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I haven't heard a single mention of this in the mainstream media. However, around a week ago there was plenty of publicity for World Dawn Chorus Day! I wonder if anyone told the birds. Indeed the BBC is still wittering on about it, punting it's recordings of bird song worldwide that morning. .

To completely replace your car you'd need something like this with an added motor. ;) Seriously, what you are proposing is entirely realistic for 9 fairly hilly miles each way. Do you have a budget in mind? .

I've always called it the battery platform. I had exactly the same happen to a very similar one on an Ezee e-bike, but I pieced it together again with Araldite and it lasted ok permanently. That's the pukka 24 hour setting stuff, not the Araldite Rapid which is too weak. Otherwise try...

Sounds like the far right trying to draw some comfort after a bigger defeat than they expected. The only thing that counts is winning, they got defeated in The Netherlands, now defeated in France, and we've seen UKIP utterly destroyed in our local elections. We can guarantee the far right will...

Always a big mistake and likely to cause permanent knee joint damage. Double the cadence means halving the pressure per stroke, and those pressure are not cumulative. So training yourself to use higher cadences is always best for long term joint health. .

It's too heavy. I'd rather let the bus take me home. :) .

Change means new, so maybe another newcomer. Over a year ago who'd have thought Macron would be where he is now. Apart from all her other disadvantages, time and history is making Marine le Pen increasingly part of the old guard, and will be even more so next time. This latest result shows...

I think we need to specify the type of cycling too. Sport cycling like club riding and mountain biking make up a large proportion of the low level of UK cycling, and leisure riding another large portion. But none of those drive infrastructure change, government is only interested in the...

Well back in this thread I said that le Pen will never do much better in France than a third of the vote, and that is what has happened. She wouldn't even have done this well if the turnout had been better. I think the French revulsion of the right will always produce this ceiling for...

No, it's not illegal to reverse onto a road from a driveway. However, if it causes an accident there will be a liability. .

Marine le Pen vanquished with barely over a third of the vote. So much for the advance of the right in politics, first despatched in The Netherlands and now sent packing in France. Shortly the same will certainly happen in Germany. I wish our electorate had the same good sense. .

That's simply refusing to face the facts, which are: Our car ownership race began in the late 1950s and continued apace through the 1960s. I was well placed to know that, being in the motor trade and a car owner from 1956 on. The Dutch due to their worse post war situation got off the mark...

Nonsense, the regulation you quoted was for road workers, the EU ruling doesn't apply to these girls, regardless of what a local administration says. .

I think you may have misunderstood. Peter Hargreaves meant he would be better off. And as one of the wealthy, he would be right of course. .

My figures are correct, but yours need alteration. There are well over 8.5 million Londoners, not 6 millions. And you aren't comparing like with like. The London annual figure of at least £24 millions (often reaching over £50 millions) is only for cycling, essentially for the under 300,00...

A limited gear choice was also the Zerocycles problem, in their case only the old Shimano 7 speed hub gear but not the newer 8 speed ones. It's that sort of inflexibility that limits shaft drive adoption. Their designers should offer versions for all the best hub gears, Shimano 8 and 11 speed...

For many years now we have been spending far more than that in London. Annual expenditure on cycling alone has mostly been above £24 millions, often well over, but even now our cycling commuters haven't quite reached 300,000. So that's at least £72 per annum per commuting cyclist, and...

Definitely fake news. Long ago early in the post Brexit period, the German government said they could accept the loss of all the UK's business. In fact they've already proved that, since the global reduction they suffered in the 2008 recession was greater than the whole of the UK's annual...

This is probably the toughest part. We've become an American style car-centred culture in such depth that we are even worse than them. They at least have dedicated buses to carry kids to school in numbers, we take them one by one in cars! That's the start point to achieve generational change...

Possible, but that will fail if we lose that manufacturing I mentioned. The reason that could happen is not to do with WTO tariff levels, it's the effect their presence has on investment decisions. It's when a company is making a decision on expansion or factory building that the presence of...