The Anything Thread that is Never off subject.

[jonathan.agnew]

Sorry to learn that, hopefully youwont get too many flashbacks. Was that the Tesla? Sounds like the other guy is going to get taught more than one harsh lesson, which may be some satisfaction.

Gave up workounts at 75, not had any weight problem in the 13 years since, my body takes care of that extremely well.
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Many thanks, it's curious, my generation didn't really believe in ptsd, but one experience hypervigilance, anxiety after an mva. Sadly it was a good Kona 64kwh I traded tesla on (before impact I thought I really don't trust Korean side impact protection, but it worked). Now waiting for copart to say how little they'll give. Other bloke seemed the kind of deluded fortysomething narcissist going important places who will require significantly more exposure to reality.
I was at my healthiest in Italy, cycling, using public transport, walking few years ago - not in the mad Anglo saxon parody of commuting, watching telly, bingeing and trying to undo the damage in a gym

 

[jonathan.agnew]

That happened to a friend of mine lat year, wasn't killed either. Modern cars are relatively amazing in crashes - he'd have been dead driving a Ford Cortina instead of his oh so "cool" BMW X5, as would his passenger on the crashed into side, who only broke a rib. The driver of the other car also survived, wasn't drunk or drugged. The X5 was knocked over, of course a total write-off. He was fine after that accident but ended up in intensive care, ventilated, a few weeks later, because he'd chosen to remain unvaccinated. He was only aged 38, physically fit sports scientist.




Muscle weighs more than fat, I'm at the same weight with much smaller arm and shoulder muscles , therefore I've got less surface fat than I did aged 25, but with more invisible fat around my internal organs. I was amazed to see my top two abs appear several months ago... after over two years of wilful gruelling weight loss - I knew they were in there somewhere. Will continue, expose the other four. Feel much better, well worth it.

Yes I was sufficiently stupid to drive a vintage tr2 when young (doors opened round corners from chassis bend). If I were in that medical students would be quizing a pathologist about what's left of my entrails at this point. The thing that really irks me in my fifties is a change of posture I didn't see coming (I'm beginning to hobble like attenborough). One solution, I think, is to do inverted pushups in gym, it increases flexibility and is good for abs.
Edit - make that situps (not ready to crab walk like Madonna yet)

 

[guerney]

Yes I was sufficiently stupid to drive a vintage tr2 when young (doors opened round corners from chassis bend). If I were in that medical students would be quizing a pathologist about what's left of my entrails at this point. The thing that really irks me in my fifties is a change of posture I didn't see coming (I'm beginning to hobble like attenborough). One solution, I think, is to do inverted pushups in gym, it increases flexibility and is good for abs.
Edit - make that situps (not ready to crab walk like Madonna yet)

I used to be able to do power tiptoe squat leaps, to hug my knees while high in the air, before landing softly. I can't think of a heavier workout, if you do those continuously. I did about five the other day, almost died. Also didn't leap as high, and didn't gain enough height to hug my knees - it was much easier aged 18. My thighs feel like there's torn muscle within, and they still haven't recovered - familiar feeling, they'll self-repair... but slower these days. Tiptoe squats are great for balance. I'll continue till I can leap high again, but it'll take ages. My karate teacher back then, forced us all to do all sorts of bodyweight stuff continuously. We'd get kicked in the gut if we didn't! Weak legs lead to the Attenborough Womble gait.

No gym required.

 

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[jonathan.agnew]

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speaking of getting things right (this is the nothings off topic thread), does anyone know more about the new ami plus? Cant find anything online (and am carless)

https://www.electrive.com/2023/07/27/citroen-to-upgrade-the-ami-small-bev/

 

[Woosh]

I have seen a few citroen Amis in my town but not aware of when the souped up version is going to be released. Most popular EVs are Teslas.

 

[jonathan.agnew]

I have seen a few citroen Amis in my town but not aware of when the souped up version is going to be released. Most popular EVs are Teslas.

Yes, same here, somehow something minimalist, quirky (but with more protection than an Ami) appeals more than a three tonne pimpmobile
edit - there's the silence s04 (10kwh, 52mph,airconditioning), but it's £16k, which makes a used mg or kona look good value

Silence S04 review | Autocar

Spanish firm uses its electric motorbike tech on a miniature electric ‘car’ aimed at city inhabitants

www.autocar.co.uk

 

[guerney]

Yes, same here, somehow something minimalist, quirky (but with more protection than an Ami) appeals more than a three tonne pimpmobile
edit - there's the silence s04 (10kwh, 52mph,airconditioning), but it's £16k, which makes a used mg or kona look good value

Silence S04 review | Autocar

Spanish firm uses its electric motorbike tech on a miniature electric ‘car’ aimed at city inhabitants

www.autocar.co.uk

Too low slung - looks like potholes will kill it and ignite the under seat batteries to burn your bottom to ashes.

"With both full, range is said to be up to 92 miles, but with 90%-charged batteries, my test car reckoned 60 miles in its medium power mode, labelled City, 75 miles in Eco and 50 miles in Sport."

Useless range in a couple of years? Highly likely expensive impossible to repair proprietary communication locked to hell protocol batteries, they always seem to be in electric cars.

Can you fit in one anyway?

 

[soundwave]

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use this for my car add.

 

[jonathan.agnew]

Too low slung - looks like potholes will kill it and ignite the under seat batteries to burn your bottom to ashes.

"With both full, range is said to be up to 92 miles, but with 90%-charged batteries, my test car reckoned 60 miles in its medium power mode, labelled City, 75 miles in Eco and 50 miles in Sport."

Useless range in a couple of years? Highly likely expensive impossible to repair proprietary communication locked to hell protocol batteries, they always seem to be in electric cars.

Can you fit in one anyway?

It is a compromise too far (say it having wormed chiropractically in and out of a Berkeley b65 lots to become an organic crumple zone). But worming into small spaces keeps one supple. And lack of crash safety alert. And sitting in aesthetic boogers like a kona or mg in a traffic jam a compelling ways to experience the void. And can one escape proprietary manipulation (this conversation wouldn't happen without it)? But I mostly agree, in the end the range is too limited (on an s02) and going everywhere at 52mph won't be fun at all (and many twizies are being written of because the bios irreplaceable)

 

[Woosh]

EVs are too expensive to buy new, depreciate too quickly and expensive to insure.
I think I'll wait for the technology to mature a bit more.

 

[jonathan.agnew]

EVs are too expensive to buy new, depreciate too quickly and expensive to insure.
I think I'll wait for the technology to mature a bit more.

That is very true, but once one has driven an ev its difficult to go back to stirring a gearbox to keep an antideluvian airpump happy

 

[flecc]

EVs are too expensive to buy new, depreciate too quickly and expensive to insure.

Which made me the perfect customer for my Leaf in 2018:

Already in my eighth decade of life.

Having the surplus money which I can't take with me after death.

Having no children to leave it to.

And the proven reliable Leaf and battery a car for life at my age, making depreciation meaningless.

After six years it's just a question of which dies first, me or the car.

The betting is it will be me, given eight heart events in the last ten days:

Including six of tachycardia up to 150bpm, one of lowish pressure of 75/51 and one of high pressure 184/87, all while relaxed and reclining.
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[jonathan.agnew]

Which made me the perfect customer for my Leaf in 2018:

Already in my eighth decade of life.

Having the surplus money which I can't take with me after death.

Having no children to leave it to.

And the proven reliable Leaf and battery a car for life at my age, making depreciation meaningless.

After six years it's just a question of which dies first, me or the car.

The betting is it will be me, given eight heart events in the last ten days:

Including six of tachycardia up to 150bpm, one of lowish pressure of 75/51 and one of high pressure 184/87, all while relaxed and reclining.
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I'm sorry to hear about the tachycardia, I imagine it could be disturbing. It brought to mind what you mentioned about way we return to interstellar dust (long ago). But older I get more I doubt the redemptive value of anything (am caring for mother in law who's dying from motor neuron disease). On the plus side, it's indeed an argument for spending the money on an ev (whether one has children or not)

 

[soundwave]

ill have the car and spend all the money on gold bars for me transformers to stand on and make the leaf 1000bhp electric

it wont go very far tho but be good at wheelies

 

[lenny]

Study: High iron intake linked to irregular heart rhythm in specific genetic variations

New data pulled from the UK Biobank suggests high dietary iron intake increases the risk of irregular heart rhythm, with the link particularly significant for those with genetic variations associated cardiac development and cell signal transduction processes.

www.nutraingredients.com

 

[flecc]

make the leaf 1000bhp electric

it wont go very far tho but be good at wheelies

Not even that. Front wheel drives can't do wheelies, only uselessly spin.
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[soundwave]

then make it rear wheel drive or put a motor on every wheel

 

[jonathan.agnew]

Which made me the perfect customer for my Leaf in 2018:

Already in my eighth decade of life.

Having the surplus money which I can't take with me after death.

Having no children to leave it to.

And the proven reliable Leaf and battery a car for life at my age, making depreciation meaningless.

After six years it's just a question of which dies first, me or the car.

The betting is it will be me, given eight heart events in the last ten days:

Including six of tachycardia up to 150bpm, one of lowish pressure of 75/51 and one of high pressure 184/87, all while relaxed and reclining.
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apropos of nothing, has anyone tried to buy a car recently? Market has gone nuts, again. But in a different way. brand new 64kwh mg4's and 72.6kwh's zs go for £23k. Well used ones for slightly less. £12k buys a very used zoe 50kwh. it doesn't make rational sense, everything's much cheaper, but used vehicles completely overvalued

 

[flecc]

apropos of nothing, has anyone tried to buy a car recently? Market has gone nuts, again. But in a different way. brand new 64kwh mg4's and 72.6kwh's zs go for £23k. Well used ones for slightly less. £12k buys a very used zoe 50kwh. it doesn't make rational sense, everything's much cheaper, but used vehicles completely overvalued

The e-car market makes no sense and the reason for that is the extremes of demand.

When demand for new ones started to sharply rise from the start of 2018, the inability of the manufacturers to supply increasingly led to over a year waiting lists and ridiculously high prices for used very recent examples to meet the demand. By 2021 my early 2018 but current model that cost me £26,000 was getting offers of over £21,000 at three years old from WeBuyAnyCar and the like. This was insane given the battery had three years of use and it wasn't known with certainty then if it would reliably exceed 5 years.

But then the market sharply swung against, partly due to increasing news of e-car fires, partly due to the many complaints of inadequate range as people had rushed to buy without researching true year round range. So at four years old the offers had slumped to £10,000, over halved in one year.

That is why the prices at both ends started colliding as you've found. The problem now is that as the new car demand has dropped leaving makers with overstock, the demand for well used ones has risen sharply as so many low mileage users have realised that they can afford an e-car and that their batteries are proving to be very long lived for low range use.

That new low end market consists of the increasing numbers of the non-employed, the increasing numbers of retired, housewives for school runs, kids activities, shopping etc, second cars for such duties, and family pool cars as the number of now adult kids continue to live at home due to house prices and a pool car with today's multi driver insurance rates suits them all.

So I've now got a six year old e-car that isn't worth very much but is increasing in value all the time as it gets older.
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