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The larger the rear sprocket (number of teeth) for a given chain ring at the front, the faster you have to spin the pedals. For example, with the 14 tooth rear sprocket on the Stow Away and Basis, for 15 mph you will be spinning the pedals at nearly 80 turns per minute, nearly one and a half...

Be careful with your choice since you wish to keep up with riders on full size e-bikes. That is a tall order for a folder since they are mostly low geared, meaning you'll be spinning the pedals like mad on most to keep up with the motor at 15 mph. That's true of the Raleigh Stow Away and the...

High time both the Tory and Labour parties split into their respective left-right factions. Then we'd be able to vote a bit more rationally until PR arrives. .

It was a purely political move. Boris Johnson, desperate for a post Brexit trade deal with the USA, thought he could curry favour by permitting the US companies access to this hire market, something they had long campaigned for. Of course that failed since Biden has followed Trump's "America...

Those harsher measures against pollution that I've predicted are starting even earlier than I believed likely. And as I also predicted, not only against IC cars but against all vehicles. The experimental 50 mph limits in more polluted stretches of the M4 and some A roads that the Welsh...

But given there's up to 40% efficiency loss, the far more sensible, efficient and clean way to deal with that is to have shaft drive. Especially with electric assist power. The lack of shaft drive with a suitable gear system is the gaping hole in current pedelec design choice. .

Doomed to fail. There's the huge efficiency loss compared to chain and sprocket at high 90s percentage efficiency. But worse still when setting off is the feel of pedalling hard and fast before equivalent drive reaction happens, frustrating to say the least. A bit like the way CVT was...

You'll be ok in ten years time, but the further we get towards crisis, the harsher the measures will become. Compulsory scrappage of higher emission and large engined IC cars will be the least of them. Later I see see such things as having to show a need for an IC car to have permission to own...

I bet it will fail, just as the similar Mando Footloose did:

The latest IPCC report completely scuppers Germany's argument against the EU date ban on new ICE cars. The urgency of our worsening situation means ICE need to be withdrawn even more rapidly. The worse the situation gets, the sooner we will see increasingly severe compulsory scrappage...

Only works on 4G and 5G. Only claimed to reach 90%, so in truth less than 80% of mobile phone users** and 70% of the public at large if we are lucky. So another useless waste of money like smart meters. ** Ask the energy suppliers about the high proportion of smart meters that don't work due...

I will thankfully probably be dead by then, but I do feel very sorry for the young who will be facing this future. It really is an terrible injustice. The chancellor's excuse is to keep the senior doctors working, but whether that will happen is a moot point. We are far from alone of course...

But of course he won't always be head of the Russian state, unless he dies in office. Probably academic though, since even in retirement he would have no need to leave Russia and its protection, given its vast range of environments and options open to a wealthy ex president. .

Look at their list of names and vulnerability, I have. It will remain absurd for the following reasons: Russia has a total ban on extradition of any of its citizens. Tested many times and never failed. Putin can safely travel countries occupying nearly half of all this planet's land mass...

Impossible, since he was a lowly KGB agent at the time. It was only later that fate, due to Yeltsin successfully opposing Gorbachov, which later brought Putin to light at all. (Berlin Wall came down 1989, Putin became president in 2000). Without those chance events Putin would now be a...

I'm illustrating both how ineffective the ICC is and how irrational it's application is. For example: "Ukraine signed the Rome Statute on 20 January 2000, but due to a 2001 constitutional court ruling declaring the treaty incompatible with Ukraine's constitution, the government has not...

Hardly, considering Germany was the EU's biggest supporter of agreement with Russia, and still is. .

Exactly, just as the USA and Britain would veto any attempt to hold them to account for their war crimes. All underlining the kangaroo court status of the ICC. It was well meant by the EU and others, but the old truism remains. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Remember, none of...

It doesn't give him any licence since I can't see how the ICC court has any real validity. The USA doesn't accept it, indeed the three major world nations, China, the USA and Russia don't accept it. The ICC complements existing national judicial systems and may exercise its jurisdiction only...

He was correct, Russia never ratified the agreement and the Court itself agrees. When the Ukraine took Russia to the court in 2022 for genocide, the charge was dismissed. In their declaration, annexed to the Court's conclusions, they essentially support the Russian interpretation that the ICJ...