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You are quite wrong. The area around Chernobyl was surveyed and changes were found in the animals and plants living there. They were found to have very high doses of radiation and some genetic changes. But no one knows how many just died and whether the ones surveyed were descendants of ones...

Really? How long as the human race existed as modern man? 150,000 years or so. How long since farming enabled civilisations to form? 8,000 years or so. Farming was still spreading and taking over the last hunter gatherers late into the last century BTW. How long since the industrial...

Just to add, Of the four major accidents which happened that we know about. Two of the sites are never going to be inhabited again in our civilisation’s likely lifetime. Chernobol and its surrounding area is sealed, but will need much more money spent to make it safe for the next couple of...

I’m afraid you’r very complacent there. Sweden is planning to put its waste from power stations underground in deep rock as we in this country have been planning to do for years. But no one wants it in their backyard of course so all our waste is still stored ’temporarily’ above ground. Power...

Nucleur might be gaining approval from some quarters now as a way of mitigating the worst of climate change. But the environmental damage of mountains of radioactive waste with a half life of thousands of years isn’t much better. Not to mention the risks. In the sixty years since the first full...

Presumably emission occurred when power was used to compress the air though. Unless it was done using renewables. The whole electric vehicles as environmentally pure issue in a nutshell too.

Heath Robinson your spirit lives on.

It’s blowing a yachtsman’s gale straight from Siberia where I live and I went for a long walk instead.

As I said my Kalkhoff assists up to 17.3 mph and cuts out imperceptibly. On flats and downhills it goes faster and on rises it slows into the assist range and at 17 mph boosts me along again. So holding that speed is easy unless the road is steep uphill. in practise the much higher...

Normal Kalkhoffs which are legal continue assist until a little over 17 mph using the ten percent tolerance in the regs. I find I can pedal past that on the flat quite easily when the bike is up and rolling anyway. For a long distance commute IMO a Kalkhoff is hard to beat. They may not be the...

Take stated range with a pinch of salt on all these bikes. Range will be how much you use the power, and how hilly it is where you cycle, and how fast you go. A large part of the weight is the battery, and the bigger it is the more range you have, and also the heavier the bike is. You can take...

Most dairy farmers don’t keep herds in fields with a public right of way. The cattle herds that I walk through regularly with a dog are reared for beef. As long as the dog is on a lead and you don’t get between a mother and her calf, and don’t spook them it’s perfectly safe. Everyone has dogs...

They certainly do that. They want to churn it up so it becomes unwalkable without wellies. Where I live now that’s a favourite trick on the nearby coastal path, and tourists often want to walk up from the beaches without getting properly kitted out so it puts them off. The farmers want tax payer...

That’s really very funny, particularly the bovines holding your bike hostage. Are you sure they weren’t bullocks? They are very curious and will run after you because they think you’re going to feed them. If it was cows with calves they can be dangerous, but I’ve always found when I had problems...

I was going to suggest a BB but I thought you were set on CD. d8veh will take issue with you on CD being better for hills no doubt. The BB will go up hills pretty well many of its satisfied heavy owners say. They can’t all be wrong.

Woosh did advertise a scheme where you could try out a bike if you lived near an owner who was willing to demonstrate it. It was on the website. How about a Kudos dealer? They have a few around the country.

If the power comes in progressively - or with a significant lag in other words - as he says then a throttle might be a good idea. It can be impossible to get started on a hill if power is not instantly available. Getting safely across traffic is not so clever either. I had a speed sensor bike...

Have you tried German eBay? They usually have lots of generic batteries and chargers for Panasonic.

You do seem to have a way with people don’t you? With an attitude like yours do you really think that members here are likely to put themselves out to help you? But you don’t really need any help because you know it all already.

I clearly must have read the thread because it didn’t take long to see that the only two kits you linked to were those. I don’t know why you came here at all if you don’t want to know what people who know about kits think.