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    Battery fire - Hannover ebike shop

    I hope that we get a full report of this. What sort of battery, why did it ignite? I see that a guest was killed in a hotel fire from an ebike. Looking around, I have lithium batteries in my bikes my ecigs, my marine VHF radio, my computers and who knows what else?
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    Inner tubes

    Does using slime improve matters?
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    Inner tubes

    Getting fed up having to pump my tyres up every few weeks. None of my car/campervan/boat trailer tyres need this much attention, often going 12 months or so. Car tyres used to need regular attention, even tubeless. So, what is the answer for bikes? I don't want to go tubeless, so my question is...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I find this thread like a drug. I am addicted and always return to it. I tell myself that it is poisonous and that I should stay away. But, here I am.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    So say the remainers
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Basically, I hope that I am. But he seemed quite serious.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    No comment is the usual reply. If you don't like it, then ignore it. I just thought that you would like to know.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    To throw a spanner in the works. Close relative, 'family clever clogs' as we call him Grammar School, Oxford, Civil Service says that the back stairs whisper is 'Depopulation' The European and American Elites have realised, that as history only too well shows, large population shifts mean big...
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    New Cyclamatic

    When you say' geared hub', do you mean a two speed hub?
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    This guy and his Jack Russell. What should I do?

    Back to the dogs. I think that if you do complain to him, he will point out that you do not have your dog on a lead.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Yellow is yellow, Brown is brown
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    Giant Road e+1 Winter Riding

    I have used rubber lined 'P' fasteners successfully. www.westfieldfasteners.co.uk
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    For all of 0.001 seconds I took that seriously!
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Time will tell. The whole point about the US system is one of balances. My guess is that things will soon be much the same as before except for a bit more emphasis on home affairs and less on foreign policy
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Like most British people, you really do not know Trump. I don't. You are just relying on the now totally discredited rubbish published by the US left wing press. They most certainly did underestimate him.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I am sure that most right wingers are only too happy to have the left seriously underestimate Trump.
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    Brexit,actually the UK has come out rather well.

    1 Farage is not an MP, there was nothing for him to do. 2 Boris took soundings amongst his parliamentary colleagues and found that he could not run for PM because he did not have enough support. However he did sty and is now in the cabinet
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Has an IQ of allegedly 156. Billionaire. Defeated the Republican Party. Defeated te Democrat Party.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Hats off to Warren Mitchell. He really was a Jew, but also a professional actor. Of course, those were times when he probably felt quite safe playing Alf Garnett with all the bigotry.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    My guess that this is for internal UK consumption only seeing that we have so many Muslims.