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Agreed 7 is enough, but the three advantages you list are just as true of the superior 8 speed hub and efficiency is always important. .

I can only think the other options must be infinite in number, since I've waited all my life for the UK to do rational. We haven't even done the rational thing with our two increasing to four countries and formed the FRB (Federal Republic of Britain), colloquially called Britain. Instead we...

That would be rational. We're the UK, we don't do rational. .

Duplicate thread. Please respond on this other thread. .

This latest lot hadn't reached us in the South London - Surrey border area first thing, but it finally started at 10.45 am, though very light at present. We'd already cleared our side roads of the earlier lot and the main roads done as well, so no road problems at all here. .

And NuVinci's financial difficulties are not the only hub gear trouble. SRAM are stopping production of their 8 and 9 speed hubs. Made in Taiwan with difficult exchange rates they can't compete in Europe with Shimano's 7 speed which is currently made in the euro area. More information on this...

Two different issues, Brexit yes/no is still marginal, but there probably is enough public support to elect Corbyn now. But only if he hangs on to the majority of Labour Brexiters. As I said and there's no question about it. If Corbyn abandons Brexit a huge proportion of his labour voters...

Because such a high proportion of Labour voters voted for Brexit and are often the most anti-EU. It would be electoral suicide for him to say no Brexit (but good news for UKIP), so he has to make the best of a bad situation. .

Only in the EU relationship sense, but not with the DUP involved since they won't accept any factor within a deal that in the slightest way differentiates N.I. from the rest of the UK. As a general rule negotiating anything with the DUP is from very difficult to near impossible. .

I agree Tommie that for most of us the S class makes no sense, even without bureaucracy. But they can work for those who wish to commute from out of town over a distance too long for a normal pedelec, if that doesn't involve the most dangerous roads for cycling. When The Netherlands introduced...

It can happen as Jeremy Corbyn explained, by us conceding that we can only reach external trade deals within the EU's requirements for such deals. Shades of non-EU member Turkey, they already have a bespoke customs union with the EU thus demonstrating that it is possible for us to have one too...

Even where the S class bikes are permitted with minimal bureaucracy such as Germany, they can't use cycle and shared paths. Makes sense really since they are 28mph machines, not a safe mix with pedestrians. .

Huge, maybe record breaking. Sanity always pays best. .

You're in Hopalong69, riding on Westgate: Map Link .

I think they'll fail though, I'm sure if it got near to that stage TM would concede enough to get a transition period. Then we'll have to see if that's enough to split the Tory government apart. .

That Xionda motor is still being sold and it was preceded by one from SRAM as well, though that not as well implemented. I suppose that as usual no-one wants to be first to use a new concept in their e-bikes in case it all goes wrong. But another factor has been the parallel influx of a number...

These electric car batteries are generally warrantied to last 8 years to 75% of capacity when moderately used, so 10 years to a little lower capacity, say 70%, or 15 years to 55% capacity is possible. Even early lithum batteries in satellites have lasted their expected10 years with a daily...

That's a lot of ifs. I don't see an attraction in joining NAFTA. Trump's America First stance is likely to last beyond him since it's so popular, Canada is a tiddler no bigger than Spain and Mexico has little money. All I see there is more imports and debt for us since we have little of...

I'm not sure what you meant by this. If you mean the USA wanted the EU to expand into Eastern Europe, then yes, though they certainly didn't want part of the cost of that to be us leaving the EU. But if you meant our special relationship with the USA influenced the Brexit vote, I think it had...

More than a bit. It's somewhat of a myth that Britain was a successful manufacturer of good products in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Our "success" was in having a completely captive huge market in our empire. Once we started to lose that and our products were exposed to the...