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

The window should be at the very back, or was it one of those utterly stupid saloons?

I love it when they do that. I made a profit of £600 by repairing what they said was not repairable.

I hope you got them to pay for those scratches :-)

The police shouldn't be encouraging accidents.

In that era they were both three speeds. Some of the TorqueFlites were 4 speed. I believe both Sturmey-Archer has an 8 speed and Shimano is up to

I agree with you in so far as they should be the same, but none should have rules. I drive at 100mph-120mph in a 70 limit, and why shouldn't I?

Don't be stupid. The alledged reason for the silly speed limits is safety. If you're lighter, you cause less harm at the same speed. And you can't expect a simple bicycle to have a speedometer fitted.

I cycle the wrong way, on the pavement if the road's busy. Only ever been told off by a drunk shouting "Thashillegal!" Why the hell should I cycle an extra mile for a stupid one way system (which I disobey with my car too). Those things should not exist in the first place. It's high time the treehuggers did something useful and pointed out how much extra fuel is used driving further.

I've gone 40mph downhill, but it's a mountain bike, so far more stable than those skinny bikes I call "racing bikes" - they look like the things they use in the tour de France. Narrow handlebars - not enough leverage to balance properly. Skinny tyres that trip over potholes. And often not even any suspension, my bike has suspension both ends.

I don't think those are even enforceable for a car - they never do here anyway. They're just guidelines for the namby pamby mothers who think you need to protect their retarded kids around a school.

Pathetic, buy a better one.

I'm sure you can get one. There are companies which will convert a normal bike into an electric bike for example, so you can have any bike you like with electric assist.

FSVO "multiple". If a receiver can record four or more channels, it would need four transponders as there are two frequency ranges and two polarisations. More likely the system would have four transponders with isolation between the clients.

In the case of terrestrial TV, all the receivers are fed from one aerial; there has to be an amplifier and isolation between the outlets in case someone shorts the output or feeds DC into the wire. (Some TVs provide DC, 5 or 12V for a masthead amplifier. It won't be needed, but the option to turn it on and off will be buried in the menus somewhere.)

They are *now*. Can't you follow the etymology I have outlined above?

Meaning evolve...

Do you remember the fuss some people (mainly women) made about the green licence showing their DoB? They moved it to the corner with a diagonal dashed line so they could cut it off. Then people worked out that everyone's DoB is encoded in the number part of the "driver number" You just have to shuffle the digits around a bit. It also codes whether you are male or female. (I don't know whether trannies can change this part.)

In Scotland, there can be no stopping bicycles. I can walk, run, cycle, swim, and canoe anywhere I like. It's called freedom and you guys should try it.

Ebikes magically cause more harm?

We have some annoying ones that flash in green if you're going the "correct" speed.

I like making it say limit 30, your speed 60, and a frowning face. It's amazing how many people think those things actually do you for speeding.

I once saw a digger going along the road at 5mph. A pig aimed his radar gun at it, then beckoned for him to speed up.

Things feel slower to me when they have better control. Two cars the same size, if one has better handling it feels slower at the same speed. I guess it's the automatic limiter inside you to stay away from the losing control point.

???

Yes, I've ended up going f****ng slowly across a junction and pissing off drivers while I crunch through the gears. Derailer gears are s*it - the whole concept of shoving a chain off and hoping it catches the next cog is pure insanity.

I've had it come off both, either by it not being perfectly tuned (and it keeps going out of tune), or by a stick entering the mechanism if off road.

I find cocking my leg higher is asking to lose balance.

However I have an aluminium frame (wehey no rust!) mountain bike with full suspension which only has one bar, low down. Not sure if all full suspension bikes are like that.

What about a torque converter?

We need legs as good as a motor.

I've always had mountain bikes, and I find I can't add much power after 23mph.

So you were going 33 then.

Interesting. I wonder who decided that was the modern Greek palette. I was thinking of the color schemes that show up in photos of Greece.

"Well, that has to do with cost. After painting their boat, the fishers and other sailors painted their windows and shutters with whatever was leftover. And because of the elements used to create it, blue was usually the cheapest paint color. "

It may be sort of an elitist thing. e-bikes may allow the physically unfit to clutter up the trails. Mens sana in corpore sano cuts both ways and the mens often is unfit also.

The same thing is seen with quad ATVs versus dirt bikes. It takes some skill to ride a bike off road where a quad isn't particularly challenging. Plus a quad allows you to carry a chainsaw to cut down offending trees and a cooler full of beer. Definitely déclassé.

Mtn. bikes in general can be a problem if an idiot is aboard. This time of year the trails are muddy. Riding a bike on them creates a V-shaped erosion pattern that very difficult to walk on. Luckily there aren't too many idiots in this area.

Your brain presumably just thinks up what they should all look like. The only one that seems weird is red and blue making something similar to indigo/violet, which is the other side of blue to red in the spectrum. Looking at ultraviolet is weird. They claim we can't see it, but I can feel it. Maybe I'm feeling it burning my eyes.

The sun produces violet and ultraviolet, so why are you confused?

My parrots can see UV clearly, I have UV bulbs because apparently it makes their feather colours look better to their eyes, so they're happier and more randy.

Never believe the internet. I go by real life and my own experiences. If it was 1 in 12, we'd all know loads of them. The internet is biassed because pages about colour blindness are written by people wanting to claim it as a disability, and an excuse for running red lights.

I'd say I've known (in my 47 years) 250 people well enough for them to have told me about their colour blindness. 1 in 250 is not 1 in 12.

People tend to mention it, especially when they do something embarassing because of their defect.

Are you saying asians have better eyesight? They certainly seem more advanced than us in most ways.

This says it's RGB:

More likely everyone's eye is different and without actually dismantling your eye we can't tell. It would explain why some people say colours "clash" and others don't. Or maybe that's just women being stupid, a man never says a colour clashes - how could it? They're just different colours. They don't react with each other like chemicals in a test tube!

Not here, maybe varies per country.

Except if you ask them to show off their t*ts, they won't take it as a compliment. Have you ever known a guy say "how dare you want to see my penis!"?

Look at this graph:

Think about what colours on that graph are the most prominent. I see 5. Purple, blue, green, yellow, red. So I'd say either:

We have 5 cones, purple, blue, green, yellow, red - but I'm sure doctors would notice we had 5.

We have 3 cones, purple, green, red. The 5 vivid colours I mentioned above are when we either see it mostly with one cone, or equally with 2 cones.

Having cones where the graph shows them doesn't make any sense.