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What I'm gettting at is ... trying to get a measure of how much the makers are exaggerating their figures. You have a good selection of lights and might be the very man to find out with a lux meter. Who knows - perhaps one or two don't exaggerate and it would be nice to know who they are...

I've.... seen things you pedalpushers wouldn't believe Shoulder bags on fire outside the Barbican, Claud Butlers sinking in the Thames by London Bridge, All this will be lost, like cycle couriers in the rain, as you run over them. Time to recharge the lipos.

Never mind the criminals, did you see the size of that backside at 53 mins, the one on the cyclepath? I'm fully in sympathy with the hapless cyclist there, he could hardly miss that, it filled the screen like a barrage balloon.

I need hardly remind you it was you who bandied the 18000 figure about, nobody else. If you're going to quote such figures, please back them up or at least take them with a pinch of salt. As I've said, there's one helluva lot of light there and I'm not complaining about the lack of it and would...

Snazzy. From what I've found it only matters if you're index shifting and synchronicity goes out the window twixt bar and arrs-end. I cunningly got around that by using a friction shifter.

I say, that's no way to talk about him. His name has an 'e' at the end. Lucas Brunelle is an *******, if you please.

So, even you don't believe it's 18,000, then?

Oh, I think back to the utterly dreadful pocket-money-robbing experiences I had as a lad with the awful Ever-Ready carbon dry cells and realise the modern NiMh (especially the LSD) is a fantastic bit of gear. We get so used to what we've got we lose sight of how wonderful it is.

You'd be as well bunging this in the classifieds section, now that it's been clobbered by someone else's for sale ad.

More radical free-thinking, I see. Well done, if you keep it up you can disappear up your own fundament.

The buzzword is nano, of course. Nano-this and nano-that, nano bleedin' everywhere. I think I'll apply for a research grant for nano-telly and nano-coffee in bed. Nano-bed, naturally.

Cold? B*gger that, I'm far too nesh these days :) Done my share of freezing my nuts off and don't want to do it for fun any more. However, as to your query, the cold will certainly affect your battery power and reserve - by a known factor you can look up, depending on your type of battery.

Have you got a lux meter? It would be interesting to see what the reality of lumens is compared to the makers' claims. There is really tons of light there but a benchmark of actuality would be handy for comparison when it comes to choosing lights - a BS factor to apply to makers' figures, if you...

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What? They've produced an awful lot of utterly crap bikes, you know. Some of them weren't even nice to look at.

So, without having seen it you just dismiss it. Fair enough, fine, you carry on.

I had a marine horn on the front mudguard of my GS850 - fair caused a few cacked pants.

The Harrier was designed for a specific role in the event of a major flare-up and things going bang in the East of Europe - to take off from woodland clearings and drop tactical nukes on suicide missions, as well as harry Russian forces before they could get too close. Of course, it never...

I'm talking about daytime. A ginger tom or tortoiseshell cat shot in black and white is a masterpiece of camo. Having seen it, I can see how they can just sit there and wait for the mice to wander by, unconcerned.

Yes, I'd willing offer a Charge Point facility. First one of many, I hope. The e-bike scene in Ireland is growing, mostly in the South-West and West, but it's gradually getting better known and hopefully if there's any e-tours going on anywhere near here, at least the presence of a CP will...