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Left-handed throttles are a thorough abomination and should be taken off and inserted sideways into the throttle orifice of the person who designed the bike that way. Not my two cents - a sincerely held opinion.

Is that not with a background of cycling /head and mileage having expanded dramatically, though? In which case the actual rate of accidents /injuries/ death is lower than it used to be.

It's only rude if you're talking about someone if they're in the same room. Otherwise it's just a perfectly correct use of the personal pronoun.

I'd fit a trailer with two extra batteries :) I doubt the legislation mentions trailers...

Hmmm... yes and no. Once the paperwork is done you needn't worry about costly servicing, maintenance and fuel/oils. Even though they're bigger and heavier, they're still bicycles and can be run on a shoestring compared to a motorcycle. Technically, mine is a class whatever, but I use bike...

Eddie is the DJ of Smug today :)

I never fitted my pedelec sesnsor, though it occurs to me it might be a good thing to have fitted in case the throttle (cheap thing that it is) goes toes-up one day. Even with the throttle I take away in low gear and get a couple of MPH up before I feed in the power so as I avoid overheating the...

I like the look of that one, too. Personally, I'd prefer the higher-powered one, but I'm thinking I might go for a 2WD solution next time around and keep it stealth, so a pair of 250W might be good (a pair of 500W would be better, but bulkier). Thinking diy cargo bike, so more power is desirable...

If you can't get past the ST's pay barrier (and I refuse to give the Murdoch Creature any of my hard-earned), her article is reproduced on her Facebook page. Author Daisy Goodwin | Facebook

ITV4 for six episodes. Shaky start, they listened to criticism and improved it dramatically. Well worth watching in the end and I hope it remains as good when it returns.

I'm weighing up options at the moment - I don't want to end up with a collection of bars that I'll never use. I'll look at 22mm bars for suitability.

I know from painfully-bought experience during many winters of riding motorcycles that the best type of hand protection is a fairing. Somewhat impractical on a bicycle, although there are some brave and foolhardy tries at it, but the next best thing is bar-end protection. The cheapskate courier...

Yes, it was a right load of monkey's backsides, and that was just the presenters. I do like old SF normally, but this is just another pointless form-over-function 'edutainment' type of programme with nothing in the way of really informative content. Deer gawd, no. Anyone but that sneering buffoon.

This has just popped up on a search - interesting. I don't want to be an early adopter, though - I suspect that some customers will be the testers in the early version. B ugger that, with the return costs involved. I'll wait until it's been bugged-out. Hot sale 350-500W Cassette Freewheel Rear...

The point is, a presenter on a technical programme that obviously doesn't know what a Watt-hour or a kiloWatt-hour is, is a bloody liability. I think she was chosen for her looks, not brains. The other one's got the brains, but is ugly, so perhaps it overall balances out, to be fair.

The one beef I have with the throttle is its length. I need a full-length throttle and a thumb throttle would be no good. The length of the throttle itself isn't a problem really, but what it means is the free length remaining of the straight portion of the bar isn't adequate to fit my original...

For decades now, every chain-driven motorcycle I've had has been fitted with a Scottoiler. I am a thorough convert to the chain oiling belief, but not to Scott's oil refill prices. I found years ago that chainsaw oil, with its anti-fling properties was just as good and a quarter of the price...

Interesting; in the same spirit of diy, but using what's available off the shelf and not being stung for so-called special fittings, I wonder what use some of the new generation of LED floods would be. You know the type of thing... led floodlight | eBay

Loctite - The Movie?

What a yawn-inducing video. A total lack of adequate coverage on what was obviously a fairly testing run and many interesting sections utterly missed out in favour of that blasted helicopter cam.