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There wasn't an article, Panasonic release no tech details on their pedelec designs, it comes from physical checking by a couple of us. It was quite a recent design and if they'd used a switched mode supply could have utilised LED lighting instead of wasting current in filament bulbs. However...

There's a difference, those so called wastes are often something being usefully done. Resistance waste in a bike lighting system isn't since it's unnecessary and has no gain. .

Yes indeed, plus three quarter inch diameter front side lights, a single one inch diameter glimmer of a rear light in the middle of the boot lid, no stop lights or reflectors, vacuum operated wipers that didn't wipe when you put your foot down, direction indicator arms that stuck firmly in the B...

Indeed, only a small fraction of the traffic but which killed over three times as many people as today. .

Yes but, in this day and age with our increasingly environmental concerns we shouldn't be wasting any energy at all and this waste in total is a concern. Take the Netherlands where 70% of the population cycle daily, consider them riding home from work etc in winter, each with front AND rear...

Indeed. The last company location I ran I had 14 employees when I joined, four of them nearing 65. Two died of cancer in their final year before retirement, one died of prostrate cancer three months after retiring and one died of natural causes eight months after retiring. There seem to be...

Ah, so that's why modern butter is so lacking in flavour. .

But not wheat flour, that isn't the norm anywhere in the world so that doesn't apply. Corn (maize) is commonly GM. .

The Lafree's Panasonic unit develops creaks between the three mounting points and the frame, so tightening those three bolts, two at the front and one above the rear is the answer. They do need to be very tight. That means removing the cowlings to get at the bolts which is a fiddley job to say...

Perhaps not to divert attention. Possibly it's a way to get us used to less food in preparation for food rationing as a way of dealing with No Deal Brexit shortages and Covid-19 economic collapse. Then as we get more hungry we'll become more eager to accept the USA's GM crops and chlorinated...

Or the Mongolian nomads who live much of the year on rancid butter. .

This is the trike with some specification details. .

I've been saying this for along time, trunking trucks could be overhead cable powered along all the major routes to cover the vast majority of their mileages. It doesn't matter about the less densely populated areas that couldn't be covered that way, we only need to deal with the bulk of the...

What you are doing is fine, so long as you are only charging indoors when you are present and awake. I've never had a problem with charging any e-bike battery or of them showing any sign of reaching a dangerous condition. I have had two small lithium batteries swell up and have to be prised...

Oh well, as long as he's looking for a big fridge and not still thinking of building a big bridge to N.I. it could be worse. We had enough of his bridge ambitions in London, ending up with a £56 million invisible garden bridge and a cable car across the Thames that almost no Londoners use. .

Emphatically no, cyclists should mind their own business. There's more than enough aggression and ill feeling on the the roads already without self appointed little Hitlers adding substantially to it. The correct channel for those feeling more action is necessary is to lobby for more...

Indeed, thoughout Europe including here in the uk they have no legal status. Enforcement is possible however, by taking them off the road but the authorities have no intention of doing that. They are well aware of their presence but take no notice while their users largely comply with the law...

Definitely, the second series Panasonic unit is the least powerful of all the mainstream mid drives in this last decade. .

Of course, supplied by the LCD maker to the correct non-adjustable specification for the intended market. As I said there's hardly any variation, two covers virtually all the world. .

I've only ever dealt with this methodically according to law. Numbers 1 and 3 are illegal actions if taken, modifications to subvert the regulations. Both bikes were perfectly legal before those actions were taken and any compliance status they'd received emphasises that the modifications...