Cycling UK Forum

I copy from the reference source listed above: “Consumption of electricity in the United Kingdom has generally declined after hitting a peak of 357 terawatt hours in 2005 and dropping to 301.76 terawatt hours in 2019.” Note the use of the hours unit. The video about electric vehicle charging was int...

Energy can't be measured in MW/h or GW/h, the dimensions are wrong. It can be measured in GWh etc. There’s an easy confusion here. GW/h is a notional rate rate of energy production (GW is the actual rate) whilst GWh is a summation of energy produced (or used). We pay for domestic electricity by the...

That is a similar figure to what I would estimate for 10million cars, but the number of UK cars is 3 times that. Power is MW but energy is MW/h so the energy needed in your example is 55GW/h or if you count the total number of cars it's 150GW/h. Assuming an average power generation of 30GW per day ...

The lada four-wheel drive vehicles are perfectly adequate, robust and very cheap Not been changed much for decades, must have been right at the start Lada, tough as old boots but too polluting - they stoped importing then to the U.K. because of emissions. As with many other cars of that era Zibarti...

@jdsk We are going to have to agree to disagree on this one. Chelsea tractors , even if they are AV are the past. They still cause congestion They cause pollution In cities they are slow and have low average speeds In cities there is no parking for them Because of their kinetic energy and poor visi...

even if we had been advised and better led, even if we had all acted more responsibly, even if we had the lowest infection rates in Europe - we would still of needed the vaccine, we couldn't of went on in lock-downs trying to hide from it for ever. As to who is to blame? we all probably are, the gr...

It seems to me that over the coming months most of us will be accepting one of the vaccines and a significant minority will be refusing. If enough of us accept it the pandemic and the associated economic turmoil will be over and we can begin the recovery. And those who have refused a vaccine will e...

It seems to me that over the coming months most of us will be accepting one of the vaccines and a significant minority will be refusing. If enough of us accept it the pandemic and the associated economic turmoil will be over and we can begin the recovery. And those who have refused a vaccine will e...

This business of self-publishing will turn out to be our nemesis, I think... I wonder whether, back when the printing press sprang up, there was similar alarm. Trouble is, with the internet, the scope and speed with which anyone can put out their ideas, and the difficulty of discerning the authenti...

PMQs: Starmer says he will pay tribute to everyone involved in the vaccine project. Does the government back Labour’s call for emergency legislation to tackle anti-vaccine misinformation online. Johnson says the government will publish a paper on this shortly. Jonathan That’s an interesting stance ...

A tale of two passes: My wife and I were taking a Sunday morning walk to South Petherton along a quiet single track road. The road was the typical country lane with tarmac where vehicle tyres had cleared the surface and a muddy/gravelly ridge in the middle. We were therefore walking side by side wi...

North Roads and Porters: my hands can go on the ends, grips, bends and tops (by the stem). How much the position varies is different depending on the sweep of the bars. Porteurs(?) and North Roads were what I was at one time considering for an old mountain bike of mine. I did have drops in mind bef...

Someone I know was having part of their garden landscaped. The job is now 90% complete and he will have to engage someone else to finish the job off. Staff shortages and working restrictions defeated a poorly functioning company. I understand Solicitors and the Land Registry are snowed under at the ...

With regard to car tyres it is not totally clear cut if the least worn two tyres should be at the rear or the front. If the less worn tyres are at the front then any quick changes of direction in the wet (eg to avoid an obstacle) can lead to the rear of the car skidding out and being very difficult...

With bikes and cars I always have my best tyres at the front, compared to loss of steering loss of (rear wheel) traction is ‘relatively’ trivial - most of the braking happens at the front as well. Can you clarify this? What do you mean by best? More tread left? I thought for road riding on bicycles...