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What will always puzzle me is that on the internet, you can choose to be who you want and what you want, and you can post whatever videos you want. So why do so many people choose to be stupid, and then publish video proof of the fact that they're stupid?

Oh no, nothing like that. We just buy bog paper.

Nothing to it, actually. Honest. If we got the decision wrong, we could always have got another car! But after the first week, we just kept wondering why on earth we'd hung on to it as long as we did. Don't want to freak you out, so I'd better keep quiet about getting shut of the...

I had to, Kirstin. Damn fool site-censorer thingy won't let a chap say em b u g g e r ance ...:rolleyes:

Twelve months without a car! Just realised that it's one year today since we flogged the motor car. Apart from some hospital visits being a major PITA by bus if we can't afford a taxi, all we miss is all the emgubberance that comes with owning a car, like wondering how much work it'll need to...

Erm ... how about sweet-talking your local college or whatever it is that they have nowadays for technically-minded young persons and seeing how they feel about a real-world design-and build exercise? Alternatively, assuming that functionality's more important to you than aesthetics, anybody...

Indeed. Just like we were told that Father Christmas was real ... :cool:

BBC News - Is there any such thing as 'road tax'?

Being sent to the shop for 6 eggs and bringing them home in a paper bag? Climbing over the corner shop's wall after it shut at night to pinch the bottles you'd taken back for the deposits earlier on so you could take them back for the deposits again in the morning? Park keepers? Proper...

And what, pray, is a Redway?

Oh I don't know, they could probably stretch it to cover two miles. But having said that though, have you seen the rates these consultants charge nowadays? Then there's the cost of all the surveys to make sure that (a) none of God's creatures are threatened with having to get used to a change...

Nice to know I'm not the only one here with utter contempt for those wonderful folks at Sustrans :cool:

Not a lot if Sustrans gets involved, but whatever. As token gestures go, this one probably looks good on paper, but it'll be interesting to see what benefit actually accrues where, when and to whom ...

Or you can always just twiddle a 3mm or so drill bit ;)

I've noticed a post or two on here over the last year or so in which it seems that some people are confused about the principle of "strict liability" as applied to traffic accidents in some European countries. They seem to think it means "the driver of the vehicle which collides with you is...

Yes. This one. There's also the Zéfal one, but it's not easy to find the right-hand fitting version. In any case, being French, it's not as well made as the Mirrycle.

Cheers for the links. Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but it doesn't look much like a "witch hunt" to me. Surely it's just another example of ADAC and Stiftung Warentest being entirely predictable ...

What was all that about then?

How do they expect you to read that map? It's all in foreign!

Alternatively, ride a bike with a "sit up and beg" riding position. Works for me (and for most Europeans). :cool: