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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...

One incidental benefit of the bike spaces on the new trains, although not for cyclists, is the unobstructed vertical space on the other side of the module. It's the first time on a British train since the disappearance of guards' vans that I've found somewhere which will comfortably take a full-leng...

New 'bimodal' Hitachi trains are currently being introduced on the GWR Paddington/Exeter/Plymouth/Penzance line. These have more bike spaces than the old HST 125s, but the older trains are still being used at some times of the day.

I use rubber tap washers to fit my guards, threadlock the screws and tighten them just enough to start pinching the rubber. Also adjusted (With bent stays if necessary) in a way that nothing is strained and it will all stay in place with any part unattached. There is some movement but no rattles an...

I believe that the article says that inexperienced/less fit cyclists are wrong to twiddle excessively. Froome etc are different. I know we are all different but I have always maintained that spinning a very low gear fast is daft. My legs are at their best a a slower cadence. Yes, you can frequently...

. As others have said though there is SOME innovation there ..e.g. the mech damper so MAYBE the more usefull bits will "trickle down" to more cost effective and useful groupsets over time... ???? To widen the discussion to SRAM innovations more broadly, one which did seem to have some pot...

I've noticed that judges in such cases, as in this one, now frequently use the phrase 'vulnerable road user' when sentencing. It seems to crop up too many times to be coincidental. Something new in the sentencing guidelines, perhaps?

box lining and a few of the components suggest a 1960s bike to me. Yes, I'm not sure the box lining is much help in narrowing down the date. My JT Clubman frame, bought from the brothers in 1975, has box lining and decals more or less identical to the OP's bike. As others have said, the box lining ...

If what is now Team Sky survive but with a sharp budget cut I think that would be a Good Thing. They can still do well with merely a good selection of good riders, rather than a suffocating selection of good riders. Yes. On several occasions they've been fielding teams in simultaneous stage races i...

Worth trying ShoeGoo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe_Goo

Used to use it a lot for repairing running shoes. Not sure it would be abrasion-resistant enough for the constant scraping in your application, but worth a try. Several UK suppliers

Simple really, if the sun is low, use the car sun visor and drive slower!!! Unfortunately too many people seem to assume that the sun visor fitted in the car will be enough, but very often it isn't. The visors in most cars cover only a small area - when the sun appears below the bottom edge or to t...

Worth noting that this happened to coincide with a road safety action week by the Devon and Cornwall police, which has included the WMP close pass initiative, among other things. The police officer quoted would have been conscious of this, so was using an actual incident to illustrate a general poin...