Five cool things coming soon from Enve, Garmin, Shimano, Oxford and Torque

Thinking about it - could we sell this as a new self-defence strategy? "Remember WW2? We removed the signposts and turned off the streetlights *? If we install cycle paths and LTNs the invaders will never be able to get anywhere! Also a coastal cycle path will completely foil those attempting to enter this country on small boats. " * may not be a good idea through leading to more deaths on the roads / accidents at night than it saved by making it harder to bomb?

I don't buy Hansen's arguments. Presumably one of the things the analysts will do is estimate VO2 max for each rider using HR-, HRV-, power data and rider weight; and then monitor this over time both during each ride and across all rides. A sudden change in VO2 max would indicate something is amiss. In which case questions like “How do you know when he’s training at 80 per cent and not 100 per cent?" is irrelevant as long as the VO2 estimate is robust to different training intensities. However, if the analysts suspect there is an issue it will be up to them to prove it using the data and be able defend their methodology.

Or anyone arguing for more funding for the MoD, without someone else being in charge of the delivery.

That's not how this works. If Live Bloggers had to go around correcting all the errors in their posts, they'd never have time to post any new ones.

@wtjs Of course, there's also DU68 CHX, although that's only been without VED for 3 years so he's in line for a Good Citizenship Award in Lancashire. Then there's SO56 NKE (only 18 months), HN21 VXB ( a paltry 2 1/4 years), SR17 BFK (only 3 months), BU14 OFJ (only 2 years), HY66 ZZB (7 years) and that's just the ones recently seen around Garstang. WU59 UMH managed 8 years without VED, despite me reporting it regularly to the police because of the multiple years without MOT. It's been sold on to crims elsewhere and is now SORN/ No MOT. As you say- far easier to go after the evil cycling infra.

Either you are the OBR are wrong. 900 million a year is nowhere near 0.66% of GDP. However if looking at only government spending (which would make more sense) then the spend is 0.066% which means the figure is an entire order of magnitude out. Please update.

@mdavidford Oh what's £3.25 billion between friends?

@Rendel Harris Well sir, the tax gap is currently £47 billion, how about we go after the evaders and avoiders, if we could just get a quarter of that back we could pay for everything we need When Cat Smith MP wrote to DVLA about BF64 TGE over a year ago, pointing out that I first reported it along with the address in 2022, the company is at Companies House, the vehicle itself is proudly pictured on the company Facebook page etc., Lilian Greenwood wrote back stating Dodge 1 (we can't comment on individual cases due to GDPR) and 'we make VED easy to pay and difficult to avoid'. DVLA is absolutely determined to NOT KNOW about VED evaders, and make it really difficult to avoid them. They refuse to accept photographic evidence and the website makes it impossible to report anybody if you don't know the address. Sadly for us, We Do Nothing Greenwood declared herself in the House to be in charge of implementation of the January 2026 Government Road Safety Strategy, so that's long been on that shelf with the big red Bin sign.

On the plus will you be better able to charge the battery when you've been blown / knocked off and the bike is flat?

Well, people have done versions of this kind of thing... (see World Solar Challenge) ... but I note the solar panels are at a different angle. And it's in Australia.