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Pre-cursor to a heart attack maybe ??? :eek:

I've just been through a similar pricing / dump the first (of two) cars excercise too. Absolutely horrifying when you look at all the numbers. In my case I got a second-hand diesel Range Rover 5 years ago (main justification to tow horse boxes). Towing not required any more and wife's little KA...

As one of those waiting delivery of a Pro Connect, I'd just like to add my own thanks for the impressive technical information provided by Flecc. It is very much appreciated.

Web site is fine for me too. Also there is a 'Live Help' facility on the site which I used very successfully yesterday. Got a response from 'Tim' vary quickly who answered my question straight away.

Further to that last doom-and-gloom post of mine - I meant to include these links for your edification. A bit of video humour on the suveillance state thing - though gallows humour is probably a more apt description Eye on you and Pizza surveillance

I can understand and sympathise with the sentiment but fact is that, regardless of an optimistic or pessimistic outlook on the world, we ARE all doomed anyway . A high proportion exceed the biblically allocated three score and ten years these days but the Grim Reaper gets every one of us in the...

No apology need Cliff. A bit of levity is always a good antidote to taking ourselves a little too seriously IMO - even if the subject matter is off the scale of almost any list of pressing global political issues. As for 'Soylent Green'; one of the better of it's genre - again IMO; I just...

Harry Your faith in the power of 'the electorate' is touching but I fear seriously misplaced. If there is one thing I have learned over a lifetime of varying degrees of involvement with both local and national politics it is that, so far as the epoch-defining issues of the day are...

I have some sympathy with the proposition but not much with the practicality of the proposed alternative. Assuming 'environmental problems' refers principally to anthropogenic global warming with the predominant alleged cause being atmospheric carbon emissions then, for a whole complex of...

By far the biggest influence on the question posed by this thread will, IMHO, be the one first raised by Russ - availability of cheap hydrocarbon based energy. All talk of cheap non-polluting alternatives to oil, beg massive unanswered (some would say 'unanswerable') questions. For example...

I've got a Pro Connect on order too. I think you'll find that the price increase is a function of the Sterling/Euro exchange rate. The pound has been reaching successive record lows against the Euro over the past few weeks and the trend looks set to continue. It makes the original launch...

On another positive note I came across the forum whilst researching prior to purchase (pending) of my first ebike. It has been a gold mine of useful information. I too am awaiting a Pro Connect and so can understand the frustrations voiced elsewhere. But, have not joined in the 'bash 50...

I've had an Etrex Vista for about 5 years now. Used to use it regularly hunting on horseback. When out with an unfamiliar pack and area it was easy to find my self maybe 10 miles from the horsebox in unfamiliar country with dusk falling. The Etrex was a godsend on such occasions. Like I said in...

I'm a dab hand at pig's years too yuh know - always making them with things - wife says so -especially when it comes to preparing food - oh dear.

Well, I posted it more as a bit of graveyard humour than with with intent to convey any serious message. Also, having been on the receiving end of animal-rights vigilantee's armed with cameras (not to mention noxious sprays and the odd pick-axe handle) for donkey's years, I too have a...

From sky news: Judging by the puffing and blowing he's clearly not on an e-bike ;) But thought this might interest the forum anyway:

Fascinating thread. As I hinted in my intro post, I have spent more hours on horseback than I care to count, much of it thankfully over open country, but a lot on both rural and urban roads. Apart from the London commuting/bendy buses bits, substitute 'horse' for 'bike' and most of the...