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ⁿ. All our family do this now but I have no idea what is taught in the driving schools now. Mike My wife recently returned to driving after a layoff of a couple of years now that we've changed to an automatic. To help regain her confidence she took a few refresher lessons with a local instructor (s...

Blimey Brucey! I toured throughout the UK and France in the 1970s with a Coaster Hub brake, and that hub (Sturmey AWC I think) was still in infrequent use until about 10 years ago - and was never greased or dismantled, I never noticed any drag. One of my current bikes had a more modern Sturmey Arche...

Coaster hub brakes are the way to go for (almost) zero maintenance.

I'm a trendy consumer. Just look at my gormless idiot phone.

5 litres of urine in a day would be pathological in almost any situation. The rule of thumb for 'normal' urine output is 1ml / minute which approximates to 1440ml in 24 hours (say 1.5 litres). That's why most hospital laboratory 24 hour urine bottles are 2.5 litres - plenty of room for almost all ev...

Back in the day (that day perhaps being until before approximately world war two) the CTC had local advisors called 'Consols' who did pretty much what you suggest - gained, collated, and distributed local knowledge. I'm not aware of any such arrangements nowadays. I'm a trendy consumer. Just look at...

So, as I've often thought--the examples given, show that by-passes are in reality relief roads, not by-passes at all. True by-pass roads are, in my experience, only seen in France (and I'm sure, other civilised countries) where no through route remains for private motorists, and the town centre beco...

[ Now, that may be a rare and unusual instance but it expands upon your point ..... Cugel Maybe not that rare. It is almost identical to my only head-bang in nearly 50 years of cycling. I went off a tarmac path in a park out of politeness to give a dog-walker a wide berth. I hit damp grass and my f...

Wouldn't 20mph be about the right the right level for assisted top speed? At least then ebike riders could ride in the 20mph limits without car drivers hassling to overtake. 20mph would be fine where there are 20 limits, but for most urban roads with a 30mph limit they could be a problem. I say thi...

I had an AirZound for quite a while when I used to commute. I took it off because it was turning me into a bit of a twit! It's a bit like the camera debate - I was looking for and/or getting myself into situations where it (the AirZound or the camera) could be used in anger. Once I'd taken it off th...

Worst - taxi drivers. I'm not talking about London Black Cab drivers - I don't have sufficient experience to judge them, I'm talking about local private hire vehicles. Agreed. We live next to a school, so we see a lot of 'creative driving', and 'artistic parking', but it's the private hire taxis th...

One simple way of skipping TV advertising is to record programs containing adverts then FF through them,I'm surprised anyone who such adverts annoy so much doesn't do it. :) This is one of the main reasons we never* watch any live TV. (*6pm BBC news excepted) I'm a trendy consumer. Just look at my ...

I'd start the conversation with automatic mandatory driving tests after a ban of n days - currently it at the discretion of the court (n might equal 30 in my opinion, but that might encourage courts to give 28 day bans) Equally it ought to be the case that driving bans start once a custodial sentenc...

Other than reading a great deal I make my own wireless sets from other peoples junk, my 'ham radio' call is gw0vmr. Pat G0RBI G3YQW. G4SDZ I also collect (& use) old film cameras (1950s - early70s all European/Soviet) Sketching / Drawing (badly for the most part, but it amuses me) I'm a trendy ...

I suspect there's two issues at work here. Firstly that driver crime isn't taken seriously by a large part of the population; secondly an increasing acceptance of society of minor lawbreaking. Criminal behaviour by drivers is discussed on here at length, as is the strange approach to sentencing. Poi...

Whoever designs our train carriages should go and have a look at those in Latvia and they'd find a simple way to reduce overcrowding - make the damn things wider. . AFAIR Latvia is on the old Russian gauge which allows for slightly wider trains than the rest of Europe. Trains from the FSU states ar...