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finally - after 241 pages we've all arrived at the point where we agree that "ignoring the outcome of the referendum will have favourable consequences". hallelujah, brothers.

curiously, I kind of disagree. I do a job I love, but its also exhausting, and gets too much overall. Then there's what happens outside work, family, friends, in my case some sailing, loads of travelling. All of it lovely. However, amidst all of this I find myself frequently thinking with...

an expert being interviewed on BBC world earlier this AM euphemistically referred to it as a rise in "nativism" in USA and UK, and cheerfully explained that she knows something about it having spent time in south Africa in the 80's. Apartheid I guess was also a form of "nativism", like Brexit...

I agree, my wife doesn't work, and on face value that may seem the easier life, but it wouldn't work for me - I need structure, otherwise I can simply grind to a halt - so my job makes me get up 530 most mornings, to be in front of a café 7AM (after a leisurely 12 mile cycle, I've grown to...

sure, it will grow into a US enclave (if under trump, how appropriate). on the plus side the EU is free from that, see it cancel TTIP

whether it breaks up or not, it will not be America's "special relationship" with Europe. It's lost its leverage.

I've had crank drives and hub drives, predictably I guess crank drives are quieter (they're usually smaller, less powerful), but oddly the distant hum of a hub drive can grow on one, hard to explain, perhaps same way the white noise of tyre hum and clicking of a freewheel feels part of ordinary...

yes, I keep thinking there must be some kind of message in New Labour, Blair and Iraq being followed by Cameron and Brexit. Are the gods trying to tell us never to think we've seen the worst, or is it some kind of rising crescendo of self harm? Could it be that May capitulates and Boris takes...

very true - but one very jaded silver lining to this cloud that he has created (and take this as the very skewed perspective of a third world immigrant) - is that a united Britain has not been a force for good in the world (Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, exporting arms to Saudis, all the other...

I work in health care, I always end up wondering why I don't do less, we could all do less I suspect, downscale our lives, usually I suspect its taking care ofa family that stops it, which is a good thing, but I frequently have escapist thoughts about only needing a 50 euro bike, a derelict but...

all personal sentiment aside, there is more to Brexit than what happens "inside the heads of those who are left contributing on this thread". there is the small matter of an economy listing, badly, to port. I'm not quite ready to run for the lifeboat. mainly because I think - like the financial...

I thought the same, in a more serious vein (specially since the guy didn't stop). But to be fair I've fallen at that kind of speed, often. Paradoxically it can be a very helpful experience - a few falls like that and one feels much more in control in "in extremis" near accident situations, and...

i see what you mean, but it does bring I see what you mean, but it brings to mind the crank versus hub vendetta; or hub versus derailleur contest - it can be horses for courses, bimbos can be like derailleurs, very useful if maintained properly.

and, more to the point, what proportion of the Italians on the pedelec forum are as, er, appealing as these two cyclists?

i think it's 24V - if so 7S (in a hobbyking lipo sense), which would make the biggest challenge finding a suitable charger (most I think only do 6S). However, the hobbyking 16A/h 6S lipos are very cheap, I imagine one could (with a little careful Stanley knife and soldiering) create 32A/h worth...

i half agree - when I started cycling again some years ago, back in the uk, ordinary cycling would have been too large an initial step, too difficult. it seems very strange now, but back then the rain and dark felt that it made ordinary cycling practically unbearable half the year. Ebikes are...

this may just be me, but reliability/longevity comes into it. I've had three ebikes over the past fifteen years or so - all fairly cheap (£1000 or less), but all also decidedly knackered after a few thousand miles. I thought about it Friday while cycling twelve or so miles form work on the...

I'm warming to him too, too bad the fat lazy slob didn't have this little moment of reflective consciousness before pushing for brexit

true, but speaking of weight, and on a bit of a tangent, I've lost over a stone by doing my weekly distance on a non-electric bike and feel better than ever, and have no intention of going back; it may seem at odds with being on this forum, but I can seriously recommend it.

wouldn't it be edifying, having trump over, with farage. Somewhere between May saying she wants to keep everyone, including an electorate she's nominally supposed to serve, in the dark for at least two years about whether uk is leaving the single market; and the pound resuming its steady bumpy...