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    Best £1500-2000, derestrictable e-bike?

    A) Do you really need a derestricted illegal ebike/motorbike to commute or have fun off road. B) Have you tried any decent crank drive legal mtb pedelecs? - (Haibike/ Giant Fathom/Trek /KTM etc etc) If your answer to these questions is yes you are on wrong site and need a motorbike. I have a...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Smart meter is best thing we have ever had fitted. Under duress from energy company we were involved with at time we agreed yo have one in our East Coast holiday home. It's never worked from day 1 (about 6 years ago??) We are continually under billed and according to them using zero energy. We...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Each others.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I haven't got a fridge in my doorway Flecc.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    You, ll have to have fridge pipes outside to have a positive net affect. I, ve stood fridge in doorway, pipes to outside and a great big blanket sealing it in doorway.. Its on a turntable too, just spin it around when it's cold. Who says heat pumps are expensive. I bet all those folk baying for...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    After Starmer's insistence there is no going back over Brexit etc it wouldn't surprise me at all to see Tories "back into EU ref 1"in their next manifesto. We all know only too well how shocking Tories have been but the one thing they do that Labour seem incapable of is sensing public opinion...
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    eMTB owners photo and ride thread.

    Thanks Was stunning up there yesterday and even managed route around back of lake (normally go along Snake pass to get to end of lake, its usually a quagmire) but was bone dry) Enjoying Giant Fathom, definitely out climbs Haibike (even though effectively same motor) but both wheel bearings...
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    Hello from LaVita Boost

    The 250w limit is at best misleading. Both my Haibike and Giant go way over 250 and for extended periods. (Giant ride app provides nice graphs essentially proving motor goes well over 250 w. I, ve seen upwards of 500w quite often and most rides produce around 450 w maximums) This was my last...
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    Hello from LaVita Boost

    Can you post some pictures Nick. I, ll be building another ebike for grandkids soon. (put a 250w Tongshen crank drive on a kids mtb, grandson loves it. They all want one (yes it has a throttle, and it's probably illegal but he regularly does 22 miles off toad on it with me) Your explanation...
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    Hello from LaVita Boost

    Hi Nick Doesn't having torque sensor built into wheel make torque it senses a product of both torque at crank and gear you are in?? Surely it will sense increased torque in lower gears and hence give more support when in them. Torque sensor at crank is for a reason, ie to sense torque you are...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    And just seen a report Germany are giving (??) 100 self propelled Howiters. (155mm) to Ukraine. Will actually mean Ukraine has more of them than Germany. Seems a change from Germany and rather a more offensive weapon. (35 mile range)??? Seems to me UK, EU and, US have plenty of faith in Ukraine...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    One of WW2 great mysteries to me (and apparently to Stalin originally) was Hitler turning onn Russia before invading us, yet after they, d both invaded Poland and both signed non aggression pacts for each other. Stalin assumed Churchill was lying when he passed on intelligence about operation...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    To be fair Zelenskyy has been making that point since war started. Not sure its the case but it fosters help against the invaders from any country even suspecting it could be case. We all forget Russia actually helped start WW2 invading East Poland. Germans actually invaded from West and they...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Claims that one party democracy is democracy are ridiculous. One party democracy is a perfect oxymoron. Even more so if you get beaten up, locked up or poisoned for not supporting that one party.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    He has also managed to undermine the invincibility factor felt by most around Russia's military. No doubt it has performed better than Western media like to portray but when all said and done Russia has achieved nothing in Ukraine apart from killing thousands of civilians and destroying towns...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    https://newsfeed.upday.com/?aid=3Lvq7hWS4sQ197RdrjtE1w-en-GB&channel=all_news&app_name=huawei_assistant&category=trending For those link has broken, Finland now planning on joining NATO. Consequence of Putin's behaviour??
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Flecc You are digging yourself deeper. I should put the shovel down.. Putin's vision for the future is hardly praiseworthy, beating kids up, poisoning opposition and starting wars. Nuclear wasteland vision? And suspect Xi is simply waiting to annexe Russia... Will be part of China before Taiwan...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Irony is alive and well.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I think you are right but I can't see conflict ending in May. Putin must keep going until he has something to show and Ukraine changed its messaging/objectives. Initially they simply wanted to maintain Sovereignty and not have a puppet government taking over in Kyiv... Now they have held out...