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Today's "You and Yours" program on BBC Radio 4 contained an item of a neat way to deal with telephone cold callers. The man concerned managed to get an 0871 number allocated and directed to his usual home phone number, and from then on only gave the 0871 number to commerce of any kind to get...

The Greater London Council and the Metropolitan Police are in the process of a two week hard crackdown on drivers who enter the advance stop boxes at traffic lights. A number of driver have already been penalised with a £60 fine and three points on their driving licences. Some cyclists jumping...

Panasonic have confirmed their new crank drive unit is to be launched, and it's possibly the smallest yet for a sophisticated system. The link below has some limited information, ignore the way it mistakenly refers to direct drive: New Compact Panasonic Crank Unit

This morning a 40 year old male cyclist lost his life in collision with a lorry on the Archway Road. No details other than this being the sixth such death this year. What can I say other than that I've said before many times. Please keep as well clear of trucks as you can, especially avoiding...

If it's not too wet for cycling its often too cold for cycling, and when it's neither of those like today in the south, it's too damn hot and humid for cycling. One day it has to be perfect, doesn't it? :rolleyes:

Just been listening to the latest on car charging points. The amount councils have spent on charging points under pressure from the government works out at £1700 per e-car on the road. Many have never been used, one council alone having 8 public chargers which have never been used during a...

. Accell Group Half Year Results .

Interesting article from BikeEurope on a test of some well known ebikes Industry leader René Takens of Accell Group made this comment: The ADAC/Stiftung Warentest test once again made clear that every e-bike supplier has to have all its e-bike models properly tested on safety standards and...

After a week of intensively promoting the BBC 1 program that was to on at 8.30pm today, the Beeb has wet it's knickers in excitement over royalty once again and are instead taking half an hour, or possibly more, to say "It's a boy". Of course it's a boy, I've been saying that it was for ages...

Apologies for posting this in the electric bike section, but I'm aware that many have kept my email address in the past and some use it, so I want it to be seen by all My old addresses were linked to past ISPs who I no longer use, and like my old website addresses have become unreliable, so...

Chris Froome has just won the 100th Tour de France for Britain, following Bradley Wiggins win last year of the 99th Tour. The achievement of Chris was even greater than that of Bradley, by common consent the Tour this year was more difficult, Chris won the very tough Mont Ventoux stage which...

Today another cyclist was crushed under a truck at Holborn, London, the bike a crumpled tangle of tubes under the truck still as I type. That's six deaths so far this year, but horrifically the third one in London in just two weeks. These truck drivers are not chasing down cyclists with...

For many years with an average of around 3 mb/sec of ADSL I've had trouble every year or so when the speed collapses due to a copper wired line fault. On each occasion I get fobbed off by BT engineers and online staff trying to avoid work by insisting my line is fundamentally only good for 1mb...

The new series of The Cycle Show returns tonight at 8 pm on ITV4, and then each week on the same day and time. If missed, although not linked to at present, it may become available on the ITV Player later.

Looks like the EU will set a new standard applicable to all member countries, ruling out them being treated as motor cycles or mopeds: Bike Europe

This entry of a global healthcare company into the mobility market with pedelecs included is the best argument to date for the EU to consider a higher power limit in the regulations to give more hill assistance: Bike Europe link

Eddie0 has relayed this link to me of a very stealthy German e-bike with some unusual features, like the thin tubular in-frame 33 volt 10.2 Ah battery: Original Link English Translation Link

Exactly as I predicted when it was introduced, we now know how mistaken its introduction was. Predicted by Boris Johnson to be self financing, it is in fact losing ever increasing millions year after year with the hefty bill footed by the taxpayer. Today it was announce that the recent usage...

This will be good news for us as well, enforcing better standards in Germany's far bigger market will bring better e-bikes for us: Witch Hunt on e-bikes in Germany