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Wait no don’t worry it’s electric

I don’t know what he has against deer but he really needs to stop trying to flip them.

They still turn up despite the 195 Class being brought in.

Easy to tell when whey have the wooden ladder with leather straps as 'safety equipment' in the main access way' 😕

Over 2 years I’ve got 48.7mpg (on petrol) to the Skoda 39 mpg(diesel).
I drive carefully and switch it to “Eco” and “Eco” climate control whenever I can. Early in the morning I regularly get over 58mpg on drives like West Norwood to Ilford, if I really try it can go over 62mpg.

I can beat that. Petrol auto, hybrid. 16 years old, 101k miles on the clock. Coming up to 50k miles on the current tyres. Lifetime average mpg on the car is just over 70mpg. I average ~65mpg on my commute in shitty London outskirts traffic. Got that up to 82.5mpg driving carefully during the petrol shortage when I had to make my 12 litres last a few weeks. Best I’ve done on a 50 mile journey is 111mpg but I know the manual version can clear 120mpg without much effort.

Admitted I haven't been on a train for a while (certainly not since the outbreak) so the last Pacer may of be taken behind the tramshed and been enthused...

The Sprinters that replaced them weren't much better though. Still shit, just shit for wheelchair users as well.

Oof, hadn’t noticed that - v weird.

Footballers

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/59213173

It is, but it gets considerably shitter if you can't do stairs.

The fuck kind of world do we live in. They flew 100 miles to avoid traffic. Jesus, of course that needs to stop.

Morning. I'll just leave this here:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/nov/14/tourists-cars-may-be-banned-from-most-popular-parts-of-lake-district

I wouldn't mind that. I always get stuck in traffic there. But something like a congestion zone would get other drivers off the road. And even if it applied to all non local vehicles the large estates would still have local hire vehicles I could use when I stay there, so this sounds like a great idea to make it nicer for me alone, that's not a bad thing. I'm for it 😁

Also:

https://momentummag.com/paris-to-become-100-percent-cycling-city/

Maybe the tide is turning?

under the new plan, Paris will remove the vast majority of on-street parking spaces and turn them over to bicycles.

On the face of it, cool

I can beat that

What car pls?

It is, but it gets considerably shitter if you can't do stairs.

My mate next door at my Woolwich workshop uses an e-chair, and his life has been considerably improved by the new segregated bike lanes that head into Greenwich. Sadly alot of the stations along here are not step free

Old news but we rode past this on the weekend, ie. it's still sat on the side of the mountain...

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/stolen-family-car-abandoned-half-19102875

Let's hope they manage to sort the public transport then. The place I used to stay in the lakes had two buses a day with the last one at about 4pm.

That would be amazing.

If only they'd nicked a nice torquey SUV...

Yeah, I can see all those Range Rovers with 24" wheels and licorice strip tyres climbing out of that with no drama.

RR 'only' go up to 22" out of the factory. Point still stands though, I guess.

Yeah, let's pretend I knew or cared about that fact. The kind of douchebags driving around in lowered RRs with tinted windows and big rims applies to all diameters above stock.

Tell me you're a cunt without telling me you're a cunt... https://www.overfinch.com/about/

1st gen Honda Insight :-)

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There's a well looked after pair of these in Sydenham/Penge.