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It must taste awful. I only use black polish on shoes. .

In what sense of cheap Rob? ;) The OED gives four meanings, including good value and showy but worthless! .

Bicycle geometry and rider position place almost all the weight very high up, so the weight on braking rotates the weight (bike and rider) around the tyre-to-road braking point with greater effect than with most vehicles. That means that under braking, the rear wheel lift tendency is much...

Indeed. If I mention ebay or Cash Converters to any of the police officers I know, the result is a very pained expression! .

Totally agreed John, either no devolution or done properly the federated way. What we did was the inevitable result of creating a compromise to satisfy both opinions on the desirability of devolution. .

A 100% SNP representation for Scotland and a lowest ever voting proportion in England would in combination probably be the best way to force much needed change. .

If the charging is to be that fast. The only viable way to have lightning fast recharge of cars is like the Israeli/Renault scheme of instant battery swaps, allowing the batteries to be charged over time following the swap. .

There's no future in this sort of high speed charging for cars, each outlet would need a substation fed from the national grid overhead lines to recharge up to 8 or more cars at a time. (Circa 4000 Amps) That's impossible to create within an existing national structure. .

Brilliant! That's just the sort of novel publicity that this product needs. .

From the i-bike bicycle recycling site: Start a campaign to collect enough useable bikes, (400-500), bike tools, spare parts and accessories to fill a 40 ft high cube container. OK, so they aren't boxed, but that's not just bikes, it's all the other quoted stuff as well. Wrapped instead of...

Team Hybrid have a history of changes in what they stock, there never has been consistency over the years. I remember when it was almost all Crystalite. .

Brave move Martin, I hope it proves successful for you. If it is, it will be a new cycling market opening up, rather than the usual expansion of the existing one, no bad thing of course. To some extent you'll need to do some parallel thinking on how to publicise and where to show them to fully...

I've no idea, presumably the BBC have some valid reason. There seem to have been mixed messages, first he was announced as suspended and the episodes postponed, then at 4pm on Wednesday's BBC Radio news that the remaining episodes were being cancelled. Since then they've returned to saying...

Rossi's claims I still find impossible to accept, each new mention of them being couched in such vague terms. If he really has made a new discovery, why in so long a time aren't there sufficient patent protections enabling more explicit information on how it's done? As it stands, it's more...

Yes, that certainly looks promising if achievable Trex. .

I'd say go for the 1.9, I've found 1.5 and below on London's poor roads too narrow for comfort and safety. I use Schwalbe Marathon Plus for their high puncture resistance, but they are rather stiff and not as free rolling as the City Jets. .

Yes, EddieO did have a good handle on e-bike quality. His very direct manner of posting some found unduly abrasive, but his views on e-bikes were well worth consideration. .

They are time limited in this forum software Tim, I'm not sure of the duration. .

Yes, it was 50 charges. I doubt it could get to a review stage due to that charge maximum then, there would be no point since it couldn't be marketed. .

But after the intense development effort to date, lithium ion is getting near to it's limit, while that company did say their aim for Li-S is 400Wh/kg, the 300 for 2016 being only an interim. If they were to achieve that 400 with better longevity, lithium ion could become uncompetitive, since...