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When over half of Britain cycled for every purpose in the 1950s and before and did so at around 10 mph, considering three times walking speed quite fast enough, they didn't have to worry about their brakes. With chromed steel rims they never worked in the wet anyway. It's today's racing...

Remember the €5000 Ami, well over £8000 here! The Dacia Spring will be at least £15,000 here and it's very limited. Maximum speed 65 mph and will be much slower uphill. The ideal conditions range claim of 140 miles will be nearer 100 miles in summer for most and could be down to 60 miles in...

Your bigotry on this subject makes you distort everything against the EU, quite simply you've been brainwashed. No, I'm not mad, nor am I idealistically motivated. I'm just far more experienced that you and know at first hand the whole history if our decline since the 1930s, before the EU even...

As always when I post on this subject, someone posts an old tried and failed similar technology through not keeping continuously up to date on the subject long term, as I do. Admittedly the old and current schemes are using rechargeable bateries, but even primary packs will be very large and...

Likewise with their SRAM Spark dual motor rear hub, first a very poor 12 volt system, then upgraded to 16.8 volts but no better. The last of the latter were sold off through Halfords in a Carrera at £750, their first pedelec. .

You wouldn't get anything close to 80 miles from your 22 kW in our recent near zero degrees and this applies to the whole northern half the EU area. Zoe included, zero degrees equals range plummetting by over 40% even with a new battery. And as for doing what you've been doing, we can't...

Starting at £46,090 for most basic spec. The Leaf it is replacing had a basic model at half that before they discontinued it. .

As said previously, that is the point I am making, that reduced car ownership is the UK's background policy. The EU and many of its members have the same aim. No more making cheap cars sold at a loss, the industry and governments here have a new model, make less cars expensively with more...

Never wear any, I just like to have tiny amounts in my electronics connectors. .

We often have even more people in our London double deckers.

UK vehicle production now at it's lowest for 66 years, so at 1956 levels which were very low. And Ford are cutting 3200 jobs in Europe, many of them in Britain. All pointing to what I've been predicting, a future reduction in car ownership. .

Much of London long ago moved to two tiers only, NHS or totally private. NHS often means no treatment or very long delay, 58 years for me with one condition. Private here is best in a private hospital since the NHS one is still unacceptable in so many ways, even for private treatment. And...

No. In quaintly old fashioned way they subsidised the government by paying their taxes. .

Ah, history. Mullard valves, we never had all this aggro making those. .

True, but they are way ahead in so many other ways as well, Woosh highlighting just one of them. It is their comprehensive package of achievement that makes them so successful. It's the multiplicity of our failures that is so troubling. .

Not so. The Sainsburys I use is a superstore on the edge of the North Downs. To it's north is the large, quite affluent Warlingham middle class area. To its south is Woldingham and the North Downs Road, aka Millionaires row, so those are the clientele base. The cut price war has moved...

That is too simplistic. Germany is very successful, the world's fourth largest economy but is also low down the population numerity scale. Success isn't solely due to masses of cheap labour, very far from it. .

I once had a friend who was pretty much useless for doing anything, but he still got a paid job. The job centre gave him a job, in the Brixton Job Centre. .

Of course it is. and if you read right through my posts you would see that I've also mentioned similar and the strength of my left wing leanings. But for two reasons there is no point in saying it: Firstly it's what children do, "Ah but Miss, John did it too!", in other words lets all be...

That's nearly 8 a day, 365 days a year. You should ring all those rejectors asking Ali G's question: "Is it cos is black?" .