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I do the puzzles in my daily paper, which is a digital edition and arrives on an ipad. Every Wednesday I go to a bus museum and join others in restoring old vehicles, and have picked up many new skills, including driving buses. There are plenty of opportunities for all kinds of voluntary work, depen...

Fudges is an established supplier with branches in west London and Woking (I think).

Thanks for all the replies, very helpful. Certainly have moved on from mixtie frames. Will try different approaches including more stretching exercises. As for the Moulton bikes , very nice but in the real world for me anyway just out of my price range You can pick up a decent used spaceframe Moult...

Woolwich ferry, free, takes bikes, the bike areas are large enough for a trike.

I always selected house insurance which would include my expensive Moulton bikes, sometimes requiring an additional premium.

A couple of years ago I transferred to pedalcover, who specialise in house/cycle insurance, and halved my premium:

https://pedalcover.co.uk/

There usually aren't street names in Japan. Addresses usually include 2 or 3 numbers. The last one is usually the building or house number, the previous one is the number of the block containing the house, and if there is a third number it is the sub-area of the district. In cities stations have loc...

That's about it!

Only slight snag with small wheels, as on my Moultons, is that the rims wear a bit faster, and have less heat capacity for long (as in mountains) descents.

Windsor Great Park, not entirely traffic free, but only authorised vehicles.

London Borough of Hillingdon puts up Cyclists Dismount signs at roadworks, despite my pointing out that the DfT says they shouldn't be: Cyclist dismount and footway cycling Where access is permitted for motor vehicles, "Cyclist Dismount" signs should not be used. The hazards to cyclists at...

All smaller wheel bikes are more responsive, or twitchy! You get used to it. An advantage is that you can usually "catch" the bike if the front wheel slips on a wet or icy surface, because you can turn it very quickly. Putting fatter tyres on won't change it noticeably.

Bought an Edge Touring in February. Use it on group rides so I can later trace exactly where we went. As a ride leader it saves having to stop to read the map in unfamiliar territory, having previously loaded the route.

Stradageek wrote:My first choice for gear and brake cables, very cheap, pretty good quality

Well they used to be stainless steel, unfortunately they've switched to galvanised now, so I don't buy them any more.

You can cycle along the Jubilee River (a man-made relief river) between Maidenhead and Windsor. Quite a good surface and designed to accommodate bikes as well as pedestrians.

My local Waitrose has a council-owned car park,and Waitrose refund the fee at the checkout on production of the ticket provided you spend at least £10. But if you use their quickscan system (scan your own items as you you take them, with a bar code reader), the automated quickscan checkout automatic...

Ask the road safety department of your local council. If they don't offer anything, you'll have to arrange and pay yourself!

Find an instructor on http://www.ctc.org.uk/training