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Agreed, but no refund of VED is justified for wearing the roads less. .

I'm afraid not, as I remarked just above, road tax paying for the roads was abolished very long ago. The VED you pay is an Excise duty which is an indirect tax applied to the sale or use of goods. Ergo it isn't intended for any purpose, it's simply a treasury income into the general pool. .

He clearly didn't know that Road Tax was abolished in 1937, long before he was born. .

Having no persomal experience of them I can't really say, but as ever, the law of diminishing returns comes into play. A Ford Fiesta and a Rolls Royce do exactly the same job of carrying one in comfort at all the allowed speeds anywhere on our roads. The Rolls has more refinement but the...

Japan with the Olympic games in progress but with no audiences has nevertheless suffered a large surge in Covid cases. To alert the citizens of Tokyo to the increased risk, the authorities arranged a switch off of all the street lights, but everyone turned out onto the streets which became...

Either of these can be registered so will be legal if you do that and you have or get a moped driving licence and third party insurance. I can't really judge which would be best since I have no experience of either, though both look similarly powerful, but I'd doubt a 70 mile range on either...

Agreed, easily dealt with by replacing that component of the whole battery station. .

A blip is still down. Maybe we'll get a new blip next week. ;) .

Unlikely, the sentence for causing death by driving either dangerously or carelessly is up to two years and that maximum allowed is the norm in the courts these days. I know of one case where inattention through use of her sat nav caused a mother of two children to run into and kill a cyclist...

Thank you, it's good to learn that this is getting better in other areas too. I extend the giving way courtesy to bus drivers too, firstly since they are serving the whole community rather than the car driver serving themselves, but also since the bus passengers will often not be car owners so...

Time the ONS shut up. These are the crucial words in those statements from them: There are possible signs that the rate of increase may have slowed. we estimate , repeated four times. Possible, may, estimate, all typical government weasel words to spin the way they want. Infections are...

Good, about time. It's what I've long practiced when driving, and putting some weight behind it may stop those who honk me when I give way to vulnerable pedestrians. Such as those stranded on a tiny road island half way across a busy road with rapid traffic on both sides, or those who have...

As I've been consistently saying from the outset early last year, enforcement is a disaster. Just giving the right advice and leaving people to it is the right approach that will succeed. The public know what to do, mask, distancing, hygene etc. Group one (the great majority) do these and...

Thanks for the extra information, I understand your need better now. To be honest it's so far outside of what pedelecs are that means they may be unsuitable, needing speed as well as longish range it's really more moped than assisted bicyle territory. For example on a legal 15 mph pedelec...

Actually he's being very wise, protecting his well paid job. As I and others have remarked, these experts are first and foremost political animals, it's why they have their jobs. And part of their job is to make the facts fit the politics. Hence "not as serious as given", justifying the...

Who made you above the law to advise someone about to spend a huge sum of money to risk it on an illegal machine? Will you compensate him if that advice costs him dearly? I'm not acting as a god, just ensuring the OP knows the legal position and trying to stop you irresponsibly treating the...

Professor Jonathan Van Tam has just said this on the BBC news: "The idea that Covid is not as serious as given is right". Nice to get confirmation that I'm right from Professor Chris Whitty's deputy. He went on to say that it remains serious. Quite right too, just like 'flu it can make one...

We don't appreciate anyone giving advice to go illegal without warning them that the advice is just that. Especially when spending a lot of money on an e-bike is involved I don't care what speed anyone does or whether they break the the law, it's their choice, but they are entitled to know...

The models from Urbanebikes with an 850 watt motor and capable of assist to 28 mph are illegal as pedelecs. 250 watts and asist to 15.5 mph are the maximums allowed. You'd need to register them, fit with a rear number plate and insure as a moped. You'd also need a moped driving licence. I...

Thanks, carelessness since I knew this, I'd seen him playing for them many times. Now corrected. I blame my age and being a Southerner, since I come from a long era when Manchester's football was all about United with City almost nowhere. For many earlier years I didn't even know there was a...