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The police figure of 79 was for missing and known dead at that time. .

Actually I nearly typed that, but then hesitated, thinking it might be thought somewhat racist. So I stuck to the usual context of Smith. See, I do care about other's feelings, even those of Welsh people! :D .

London has the free first half hour too, and that spelt problems, since it upset the budgeting. The scheme had been forecast to have enough charged income together with the sponsorship to cover the costs. In practice virtually everyone confines their use to the free half hour so there's...

That gear hub was discontinued by Shimano many years ago now. It only has a 198% gear range, while their 3 speed hub has 200%, something that has long been puzzling. It seemed to make the 4 speed pointless, apart from having closer ratios. .

The SRAM P5 is quite tough and has a useful 250% gear range. However it does suffer from a slow down change, the spring loaded plunger into the hub always rather sluggish. Therefore it's important to plan ahead and make the downchange to the right gear before hitting a hill. There was also a...

Brompton have long had a variant of that idea by using a double sprocket on a Sturmey Archer 3 gear hub with a jockey wheel chain tensioner:

You won't need one like this then. :)

Euphony's bike takes panniers on both sides. It's designed to do that in addition to the slim battery and charger cases, so no need to be unbalanced. .

We could give them an IOU with Greece as the guarantor. After all, Germany thinks Greece sound enough to lend money to. .

As I replied earlier, this was completely wrong. The Prime Minister has confirmed that benefits will not be affected in any way by any of the grant monies for the disaster. Those affected will continue to get their same benefits. Hotels, rehousing and and associated costs are all being met...

Yes, these were originally sold in the Netherlands in both one and two battery versions, and were intended to have panniers mounted as well. And the Dutch invariably did that. .

The connector plate on the Ezee battery is a separate unit that slides off the battery case after removing two end screws as shown below, so that will facilitate making an adapted centre with different connector forms:

Yes, as long as the gear range is adequate. I'm remembering Shimano's old 4 speed IGH that had 2% less gear range than their 3 speed, rather silly! .

Yes, but only if the best of each rather than one dominating. For example we English should give up the silly and incorrect pavement and lift in favour of sidewalk and elevator. And revert to the correct English spelling "program" and not the silly "programme" that the fledgling OED committee...

All booked in as Mr & Mrs Smith? ;) .

I doubt that's the case, with the windows blown out the conditions would not be like those in a cremation furnace. The official interior photos released show plenty of evidence of surviving materials that would disappear long before bone vanished in a fire. I'm sure there will be enough bone...

There should be enough skeletal evidence to get an accurate final figure and gender/age mix, but to ensure accuracy the forensic recovery from each dwelling will be very time consuming. This is skilled work and not something for the police or fire brigade to carry out, and I'm sure they've...

But that was a later change by Shimano. Traditionally hub gear bikes always had 1/8" chain and sprockets until recently. I'm certain the reason for the change was simply to make it easier for Shimano to only make chainwheels and chainrings in one width. .

UKIP expediency once the Brexist outcome becomes unfavourable. They can just change UKIP to mean United Kingdom Integration Party and campaign to join the EU. ;) .

It would be ideal, but I suppose they view the hub gear as the limiting factor and 1/8" chain is already easily good enough to match most hub gear lives on a CD e-bike. . .