Opinion: riding classic bikes

We’re all looking forward to getting back in the saddle as the weather warms up and restrictions are lifted. Here’s a timely reminder from Reg Eyre about current road and traffic conditions – some drivers have become used to the roads being empty, while others won’t have had much practice recently… While living under isolation rules, I undertook ‘essential travel’…

Filtering Through Traffic

Half an hour after the first traffic jam ever formed, you can bet an old bike chuffed past the stationery cars to reach the front of the queue. Yet for many years the practice wasn’t acknowledged in road regulations. Neil Cairns has scoured his old Highway Codes, to find out when – if indeed ever – filtering became accepted… If…