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Of course, just the point I'm making to Zlatan. One doesn't need a dictator to get people out of cars, good subsidised public transport enjoying preferential facilities, combined with increasingly bad congestion and ever higher costs for the cars does the trick, as London has shown. .

I wouldn't dream of dragging you out of your Audi, or wish to deny you the best product for the job. It was treating cars as posing pouches rather than just the transport that they are that I object to. .

I agree for society in the foreseeable future and haven't dismissed anything, I just presented some alternatives. They included a very long term possibility of being largely car free. As impossible it might seem to you now, it will happen one day long into the future. Here's a taster of what...

Don't worry, the mainland EU leaders will step into the breach and provide opposition. They really don't want the UK to leave the union successfuly (out of fear of their own electorates) so will devise all sorts of ways to avoid our departure becoming a reality. .

Yes, they need to be taught the harsh lesson that wheels are transport, not fashionable apparel. .

Unfortunately Reynaud's just gets worse with age, the temperature at which it operates rising. These days I can start to lose the circulation and feeling in fingers at as high as 15 degrees C. Not too much of a problem in retirement though, since I can just choose when to go out and for how...

The costs and complexity of such a system makes the alternatives much more likely though, here's some: The simplest way, rail or overhead wires auto-attach system for picking up current trolley bus/tram fashion, cars with short range batteries to carry though gaps in the system. The more...

Southern Italians are, there's even a cruel Northern Italian joke about it: "Why are Southern Italians so small?" "It's because their mothers told them that when they grow up they'll have to go out to work". .

In effect you could say that, it's just an announcement of what people would like to keep interest and gain publicity. We won't see it in practice. .

It is a pity since Giant bikes are generally good quality and have alwsy been a reliable brand to buy, but I suppose they are just following trends and their largest market. It's not just bikes suffering this, western people have been growing much larger over the years and products have been...

What topic? :confused: .

That sounds like a conservative manifesto! :D .

It's not the driver, it's the pedestrian he's just run over. ;) .

And these are the crucial words "are working on". I'm still waiting on developments from a decade and more ago that were once described in this way. The fact is that as we get more advanced and research more exotic, the proportion of failed avenues of research grows. It's why modern drugs are...

That is what I meant, inefficiency of transfer, just a different choice of words. .

Yes, but if the lightning current also travels through the tyres integral coils, the output will fry everything instantly, controller, motor, any battery and charger in circuit. .

Welcome to the forum Glen, I hope you get years of enjoyable use from your new e-bike. .

I've posted him an agree this evening. :p .

It's the Maplin ones I have at present, the elements at the upper palms so rather vulnerable. I've previously had two other pairs from other sources, one pair which failed and the other useless since the elements were on the rear of the hand. They're all useless when walking, since heat from...

Not quite all of us, I've always point blank refused to own or drive any diesel car. When one employer tried to change the company cars to diesel I gave an ultimatum, petrol for me or I leave, and I meant it. They gave in and I got a petrol Cavalier SRI instead, but all the others still got...