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Oh sh*t, now all the dentists will be backing him. :( .

Yes I fully agree, it's easy with new schemes and the will is there. But the real problem is in the existing infrastructure as I've shown, and that is where 85% of the population live. It will be a couple of hundred years before that is replaced, especially in our history obsessed country...

We don't have to overtake or even match, we can just operate independently, even if technologically somewhat behind. I don't know the standard of living of my equal in China, nor do I need to know. It's only necessary for me to be happy with mine in this world of inequalities. As for relative...

Of course my post showed I do believe in the US of E, as I said, an integral part of a giant, though it wouldn't be called US of E. Mine is very much the long term view. Thatcher's quaint view is what causes so much of the world's troubles. She referred to national pride being the source of...

It's not so much green as impossible, sadly. All we could achieve is a patchwork of disjointed bits of cyclepaths, which is what we've got now anyway. In our small historic country we've mainly built narrow roads, often lined with buildings and privately owned property. So solve these...

Doesn't surprise me, I regard PayPal as a thoroughly dishonest company unfit to be allowed to handle financial transactions. Accordingly I refuse to have anything to do with them. I avoid its now parent company ebay too, when getting information from ebay I always track down the actual...

In what way does that defy common sense? Surely in a world increasingly of giants, being an integral part of one of the largest and most important and benefitting from their trade agreement negotiating strengths and potential military strength makes perfect sense? Especially so when the EU...

I don't have a pedelecs funny icon any more, so you'll have to make do with an Agree. .

Link to Clarkson's numerous literary outputs .

It's always looked pretty flat to me, the "hills" very mild. This link refers. .

The Greens definitely are and I cannot see the LibDems changing their position. EU membership fits both their agendas in ways that leaving the EU certainly doesn't, quite the opposite. That's why both have so determinedly stated their position. Change UK are also a reliable bet, since more...

This isn't true, there are Bosch powered bikes with hub gears, Bosch even specifying the units differently for those bikes. They are just not sold much here due to our derailleur biased market. The mainland European cycling countries see things very differently due to their far wider cycling...

Not theories, I owned a crank drive bike with an SRAM P5 hub gear for years in my hilly North Downs area. But of course with my very long experience of hub gears as well as derailleurs, I know how to ride them. I'm guessing you're much younger and one of the post 1980 derailleur generation...

If true, the LibDems could possibly join with the SNP, the Greens, Change UK and any other Remainers in a coalition. .

I haven't seen this being a problem for inexperienced or utility riders, they quickly realise they need to momentarily pause pedalling when changing, which cuts the power of course. It's the occasional derailleur experienced riders who can be brutal when riding a hub gear, but they are the...

It doesn't seem to worry the Dutch, they routinely ride hub gear bikes with full chaincases, their transmissions lasting many years without attention on those quite heavy bikes and e-bikes. .

The actual law that bans them is the same one that bans Segways and mini-mopeds and many other motorised devices. It's the Highway Act 1835 This bans any locomotive from any public road, locomotive in this instance being an archaic term to describe any motorised vehicle. Since 1835 in Great...

You could have replied: "I can tell by how annoying you are". :D .

I agree, for utility riding hub gears have much to commend them, not least the ability to change gears at a standstill and not have to carry out gear changes when approaching possible stop points. The very low maintenance needs and the wider, much longer lasting chain and sprockets being...

Hard to say. One thing I'm certain of though is that the resurgence of the Greens is largely due to the luck of the climate change protests happening just before. They could not have been timed better. .