Why do circuit breakers go up for on and down for off?

The lines aren't vertical.

No, you lot are just thick.

Stop chatting me up, I don't like Americans.

So you admit you wrote crap.

Sorry my reasoning was too much for a Merkin mind.

They should send them all back to Europe.

"protect peregrine falcons from human disturbance or harassment" How do you harass a peregrine?

Picked what up?

Isles, as in British Isles.

Six, actually, if you count the Hawaiian Islands. When you live in a little bitty country you don't have to worry as much about time zones.

That's between you and your newsreader.

Endorsement really means no more than 'write on the back of'

In the case I witnessed, the thing had been on charge all night and still wouldn't start so they tried to jump it and the spark ignited the hydrogen.

Split the battery wide open and dropped sulphuric acid on the floor

Yes, a well known effect. Should have had the final connection on remote battery.

No, reality has been adjusted. We are all correct with our memories.

Another example is "soft rinse". It was always called that, everyone called it that, now hardly anyone remembers it and thinks it was always fabric conditioner.

Now there's a Frog spelling.

There's some websites like that (on purpose). Snail news or mushroom news or something? It's got a weird name.

They do not, the chains is always falling off, usually when you're stood up on the pedals, and end up with your groin on the crossbar.

There's another thing, why do women's bikes have a lower crossbar? It's the men who don't want to land on it!

How does 1 to 12 work then? The angle must be absurd.

What we really need are legs like motors with a wider range of speeds.

They should have a gearbox like a car or motorbike.

Indeed, some prat thought girls were the ones who didn't want a wedgie? WTF?

I once gave someone a cracker (perhaps literally). He was climbing a tree and fell astride a branch. I was on the ground and laughed, then saw an opportunity to get him back for damaging my bike I'd leant him the other week. I grabbed both of his feet and hung from him. I've never heard a boy scream so girly since.

Modesty, a forgotten concept...

The chain wheel is centered relative to the cluster. I often stay on the middle chain wheel and it works fairly well across the cluster, unlike the little chain wheel and the outside gear on the cluster. I believe the chains are narrower allowing the cassette gears to be closer too.

There's a fairly wide range. I'm generally in the 70 - 80 rpm range. I'm not in the Clydesdale class but I'm not a gracile sort that can crank out

The Sturmey-Archer planetary hubs are sort of like TorqueFlite transmission. I've taken both apart. Lot of little bits and pieces.

A third company? No wonder electricity costs so much.

A speed limit for a bicycle is beyond a joke. Most of the weight of a bicycle is the rider. Are you going to have speed limits for people running too? Perhaps police monitoring if you lift two feet off the ground at once?

The only people afraid of speed are those with slow brains that can't handle someone else doing things quickly.

Nobody realised paint wears off? [facepalm]

Don't valves do the same job?

True. When a car ran into the back of me at a roundabout (he thought it was safe for me to set off, I didn't!) my tailgate was dented and the lock didn't quite engage with the striker plate, though my tow rope round the inside metalwork of the tailgate made the car safe to drive until I took it to a garage.

His car suffered a ruptured radiator. I couldn't work out which bit of my car had punctured his radiator - it's not even as if I had a tow bar. So he was stranded.

My feeling is that *all* wheeled vehicles should be subject to the same rules and the same penalties for failing to obey them: speed limits, stopping at red traffic lights and occupied zebra crossings, going the wrong way on one-way streets. The fact that bicycles are lighter than cars is irrelevant: one rule for all, no favouritism. The only get-out-clause is that bikes can be wheeled on a pavement to get round a queue of traffic or to go the wrong way down a one-way street - done that many times, been shouted at by pedestrians even for *wheeling* my bike on a pavement, probably slower than I would walk :-(

But I believe that the concept of a speed limit for bicycles doesn't exist, beyond an offence of (IIRC) "furious cycling" or some such wording.

I find that when I'm going downhill I wimp out before I reach the speed limit: even 30 mph seems bloody fast on a road that has imperfections in the surface - and the sort of roads that have steep hills tend to be those outside a town, so with a 60 limit.

About the only limit that I might be able to break is a 20 mph limit - and that is harder to do on my new electric bike than a "manual" bike because the electrical assistance stops when you reach 17 mph and the electric bike is heavier and is lower-geared in top gear than my manual bike. It's a great shame that electric bikes don't have an extra higher gear (equivalent of top gear on both the front and rear cogs on a manual bike) for use when supplying a bit more power than gravity alone provides when going down a moderate hill.