Why is in an illegal speed? Surely motorbikes are ridden at more than 30mph in England on roads which allow it - and have to brake suddenly whilst swerving on said roads too. I can think of at least one 40mph road to which that could very easily apply. And on Motorways too -what if a vehicle shed it's load or a tyre drops off a lorry - the motorbike has to be able to avoid that successfully while doing 70+.

Changing sides of the road in Sweden took place on a Sunday - September 3rd 1967 and applied to all vehicles.

So why can you see it in the little summary when you look at say recent posts, but you can't see it in the actual post?

Doh!

Why would driving on the right affect your travel times?
Afaik there are no plans to change which side of the road the UK and Ireland drive. There is no reason to.
In Sweden it made sense - most of their cars were LHD and the neighbouring countries drove on the right, but for the UK, as an island, with RHD cars there is no reason to change.

Well BlackRapid have responded - they are still working on it but hope to have it available mid summer. So I may get a BlackRapid yet .

Nothing from Sun-Sniper yet.

for that price Fisher Price could throw in a USB cable surely!

The V-tech version looks a better price to me.

\ So it is.

You can see it in the preview but not when you click on the thread. really weird.

Ah. Here the test is in two parts - one at a test centre where you do 7 if 12 special manoeuvres, walking with the bike, low speed manoeuvres, high speed mane=oeuvres and braking manoeuvres. You need to pass 5 of them, and you can repeat each one once during the exam if you fail at it the first time. If you pass that then you go on to do a test on the road - often instructors wait until you have part one of the test before even taking you out on the road anyway. You have 12 months between passing part one in which to get part two.
You also have to pass a theory exam before you can do the road test. If you have a car licence you can ride on the roads without the theory exam but you still have to take it (and pass!) before the practical. If you don't have a car licence you must pass the theory exam before being allowed on the roads.

What changed?

Lovely photos. My favourites are on your website - #s 10 and 43, though I do like the b/w giraffes above too.