Name the Belfast vet who invented the pneumatic tyre?
Motorcycle tyre steady increase in tyre width, so much so that Kevin Cameron noted the assumption among riders that "bigger must be better in every way", leading to, "the temptation to overwhelm motorcycles with the biggest tyres the owner can find." While many advances in tyre materials and construction have yielded unalloyed benefits, at a given level of technological sophistication, every design choice, such as tyre width, diameter, cross-section curvature, and the geometry of the motorcycle the tyres are intended for is a trade-off and a compromise. Pneumatic tyres were invented by John Boyd Dunlop in 1888, and were in widespread use
Colin the Vet Colin the Vet Colin the Vet was a British comic strip series, originally published in the children's magazine "The Beano" between 2004 and 2006. The strip was drawn solely by Duncan Scott. As the name implies, the strip was about a veterinarian called Colin, who encounters all sorts of crazy animals. The title was a pun on the phrase 'call in the vet'. It was one of the nominees to be voted into "The Beano" by readers in early 2004. Although Joe Jitsu won, it was only a 1% victory over Colin, so both were added to "The Beano". Colin