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Whilst this can be true, I don't believe such large reductions in sales during some of the best weather we've had in many years indicates anything other than a fall, especially in newcomers to cycling. Such statements must be time qualified though, the 2.5 million sold is well down on the last...

That didn't happen with pure electric cars though. Their price was originally so high that even a £5000 grant tempted very few. In fact the car prices went down substantially over time while the grant stayed the same until quite recently. Take the Nissan Leaf. In single model form it was...

Really, what about you posting we rule in commute? We are way down in the world league for that. .

Bunkum UK's fairly regular cycling overall is some 3% of the population, even in London with the largest increase it's around 4%. Several European countries greatly exceed that in daily or near daily cycling alone, in The Netherlands it's 70% of the population, in Denmark 26%, in Germany 9% as...

No, it is true. Don't forget you don't know how long they've owned those bikes and the effect of this year's fine weather bring them out. Sales had long been at 2 millions a year but have been rising in recent years and peaked at 3.93 millions, but from that they've been falling. In 2017 they...

They're currently reducing green subsidies. The grant scheme for buying electric cars ends in October and they've already said the payments will be reduced, this will be the second reduction. Currently it's broadly speaking £4500 to buy a pure electric and £2500 to buy a plug-in hybrid, and...

In my London Borough there was a specialist bike shop named Geoffrey Butler Cycles with no chance of parking nearby, where if you walked in looking and dressed like a normal human being you were guaranteed to be ignored. But some way down the same main road and on the same side there was a...

With its weight and that chainwheel and rear sprocket ratio, most would have trouble pedalling it above 8 mph. So hardly an electric bike, more an electric motorbike, or as we use to call these cases 70 years ago, autocycles. .

. Maybe just the unpowered cycling, e-biking is booming. Link .

I think it's hills. ;) .

Yes he was, I was thinking in terms of the behaviour rather than politics. It was Alf's son-in-law played by Tony Booth (who was also Tony Blair's father-in-law) who was the Labour supporter. .

Bike Europe reports that in the first seven months of 2018 there were imports of some 43,000 e-bikes and arrivals of new e-bikes from EU countries of some 16,000, so a total of around 59,000 for the seven months. Last years total was some 62,500, so this year's figures are going to be a sharp...

Yes, neither the EAPC regulation nor the Type Approval law with its pedelec exemption are in force in Northern Ireland, so all pedelecs are L1e-B mopeds covering up to 30 mph with up to 4 kW of power assist. .

Alf Garnett of course. .

Prosecuted for child abuse and made subject to an ASBO restricting his behaviour in other's presence. .

Err - no. But they certainly are more invisible. .

This is true, but I don't think the reasons are unknown. I think it's due to the dominant presence of larger motor vehicles, the obvious threat of their size and the roads obviously intended for them, making them what's being looked for. Add to that the imperfections of peripheral vision and...

Thanks for the information Tim, added to files since it could well prove useful for someone else at a later date. .

Where on earth did you get that idea? France's Renault partner Nissan of Japan in UK manufacturing but not the design of them hardly puts us ahead. And we are way behind other many other countries in adoption of e-cars and associated technologies. .

The DUP won't accept that, or anything that in the slightest way threatens the union status of N.I. and the rest of the UK. Since the government is dependent on their support it's a non starter. .