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This problem was largely solved many years ago in the USA and to an extent here, with wraparound screens. Unfortunately the change from toughened glass to laminated made wraparound impossible, contributing to the current problem. I never had this problem with my phase 2 Vauxhall Victor back in...

I agree. I dont know what model Leaf you have, but my one with the current body style has the same restriction on visibility. I've developed the habit of doing double takes at danger points such a entering roundabouts, also physically leaning back and forward to change the view. Judging from...

True, but my case wasn't about an individual. It was in effect agreeing with your previous posts about how bad both sides are now. A Tory candidate who doesn't even live in the ward winning, while the Tories are making such a mess nationally and have the repugnant creep Chris Philp as South...

Why Labour should not take the next election for granted. We had a council by-election in my South Croydon ward a few days ago. The following comments are from "Inside Croydon": Fatima Zaman retained the Selsdon Vale and Forestdale council seat for the Conservatives in yesterday’s...

He (Boris Johnson) spent over £56 millions on the garden bridge project, the build never started. He hid the fact that he'd signed us up to 1000 of his new Routemaster buses at a staggering £355,000 each, double that of competitive double deckers. We'd thought it was 100. Worse still is that...

Please be aware that the linked site in Gary's post is of US origin and is incorrect for Britain in some details. For example the following extracts are incorrect: Motorists and bikers are expected to yield to pedestrians at a pedestrian crossing at all times. On the other hand, if the...

A warm welcome to the forum Ian. Sorry you haven't had a response yet but members are often otherwise occupied at weekends. The best place to answer any questions you have is in the Electric Bike Discussion forum where they are most likely to be seen. .

Indeed Nigel, as Soundwave commented earlier and I see in another site I use regularly. But I see this one as particularly hit. Given the huge growth of e-biking and cycling in general in 2020, '21 and '22, the lack of input traffic is extraordinary. .

What is balanced is realising that we don't have 25% unconcerned about injuring a cyclist. Believing that we do is unbalanced, warped, a loss of reason. .

That can be factored in too, but I dont think it too important. The real menace is the amount of travelling by motor vehicle, so making that cost for everyone to reduce it is the target to aim for. Then add a cost for street parking of ANY kind to clear our streets, which were meant for...

To be fair it should be mileage based, easily done. Emailed dashboard image showing the odometer reading sent in at the end of each of the first two years. For the tiny minority who can't do that, recorded by an MOT centre for a fee. Thereafter for all later years the existing MOT odometer...

I'm sure you're more intelligent than this and realise why programs like Panorama exist. They deliberately stir up trouble to make them newsworthy. The cycling presenter opened the program by saying that the vast majority of drivers are decent and reasonable people. That being the case, how...

Yes they have already helped a couple of times. The site isn't continually monitored though so getting this done can be a hassle, I wouldn't want to attempt to keep all the links up to date in my over 51,000 posts! Longer term members trust me from past long experience when I post...

It's not that having a new link is a problem, I always get those ok. It's that I cannot edit a post in here after 24 hours to insert it. Worse still is that this forum had changed hosts a couple of times with large numbers of earlier posts lost. .

Entirely legal, it simply becomes a tricycle pedelec with the same 250 watt, 15.5mph assist limits, There is no weight limit, those were scrapped on 6th April 2015. .

Thanks for the suggestion, but no good for what I mentioned. Unfortunately both national and to a lesser extent local governments have a nasty habit of changing the links, so even where I still have the link it's dead. True of http://eur-lex.europa.eu links too. That's why I need access to...

Through my whole life I've always avoided cycling after dark whenever possible. Our roads, their lighting, cycle lighting and even motor vehicle lighting have usually fallen far short of the task of truly safe passage for a cyclist. And as we age, the muscles controlling iris closure slow...

They are mainly what recipients of information use to be able to return if required. And past posts are not much use when the links given die after a while and I cant edit to replace a link once 24 hours have passed from posting. Something that has afflicted my permanent comprehensive post on...

Two years ago, though my cycling had been declining for two years before that, confined to utility trips. But all in heavy London and Home Counties traffic As I've posted a number of times recently, driver attitudes to cyclists have vastly improved so I very strongly disagree with your...

Little wonder that we've lost so many of our most valuable members, leaving in disgust at the posts of the increasing number of wilfully offensive members. And why this forum is dying on its feet with hardly any input. Given the immense increase in e-biking over the two years of the pandemic...