Recent content by Tony1951

I don't know where to start..... Bewildering - do you really believe this stuff, or are you winding us up? You write about e-bikes with precision and significant experience and knowledge. You are obviously intelligent, and then your write mad stuff like this. Absolutely insane, conspiracy...

I can't prove this, but I am inclined after thinking about it to believe the suggestions that Putin has something very nasty to hold over Trump regarding what he is supposed to have got up to on a Russian business trip. It is sometimes called the Steele Dossier and it makes some very seedy...

Putin subverted the Russian constitution. From memory, I think he was allowed two, four year terms in office as President. He started in 2000. He is still there 24 years later, after rigging several elections, and murdering and imprisoning several credible opponents. He isn't ever the only name...

It is absolutely scandalous that the prime motivator of the bill has a vested interest in its passage - a license to make money and restrict competition. The scale of the problem does not demand a locking down of the battery and e-bike industry into the maw of a handful of expensive...

I was wrong. I have looked up the law and it applies to trades people. That said, erecting scaffolding vastly increases the costs of simple work at gutter level. I was quoted a ridiculous scaffolding charge for recovering the top of a bay window with new felt. £180 for the actual work, and...

I have no truck with some of the interventions which have been made in other countries by past governments of ours - particularly in the middle east at American urging. Both Labour and Conservatives have done this and caused a lot of harm in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya. All three ar far worse...

Thank you for the correction. I appreciate it. I am sorry for misinforming the forum.

I am not certain of that.

Anyone tried a Strida folding bike? Belt driven, small wheels and folds up into about the size of a golf bag. I have a clone version in the shed. I never rode it much because it was a bit of a pig. Way worse than the Brompton and about as expensive for the real one. I found the best use of...

The real issue is how rapidly the energy is released and whether the containment is made of iron shaped to fragment into chunks of nasty shrapnel. My 45 litre petrol tank contains 1,508,670KJ, and a thousand pounds of TNT contains 4 million, so my petrol tank is a quarter of a 1000 pound...

No surprise to see remarks like this. There have always been people who preferred to appease dictators rampaging over neighbouring countries. It happened eighty years ago and it happens now. Those who reasoned that it was better to leave Hitler to get on with it are rightly despised now as...

62% of China's power generation is fuelled by coal burning. The issue is not just the percentage of coal burning, but the vast amount of it. China is by far the greatest emitter of co2 and by far the largest consumer of coal on the planet. They are currently consuming 4.3 billion tonnes of coal...

I don't know whether military emissions are calculated in co2 emissions targets. In anycase, the military emissions are as nothing to the massive emissions of China and the general emissions of a nation like ours. The UK emits only 1% of global co2. China emits about 36 times what we do, partly...

Yes Guerney. Everything you said there is the truth. Congratulations for having the determination and self control to manage to do what you said there. It ain't easy to go hungry for more than an hour or so in this world of massive food availability and large amounts of food designed to draw us...

Of course more work output uses more energy. This is not in dispute and is obvious. Nevertheless, my statement that the only way to lose weight is to use more calories than you take in stands. Riding an ordinary bicycle at 12 miles an hour without assistance burns 35 - 50 kcals a mile if the...