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I'm all in favour of anything that helps a cyclist be clearly seen on the road... but: 1) If you've got your head down (a drop-bar road bike or pedalling hard), no one sees the lights at the back. You need to maintain a sit-up position. 2) A car driver is looking for clear hand signals, not...

You are particularly well blessed in Milton Keynes with miles of well planned, dedicated off-road routes... you can cycle the entire city without actually touching a road!

I've cycled sections of the Grand Union: The path is narrow, littered with potholes and slippery/decaying leaves (dangerously close to the water!), and the residents who are moored up in their boats often straddle the path in their chairs evenings and weekends. I found it something of an...

I wouldn't suggest for a moment you do this unless you know what you're doing, but it's quite possible to run a 30A mains supply from your consumer unit using 6mm sq T&E (cooker) cable, or a 45A supply using 10mm sq (10kw shower cable). I run 4 x 500kva toroidal transformers for my hi-fi this...

In my experience, yes it does. It affects hugely the operating culture and processes of the Company. Since digging Volvo out of near bankruptcy, under Chinese ownership, Geely have completely redesigned both all the engines and platform of todays Volvos... and one of their largest sales markets...

That’d almost be funny if it didn’t play so heavily on ingrained, outdated, stereotypical views reinforced by marketing hype and bull about how brilliant everything German is supposed to be... Except that in JD Powers most recent 2017 car reliability survey, Chinese owned Volvo and Korean owned...

My regular not-electric semi-decent hybrid bike (700c x 35 at 65psi) has Mavic rims and DT Swiss spokes... My very similar style but much cheaper £1000 Chinese hybrid e-bike uses generic (again 700c x 35 at 65psi) Chinese wheel sets. Carrying my 115kg weight over road and generally smooth...

Lol. Whether the Chinese buy them or not isn't altogether relevant: Varta are part of the existing Alise consortium for making the Li-S cells, and Seat for using them in their electric cars. "...to develop 400Wh/kg and 500Wh/kg cells... with a stated battery cost target of $250/kWh"...

Well, apparently, Li-S for e-bikes has already been developed (even if not quite yet in the market): "The first Li-S battery was developed for electric bikes. It is a 360 Wh system weighing only 2kg... OXIS has entered the electric scooter segment and target to introduce Li-S batteries into the...

A programme on Radio 4 yesterday: The Bottom Line - Batteries http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b096jb29 Covers how Lithium Ion - now 26 years old - will likely be superseded by much lighter Lithium Sulphate technology. LS uses Lithium metal as an anode with sulphate giving 5 times the energy...

I do agree. But it’s not always possible to have that intelligent, considered discussion when the trolls are travelling in the opposite direction passing judgement and hurling abuse. I must say though that those occasions have been precious few for me. I find most regular cyclists are keenly...

As I was e-biking up an off-road incline, two trendy, not un-fit, Lycra-clad "yummy mummies" came jogging towards me heading in the opposite direction... and as they were about to pass, I heard the "cheat" comment... In a loud voice, I simply retorted "Jees, your arse looks HUGE in that!". That...

About a month ago, on a quiet calm early Sunday morning, on a very quiet, narrow, back country road, I sensed - not heard - something behind me. And on looking over my shoulder, there's a massive full-on 18-wheel artic the full width of the road coasting slowly about 20 feet behind me (probably...

Yes, that's a great video showing how stupid pedestrians can be. And then you can watch one of hundreds like this, showing just how stupid the cyclists are:

"Eurobike 2017: Six of the best" article here: http://ebiketips.co.uk/content/news/eurobike-2017-six-of-the-best-e-mtbs-from-pivot-marin-bh-rocky-mountain-ridley-and "The BH (Atom X) is also one of the first e-bikes to switch to the larger, higher-capacity 21700 cells that are being developed...

Because it's private land the American idiot was trespassing, and as it is private land, the train operating companies can do what they want: In many high density traffic areas (in most cities for example) the trains already run head to toe at maximum capacity with a train in every section...

I had a bottle battery that looked very similar to that on my first e-bike - but a 36v 10Ah version. After a few months, it too had the same problems of intermittently cutting out when riding... but when the battery did work, it worked perfectly well. When charging, it too used to charge...

Yes, quite so. But we're talking about Brand perceptions in the Western World. Throughout Europe, people know and are comfortable with Bosch or Yamaha's crank drive... whereas Bafang's MaxDrive is/was to many ordinary folk something of a lesser known and unproven entity. Indeed, a MaxDrive...

Yes, that saying originated in the 1960s and 70s when IBM dominated firstly the mainframe market for business-critical applications, and latterly the embrio PC market. But even IBM eventually woke up to realise that other far more dynamic businesses were doing those things better than they did...

As d8veh also says in his earlier post here, it's the versatility of the MaxDrive that appeals most to me: It would grate with me to not only pay a premium to buy a Bosch (or Yamaha) drive, but to then be locked in to buying overpriced batteries/chargers, extended wait times for repair, and...