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Yes, that was the original like mine, rode like any ordinary bike on the flat when power switched off and better in that respect than any other e-bike since. In my hilly area I swapped the Shimano Inter-3 hub gear for an SRAM P5. .

Since we have our own case here as I've been posting, I'll keep you up to date on this. London's very low vaccination rates for our 10 millions are a big enough sample, some large boroughs barely over 50% with two jabs and over 2.4 millions with no vaccine whatsoever. .

Even in our London borough we were faced with a similar threat, but the huge storm of protest we kicked up scared the council enough to drop the plan, so I still have my local one at three miles distant. They've even upgraded it recently. .

Not overenginered for the heavy stuff I designed it for. It had to carry cookers, undercounter fridges and freezers and large CRT television sets. All part of the recycling I did over a decade in retirement for my 53 neighbours who had no council recycling service. I even carried a double...

Chris Whitty's deputy, Professor Jonathan Van Tam is presenting the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures this year, on Covid and Viruses! These lectures for children each year are usually fun filled with explosions etc to excite and interest the youngsters, goodness knows how he'll manage to...

Your above post from July 19th, post 97,480: Looks like Omicron is bidding to became your friend. Nearly half way there at 88,376. Professor Neil Ferguson will already be celebrating, in July he only forecast 100,000 by Christmas. .

We have retained the EU rules in all respect in the Great Repeal Bill, so we are ok on this count. .

Only vans and cars though, not bicycles with trailers:

As it was being stapled in, one of the theatre staff cut off a strip for me as a momento. It just looked like ordinary polypropylene, but that was back in 2011. .

Long ago my grandparents and to some extent my parents had next to nothing. Just a basic roof over their heads, the minimum of basic furniture on bare floorboards, lots of very hard work over long hours and just enough food inside them. They had no time or energy to complain or get heavily...

Really? Not a happy place? They seem to enjoy partying. .

That's why I'm disregarding the positive test numbers. They are worthless since they are directly related to the numbers being tested, which in turn are related to the numbers who have vaccinated. Those who dont bother to vaccinate don't bother to test and the data on vaccination and testing...

Depending on the individual. I'm not at all accident or illness prone and have sailed though life with remarkably little incident. So my world hasn't been too dangerous and difficult a place. Conversely many experience totally the opposite, but not an experience I share. I did that very...

I'm not surprised. During an inguinal hernia operation with the surgeon fixing a mesh plastic patch onto the inner membrane holding in my intestines, I asked him what was the metal of the many staples being inserted around it. He didn't know, but then guessed "maybe stainless steel or...

With your extreme pessimism it's a wonder you bother to get up each day. Those are things that only happen to other people, and in that I'm over 99.9% correct. And as for the sphere hurtling through space, it's been doing that for 4.6 billion years. What makes you think it might do...

Nothing to worry about. This is just Covid-19 hysteria number 4. .

With Omicron seemingly on widespread special offer, I did my shop this afternoon to see if Sainsburys had it in stock. No signs in me at present, perhaps the HGV driver shortage affecting their supplies. I'll have to try again next week. It will be an irony if after all my struggles to get...

Agreed, and many will have regarded any somewhat unpleasant reaction as serious. Today's population are far less tough and resilient than those of a few decades ago. They even complain about other people's parties they weren't invited to. ;) .

The number of Tory MPs who voted against the latest Covid restrictions is now revealed to be 100. That's almost half of all the back benchers. .

National Vaccination Rates Stalled. I've been watching this day by day and for some while the percentage of those with first or second dose have stayed the same. Nationally it seems almost 11% are stuck at no first dose and almost 19% no second dose, appearing to be refusenicks. Nor does it...