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I must admit, I was slagging the Met off for being lousy shots, but later found it was one WPC who plugged both of them with six bullets. Rather well done, all things considered.

Blimey; money for old rope, isn't it? "Do you like leccy bikes?" "Yes." "Ok, thanks."

Congrats on a finished project, Alex. A long road, but you got there in the end :)

I agree, much of this certification is nonsense and purely to create work for members of trade bodies - jobs for the boys, in other words. Their desire is to create closed shops of various trades, and make it compulsory for 'code-testing' like in the US or Germany. Fortunately, saner heads have...

Aye; the road of the pioneer is never an easy one :) Actually, apart from the odd bit of misfortune, the conversion went ok, did it not? The boggering up of the motor feed wires was an accident (and that nearly happened to me); the extras that you wanted were all down to a desire to have them...

I was looking at that and for a particular old Bosch drill, I'd pay the money being asked there for a battery pack re-build. Great old drill, just about unburstable, and its modern equivalent would cost an arm and leg. In most cases, for power tools it's often just a little bit extra to buy a...

by blokes, for blokes, in sheds... Current Issue There is no excuse for not having, or at least wanting, a portable gantry crane.

Excellent! Another very serious option and one that's so much neater than those dreadful whiny Cyclone kits.

Oh, "City CULT Bike"; right, gotcha.

I'm sure a device could be devised that would scoop up the offending cat pooh and launch it back towards the owner's house.

I agree with all of that. I don't want to come across in any way self-righteous (heavens knows, I'm not) but whenever I've had my collar felt I just stand up in court and tell my story with a pained expression. It's often worked for me :) One occasion I had the court in a fit of laughter when...

As a quick comparison - my 750W 36V hubmotor will hit 26mph on the flat, when the battery is not long off charge, so about 38V under load and it's drawing approx 22A at that point. The slightest hill and it shoots up to 30A, though. Throttle control is a finesse - it's possible to cruise along...

Yes, to all of those, which I've fitted and the biggest single difference was getting rid of the flat straight bars - which are fine for off-roading, but that's not what I use it for, any more.

and here was me thinking the goats were to blame. Turns out it was us, all along. Fancy that. How to green the world's deserts and reverse climate change. [VIDEO]

They're a 10 year old design, and while they might have improved things in the production run, I just wonder what the light output is; the ad is very coy on that point. Very mixed reviews, too CatEye Cateye. HL-EL300 Older Lights Reviews

I don't know why you made it so wide - that was the primary consideration when I made mine and kept it 75mm wide, using 3" timber as the basis. Overall, allowing for the extra thickness of ply sides, it's 90mm and doesn't come anywhere near my legs. If I'd made it 100mm (+16mm) wide I could have...

You'd also find it was a step too far to even include the words "Hells Angels"; they get quite narky about that, and not through the courts, either.

Oh, that's neat. I think the standard ally rack would be in danger of snapping though, so steel would be my option. Even so, the standard mounting points will fracture eventually, both on the rack and the frame and that's bloody awkward all around. Honestly, some stuff like this is designed by...

Once, about 30 years ago and more, I was absolutely in favour of the EEC (as then was), reasoning that the countries of Europe should have closer ties and a deeper understanding of each other, and that could only be a good thing, right? How naive I was, to believe that BS. It didn't take long...

Ah, right, well the Garmin site is compressing them into horrible jpegs that are being blown up to the size on my screen the Garmin site sets by default. At a guess, the displayed image is 1200x800 and the native pic is 640x480. It's a formatting problem with the Garmin site, obviously. I can...