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In 1995 they took on a brand that quickly became the best selling quality e-bikes on the market, by early 1997 some 38% of the members of this forum owned their best selling model. But then it all went wrong, primarily due to battery failures in those early lithium days. This lead to a huge...

A light hearted note, as I read your above comment, someone on the comedy The News Quiz has just said to applause: "If weeding out the weak isn't the point of Conservatism, what is the point?" :) .

Is it really genocide? As so often things are not as simple as media reports and western governments make out. How many are aware that long ago the Myamar Rodindrya were sending young men to Saudi Arabia for training, then using them as agents in their villages to recruit more to their army...

Halfords have shown consistent incompetence when it comes to e-bikes. They started that way with their first model, the Carrera Sparc, using the long discredited SRAM Sparc motorised wheel, then continued trying other brands that had died in the market previously. It seems to me they are only...

I suppose Catalan independence would entail loss of EU membership too. I wonder if their fervent nationalism has meant their losing sight of that? Could Catalan survive without free access to the EU market? I have my doubts. .

Trouble is it has a rear hub brake as well as hub gears. That makes a rear wheel conversion especially difficult, though not entirely impossible. Baboe's own conversion kit, though seemingly expensive may be cheapest and easiest in the end. .

I think it's ok, the handlebar mounted battery/control unit is very much like that on a model which was sold by Sun bicycles a few years ago. It's a simple way of adding the necessary and can avoid the bending cable from frame to forks that conventional builds suffer. .

Pedelecs make up around one in eight of all bikes sold there. it's proportionally the largest pedelec market in the world. They buy well over half what Germany buys, but with only one fifth of the German population. .

I would hope Brompton set about forcing German maker FAG to meet at least a major part of the recall costs. They'll have to move fast though, with us possibly losing access to the ECJ in March 2019. .

Amtrak, their passenger rail service went into huge decline from the mid 1950s, passengers and rail mileages more than halving. The railtracks deteriorated to a dangerous degree, with severe speed restrictions commonplace, one could often watch the whole track move up and down as trains passed...

Strange then that the USA so often wants to participate in European particle physics research. Strange then that the USA couldn't get either of their Tokamaks to work but Europe has no such problems. Strange then that both their attempts to create Skylab space stations failed miserably...

Indeed, we can only guess without insider information, but that's true of Boeing as well. Unless they have specific information of cost to sale price ratios for the C class airliner they are just taking a punt on getting away with their complaint. .

Yes, it will be interesting to watch. Boeing seem to be preparing to compete since they currently list their plane as the New 737, though how much is new I've no idea since I haven't investigated. Externally it looks unchanged, even the somewhat old fashioned blunt fronted cockpit screen...

But unfair of Boeing to directly connect that to a specific airliner model. The Canadian government invested in the Bombardier company and they are a major world producer of all forms of rail systems, as well a large range of various size aeroplanes. Any indirect subsidy effect on just one...

We have that meaning too, usually expressed as a guest of His/Her Majesty. As far as I know they're not usually attired in top hat and tails, although looking at the cost per prisoner of keeping them in, they might well be. .

Here's the Baboe website link. You'll see they have an electric version of your trike Marco, and that uses a rear hub motor, usually the simplest and most practical way to electrify these. You need a 26" rear wheel kit with a carrier mounted battery to convert yours. With the weight a...

But what is an anti-social way of dressing Mike? It appears from your post that it's unlike the way most dress, but why should that be anti-social? One of my nieces was a Goth for several years with all the black and white appearance that entailed, making her very much an exception to the...

Why not stop the person shouting cheat and then recite the whole of your long explanation of why e-bikes are safer. They'll never shout "Cheat" again! :D .

But what is wrong with that, Boeing and the US administration are undoubtedly bullying since Boeing don't even have a competitive model, wanting Delta to buy something less suitable for their needs. The threats from Canada et al are simply retaliation in kind and entirely equitable in the...

I did with facts, which you obviously dislike. .