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AFAIK the "explosion" paranoia came from small scale testing of lithium batteries about 30 years ago - intended for portable radiotelephone equipment used by mobile workers and the Emergency Services. Of course firemen took a very dim view of hand-held radio sets what set the Fire Station...

Fair enough - its easy for a business to become a "victim of its own success" particularly when expanding (it looks like that is what unfortunately happened to the Wisper dealer in SE England that David from Wisper fired!) Fair play to you as well for telephoning the shop owner and alerting him...

I help run a youth lifestyle site for the electronic dance music scene and when discussing anything controversial in public, its not always a good thing to have "the powers that be" monitoring and have your voice heard... This country does permit an amount of free speech but it must be used...

They must pay a lot for paper rounds these days... I don't buy papers these days (not got any cats in this house so no need for litter tray lining) but with the weight of todays rags (for instance a "right on green grauniad" having a ton of magazines etc at weekends) an ebike would make sense...

no wonder ours are going on strike, if they fear they are to be replaced by electric postmen from Europe because of EU rules :D seriously I am sure these electric handcarts are already in operational use at Royal Mail so maybe the UK could lobby the whole EU to say there is no need for this, as...

I found the website/shop referred too. Surely if they can't provide a timely answer to potential customers or there are no bikes of that make they should simply be honest about it, and also remove the line item from the website and concentrate the resources on serving existing customers or...

I pay in Euros for some VOIP telephone circuits and minutes and work and we use paypal... not sure how much charge paypal takes though for the currency conversions at the other end..

which LED's do people mean? on my 2009 Wisper there is a "traffic light" on the handlebars and also 5 led's on the battery, 4 green ones and one red one. I have just completed the third of during the conditioning charges and had only got to the last battery LED but not the red one- as by that...

3 points on your license and "donating" £3000 or more of your property to the local constabulary, that said it may be legal to ride on a CBT or motorbike license provided the machine was certified first via VOSA... But then as a bog-standard motorbike is faster and cheaper no one is gonna bother...

from an earlier article by "type approval" they mean what we sometimes call in this country "getting a VOSA plate" for a newly built or modified vehicle to confirm it is approved to use on our roads, which as flecc has mentioned a few times is what you would need if you (or a big company)...

I would say slightly after thatcho when major was in power although being the "grey man" he is often forgotten. But living in Reading during the 1990s I remember the "eco-protests" and a lot of it happened as much becuase the govt stamped hard on the festival/traveller culture and caused it to...

As much as I loathe the attitudes thatcho put into this country and I am no Conservative I don't think she was necessarily being anti-cycling, more anti public transport. At the same time Norman Tebbit said "I grew up in the '30s with an unemployed father. He didn't riot. He got on his bike...

indeed, people vastly overestimate distances in London due to its density, and regularly get on the Tube or bus to travel distances they could easily walk!

to fair if her job is in that area as well she's probably perfectly safe walking if she sticks to built up areas and doesn't talk to strangers etc... metpol do keep a close watch up west as they don't want London to get a rep for being unsafe for well-heeled foreign businesspeople and...

TBH given the state of cities today if it were my 18 year old daughter despite my environmental concerns, if she has a driving license I'd actually try and find the money for her to afford a car, particularly if she ends up having digs in a less than pleasant area of London, and/or her job...

I lived in Reading for much of my life and my mates once even had an "underground bike workshop" run out of the former cellar room of a disused pub they had squatted :D Where in Berkshire are you? I'm sure I've seen people offering these classes particularly in the Reading area - haven't been...

if you pay council tax reporting something to the council is no different IMO than if you bought a computer and some disks or mains leads were missing so you called the suppliers and made them send you the missing parts.. in many of the Scandinavian or Teutonic countries people here admire for...

on vbulletin forums having loads of sub-forums isn't such an issue if the "new posts" link is set up correctly (which it is on this forum) as it will lead people to the new posts across any sub forum That said it is a bit dissapointing that after the chap called Carl left that Powacycle has not...

its probably the fairest out of a variety of unpopular solutions (others such as psychological tests for drivers are a bit "minority report"!), after all if there isn't a RTC the motorist isn't going to be penalised. It still should only be considered after infrastructure improvements...

I don't think this is the sort of thing which can be easily taught at "driving test" level other than what is already there. The driving test, especially in its present incarnation, is already a fairly stringent test, my younger friends or others who are learning to drive very rarely pass...