During the afternoon rush hour I queued on the Aston Expressway,
Birmingham heading North onto the M6. The signs directed me into lane
one. It took me 45 minutes to drive less than one mile. During my time
there I noticed that lane one crawled along. Lane two was faster, maybe

Anyone ever seen a woman change a wheel on a car?.......I haven't.
Has it ever been done?    :-)
Bod

A psycholist is trying to make uk.rec.cycling moderated so that nobody will
have a right of reply to anti-motorist abuse that is rife on that group. His
hand picked moderators have already said that they will censor "contentious"
opinions, and have said that you must be a "UK ...

On Sutton Bank (A170 Thirsk to Helmsley in North Yorkshire) there are signs
telling HCVs [1] to use the crawler lane on this steep 1:4 hill. Very
sensible - except that there isn't one! The whole length of the road, both
on the flat and on the hill, is single carriageway with ...

Interesting factoid..
There is no requirement for an MOT on the Isles of Scilly, except for
commercial vehicles. For commercial vehicles a Department of Transport
MOT inspector visits once per year to carry of the MOT's. Coincidently

A third are never caught!!
I don't know if there have been any inroads(no pun intended) into
catching these rogues since 2007.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-449476/The-rogue-drivers-making-mockery-
speed-cameras.html

Yesterday there was a serious collision on the southbound M5 near
Weston.S.M. exit, I saw it on the way up not long after it happened,
there was a vehicle on fire, several other vehicles involved and the
helicopter was in the process of evacuating the dead/wounded.

During the course of yesterday afternoon and into the evening I towed
at a steady 60 all the way back from Cornwall with only one application
of the brakes whilst on the actual route.
That is ignoring a brief diversion off the route to refuel car and

Have I just been driving down some strange roads, or are rather a lot of new
diesel cars belching rather nasty black smoke when given a bit of welly?
BMWs 4x4s seem to be the worst but I saw someone hammering an 08 plate
jag X-type yesterday and if you didn't know better you'd ...

Can anyone point me to a web page showing a comprehensive list of
basic performance data for all cars made since at least say 1960?
I'm thinking of something that shows at least make, model, horsepower,
0-60 mph time, 30 - 50 mph time and max speed. After a fair bit of

I was driving through Wembley yesterday.
There was a long bus lane marked 'bus lane 7am-7pm, except event days,
7am-midnight
As the event days were not marked how are you expected to know when

Possibly a dumb question but - if a car is MOT'd and taxed but *not* insured
is it legal to park it on a public road? I assume it is but I thought I'd
double check just to be on the safe side...
B2003

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/8126607.stm
Motorists across Scotland are being warned fines for seatbelt and
number plate offences have doubled to £60.
The new legislation came into effect at 0001 BST on Wednesday.

If any of you got caught on the bus gate at Wicker, Sheffield, go get your
money
back as it has been proved they got the signage wrong and giving back fines
Metwo

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/nottinghamshire/8129826.stm
Two police dogs have died in a hot vehicle parked outside the
headquarters of Nottinghamshire Police.
An RSPCA officer was called to the Sherwood Lodge headquarters in