, a bygone era finally ending. This reduces the number of ruling queens in the world to 12, mostly much younger as you'll see on this link That site not amended yet so Queen Elizabeth the second still included. .

Possibly, since apparently she was insistent that she wanted to do the PM handover ceremonies. But of course it could have been just the extra stress those caused that tipped her state of health over the edge. .

Looks like I was too optimistic on Tuesday, with the Palace announcing concern for the Queen's health and her family members travelling to Balmoral to be with her. .

I didn't even know we had a Minister for Veterans! I doubt she'll appoint another one now we are no longer taking an active part in wars. .