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Its funny but the first realisation of ageing (apart from feeling old and creaky in the morning) happened to me just last year. I lost my old dog and after 17y it was a terrible wrench. I always go out next day and get another but this time round I had to look at the reality of taking on a pup...

By which time I won't have cars on my mind... most likely worms.. or even more likely ash

Currently that’s a 10 GW delta

As I said earlier I don’t see a particular problem with supplying electricity to charge cars, I do see a significant problem distributing that electricity to where it’s needed to be able to charge those cars. In terms of generating capacity, In 2019 we relied on coal and gas to provide 47 GW...

Some of this was in my previous reply to your other post, they sort of crossed in the mail :-) I fully agree that a new tax model is more likely than simply putting tax on electric used although I’m sure that electricity prices will increase significantly as demand is placed on the generating...

I wonder how long it will take before something half reasonable is going through the auctions at about 1000 pounds? Those are the popular cars going through the auction that end up on the forecourt for a couple of grand. Those 60 plate focus / seat / whatever cars that make up a large part of...

There will ultimately have to be a shift from taxing diesel and petrol to electric used for transportation.

And for sure electric heating isn’t the only solution, it was only making the point about whether the network can support charging electric cars. But unless some infrastructure changes are made the default will bimble down to the least effective solution of electric heating and all that entails...

Perfect, that’s exactly how it’s behaving, so there’s nothing to worry about thank you. I’m not sure I’d use it much but it’s handy for testing and setting up the gears et cetera. The really good news is the assistance takes all the pressure off my inguinal hernia which means I can actually...

Well it stopped raining! It was still very windy but that never changes here. So I decided to take the bike round a quick 5 mile circuit to shake it around a bit and see if anything falls off, I’m pleased to report nothing did. I was into minds as to whether to fit the thumb throttle, I did in...

For disclosure- my father was a planning engineer for the distribution network and I was an engineer in a related discipline so I have an understanding of the current network, of course retired now I have little knowledge of what preparation, planning and cost provisions there are for the...

I don't consider myself careless ;-) but I do live in a very rural location with a mediocre overhead power line, we do loose our supply reasonably often, enough that I couldn't currently depend on it .

I need to get the mudguards on first and then it can be adjusted finally but to be honest it’s fine as it is, certainly better than it was

A bit less temporary, not quite finished but getting closer. Just stop raining and blowing!

Nice old bike that, takes me back to the one I had in 1960 something or other. Mine was a racing bike because I took the chain guard off :-) I do remember my father going mad at me when I did that!

So rather than continue to clutter up somebody else’s post on rack battery matters I thought I’d better continue here. The temporary arrangement that I’d used to attach the battery rack to the frame meant that it ended up to the rear of the axle and probably 3 inches above the tire, that meant...

My current temporary setup meets neither requirement but tomorrow I will remedy that, the rack is sitting way too high and a long way back on the 'standard' brackets. Still, its a fair bit of load on my back wheel, exacerbated by the dead weight sitting on the seat ;-) I reckon some...

I've just fitted my rack mount battery, its a big lump of a thing and the weight distribution feels odd. For transparency I've only ridden it about two miles so it may be that I just need to get used to it. I'd planned to fit a tripod clip and a case for my camera gear but I think its going to...

So my kit arrived from Woosh today as promised. Its a 48v mid drive that is now pretty much 'on' my Marin Eldrige grade MTB. Its 'on' enough to have had a quick ride round on it but there is still a fair bit to do. The BB is offset about 5mm so I had to spend an hour on the lathe making a...

I'm too old to worry these days but the only thing that bugs me is when I see people pedal with the instep over the pedal axle :-)