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Unfortunately, this being Britain, he's probably scuppered his chance of appearing in a New Years Honours list for services to sport. They're for the Yes people. .

Exactly, and what we could have had instead, voluntarily, instead of threats, fines and heavy handed policing. It's what I've been arguing for all along, no legal compulsion, and why I backed Jeremy Sumption and David Blunkett when they joined in with that view. .

It was B2 spec OHV with total loss Pilgrim pump lubrication for the bottom end and grease nipples in the guides for the exposed valves. My boss had a Matchless 1000cc V twin engined Brough Superior, a bit of a rarity since most were JAP engined. .

Your memory again failing you? London was largely a free for all and very heavily criticised for it at the time, including in this thread. As a result we had double the Covid rates of the rest of the country, but it wasn't carnage. That's the facts that I go by, not the unproven...

If we'd used the seven Nightingale hospital there would have been far more capacity. However what you've projected is just the theory, I'm betting that the outcome would be very different, so I prefer to go by what is rather than the conjectured what might be. As what you projected had...

Remember though that there were hardly any cars and few motorcycles. The pre war ones had mostly been commandeered for official use during the war and never returned and new vehicles were strictly rationed. But we still did well on accidents, road deaths averaged 6000 a year, over three times...

The government should have done like the Swedish, nothing. Yes they've had bad figures, but the Swedish people have been very happy with that approach and largely still are. Their lives carried on as normal and their personal and national economies haven't been wrecked. Even now with a...

You could say the world. The 250 watt, 25 kph (15.5mph) is pretty much a world standard now with mainly the USA out of step in a very variable way with a mixture of different state laws. And that is the trouble, governments tend to stay in line with a norm, especially in areas they know little...

So long as we need voltage and current, any battery technology can be used. Which is mainly dependant on capacity per litre volume and/or capacity per kilo weight. Cars are different, able to cope with larger volumes and weights, so we could see e-cars and e-bikes diversify into different...

Possibly and it wouldn't surprise me. But see my post just above on the stated change in emphasis. .

No it's something different and connected with a question you've asked in here when you've questioned the point of the BAME demonstrations and what they could achieve. Well it seems they've achieved quite a lot. A review of the whole race situation has been announced and a government minister...

This is an old post I know, but as an active 84 year old I have to disagree. There are limits to what the old can expect from society before we become an unacceptable burden. The Inuit people recognised this and when their old could no longer keep up when travelling over the ice, they...

On March 17th I posted that after the Sainsburys truck chase the 8 toilet rolls I just bought should last me three months, hence your above comment. I've just installed the last of the eight rolls, so with three months up in two days time I will easily exceed that target. Show this to the...

I don't think we have any alternative. The EU has probably calculated that it doesn't matter if we do walk out since our loss will be the greatest. The convenient thing for all the governments involved is that they can blame any economic loss on the Covid-19 measures, keeping Brexit...

Not so unusual. When I joined the trade 70 years ago all our power assisted bikes had number plates rear and front like the one below. In addition they had road tax that had to be paid for and a FULL motorcycle driving licence was necessary, so what Mike faces now is easy in comparison...

Maybe he wants the money to do an Oswald Mosley, set up a right wing private army to demonstrate and fight against all that he disagrees with and push for us to just walk out of the EU without an agreement. After all, he disagrees that we are on course for Brexit and he's right of course, the...

Thanks for the comprehensive post of all that is necessary Mike, we knew it was a complex process with some obstructions and you've confirmed that to be the case. It doesn't help that the authorities themselves all too often don't fully understand the law as well as we do and as your...

Beer. Beer. .

Indeed, Motocross bars as you surmised: "The earliest ancestors of modern mountain bikes were based around frames from cruiser bicycles such as those made by Schwinn. The Schwinn Excelsior was the frame of choice due to its geometry. Riders used balloon-tired cruisers and modified them with...

With an accelerated departure the speed of the satellite in space is unlimited and it only has to reach some light rather than a star itself. But as you say, highly unlikely. Alternatively the satellite could have a switch on as destination light is reached, beginning charging and transmission...