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Bicycle gear company SRAM were the first with a two speed automatic rear wheel hub motor. My answer below from a thread over four years ago is relevant to this subject: "Feb 25, 2018 That Xionda motor is still being sold and it was preceded by one from SRAM as well, though that not as well...

Not quite true, it's fashion as much as anything. From the 1970s to 2001 it was nearly all crank drives with the odd friction drive onto the tyres. Then from 2002 to 2007 the market switched almost entirely to wheel hub motors, so entirely so that the main maker of a crank drive, Panasonic...

They will never be enforced. Many police forces including our largest one, London's Metropolitan Police have formally announced that they will not attempt to enforce them. One reason is technical, the lower the speed being measured with hand held laser devices, the more inaccurate they become...

You mentioned it was a trial scheme, ours is a permanent one a few years old, so maybe better adapted to over time. As these 20 limits spread maybe everyone will observe them better, but I very much doubt we'll ever see traffic staying strictly at 20 mph. Being so slow is unnecessary and...

It's primarily a problem of women in parliament and the increasingly assertive attitude so many women have towards men now. Men trying to be PC in response compounds the problem. The day women become perfect they can be assertive towards me. Until then they can get lost with such irrelevant...

No, the difference I've explained in my previous post number 13, that e-scooters are motor vehicles with all that implies in law. Legal pedelecs are classed as bicycles so not subject to motor vehicle laws. This is all about the fact that pedelecs only have assist power and how that power is...

These e-scooters are motor vehicles in law so all the motor vehicle laws apply, at present at least. Legal Pedelecs are bicycles in law, so no motor vehicle laws apply. .

How can you miss the point so comprehensively? * Clearly I vote for the lesser by far of the two evils. A council with a proven record that doesn't actually harm, rather than one that has totally failed at huge ongoing cost to everyone in the borough and even a cost to the whole country...

It's a local election so of course I'll be voting Tory to rescue the borough from a disastrous Labour Council with a shocking record. Set up their own building company called Brick by Brick which made a mess of all the projects it as engaged in, then went bankrupt. Massive borrowing by the...

There is no second place in what they've expressed they want, countries can and sometimes do learn. Both have seen the futility of the wars that they've been involved in over at least 1000 years and want a completely different approach, but both have a big problem with the USA. Hence the...

I said long term, Putin is 70! There's no demotion in merging, it means becoming as one. It's already happening anyway, Russia's eastern population is increasingly Chinese with Russia's full approval. They know it worked historically when Russia took a huge part of Mongolia and that Oriental...

I don't know what gave you that weird idea, but it's very much at odds with the relationship of those two now and what they plan for the future. Merger is far more likely in the long term. .

Too small and too unlikely to spread the doctrine to count. It's the threat of the spread of communism the USA cannot accept, hence their mistrust of Russia and North Korea, their wars in Korea and Vietnam and their growing disaffection with China today. .

Ukraine would be trying to join both too, and we'd all be looking forward to an American led future WW3 against China. While any form of communism exists and the USA has any power, there will never be peace. It isn't Russia we need to isolate to gain peace, it's the USA. .

It was and still is the lawful government of Syria, and by Middle Eastern standards a very reasonable one. That showed all too well when a number of the Shia majority rose up against the Sunni minority government, since half the Shia population not only refused to side with them, they sided...

All not in any way relevant to what I posted. Chechnya was an entirely internal matter since it was wholly part of the Russian state engaged in internal Islamic terrorism. Being in Syria was at the request of the lawful government of that country, asking for help. NATO couldn't act since we...

:D . Nice idea but not so! The Conformitè Europëenne (CE) Mark is defined as the European Union's (EU) mandatory conformity marking for regulating the goods sold within the European Economic Area (EEA) since 1985. The CE marking represents a manufacturer's declaration that products comply with...

Like there's no excuse for the USA invading other countries and committing mass murder of civilians using far worse methods like napalm and agent orange. And they've illegally invaded other countries far more frequently. Little wonder Russia's fear of NATO is genuine, given the US record of...

We already know what the government favours since they've already made that clear when they first introduce the trial. 350 watt limit and 12.5 mph speed limited to accord to Europe's 20 kph limit for these scooters. The 15 mph limit was only for the trial to help out the American hire...

Exactly what I was arguing from the outset, but unfortunately unpopularly in this thread where most just swallow the western propaganda. And of course the Mexico possibility you mention we've already experienced with Cuba and the Russian missile crisis. Thanks to Zelensky and his ilk...