Colm O'Regan: For the time being at least, I’m less fast, less furious.

It seems like a backward step. To give up the 120, suggests Colm O'Regan.

The 120 was hard won for people older than a certain age. Those who remember the midland towns we spent hours in on Friday evenings and Sunday nights. We prayed we might get to the town before they ‘got bad’.