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Not in any way political, simply the commonsense of the truth in everything I posted there. To be read in rational thinking mode, free of the bias of preconceptions. .

I strongly disagree. Clearly their outcome is no worse than ours, but look at the contrast in costs: We've saddled ourselves with hundreds of billions of national debt, crippled our economy and at least a decade of our future, wrecked a major part of our children's education, all for no gain...

May I point out a niggling little problem with that There may not be an even bigger third wave next year .

Of course it's not gone or over with, but that's 17,000 out of 10.2 million, over 13 million if you count the supercity of London, and they are concentrated in just two spots. As I've reported here before, the main one is the Borough of Hillingdon around Heathrow Airport which supplies the...

I never knew we had so many 2 to 34 year olds in Care Homes. .

£xactly what I said two months ago. Follow Sweden, take the hit, get it over with. It's what we did inadvertantly in London and it's not us taking the major increase in infections now and new lockdown measures. .

Of course we've known that ever since about 5 years old. There are the rulers and the ruled over. We are told no man is above the law, but the rulers are frequently beyond it. .

Many thanks for this latest information Dewey, I'll use it to update my file on this subject. The diversity in ebike law in the USA certainly is confusing. Riders here in Europe sometimes complain about our restrictive assist speed limit, but at least we have one easy to know standard law...

Politically there are always two truths. There's the truth presented to the citizenry and the actual truth. The more complex our world gets, the more the two diverge. .

Nat West though have said they won't act unless they are forced to, and HSBC have remained silent. .

Lots of people did in the past and that's why they've largely diappeared, replaced by much better standards. If you are really nervous, buy a reliable brand with proven staying power, someone like Woosh, Wisper, Juicy etc. N.B. Crossed with Mike's post above. .

I haven't seen any of this attitude. Since the law made masks in shops compulsory it seems almost all customers wear them. What is noticeable though is that they go on at the last second of entering and get dropped the instant they leave. It's clear that most people find wearing them as...

Of course, because they are the ones who have the greatest difficulty in sustained breathing through one. I know because I'm one of them. I just get through a ten minute lightning trip around the supermarket but by the time I enter a self checkout booth I have to lift it away for a few...

Win some, lose some. I look at those who enjoyed their supposed invisibility and survived without paying for it, and that includes me. I don't see the apparent failures as a waste, it's all experience and each one still constitutes a life. What each makes of it is a question of attitude...

I top up all lithium batteries, not just e-bike ones, every two months and maintain a calender card to ensure I don't miss one. They don't like being idle for three or more months which is when they can fail. I don't worry too about part charging like 50% etc for storage and that has never...

Seen the same a long time ago. A couple of circa 11 year old kids on my estate in the late 1990s, L* and M*, were mad keen on anything powered and sometimes cadged short rides on my e-bikes. L* then managed to get hold of a stand-on e-scooter around 2010, a rather more chunky affair than...

I'm afraid this widely held view is a myth Mark. I often get the impression from posts that members think our UK/EU laws are tough and that there's a free-for-all in many other places. As the following will show, nothing could be further from the truth, and that includes much of the USA as seen...

You're in Mark, riding on Brusselsesteenweg by the Harumi Sushi bar: Map Link .

No, this is what you detect: Liberté, égalité, fraternité , for everyone, not just themselves. The hallmark of a decent nation, and one they can justly be proud of. .

See this .