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When the Phone Rings

March 26, 2024 Longrider 7

Unless I recognise the caller’s number, I usually reject the call. I had just renewed my motorcycle insurance and thought it might be them calling […]

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Element D

March 18, 2024 Longrider 14

The CBT course is divided into five elements. Element D is where we talk about the road. This includes such things as visibility, vulnerability, the […]

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Parallel Universe

March 12, 2024 Longrider 21

Reality and fantasy are colliding here. Petrol and diesel cars will be eradicated “long before” the current 2035 new combustion engine car ban in a major blow to […]

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Um, No.

March 2, 2024 Longrider 11

We know when someone is trying to sell us a pup. Drivers are shunning electric vehicles (EVs) because they are ‘scared of change’, according to […]

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Another One Bites the Dust

February 29, 2024 Longrider 7

And another one gone… Car makers from Mercedes-Benz to Ford are delaying or scrapping further electric vehicles (EVs) as demand slows in Britain and abroad, […]

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Glorious Irony

February 26, 2024 Longrider 16

A pompous cycling activist has been hoist by his own petard. A cyclist who reported a driver for using a mobile phone at the wheel […]

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Claptrap

February 17, 2024 Longrider 16

Modern media outlets really are dreadful. Older drivers could be forced to retake driving test at 65 under new proposals Yeah… Er, no actually. Older […]