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Contrary and complimentary to what Woosh has said about crank drives .. centre motor ebikes. The motor placed in the crank allows the motor to have the advantage of the bikes gears. Electrical motors , just likehuman legs have a sweet spot for speed and going faster is inefficient and going...

Get a towbar mounting low loading bike carrier. Your significant other and their back will thank you.Halfords have a few versions . Remove the battery pack and save 10% of the weight when on the rack ,and carry it inside the car. Ditto for the display.. if it is easily demountable. For long...

.. do you have figures to back this up or is this just a simple rant. By figures I mean the comparative amounts of national income, expressed as a fraction of GDP spent on things like NHS, Police and Fire services , Army , Education , as a function of time, and referenced against national tax...

Wow double entendre, Julian Clary would be proud of you...

... But of course we have not had national service or conscription in Ireland, . The British war office was afraid to introduce it in 1914 for fear it would be counterproductive, and employed persuasion instead.. , so I don't have any detailed knowledge of what it does to a society.

There are two ways of looking at national service. If a democratic country is to have armed forces, then all the citizens without exception should be required to participate. It forces the government to realise that any military adventures will have direct consequences with the voting public...

The bosch calculator is pretty good, for fthe things it can measure but in one regard,... the range of a e bike is critically dependent on the wind direction. Power usage as a function of speed increases as the CUBE of the speed relative to the air. So say you were travelling at 10 mph...

The beef figure might be somewhat inflated. As there is at present extensive traffic between the western counties in Ireland , producing calves for finishing off on the richer pastures on the eastern and north eastern seaboard. Post BREXIt there will be friction in the finishing of off east of...

Chickens!!! Oh you were so lucky etc etc... On a linked point with the escalation in tension between the usa and the remainder of the world, the EU are fast tracking trade deals with China, so where does that leave a BREXIt minded UK?.

I think the situation is that no country can afford to create an aerospace industry or a large scale semiconductor industry any more. These have now become continental industries, if not global. The R&D involved surpasses the capability of any single country. .. the USA is not a country, it is a...

.. I was trying to gain kudos,with the London crowd, by dropping my h s .. Ah well thwarted again!

What your analysis fails to recognise is that the population in NI more evenly split. My sadness regarding BREXIt was that the potential of both NI and RoI sharing a common alliegence as citizens of Europe has been again twarted, . The Troubles from 1969 to 1995, forced both communities in NI...

.., it was the Romans who built that wall to keep the Scots away from those gentle folk south of that border. There was extensive traffic between Scotland and the northern sections of ireland,going back probably 3 millennia . At around 1000AD , the O'BRIEN clan, or Dal Gasian,in the late...

Ireland has always been united, . Well at least since the pre cambrian era, as a visiting geology professor told me, with the actual join south of Annagassan. , It is only the people who are disunited. The ring of volcanoes, around Newry which give us the attractive mournes, resulted from the...

Perhaps I erred in omitting the quotation marks around high achievers . But with all modesty, I must confess to being the great and the good,as Tommie has so gracefully conceded.

Well said... Except the bit about the glorious sunshine , today excepted. Not a very suitable location for a marina however, .. not when it would need to be 3 miles off coast.

I tend to take this survey type analysis with a grain of salt..There is a lot of sociological baggage inciuded. The Dyson products are sold at a high premiums and the people who buy these are of the high achievers, easily dissatisfied type. (I have a Dyson product).

That is certainly an opinion, well structured, but perhaps factually deficient. NZ was one of the food sources for the UK, but there was an implied assumption that there was a linked commonwealth with vassal states dotted around the globe. Each of these twinkling lights of commonwealth were...

.. was the point that she was not bluffing when she said she was a difficult woman?

Please do, and mongolia's arid desert might be a suitable destination. Anyway both you and I Tommie can take heart at Ireland's test series victory over Australia a few minutes ago.