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    Changes to selling e-bikes, conversion kits and batteries on eBay.co.uk - No more private (personal) sales.

    Most of the problem of e-bike fires is about the battery being abused. The abuse is often about batteries being overheated either by massive currents being drawn by over powered controllers (cobbled together illegally high power bikes) or by over charging through using a charger which supplies...
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    It won't give you the answer YOU WANT when that answer does not accord with the mass of data it holds. It will very sensibly explain why it thinks you are mistaken and then it will shut down and stop wasting its time. This is not a fault. This is not evidence of bias. It is a sensible response...
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    I have tested it extensively in various of its versions over the last year or more. Unlike me - it stops wasting its resources when it thinks it is being trolled. I should learn that from it. My biggest criticism of it is that the training data it uses is always about six months out of...
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    Chat gpt 4o is so much ahead of that useless Amazon Alexa thing that it is in a different Universe. https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/gpt-4o If you ask your questions carefully you get VERY good answers. It's free. If you pay a moderate fee, you can get a very much faster response time...
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    Legal EBIKE LOOPHOLES

    Don't you mean, 'Oh dear, this forum appears to have working age people boasting about how much money they can con out of the taxpayer, while advocating riding wildly illegal machines and boasting about their drug use and alcohol dependence?'
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    £245 Argos Folder Improvements - complete story

    Zoom xtech 100, hydraulic calipers fitted. No big deal to do the job. A bit fiddly getting enough clearance on the front one with my combination bike allen key multi tool, when bolting the caliper up on the mounts. The fat tool kept fouling on the mudguard stays and spokes. Better tool would...
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    Legal EBIKE LOOPHOLES

    Ah yes - but of course, we went to work, day after day, decade after decade, and paid our taxes - LOTS and LOTS of taxes, for the likes of him, and of course because of all that toil and drudgery, we actually know the value of money, we remember the sweat of earning it, so we don't toss it...
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    Legal EBIKE LOOPHOLES

    So does Kemi Badenoch. There are a variety of perspectives in this country. They should all be aired and discussed.
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    Legal EBIKE LOOPHOLES

    I dislike Mr F and would never vote for him, but i never heard hate cr@p from him. He provides a perspective that chimes with about a third of the population's view.
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    Legal EBIKE LOOPHOLES

    Argos CLANKERS??? :)
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    Legal EBIKE LOOPHOLES

    That's OK - I am quite sure that many ordinary, hard working folk are happy to get up early and go to work - to toil all day in unrewarding jobs so they can hand over about 35% of their income (which really amounts to about a third of their work time) to pay taxes to subsidise his house, his...
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    Legal EBIKE LOOPHOLES

    If you're not sure yet, then there is even more need for re-calibration.
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    Legal EBIKE LOOPHOLES

    Serious level of re-calibration needed.
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    Right. I managed to track down the weather satellite imagery for the event in Dubai in April. This should finally put to bed the idea that it was done from an aeroplane by cloud seeding. This image is about 1600 miles side to side. Roughly estimated, that puts the storm system as being about...
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    https://theconversation.com/the-weather-experiment-that-really-flooded-dubai-227021
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    It is not true. They didn't. They flew meteorological flights but not seeding. Cloud seeding is done on individual clouds. It works a bit, but not that well. The Dubai flood was caused by a storm system the size of France. It is all on record.
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    What caused the famous THunder Thursday that dumped a massive amount of rainfall on the north of England a few years back in the summer of 2012. I have never seen anything like that in my life. My car was stuck on a dual carriageway for several hours before I abandoned it and walked home...
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    This is not accurate. The forecast of very heavy rainfall preceded the event by as much as a week. The technique of cloud seeding is used in the UAE because it is a very arid region, but the outcomes of cloud seeding operations are utterly incapable of producing that amount of rainfall. The...
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    Well, who knows. Certainly I don't. The main problem is the, 'What is truth?'issue that I referred to above. Once a significant proportion of the electorate begin to get their information from the toxic cess pit of social media, all bets are off. If thirty or forty percent of people go down...