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Fortunately I'm right on the southern border of London and my driving, even shopping, is mostly south into Surrey and beyond. And stockbroker Surrey with all it's influential residents will be the last place to drop car use. .

Probably true, though it could occur quite quickly. My London Borough of Croydon is the largest in London with more population than most cities, but now has a borough wide 20 limit with just the through roads allowed 30 mph. But I remain unconvinced that most British drivers will adopt...

Indeed, and I'm personally all in favour of having 20 mph as a more realistic cutoff speed. But of course it will never happen when it means changing the law across most of the world. It's a bit like trying to change the course of a supertanker with the rudder from a dinghy. In reality road...

Whether it makes sense is irrelevant, I just wish all those who constantly either initiate or return to this subject would stop banging their heads against the wall. IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN. The reasons it won't happen are simple: 1) The law as it stands has become a world standard, now in...

They're planning on being government financed repatriation centres to ship back all the 3.5 million ex-mainland EU immigrants and asylum seekers when Britain goes belly up with Brexit. .

Yes many do, theres a lot of them in road bike style and down around 14 to 16 kilos in some cases. The first were appearing nearly a decade ago. Information link .

Yes, no ifs, no buts, but that can still leave lots of maybes. ;) .

And we lost that war anyway, as Dunkirk showed. It took the Americans and Russians to win it. .

Cycling doesn't only happen in Britain! Indeed it hardly happens at all here compared with some other countries. Road racing was happening long before the 1940s, the Tour de France in 1903 for example, and the the 1930s UCI ban on recumbents in races. Britain has long been backwards in...

Ditto. I never service anything, just use. .

I disagree to some extent, since there is a direct connection between the rider input and therefore control in unpowered cycling. That isn't always true under all conditions with assisted cycling. If cycling was being invented now there probably would be a speed limit, indeed there is in...

It varies according to where, but primarily trying to encourage any form of cycling came first, e-bikes just tacking on so allowed to be just considered just bikes, subject to some restrictions. In Britain where we'd long had assist petrol motors they were treated as motorcycles in every...

There wouldn't be any meaningful politically inspired disruption if Brexit is cancelled, that only exists in the fevered minds of the Leavers. It's even more unlikely if there's a confirming referendum to cancel it. The reality of cancelling Brexit is that those in employment will still be at...

The decision if taken to leave with No Deal will still be subject to the law. The likelyhood is that the House will not vote for that, so it will be a moot point. But if they did, there will also be the majority to repeal the Benn Act, which they'll then do. .

There's a fundamental relationship at work here which probably guides the lawmakers. The performance of an unpowered bike is directly linked to the health and fitness of the rider. Those capable of the highest performance are likely to have the fastest reactions, the greater awareness and the...

Water isn't a problem since it's actually an excellent lubricant for nylon. Just a pity it won't stay in place without containment of course, so silicone grease is the compromise as others have said. .

That will be another Saturday all day working. They won't like that, it's happening too often that they're losing their feet-up time, lay-ins and boozing hours. .

But ineffective with dunces doing the learning. .

Yes. It was of course terribly painful to watch, there's nothing worse than seeing a child suffering. The simultaneous feelings of sympathy, anger and helpnessness are difficult to reconcile. .

The government has allocated over £4 billion in extra funding for Brexit preparations. And everyone is keeping their fingers tightly crossed. .