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It seems many don't want to now. The numbers of 17 to 19 year olds taking the driving test has dropped by 18% in the last decade, and those in their 20s by 10%. Oddly that is also happening in the USA where the falls in young drivers are even more dramatic, as high as a third in some studies...

That's the one, but it's not just feet, it's all extremities and for me the hands suffer badly and it's very painful. Originally when I was very young it would only be triggered at near to zero degrees, but as the years progressed that temperature has risen. Now it can be set off as high as 15...

No need to wait in London now. etify.co.uk deliver groceries 24/7 free of any delivery charge, no matter how small the order. They aim to be with you within one hour. This link shows the usual one litre at a common supermarket price of 89p, and they'll deliver just that free, even in the...

He obviously didn't suffer from Reynauds syndrome though. I do, and it's the main reason I'm no longer cycling now. .

There's so much inconsistency too. The Netherlands is famous for almost universally cycling without helmets but I've been informed they have regulations insisting that children wear hi viz vests when being walked by schools etc. Strange variation in attitudes. Life was so much simpler a few...

I can match any falling figures with areas where they've risen enormously over the same periods. Exceptions can always be found, but overall they haven't dropped as the building society figures show. In any case I was quoting Carney just before the referendum last year, not before the 2008...

Prince Philip is poised to toast the return of his favourite tipple after requesting a bottle of a newly-brewed version of his beer of choice: Double Diamond. The Duke has had to go without his preferred ale since the pumps ran dry in the early 1990s but after discovering a brewery in...

Michel Barnier has now said there is no possibility of a trade deal by our departure date of March 2019. Instead there will be a joint statement then pending the further trade discussions. .

That's brave of you! This quote is from only just over a month ago: Again and again Carney has called it wrong about the economic impact of Brexit. He warned that Britain would be plunged into recession after a Leave vote and that leaving the EU represented the “biggest domestic risk” to the...

I guess that boils down to, everyone needs the same padding. It can be in the saddle or the backside. .

I'd just been to the post office too but think I'd have looked stupid wearing a cycle helmet. I was driving the car. ;) :D. Such compulsions will never happen of course. Since the world saw how those places that introduced compulsion suffered large falls in cycling rates, our governments...

CAMRA gave it and all keg beers a very bad name. I don't drink alcohol so can't judge. Funny story attached to this. With friends on an outdoor table at a local country pub and not knowing it was a "Real Ale" CAMRA stronghold, I went in to get the drinks for them. It was packed out with a...

Yes it's really dependent on the huge gains Bitcoin has made. It's risen sixfold this year alone, so if you bought in January but wanted to cash in, you could offer at say half the current value. That would get an immediate buyer, you'd still have tripled your money in a year and the buyer...

Services like LocalBitcoins and BitQuick can help you accept cash payments for bitcoin online. You create a sell order on one of the sites. Once a buyer accepts your offer, they are given your bank account details. Buyers then make a cash deposit to your bank account. .

Ther probably won't be a trade deal by March 2019, the discussion will go on through the two or more years of the transition period before the trade deal is reached. The 120 Swiss deals took seven years and didn't even cover anything. .

My Velo saddles have been very comfortable on my last two bikes, and the 9 LED strip light on the back is a safety bonus with either sequenced flashing or continuous modes:

No-one voting for this then. :D

I grew up with cycling long before we had plastics and synthetic rubbers, so always with various sprung leather saddles, often Brooks. Thank goodness for progress, you'd never find me on a leather saddle again, unless on a horse. .

Mistaken attitude to start with. Most of what are called accidents are really caused and even when two or more are involved and one party is clearly the major cause, it does not completely exonerate the other. I've explained this in meticulous detail a couple of times before, but in essence I...

Fully agreed, but what I read from that is don't have the accident. Secondary safety isn't always going to protect, as the majority of the London cyclists killed in recent years who had worn helmets show. Primary safety, not having an accident, doesn't kill anyone. Those helmet wearers who...