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I had a similar experience in Morocco. I was descending a pass on a fairly narrow road, coming out of the Atlas Mountains towards Marrakesh when far below me a slow moving bus pulled onto my side of the road to overtake another vehicle. It was immediately clear that a collision would happen if we both carried on. Fortunately I had a bit more time and space to get out of the way. We must be thankful that we live in a country where drivers have respect for cyclists.

It starts well, but says later: "A legal e-bike must have pedals and the motor is only there to provide assistance while the rider is pedalling. That motor assistance must cut out at 15.5mph (24km/h)" An EAPC that can legally be ridden on the road as a conventional pedal cycle must . . . . , perhaps.

Not gonna lie, I might have been diving into that ditch. Perhaps the camera makes it look worse than it was but I would have been ready!

@Andrewbanshee Just on a point of order, what's shown in the pictures is very much not a pump track but a set of jumps, some, prior to reduction, of a quite impressive size; a pump track is a circuit of gentle rollers that can be ridden by using a pumping motion of the rider's body rather than pedalling. One would imagine that the legal concerns of FE don't relate to the difficulty/danger of courses or jumps but their liability. If they provide a difficult course and a rider crashes on it because of excess speed or lack of ability, that's the rider's problem, but if someone pulls off a jump but is injured because the landing ramp collapses, they can be sued for not providing and maintaining a safe facility. I too am a child of the '70s but my recollections are somewhat different, I seem to remember that it was a rare class that didn't have at least one kid with a limb in plaster! Didn't seem to do us much harm, I agree, but we did get quite a lot of injuries.

The DVSA guidance regarding 'Twist and Go' EAPCs: If a ‘Twist and Go’ EAPC has not been ‘type approved’, importers and individuals can apply for a Motorcycle Single Vehicle Approval (MSVA). For MSVA purposes, ‘Twist and Go’ EAPCs fall into the 250W LPM (Low Powered Moped) category.

They probably can. It depends whether you are trying to educate children to accept dictatorial statements without question or whether you give children the credit and courtesy of properly explaining your decisions to them.

Or more likely they just rode off the front because no-one in the main contenders was concerned about them and therefore bothered about stopping them. There wouldn't really have been any question of 'will they be caught?' yesterday - it would have been a foregone conclusion. If you were watching today you'd be seeing a lot of them standing around in space blankets and the like, waiting for an RTC to be cleared, unfortunately.

Fair point about Milan San Remo. But the article was about the Women's Tour of Britain, which is on at the moment. The fact that a break is doomed or probably doomed does not make it uninteresting. Quite the opposite. There are always points of interest. "Will they be caught?" "When will they be caught?" "Those 1, 2 or 3 riders were able to ride hard enough for ten minutes to make a break and are holding off the peleton. Amazing power." However, from a sponsor's point of view, I stopped watching yesterday and haven't bothered watching today. Wrongly perhaps. But there is a lot of cycling on television at the moment and I need a reason to watch.

Is it not possible to get jerseys that don't practically reach down to your elbow and shorts to your knee anymore? On the shorts front I just don't like the feel of them only a little bit above my kneecap. Also, the ones I've tried also seem much tighter fit (both jerseys and shorts). I'm slim, but I don't feel the need for everything to be like a second skin that needs to be manoeuvred on and off.

Vaughters - often gobby, sometimes very very right. Slightly sorry for Hansen but spectacularly stupid for focusing on helmets first.