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Archive for the ‘Motoring’ Category
Surviving the festive crime season
November 28th, 2011 
Sharon Gill 
Posted in Motoring 
Tags: asset tracking, bribes, crime, eBlockWatch, fake roadblocks, panic button, people tracking, roadblocks 
11 Comments »Students build cop-proof bike for teacher
June 1st, 2011 Sharon Gill 
A university lecturer who was stopped repeatedly by police for riding an electric bicycle that looked like a motorbike has been bailed out of trouble by his students who built him a better, faster, more bicycle-like machine.
Posted in General biking, Motoring Tags: Chris Sargent, Ivan Popov, Justin Nicholls, Kevin Eades, University of Portsmouth No Comments »Des & Boswell’s epic ride
May 16th, 2011 Sharon Gill 
One septuagenarian and his dog, one scooter and trailer, more than 8,200 km in a 52-day adventure that took 76-year-old Des Pistorius and his four-legged passenger around the borders of South Africa, meeting up with other bikers along the way.
Smoking ban should include private vehicles
August 1st, 2007 Sharon Gill 
Sharon Gill thinks a certain UK car dealer is blowing smoke out of his @rse. The recent smoking ban that became effective in England on July 1, 2007 forbids drivers on company business from lighting up in a vehicle that is used by more than one person.
Motorcycle Diaries a la Foster
October 30th, 2006 Sharon Gill 
Move over Che Guevara. Gavin Foster decided that he, too, could write a best seller and get his face plastered across boobs, if he could only find a famous Revolutionary Icon to accompany him on an epic ride … Words: Gavin Foster Drawing: Mel Card
