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I seem to remember that a clarification of this was being worked on for the next edition of the Highway Code. Any update on this?

The detailed location temperature forecasts derive from an algorithm which takes into account altitude, exposure, distance from coast etc, wind speed amd direction etc. Different forecasters use different algorithms based on different forecasting models. For instance if you look at windy.com, you ca...

As well as the reasons already cited, met office forecast temperatures assume measurement in a standard weather station - a Stevenson screen, which is a vented wooden box painted white to reflect solar radiation, between 1.5/2m above the ground, not overshadowed by vegetation etc etc. Even small var...

Not so new. I was once knocked over by a vortex below the towers of York Minster.

A few years ago I was riding my usual local narrow lane circuit during the hunting season, and passed a group of stationary huntspersons who seemed to be dismounting etc at the end of the day. About half a mile further on I heard galloping hooves behind me, getting steadily closer even though I was ...

Given the style and tone of the website, it's surprising more attention hasn't been paid to the aesthetics. Whatever their engineering merits, elegant they ain't.

After a lifetime of looking over (and under) the shoulder, neck arthritis is now making me think seriously about mirrors. I'm currently using bar-end shifters on drops, which rules out a lot of the more apparently elegant designs. Can anybody recommend a mirror which would work with this combination...

Is there any fix which makes it possible to use both a bar-end mirror and bar-end shifters?

I've seen just about the optimum use for these on a couple of Swiss mountain passes. At a hotel at the bottom of the pass you hire an ebike which takes you to the top, where you leave the ebike at the summit restaurant. You swap it for a kickbike, on which you swoop down on lovely smooth grass zigza...

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An armed bicycle - now that really would be a game-changer. What weaponry do you fancy?

I was hillwalking in the Western Highlands yesterday, not too far from the Mamores where this happened. The change in conditions was very sudden. After a week of slack low pressure with light, mostly northeasterly or northwesterly winds, there was a sudden change to warmer, more humid air. The conve...

The hand signal for straight ahead used to be in the Highway Code and had to be learned for the driving test! (Along with the other hand signals, including the pot-stirring one you had to do for a left turn).

mjr - probably the latter, although it's too early to know what restrictions, if any, will be placed on the old main street.

Purely subjective, but I fancy that in many of the market towns bypassed on the A1 and other main roads, the local traffic is now heavier than the through traffic was when they were by-passed. That's especially so if you include late evenings. I would say 'most' rather than 'many'. Topical example ...

One of the practical disadvantages of home-made bars is that they tend to disintegrate into a pile of sticky crumbs if subject to the abuse of a saddlebag, jersey pocket etc. Manufactured bars use various dubious additives for coherence, but you can get round this using agar flakes, an organic gelat...