Cycling UK Forum

As a generality (so not specifically linked to seasons) if the two tyres are of different width then the narrower one should be at the front. I’m sure that that’s the way it is on motorbikes and that it has something to do with steering stability. The back end of a bike sliding away is potentially d...

Thanks. I was asking about the preceding post discussing a whistle. Jonathan Personally I think that I would find someone on a bike blowing a whistle to be antisocial and potentially aggressive. As a bystander or resident near the route I would feel the sound to be both intrusive noise and inapprop...

It's your call (!) but what would you see as the advantages over the human voice? Jonathan I don’t think that the question was directed towards me and I’m uncertain of the background to it, but it is a valid question all the same and deserves an answer. The human voice is variable in volume, pitch ...

Bells on bikes should be banned .. I often agree with utility but not here, what do others think? I think that a bell is a tool and as such it can be used both appropriately and inappropriately, don’t blame the tool but rather the user. Personally I use a bell with consideration and in a way that h...

IMHO it is entirely logical to consider the use of existing sites that were once coal fuelled Stations. Power Stations should ideally have a rail line to them (for heavy plant and supplies to be delivered on, etc.) and access to large amounts of water (cooling water is needed for the Station’s stea...

The other side of the coin is modern society's seemingly insatiable demand for electrical energy. But that's another thread. Don't suppose it's worth pointing out we use less electrical energy now than 10 years ago? By a fair bit too. Fiddlers Ferry near me is in the process of being decommissioned...

^^ your volunteering was noted upthread. :shock: For what it's worth I do understand the likely need for reliable "base load" generation. Though would prefer a non nuclear option. At the present time this appears, in the UK at least, to be considered unfeasible. The question then arises, ...

There are people on this thread volunteering to have a 40,000m2 building put up next to where they live. Their motives are interesting. Maybe they're after the fabled "compo" on the grounds of worsenment. Or maybe they are not "nimbys", recognise the need to have a low carbon ge...

As a total layperson(ignoramous if you will)about the viability of green power generation,but it never fails to surprise me why every roof in the land hasn't been granted free solar panels and every river have a series of turbines in it somewhere. Or am I totally missing the mark? https://www.whall...

As a total layperson(ignoramous if you will)about the viability of green power generation,but it never fails to surprise me why every roof in the land hasn't been granted free solar panels and every river have a series of turbines in it somewhere. Or am I totally missing the mark? https://www.whall...

At one time I’d have struggled with transgender and to a lesser extent homosexual people. Now I am fair more accepting and that acceptance is rooted in civilised on-line conversations. Talking is good, it allows us to learn from each other and we also remind each other that ours (and theirs) is not...

From time to time I do change or modify my point of view and forums such as this one are part of that process. The testing of one’s point of view via debate is good too in that it does make you check your reasoning and the facts behind it. I’m not so keen on the Internet Warrior types who see it as ...

That is until you saw how the waste dump would affect your property value. It's easy to make statements like yours when you know there's no real chance of it happening. The above isn’t necessarily in response to my favourable attitude towards Nuclear but it is a fair point. In general industrial bu...

I'll have one. +1 You can use the volunteers form upthread. :wink: Though you may have to have one anyway. I've had mine, (so I don't need to apply) and now, although it's defunct since 1991, it still costs us all a fortune. A workforce of hundreds and generates zilch. And a lasting suspicion that ...

Some photos of my ‘touring bike’ and my ‘utility’ bike with Dynamo type light mounted off of the front fork. They aren’t pretty bikes or top flight but they still do a job of getting me about. I did say the lamp mount was a bit ‘Heath Robinson’ but it seems secure enough ... well at the moment. I’m ...