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put it on the loudspeakers for your birthday party, as a modern eco-friendly version of the "fuzz light" from the 1970s disco scene :D

There is a tactic on the Internet called "blowfishing" where a small business uses many multiple brands to look bigger than it actually is. Lots of businesses do this (not just Chinese ones). Often it works fine until they get more orders than their customer service can handle, then of course...

Surely the bigger issue is the infrastructure and the legislation? the main reason e-bikes/scooters are much cheaper and popular in China is that they choose not to enforce their small moped licensing legislation, unlike EU nations. This is a trade off which results in more deaths on the road...

Depending on location Halfords are not always to blame. In my current town both branches of Halfords are some miles away from the main town centre (accessible only by busy roads which are most unpleasant to cycle on) and there are at least four local bike shops in town although only one will...

depends on the layout of the building. a shared car/bike park would need to have a controlled area where you could get bikes in and out but it would be impossible to get a van through in normal operational use. the same methods used to enforce height and width restrictions in a car park can be...

even the SE Asian countries which surround them often mock the Australians for their completely schizophrenic attitudes to personal freedom. There are no helmet laws for instance in Malaysia or even Singapore, and cops rarely hassle cyclists unless they are doing something really illegal....

other Northern European countries have a political system based as much on consensus as competition. They in fact often have as much legislation if not more than the UK but its debated and enforced in such a way the bulk of people see it as fair rather than an imposition on our lives. Plus they...

its bleaker than that, not just what flecc says but also a macho/"might makes right" culture which is why other cyclists feel worried enough to want helmets... a helmet is protective headgear originally from the battlefield. I can understand people wearing one for a competitive race and it...

I think he means you need a bromfiets license. My Dutch is very basic but I've been trying to read the sites about bikes and the impression I got was that until very recently (this year?) you didn't even need to do any sort of test like CBT and just wrote off for the license and got it - but...

in Thames Valley and Avon and Somerset force areas there was definitely enforcement and seizure of some of these illegal bikes. I was a bit younger when all this was going on (I'd say it was a bit more than 5 years ago), and though too old for this sort of shenanigans one toy I did have was a...

adblock is installed on some of my PC's (more against other sites which use so much flash and rubbish it slows down the site) and all I get is a BEBA advert (which doesn't bother me). Without adblock the ads are for the well known and respected e-bike manufacturers and some of their dealers...

I stop at both zebra crossings and also common "crossing points" in my area and am always acknowledged and thanked. at "non-official" crossing points I am often waved across by the pedestrians (I am careful in each case not to put them into danger from impatient motorists, but the standard of...

which ones? wiggle alone shows 3 different varieties of Sealskinz.... (ultra grip, extra cold, and all weather).

What are the wider Abus models? Any recommendations? I saw a comnment on a Dutch cycling forum recently which said "in NL today you often see people who spend €20 on a bike and €50 on a lock" :rolleyes:

Isn't York supposed to be the "Cambridge of the North" with regard to cycling, presumably there are a lot of bike shops there and so they can afford to cherry pick customers.. I understand to an extent the counter argument against internet sold e-bikes with poor construction quality and BSO's...

Unfortunately its quite common, as it is there are loads of small specialist shops (not just bike shops) which still feel they can cherry pick the business they want to do and in my town only one standard bike shop will repair e-bikes, the rest simply turn down the business...

Did get a tyre pranged by a particularly large shard of east Anglian flint. Having dug it out, I actually saved this and kept it on my desk for some months - I remember it being around 5mm in length and 3mm across, and actually shaped like an arrowhead from stone age history books. I did...

At least he's honest enough to admit this. This is the reality of life. Its not even that much to do with driving skills, vehicles, cars, bikes or anything else. When people are put into a pressure situation, they think of themselves and their nearest and dearest first. Even your best friend or...

I'm 38 and still am thought of by many as a young lad (indeed, outside of real ale pubs I keep getting asked for ID!) apparently even normal commuter cycling can make you as fit and youthful as someone 10 years your junior.. :rolleyes: Unfortunately there are too many people about with double...

cheers - those look promising... round here the concept of a bike having an alarm would hopefully be enough to give any thief/vandal enough of a scare to make them give up and pick an easier target....