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For those who can't make up their mind whether to pass on the left or the right, there's always this alternative. .

Totally agree, privatisation of these essentials for the welfare of a state and it's citizens is sheer madness. It's an example of how the corrupting power of money can overcome rationality in favour of greed. .

Yes it was Derby I had in in mind when I posted. I think what really went wrong was privatising the railways and getting rid of British Rail. Today's privatised railways are doing a far worse job, one company so bad the government had to intervene, the entire rail infrastructure had to be...

Yes, legal two motor ebikes have existed in various forms previously. The SRAM Sparc e-bike hub motor actually contained two motors and a Carrera with that Sparc motor became Halford's first e-bike model. Here's the innards: .

The MOD is currently buying defence equipment including new aircraft from the USA. I've just heard that the drop in the value of the pound will raise the costs of these ongoing purchases by £700 millions a year. The Brexit mess grows ever larger. . .

Having doctors appointments for depression treatment I'd imagine. We do know that any desire David Davis has for being in EFTA has just been rebuffed by Norway. And that's on top of the prospect of his department being kicked out of Whitehall, so not much to feel happy about. Info link...

Yet another of these announcements magically timed to offset the Brexit bad news! Once again though it's Britain buying for internal use from a foreign company, when at one time we built all our rolling stock ourselves. Just like the motor industry, we destroyed our own companies and then let...

Perhaps in recognition that he's commenting on truth others post so is unable to disagree with facts.;) .

At best all that very limited help could have done was speed up the Russian success slightly. That "stand" you speak of was us losing World War Two. That's what Dunkirk meant. If the USA hadn't joined in we'd have been learning German not long afterwards. .

Indeed, and it's bicycles we are speaking of, where a link has always been an inner and outer section. It has been ever since I joined the trade in 1950. I think the more recent habit of numbering to match the number of teeth positions probabably arose to cope with public confusion about the...

What makes the manufacturers description method wrong is that the sections are two different things: A above is a pair of sideplates joined by two rivets, while B is a narrower spaced pair of side plates joined by sleeved rollers. As two different things they cannot both have the same...

A hanging? .

Yes, this is a chain link. Sorry Neal but what you are calling a link is a half link. Indeed one can buy half links, these having stepped sides to enable shortening a chain by a half link. You can see one on this link. You can even buy chains entirely made of half links, once again proving...

What really angers me is the way successive governments push workers into company pension schemes, ensuring this form of corporate theft can continue. The current one is "The Workplace Pension". Add to that the insanity of Osbourne's on-demand release of accrued pension funds to people who...

Good to see Tern dipping their toes into the e-biking world. .

E-bike races already been seen here Phill, we were the first in the world to have them. In 2007, 2008 and 2009 there were big e-bike gathering events at Presteigne, called the Tour of Presteigne and lasting a whole weekend. The organiser was a Pete Mustill who later became a director of the...

True it's possible Derf, but over a lifetime one can never know the economic future with any confidence, especially with the standards of governance we in the UK have suffered, resulting in constant switchbacks of boom and bust. Who only a couple of years ago could have forecast the current...

A rigid seatpost will allow you to get the saddle a lot lower, and it could still be comfortable Rosie. A high proportion of cyclists don't use a suspension post or rear suspension, I'm one of them. If you did find some discomfort you could change the rear tyre for one of the comfort types...

It's normal for there to be traces of the stator coils showing, you can see that at between 1 and 2 o'clock in the open motor illustration on that web page last shown above. I daresay the amount showing will vary since the stator parts are obviously very close to the surface. .

Thanks Oliver. It sounds like one of the stator coils short circuited internally. That could cause a sudden excess current flow, burning out the wire and probably also blowing the circuit board mosfets that feed the current. It's quite a job pulling the rotor out of the stator of the motor due...