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The price on Amazon was an extortionate £65 so I Googled & instead ordered from MoreComputers in Sheffield for next day delivery for £44.90...

I just tried to purchase one but unfortunately after overcoming the registration process of creating an account & verifying email address etc I am defeated by the idiotic delivery address widget which does an incorrect post code lookup & then cannot be edited. Instead of the correct address of...

I got a similar but much larger device for use with my car tyres some time ago & have just started using it on the bike tyres. I was just thinking today that I should look at getting a smaller device that I could carrier in my panniers along with spare tubes etc. It looks like this could be just...

I too picked up a Halfords Bike Hut stand yesterday (only 5 minutes queuing though). It's brilliant. I've never owned a workstand before & it's so much easier to work on the bike & especially good with supporting the extra weight of an e-bike. Thanks for the recommendation.

Halfords didn't text me & there is no answer when I call. I'll try calling again tomorrow. Incidentally I was grateful when the chain snapped that my e-bike has a cadence sensor rather than a torque sensor as I was still able to cycle home under power just by keeping the pedals turning.

There were definitely more cars on essential journeys yesterday when we went out. Today we are joining them as the chain snapped on my Woosh-converted Boardman hybrid. It was the connecting link that broke. The last time I put a chain on was over 35 years ago on my Norton Commando but obviously...

Don't forget how ridiculously cheap food is now. Forty or fifty years ago food was relatively a much higher proportion of the household budget (& housing cost a much smaller proportion).

Not just you. I too think a 15.5mph limit is absolutely fine & as flecc has pointed out there already is a legal route available for all those who want to ride a faster e-bike.

When I was 16 I worked one summer as a pantry boy on the Fishguard->Rosslare ferry. While crockery & cutlery was washed up by me & the other pantry boy the chefs always washed up their own utensils & pans. I always assumed that it was so they could be sure it had been done properly. I'm sure...

Tim Harford (BBC Radio 4 More or Less & 50 Things That Made The Modern Economy) made the interesting observation that while his mother had plucked & gutted a chicken he never had but it was possible that his children wouldn't even prepare a mixed salad!

I had never ridden a step through high handlebar Dutch style bike until we rented a couple of electric bikes last year. It was an absolute revelation how much more comfortable & pleasant it was riding this style of bike. It’s no wonder they are so popular in the Netherlands parked up in their...

Travelling First Class with 2m separation between each passenger? I doubt it.

You can stop the spread of the virus by a severe lockdown perhaps even eradicate it if you lockdown early enough. New Zealanders can only leave their homes to walk, buy groceries or see a doctor. Even if eradication succeeds its borders will have to remain closed to the rest of the world to...

I don't know what people complain about the price of food in the UK or what other countries they compare to but UK food is the cheapest in Europe mostly due to the supermarkets totally screwing their suppliers on price.

UK consumers are not prepared to pay a fair price for food. Food prices have been driven down enormously over the last 50-60 years. The proportion of the household budget that is spent on food is a fraction of what it was while housing costs are many times what they were.

New Zealand has a population of under 5 million with a land area the size of the United Kingdom. Their policy could not be applied to the UK & is probably not sustainable in any case unless they cut themselves off from the rest of the world for the next 18 months until a vaccine is available.

I've been taking quite large doses of Vitamin D all winter as there is reasonable evidence that with lack of sunshine in the UK we are all deficient & there is moderate evidence of boosting immune system & fighting off respiratory viruses. This may account for the fact that when I developed...

That & the absolute madness of flying flowers from Kenya or asparagus from Peru to the UK.

Males are twice as likely to die from COVID-19 as females & 35% of those who dies are non-white. Not much to be done about of those risk factors but those who are overweight are twice as likely to die from COVID-19 as those with a BMI of less than 25.

I don't think a few of the super rich swanning around in their private jets causes much of a nuisance. It's all the people having holidays in Thailand or Sri Lanka or Disneyland causing the pollution.