Grandad

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02733/saietta_2733326a.jpg Designer turned entrepreneur invents electric motorbike that 'goes like stink’ Ex-Formula One and aerospace engineer Lawrence Marazzi has spent five years building the ultimate electric motorbike. I saw this on the DailyTelegraph site and am impressed but puzzed by the claimed "runs 100 miles with a 12-mile reserve on a single charge.” Your thoughts?

I think that a medal is well deserved. [ATTACH]7205.vB[/ATTACH]

A Merry Christmas to all. It's been a while since I posted. (Who said thank the lord for that?) By the way my local cycle track is on James May's Toy Stories at 7 pm on BBC 2. I wonder if I could have charged my battery from the railway track?

http://grandads.googlepages.com/Bandaged.jpg How true, look what happened to this bloke when he tried to poke a bee out of his helmet.

The guide I made up for our nearest cycle track. I spend many happy hours on it but I am down with flue at the moment, so stuck indoors. Grrr

Thanks Flecc, and a happy new year to you and yours plus all our readers. I am afraid that my new year won't be so happy as Grandma is in hospital but I am hoping that she will be home next week. First new year apart in fifty two years.

http://grandads.googlepages.com/SantaBike1.jpg http://grandads.googlepages.com/MerryXmas.gif From Grandad.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01000/460-airship_1000186c.jpg See: Frenchman attempts to cross English Channel in pedal-powered airship - Telegraph Can any of us rise to the occasion and get across in a different way. Let's have a few suggestions, eh.

Mandy, what is the logic behind this womans thinking? I am travelling up a moderate slope on my left on a cycle track wide enough for two bikes to pass. Coming fast down the track towards me are a man and a woman in their forties riding in tandem on their left, the woman at the rear. Suddenly the woman swings out to her right coming alongside the man and shouts at me "I am riding continental today". As there is a hedge on my left I couldn't get out of her way so I stopped and swung my front wheel to the left to deflect her if she hit me. At the last moment she swings back behind the man, clipping his mudguard. The two of them then carry on at speed he-hawing like donkeys in that horrible home counties accent that some people affect. Regarding the use of bells. I do use mine, I give a distant ring, then another as I get closer. As I pass I smile and say "just letting you know I was coming". I usually get a thank you from them. The silent aggresive lycra idiots get up my nose. They seem to pride themselves on startling people.

http://grandads.googlepages.com/FlashGordon.jpg

I tried to post this topic in the technical section but was informed that I did not have permission. Am I not old enough? Perhaps it could be moved. On the 29 September 2005 I bought a Giant Twist Lite Gents electric bike. The original, 6.5Ah, battery is still going strong. In March 2007 I bought two 24V 8Ah Salisbury NIMh batteries to provide extra powered milage. The first (Salisbury1) has performed well until the present time (July 08). The second (Salisbury2) has never been as good as the other one but still provided reasonable extra mileage. However in late June it failed after about three miles. As it is out of guarantee, I decided to have a go at rejuvenating it by subjecting it to charge/discharge cycles and to do so I set up a test rig. http://grandads.googlepages.com/Salisbury2Graphs.jpg Here are graphs of my results, more information here. Anyone else tried anything similar? Any comments? Right, off to watch the Tour de France on the box.

I run some Google maps and they are all working at the moment. Just checked yours, no joy. Are your 'Saved Locations' still there?

Rhyming nonsense. Haku, Haku burning bright. In the middle of the night. Just watch out for Mr Plod. Blinded by the sight of mod. If he catches you just once, He might bop you on your bonce.

Nah, mud is out of stock at the moment, expecting delivery in sixteen weeks