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Completely agree. I was one of the two original reviewers of the assisted Agattu when it was introduced here in late 2007 and reviewed it very favourably, particularly praising many of the bike's aspects. That was when it had the very reliable Panasonic motor and numerous sales resulted from...

And who will vote for Liz Truss, latest in a sequence of bad jokes. .

Hopefully. Much will depend on today's young. Previously over the last 70 or so years they've tended to drop religion when they reach their teens and drift away from their parents, but numbers must have been returning to it in their older years to have those weirder religious elements I...

Living where I do my despair for the human race gets reinforced by their religious inclinations. Back in 1960 the developer of the estate I later moved to had planned a new C of E church, believing the local St Marys wouldn't cope with thousands of new residents. But by the time building...

Lots of us are suffering drought, parched land and dried up river beds, all due to global warming. In a few months time we'll all be looking at the news of huge areas of land and buildings flooded by those dried up rivers overflowing, all due to global warming. Global warming really needs to...

There are large numbers who would be prepared to kill you for such heretical assumptions. :( .

You didn't make it clear that was the point you were making. While I fully agree there was no original in my opinion, there are millions who dont agree. .

That precise meaning bit the dust almost as soon as it was established. Replica has long been used interchangeably with reproduction (the action or process of copying something). For example lots of people have replica cars unconnected with the original maker but no-one says they have a...

Can you weigh yourself twice for each? With and without holding the battery and deduct for the difference. With and without holding the bike and ditto. .

Wise decision. Once you started with restoration you could easily have ended up spending several hundreds of pounds and still ended up with old tech and a very heavy e-bike. For not much more and just under a thousand you could buy a good new latest tech e-bike with a warranty giving you...

There were many like this under various names and often sold branded by the retailers name. It's old tech of a type that was finished by 1999, but some companies grimly hung onto it. Notably in this country Powabyke, founded in 1999 who just managed to celebrate their tenth anniversary before...

Here's the link with all the information: https://www.eta.co.uk/bicycle-insurance/cycle-rescue/ Use the Buy Now button to buy the recovery service for £24, or if you buy their insurance you get the recovery service free. N.B. Post crossed with Bevo's. .

That's if you buy their insurance. The £24 is a fixed price for breakdown recovery only on any value bike. .

There are no solutions, other than the one nobody wants to hear from someone hoping for election: We need to pull our belts in, go without and suffer for quite a long while to get us out of the mess we are in. George Osborne had the right idea with his austerity program. That was abandoned due...

I couldn't be bothered to since these TV public debates make all participants the losers. It's no longer about the best anyway, it's been reduced to a female vote issue now a woman has been eliminated leaving a woman against a man. The combined female vote will now almost certainly ensure...

Thanks for the information Raboa. It's a nice design job, a pity that the market for it will probably be quite small. The battery in the hub motor will put many off and I think their range and regen indications are ambitious for most riders. Could really suit a quite powerful cyclist who...

The system is very easy to understand. A company tenders an offer to run one of the railways, meaning the rolling stock. We the public through Network Rail provide the whole of the infrastructure, stations, rails, signalling etc. Then we guarantee to pay the company all of their cost plus a...

Whatever, we have to learn to compete successfully, cheaper, or better, or different, or just able to better sell the same thing. We need to lose the impulse to sell anything and everything the moment any other country seeing value wants to buy it, this related to our mania for privatisation. .

That's the theory, but in practice any investment successfully used in that way ends in one of two ways: The successful business is bought by other countries and made a bigger success. Or what we've succeeded with is copied and improved by others, so still losing us the business. In other...

I strongly suspect a manufacturing fault, we've had various oddities like this with some Schwalbe tyres over the years, particularly beading and sidewall faults. Turning the tyre around would soon reveal that if the excess wear stayed on the more worn side, rather than staying on the drive side. .