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What does "commuting" actually mean on insurance cover 5360
JD I don't think there's any chance of him forgetting something like that. If there is, he deserves to have the insurers come down on him like a ton...

What does "commuting" actually mean on insurance cover 5361
JD As courts are geared up to protect the big guys rather than the little fella's, we both know I wouldn't stand a hope in hells chance of arguing it in a court of...

Looking for first car
As others have said, look at unpopular cars in basic spec, in good condition. Getting something cheap is a great idea, not just...

MG Rover
You have to feel sorry for all the people who work at MG Rover and...

FASTTRACK of uk.rec.gps
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- FAST TRACK ANNOUNCEMENT uk.rec.gps ======================= In the procedures established for maintaining the uk.* hierarchy there is a consensus and the proposal is straightforward and non-controversial, to proceed by the...

How do I value this
Back in 1988 my wife bought new a Lancia Delta HF Integrale (8-valve). This was a fantastic car; fast, great fun to drive, ultra-reliable. In short, a pleasure to...

One way to beat the traffic
Mark Foster just "Hey I saw one of those a couple of days ago lol. It wasn't...

Road Dog Banned
Seems like someone got the ruff end of the (gear) stick over mobile traffic calming. Strange 'tail' of the...

Witing for NIP
fishman I got caught twice last year in artics - one in October, one in Novemeber. I was curious to actually see the film from...

Witing for NIP Sender: Spammers Address
Apparently on date Tue, 12 Apr 2005 19:01:44 +0100, Andrew Norman I wonder if this is stupidity in action...

Learning on an automatic 5370
I don't. Steering and braking are things that come easily. Surely she's been on the dodgems, a go kart or perhaps played on Sega Rally at the arcade? Even if she hasn't, steering and...

Learning on an automatic 5371
My first thought was.. no way! But I think the idea does have some merit. That way she can learn basic accelerating, braking, steering, road craft etc without the need to think about...

Cars for 'comfort
What depresses me about the dissolution of MG Rover is the fact that we have lost the one manufacturer...

Cars for 'comfort' 5373
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 16:44:27 +0000 (UTC), "Brimstone" Er... actually, yes, I absolutely am suggesting that. It's a sweeping generalisation, but IME correctly positioned marketing can be...

Cars for 'comfort' 5374
On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 11:25:07 +0100, "Uno Hoo!" Who is we? I presume you mean the UK and not the world! ISTM that most...

Cars for 'comfort' 5375
On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 17:22:58 +0100, "Uno Hoo!" I agree with you there Kev - I also enjoy driving American cars, in America. They are built for their roads which, as you know, are...

Doublewhite lines
I have just picked up a fixed-penalty notice for overtaking whilst crossing double-white lines. The offence occurred whilst overtaking on a country single-carriageway...

Doublewhite lines 5377
I posted some details on Traffic Answers forum some time ago and the relevant manual for local councils to follow is the DfT Traffic Signs manual 2003...

Doublewhite lines 5378
But double white lines and variants are diagram 1013.1, and hence are not covered by this rule. I think paragraph 3(a) and 4 combine to give info on double-white lines. The...

Speed Cameras on the M4 N!rmpbcBiyXn8GRV.z60~gpz0J#a0P_LaB.sV 5379
I had to get a puncture fixed today - huge thorn in the tyre, four inches long and as hard as...

Speed Cameras on the M4 N!rmpbcBiyXn8GRV.z60~gpz0J#a0P_LaB.sV 5380
I travel along that motorway, and indeed that section of motorway "quite a bit." I also work in both control rooms for that...

Speed Cameras on the M4 5381
I regularly drive along the route. As you would expect in Wiltshire, it's a rural...

Speed Cameras on the M4 5382
MJP will motorway the caused by doing they are motorway in modern I think the problem is that a lot of the excessive speeders are the ones who drive like idiots anyway. I've seen...

Speed Cameras on the M4 5383
Define 'excessive'. I can drive at 90mph and it's a perfectly safe speed, no tailgating, no weaving, no MLOC. Then they should be pulled, but it's not...

Speed Cameras on the M4 5384
It would be good to see some kind of consistent scientific basis to speed limits (you've got to have some kind of limit or...

Speed Cameras on the M4 5385
The "speed the road will allow" or even the design maximum speed of a road has nothing...

Speed Cameras on the M4 5386
were saying : I took it to mean that he exceeds it when it is safe to do so...

Speed Cameras on the M4 5387
A) Would it? - I reckon it would be insignificant B) Start here. 1) Low energy light blobs - where 25W are as bright as 100W incandescants 2) Make shut shops turn off their lights when...

Speed Cameras on the M4 Approved: wibble
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 18:20:28 +0100, Alistair J Murray was popularly supposed to have said: Abolish or mbuttively increase speed limits, and impose harsh fines for driving without due care and attention. View...

Shunning Scamera Scum was:Speed Cameras on the M4 Approved: wibble
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 15:39:35 +0100, HVB was popularly supposed to have said: We've been there before, again under a Socialist government. Effectively if you tax people until they squeak, then the...

Hoot for a Hump
Dave Plowman (News) expressed precisely : Councils tend to have to spend a set level of money. Come the...

Rover
OLD ROVER ----------- Now I've owned an old Rover for many a year And driven the roads without any fear The old firm...

Transport 2000 versus Top Gear Approved: wibble
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 22:37:19 +0100, Taz was popularly supposed to have said: It may interest people here...

Transport 2000 versus Top Gear Sender: Spammers Address 5393
So even though the driver has it all perfectly under control and would, on a world rally stage, go on to set...

Transport 2000 versus Top Gear 5394
No. *You* miss the point. They *are* and it is not irresponsible to say so. Road driving is not the only kind you know. I knew you were...

Transport 2000 versus Top Gear 5395
net: I don't think he did. I agree that skills required on the track can be usefull on the road ie learning to recognise...

Transport 2000 versus Top Gear Sender: Spammers Address 5396
Which is a pretty good definition of "trolling", except that you would want to keep your posts to a minimum and to rely on the opinionated to keep the thread you started...

Transport 2000 versus Top Gear 5397
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 15:47:07 +0100, "Mark Hewitt" Only if you break it down to being "steering, braking and accelerating", in which case those skills are not learned on the motosport track...

Transport 2000 versus Top Gear 5398
On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 16:38:40 +0100, Mark Foster example of one of these skills. It'd be a simple sentence, perhaps only a word...

Transport 2000 versus Top Gear 5399
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 23:25:06 GMT, Andy Turner It's not an implication it is a fact. However, they are still doing what you...

Transport 2000 versus Top Gear 5400
On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 16:45:17 GMT, Andy Turner Not free, but track days aren't that expensive...

Transport 2000 versus Top Gear 5401
Well written Carl! Here's an example of the mutterings of freaks who support Transport 2000 (pasted from their site's forum) " With regard to reducing casualties on our roads...

Rover Spares
Cough. And just what government brought this in? Can't see a Tory government giving this...

What IS it about the atbreastude of late
Adrian Well, road safety is now so good that the only dangerous thing you can do in a car is speed, apparently. At least, I buttume that's why they've taken away all...

Police get points for catching motorists N!rmpbcBiyXn8GRV.z60~gpz0J#a0P_LaB.sV
I was at yet aother security-forensic conference recently. One speaker ranting on about the "great strides in forensic examination of hard disks" made by his company was quizzed over what crimes their software was...

Impatients in repmobiles
Time for me to go off on a bit of a rant ;) I was driving down the M1 on Sunday after a hard day of exercise. Traffic wasn't too bad, the flow...

Impatients in repmobiles. 5406
Brian your them a I see a lot of people suggesting this when topics similar to mine are...

Impatients in repmobiles. 5407
Mike G the them I to I was taught during my driving lessons to minimise lane changes wherever possible as the potential...

Impatients in repmobiles. 5408
Tim Downie "aggressive" do is withdrawn to a brake someone Unfortunately it quite often doesn't work. I had a similar experience yesterday. It was a...

BBC Breakfast news! 5409
Accidents on built-up roads tended to be the fault of the motorist rather than the motorcyclist. A significant number...

BBC Breakfast news! 5410
On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 11:39:57 +0100, Steve Firth You ever ridden a bike Steve? Looking at your balanced...

BBC Breakfast news! N!rmpbcBiyXn8GRV.z60~gpz0J#a0P_LaB.sV
No, but then we come down to questions of relative risk. If baneities on bikes are...

BBC Breakfast news! 5412
Conor" wrote in message Although I agree that road design of itself does make a road 'bad...

Jams in L3 just an observation
Hi, As a regular user of busy motorways, I often see a situation where L3 comes to...

Jams in L3 just an observation
Harry Bloomfield one, least This is one reason why I spend most of my time in the first lane. On a fairly busy m-way, I find that lane one is usually pretty...

Red light offence 5415
Brimstone Not necessarily. As SimonJ pointed out: Sadly, in the real world, a lot of people don't obey the rules for their own selfish purposes. If you're on a busy road...

Red light offence 5416
on 17-04-2005, Ian supposed : Again a small amount of common sense in interpreting the rules goes a long way.... I am not cable of knowing with any certainty what...

IBM to build nationwide speedtrap
were saying : Oh, it certianly technically CAN be done... I don't think anybody's claimed it can't. Just not on...

Fuel Duty 5418
Matt B and And as because those would then one is tankful extraction, etc. hefty chunk. rate of To be honest I don't really care. We all know about the environment problems, and...

Fuel Duty 5419
Brimstone Well, we got "rid" of the Empire, if that's one of the "aspects" you are talking about...

Fuel Duty 5420
Brimstone ... ... ... All in all a predictably *accurate* one, if that's what you were trying to say. If you were trying to...

Fuel Duty 5421
gazzafield says... Course they weren't. Privatised the railways which now cost us £1billion more per year in...

Fuel Duty 5422
Yeah, but there is the cost of getting the license to contend with first. And after see what happened to my dads nerve, after he went into a jacknifed foreigner (or rather...

Fuel Duty 5423
I could, but I doubt I could afford to buy a new property in a new area, without enlarging the mortgage sustantially and wiping out any improvment in Salary. We got lucky when we bought...

What are 'speed' cameras for 5424
Result!!! So you'll be a keen supporter of my campaign for the nationwide installation of noise cameras and-or speed microphones? Seriously, I do...

What are 'speed' cameras for 5425
On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 11:52:34 +0100, Conor wrote Going to hand yourself in then ? While you're at it, you can report me. I'm buttuming...

What are 'speed' cameras for 5426
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 17:44:22 UTC, Alistair J Murray You don't need to know your speed...

What are 'speed' cameras for 5427
But I didn't. I followed it to "people who get caught by speed cameras are fast and inattentive drivers, by definition, and therefore likely to have...

What are 'speed' cameras for 5428
On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 15:20:57 +0100, Ian Johnston wrote No, high on the list is people distracted from the essential act of keeping a situational...

What are 'speed' cameras for 5429
sounding much like they were saying : ITYF I meant "that's lunacy not 'speeding'". OK - one of mine was for...

What are 'speed' cameras for 5430
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 21:06:59 +0100, Conor wrote Roughly, yes. Absolutely, no. Most reasonably competent drivers can manage to keep...

What are 'speed' cameras for 5431
Ian Johnston submitted this idea : I have rev counters, radios and sometimes even carry pbuttengers in all of my vehicles. I can optionally choose to check my rev counter, listen...

What are 'speed' cameras for 5432
says... Thankyou for admitting you're a poo driver. Thankyou for demonstrating that you have no feel for your vehicles speed. Thankyou for demonstrating that you're so bloody clueless that...

What are 'speed' cameras for 5433
Conor used his keyboard to write : I drive with my eyes open ALL of the time! Absolute speed is not a priority, a safe speed is! Of course I know roughly what speed...

What are 'speed' cameras for Approved: wibble
On 22 Apr 2005 16:36:31 GMT, Ian Johnston was popularly supposed to have said: You're missing the point entirely. Most of the time, people regulate speed by working on how fast the world is going...



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