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Anyone who drives for a living on our lousy UK roads is a martyr. ;) .

They almost always are normally good guys Steve. It's just that driving produces a particular kind of stress reaction in certain people which can emerge as aggression which we call road rage. Just getting behind the wheel turns them from Dr Jekyll into Mr Hyde. Courts and fines rarely do any...

How fast can cows be? Here's an illustration. A few years ago walking a border collie owned by a friend who i sometimes stood in for in his absence, I passed a field with a herd known to me. They weren't normally there but had been turned out into it to graze following the silage cut. The...

As Blew it says, they weren't chasing you, they can be curious or have other reasons for following. Since my brother has been a lifelong dairy farmer and I've worked with him at times, I'm used to cattle. On one occasion I had a herd on another farm charging towards me as I neared completion...

Kudos are a very soundly based company and backed by the Rallye Design company who are prominent in the car sport industry. The boss of both is a regularly posting member and known in here as KudosDave, actual name Dave Elderfield. Kudos Cycles .

The controller of BBC 2 has announced today that the program "Top Gear" will definitely be returning in due course, without Jeremy Clarkson of course. She refused to say anything about the program's future other than saying she is committed to it and that it will be exciting. She said that...

Giant bikes are generally very good quality, but their e-bikes are usually on the low powered side. Their main export market is the Netherlands where the Dutch have little in the way of hills to cope with and favour that kind of e-bike. .

That type of battery is designed to give very high peak discharges very short term. That one is probably capable of giving over 100 Amps of initial boost starting current, some of these jump starter batteries go much higher than that. As others have said, too heavy for e-bike use and...

Not really, since it's a rather new introduction, it's matter of relying on the electrics which are from a known good source. As for the bike parts, that should be no problem. most companies are able to produce sound bikes and the Woosh company have built a good reputation very quickly. The...

Faster speed, in theory 50% faster but maybe slightly less in practical circumstances. You probably won't be able to pedal fast enough to keep up with it. .

That's right, they have changed very substantially over that three or four years. At first with the Panasonic unit, then the earlier Kalkhoff Impulse crank unit, since then the latter has had a couple of substantial upgrades in that time making it now very different in both performance and gear...

It certainly is the case in our cities and large towns that parents have long been preventing kids from cycling out of safety fears. Since 86% of our population live in the cities and large towns, the effect has been severe. It's just a part of the way children are being over-protected from...

That doesn't surprise me. When the Chinese government announces a measure it's usually fairly certain they will enforce it in a way unfamiliar to us. It must feel strange to the population, living in what seems western like freedom for many years now, and yet sometimes suddenly subject to...

Interesting, and probably all part of the crackdown on their scooter-like 20 mph machines. They've said the are introducing EU style 250 watt pedelec law gradually to eliminate them so licencing will help that process. Thanks for the heads up. .

No, they are illegal almost everywhere in the UK and mainland Europe and Segway have admitted their sales this side of the pond have collapsed. They've now been taken over by the Chinese maker of the imitation Segway! .

They were a Ken Livingstone initiative when he was the London mayor and that was last two full terms ago when being online wasn't as common as now. The car driving outer Londoners then voted in Boris Johnson who is only interested in self-publicity projects like the London Hire bikes which...

Yes, took me four years but the SRAM P5 hub gear broke in the end with the Panasonic unit shifting loads. York Couriers business use the SRAM S7 that the OP has on their heavy cargo trikes and consider that much tougher than the P5 I broke. Another point is that the repair is dead simple on...

Indeed, the difference is stark, chalk and cheese. I think it's all about numbers, bikes being so prevalent everywhere there, forcing a change in attitudes. Segregated cyclists don't get the causes to feel bad about drivers, and the separated drivers likewise about cyclists. But like anyone...

Yes, they do higher mileages than we do and I've allowed for that in my comment about the deaths when I implied that's no consolation for grieving families. However, our commuting to work mileages are individually on average 24% higher than the Dutch, not surprising given our much larger cities...

The largest rear sprocket for hub gears is 24 teeth, SRAM and Shimano sprockest are compatible. One company launched a hub gear centre spider to which chainrings could be fitted for larger sprocket needs, but I can no longer find any trace of it. There is a dodge you might be able to use for a...