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And they are anti-social, taking up one and a half bus or train seats. .

At least France is among them, as it should be for the way they promoted diesel cars from the outset without any regard for the obvious consequences. It's not commonly known but the first diesel car was a Citroen in the 1930s. I knew what those consequences would be when France widely adopted...

You're in Emily Joy, riding on Glasshouse Lane: Map Link .

For auto it's LPG, which normally means any mix of propane and butane depending on country and other factors. In Australia though, LPG is always propane. .

No we didn't. As I posted, there's more than money and trade and in a number of areas of life we failed miserably. It took the EU and European Courts to rectify those failings. Given our history I have no faith in any UK government to protect its citizens rights in future, indeed the act we...

It will go. They only need to defeat the lock attaching it to street furniture before popping into the back of their van, which is how many bikes in London get lifted. Any other locks they remove at leisure back at base, it's a well set up industry here. .

Your "crummy little treaty organisation which has acquired an overblown sense of its own importance" happens to be the largest of it's kind in the world. Its size makes it important. There's repeatedly the answer to your question in the existing Brexit thread, and not just from me alone. Just...

I'd thought this might be likely, and also the reason why Calor was such a large enterprise here. .

Calor's business was large and very solidly established in the UK pre 1972 so conversion would have had a prohibitive cost. And the EU would have chosen an existing continental standard to minimise the costs to them. No doubt it's all linked to the metric - Imperial difference as well. .

I like this last line: "The greatest benefit for all comes when trading partners concentrate on their own core strengths." Can the UK find a market for ignorance? .

I did consider that possibility, but since I also know that very large numbers here do actually think that way, I responded accordingly. Nice here too, warm, clear sky and bright sunshine and only road salt in bins in South-East England. .

Speaks volumes about our education system and culture. .

We don't need it sorting, we just operate lawlessly: From 1999 to 2015 with power in excess of the law on most pedelecs. From 1983 to the present with e-bikes often, even usually, unplated according to the law. From 2003 to 2016 with illegal independent acting throttles. From 2016 many...

Knowing the risk he could become a forgotten figure, maybe he just wants to keep his image alive as a future option in UK politics. .

I think David Miliband is too wise to stand in the present mess. He might be tempted to return to UK politics once all the dust of Brexit has settled, but that's a very long way off. The longer he leaves it the less the public will remember him or his relevance, and the unions will probably...

Tony at Woosh is French Col, so he's returning to home. He'll only suffer problems with the UK, but we all suffer those! .

Kudos Safari Link. .

Dumping a burning lithium pack into water works well, it seems to control and contain the reaction until it ceases. .

I was speaking of an average fitness man, said to be capable of 200 watts for a couple of hours and 300 watts for ten minutes. A few e-bikers may be well below that capability, but I don't think most are too far off the common levels of fitness. But what you quote for climbing a steep hill is...

Car makers kicked off modern e-bikes. Back in the early 1970s when the Arab oil crisis frightened the West, General Motors and Chrysler started research into alternative transports. GM's man Dr Edwin Currie left them with his bicycle motor add on design and launched the Currie Electrodrive...