The 70mph motorway limit was introduced thanks to a certain AC Cobra’s high-speed antics, right? Guess again. We separate fact from fiction 60 years on

Cycling speed limits are preaching to the converted

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‘Should go far’ was the footnote to an end-of-term school report supposedly handed to my parents in 1967. It’s doubtful, however, that staging marathon trips in someone else’s car was what the teacher

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