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I would be so tempted to swim up behind, puncture both floats and watch it accelerate! .

It's what we do. As soon as we invent or create something we start to make a choice between the following: 1) Make a mess of developing it so it fails. 2) Flog it to another country. 3) Abandon the idea, allowing someone else to pick it up free. From jet engines to hovercraft it's always...

Good idea, but best used the opposite way round by using national waters. Got some UK orders after Brexit? Sail into UK waters, drop anchor and assemble the bikes, sticking on a union jack. Sail into port and hand over the UK made bikes tariff free to the delivering courier. EU orders, sail...

Just pop down the Job Centre and watch the social cohesion of the non-employed signing on for the goodness flowing of universal credit. .

Absolutely untrue for pedelecs sold as legal. As Zlatan observes, it's the higher powered kit motors, often DDs, that are capable of high speeds and it's those that will cause the trouble. However, those irresponsible users are not a threat to the rest of us since the pedelec regulations are...

Certainly most 250 watt rated pedelecs can't get near to 30 mph unrestricted on motor power alone. The proof is in the S class which originally also had a 250 watt limit. The S class bikes then commonly only reached a little over 20 mph assisted. It took a change in the regulations to permit...

Actually Tom sovereignty isn't too expensive to enjoy, one only needs the fare to the Isle of Man. There they are not part of the EU, nor part of the UK. They make all of their laws in their own parliament, the oldest in the world. As a Crown Dependency, nominally the Queen is Head of State...

Nice to see John Field get an oblique mention. He's sadly too neglected these days, though still revered in Russia. .

I don't think that's true, it's a very Anglo-centric view. Different peoples have very different tastes in music and the spread of the EU into Eastern Europe has made that more influential as Danidl has observed. Hungarian tastes for example are very different from ours, especially with what...

Partially right historically, the EU trying to improve the lot of poorer nations. But many of those places are no longer very cheap labour locations. The economic benefits of the introduced manufacturing has greatly improved their economies and for that reason, many who came here for a better...

Our bus drivers do that all the time round here, completely blocking the road while chatting cab to cab. We just treat it as normal now. Again pretty normal stuff. It might look like an accident waiting to happen, but he's probably been driving for them for ages without incident. I'm all...

OTT behaviour provokes OTT responses. The solution is in Israeli hands, change the totally unacceptable behaviours and the unacceptable responses won't be provoked. JC doesn't express extreme views on this subject, but he's unwilling to criticise those who go too far, since criticising them...

The police seem to routinely ignore these reports and videos from the public of driver behaviour and I think they are wise to do so. There's already far too much animosity between different classes of road users and acting on such reports will only increase that. Even the presence and use...

Surely the greatest ambiguity is the breadth of the definition that Jewish and Israeli bodies give to the description anti-semitic. It's clearly designed to suppress all criticism of Israeli behaviour, masking what amounts to ethnic cleansing of Palestinian identity. I share JC's reluctance to...

Second response to show just how good for us the EU is: UK GDP = £2.619 billions. UK GNP = £0.512 billions The difference between the two is what the mainly foreign companies who are here bring to us in being based here for EU access. If we leave the EU we could lose most or all of that...

But none of that is evidence of harm, it's only evidence of presence, which is a very loose definition of health hazard, a supposition since there's no quantification. .

But also offset by decay and we can only say it's harmful is there is evidence to support that. We already know that nuclear power for electricity production has a limited future so any possible harm from current practices can be calculated on a time basis. Those who wish to claim harm should...

After many years of unpowered riding I first had a torque sensor bike which didn't seem to have any effect on my fitness which was quite high anyway. But later adding a cadence sensor bike with a fairly powerful motor soon started to lose me my fitness. It's hard to say how much since I was...

Not dual motors. It's actually French sports car company Matra who took over the US company Tidal Force and their electric bike design and restyled it. The front hub is the battery pack, the rear hub a powerful DD motor, either one 30 mph assist with good acceleration. A photo of one of the...

Yes, seen that at first hand in my own family, but there's no threat of anyone suffering that from anything going into the Irish Sea from Sellafield. This is what I'm objecting to, loosely connecting totally unrelated aspects of radiation as evidence of harm. .