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    XLN Telecom

    A friend in South Norfolk used them but had a lot of customer service issues and poor response to enquiries. As you are in East Anglia I would recommend local company Comms Consulting / Comms Supply (based in Norwich) who can usually not just obtain a substantial saving on your current costs but...
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    Cyclist deaths on roads rose by 7% last year

    how many of these crashes happen in London and bigger cities compared to other regions? most mainstream media seems to think "Britain" is "London". In my area crashes of this nature are rare - you get rush hour crashes with kids at school time, and old folk who fall off their bikes due to heart...
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    Electrifying the Flying Scotsman

    isn't there a perfectly good Scottish e-bike company called Alien? Haven't heard them mentioned as much as previously but I expect they are still about. A lass on another forum (based in Scotland) I use said she lived near where Alien's factory/workshop is situated...
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    Trying to register on this forum??

    unfortunately these days it has to be done because otherwise the forum is overrun with folk who use automated logon software to post spam adverts everywhere. I've seen what happens to forums without this and it is not pretty, they are destroyed within days as the decent users are driven away...
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    Am I being unreasonable?

    i'd have considered it unreasonable had it been a old lady or gent or even a young lad in normal clothes or workwear clearly going to work or college on a MTB or hybrid (and all these would probably have been more likely to let you past anyway). Roads are a shared resource funded by all of us by...
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    Drunk & in charge of a COW !

    This was exactly what I thought. This is a more in depth article in which it is revealed that he has already lost his car driving license for DUI, and was clearly committing other offences such as not having lights and riding on a pavement so perhaps its not surprising the cops and the beak...
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    Another cyclist seriously injured

    On 112nederland cyclists very rarely make an appearance as victims of crashes, most of the crashes involve cars. NL actually has a much smaller population than the UK (about a third compared to the UK). That said if you look at where the crashes happen, they tend to be outside the urban areas...
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    Another cyclist seriously injured

    I regularly read the 112nederland.nl website to practice my Dutch (as you would expect its a news site about the work of the Emergency Services) and its clear from there that even in a country with very sensible road layout, and a strong culture of road safety. a lot of crashes involving all...
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    How do I go slower?

    I think its a lot to do with rider experience. Before I got my ebike I was already comparatively fast cyclist anyway so used to going about at 15-20mph rather than 10-15mph - I was too busy enjoying being able to do this effortlessly to be scared...
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    Another cyclist seriously injured

    a lot of EU countries despite having the same free expression we have (or even more) have a more controlled media that does not report "crime/bad news" often claiming its against privacy laws and this often makes these other countries seem "safer" than Blighty.. The flipside of the "easier"...
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    Another cyclist seriously injured

    This is true, the Dutch for instance spend a lot on social engineering to encourage the young to keep cycling - its a fallacy every Dutch youth enjoys cycling, they like cars just as much as anyone else, but Euros are spent to encourage them to stay on two wheels (and it pays off in less...
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    Will Throttles be Throttled By The EU? :confused:

    Did you mean passing a car license test or full motorcycle test? I suspect in any case the two years practical road experience on two wheels (including being made to face up to their own vulnerability) is a major reason why these young people have a higher driving test pass rate as much as the...
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    Will Throttles be Throttled By The EU? :confused:

    For younger people (and even those who aren't so young, a lady at work in her 40s was complaining about the very same thing, as she rides a moped and was curious about the Wisper) the issue is that if you have to do a CBT (I think the only got the moped quite recently) this expires after 2...
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    Researchers claim to have proved that compulsory helmet laws work

    On this note, there's as much drugs in AU as in NL and of course plenty of booze in both countries. Outside of here, I help run a youth lifestyle forum which is based around the dance music scene and as such gives a lot of harm reduction advice about drugs and helps people seek appropriate...
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    Electric bikes banned in Shenzen China, How absurd!!

    That is also a problem as the small batteries aren't wanted by the scrap men - they have a glut of better Western scrap thanks to our throwaway society being "greenwashed" recently so folk are encouraged to recycle without a domestic outlet for much of the scrap. I still think this issue is...
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    Lone Commuter

    I think these days its often unusual (or only done by the very brave) to ride on busy A roads at commuting time. When I lived in Reading I did occasionally ride on the A4 off peak when visiting friends in Maidenhead or even West London - and this was on a unpowered pushbike - but the bulk of...
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    Is Speed Dangerous?

    On both push bikes and e-bikes I've found going faster is generally safer. My push bikes have been a Dawes Horizon tourer (with drop handlebars), and a Raleigh hybrid with 700c wheels. The only issue I've found is that with my e-bikes (particularly the Wisper) is that certain drivers...
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    Electric bikes banned in Shenzen China, How absurd!!

    Looks like some US based websites are talking up the scale of the ban - it is for a 6 month trial period in certain busy areas only of a large town where there have been a lot of collisions and the widespread use of illegally powered bikes. The Chinese traffic authorities have been concerned...
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    What is the future?

    if you know anywhere still selling petrol for that price let me know, my relatives would be very interested! It appears to have in fact doubled in recent times and even with the cheap prices its still a large chunk out of a family budget. Although my extended family out there would be viewed...
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    China to universally adopt EU legal standards

    The laws will be left up to the local councils to decide when they change them. Whilst Chinese have a reputation for being harsher than the West (although in reality modern China especially the South is now surprisingly more tolerant about many aspects of life than many other Asian nations)...