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I've never passed a cycling proficiency test. I just got on a bike in 1946 and rode off, no learning, balance just seemed to come naturally on two wheels. Did the same with a motorcycle in 1950, got on, kick started and rode away. The weird thing is that I have a lousy sense of balance on my...

Maybe not for cycling through Hyde Park Corner in the rush hour though, Link ;) .

Pie Pie? That sounds like a pie with a filling of yesterday's pies! P.S. Is this the greatest thread in the history of the Web? The range of subjects covered would certainly suggest that. All it needs is an index to rival Wikipedia or Encyclopedia Britannica. .

We do our best. :) I've just added a note above that Aseako still list spares being available as well as Tonaro models with your style of battery. .

These were the other names they were sold under: Tonaro is the original name of the Chinese maker. http://www.tonaro.cn/index.html Sold as Evelo by the Evelo company in Boston, USA. http://www.evelo.com/ Sold as I-go by the Igo company in Quebec, Canada http://www.igoelectric.com/ Sold...

I remember the Tonaro models well, originally sold here by a West of England company called Powerpedals. In some other countries they were sold under other names. The motor unit was based on the Yamaha PAS design that ran from 1999 to 2006. You won't be able to source a battery to fit that...

Absolutely. Pi references the ratio of the radius of a circle to its circumference, nothing whatsoever to do with an internal segment of a circle. In 1801 pies were a popular staple food, many ate them daily. There were pie bakers everywhere and people would send out for a pie just as they do...

The 36 volt is nominal, based on the nominal cell voltages within. When fully charged each cell is just over 4.1 volts, so 10 in series are just over 41 volts. That's the start voltage when fully charged, cut off needing recharge occurs at 32 volts. The nominal 36 or 37 volts quoted is...

No it is not and never has been. You quoted a spurious, recent and wholly inaccurate reference, just an assumption by someone snobbishly thinking himself correct. Link .

This one extract shows how worthless such polls are Tommie: "If Irish unity led to Catholic voters being £3,500 a year worse off, just 22% of Catholics would vote for unity, yet if it led to them being £3,500 better off that figure would more than double to over 54%." So it just takes a...

Not so, that's confusing it with Pi. The segment chart has always been named Pie. From Wikipedia: It's a pie chart. The chart was invented (or at least, documented for the first time) in 1801 by British engineer William Playfair. He also invented the line chart and bar chart, and is...

Well Tony Blair when PM did give a promise that the people of Northern Ireland would be able to decide their future and we've long known the inevitable trend is to a Catholic majority. But Sinn Fein and the SDLP split the Catholic vote so there's little chance of imminent change it seems. .

Course he didn't, Yorkshire has pudding, not pie. :) Eccles has cake, Cornwall has Pasties, it's Leicestershire at Melton Mowbray that has pie. .

Wisper recommend their batteries out of use should be topped up monthly. At a year neglected it's unlikely to be satisfactory. .

I believe that's so. Shimano at the time claimed that Alfine is a system, not just a hub gear. They produced three 8 speed hub gears, The first was troublesome and superceded by a stronger one which was incorporated as part of the Alfine sets at the time. Then there was a third hub which...

Yes that's correct. .

The back pedal, aka coaster brake was standard on many of the continental Kalkhoff models since they are popular there, but never for the UK where they are not popular. .

Tommie, we in England haven't had an honest unemployment figure from any government since Thatcher shut down the coal mines in the 1980s. Her government introduced the dodge of putting all the redundant miners on invalidity benefit to keep the already high unemployment figure in check, and that...

Not fake news at all Tommie. I was speaking of the repayable loans to Greece, not the EU wide wealth redistribution program to help all countries reach the same standards. And I don't think distributing that one billion to all N.I. citizens compares with helping poor regions. .

Indeed, more like 10% and even that excludes other hidden unemployed, like those put on invalidity benefit to massage the unemployment figure. .