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I really think that the police have powers to stop and speak to anyone at pretty much any time. I have always found on the very few occasions I have been spoken to by police, they quickly work out whether they have found a scrote up to no good, or a normal person. Only a polite exchange of...

I doubt it is ever a good idea to refuse to stop for the police, whatever means of moving about you are using. They can always say they thought you looked a bit like someone they were looking for, even if it wasn't strictly true. The 'reasonable suspicion' thing is a pretty broad power, and...

Yes - I see those more sensible ones too. The greatest number of illegal delivery riders I saw was in the student areas of Newcastle where in a two hundred meter walk along a pedestrian precinct I saw maybe eight illegal frankenbikes being ridden by African gentlemen wrapped up in massive coats...

I have no gear change sensor on my Bafang BBS01. I just pause pedalling for a moment before changing. You do need to anticipate the gear changes and the odd time I have been caught out on a hill climb and had a crunchy change. Two thousand miles and no mechanical catastrophe's, but it is legally...

The key to universal e-bike acceptance and freedom from the impact of regulation is really simple: Reasonable behaviour and consideration for other people. It is no surprise that it looks like the majority of police action against illegal e-bikes seems to be taking place in urban town centre...

Not as much as I do! :)

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This is a very fine project. Most interesting. Hat is off to the effort and the degree of expertise. Black box has been turned into something else entirely. Not many people can do that. Hardly any, in fact.

Before I moved here I used to have an allotment and 16 laying hens. I had a shed on my quarter acre plot and in it I kept an axe, a steel grid - some sort of rebar scrap, and a frying pan. Some days I went down early without breakfast and there were mornings in summer when I just pulled up a...

I'm not vegetarian, but I am going to make sure I eat more of the kinds of things you mention there than I did before, Peter. It makes sense. Low GI, High fibre, high protein and so cheap it is hard to believe how much you are getting for so little. Given that many people are struggling with...

https://www.health.com/lentils-8399476

Lentils - Dahl - a natural Ozempic????? I like eating, and I like cooking, and we all know where that leads... My BMI is about 26 - not that I rate it as a definitive measure. It doesn't take account of how much heavy muscle you have, and active people tend to have more, heavy muscle than...

Good advice. Especially about rim brakes. Lots of fiddling and they rapidly wear the aluminium rims. Also great advice about replacing cable rim brakes with the cable/hydraulic type. Costs next to nothing (about £25 when I did mine) and they work very much better. Saneagle wrote a few posts on...

My partner has a second hand Pendeleton Somerby. We bought it for a song about three years ago. It had a flat battery but we managed to get it running again and it has never looked back ever since. If you like the Dutch style bikes it might suit. On the negative side - the brakes are a bit...

I think we were both at fault. He certainly would have done himself a favour if he had been properly lit and dressed in something visible. It was a stinking windy wet night and just across the junction was a brightly lit up care home which was pretty distracting from his tiny glow worm LED...

I've got a good driving record. I have always tried to take good care and I never had a claim against me in nearly 60 years of driving... BUT... About five years ago, on a wet dark night, I almost ran over an unlit, dark clothed, cyclist as I pulled out of a side road. I was pretty upset at...

Hell - I loathe Trump for a large number of reasons which I have expanded on numerous times, AND, I agree that he is probably going to be seen in future as one of the most dangerously megalomaniac politicians in American history. He is a narcissist of extraordinary proportions, utterly...

What mistakes has Labour made in its first year? Raising NI contributions for employers. This will rake in some money, but at the cost of jobs. It will also boost inflation. Remember this: Companies don't absorb costs and penalise their shareholders. If a cost is imposed on them, the price of...

The main role of the EU used to be an economic community without trade barriers. I remember voting for that twice in the 1970s. Then it morphed into something else - a meddling, bombastic and undemocratic organisation which forced rules and regulations on countries, often against their interests...

Another perspective on the debate about PR vs FPTP https://www.tutor2u.net/politics/blog/geert-wilders-and-the-debate-over-pr-for-westsminster