Recent content by orrinoconnor

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    Care!!! GOCYCLE Problems!!!

    Great to read this thread. I noticed the gocycle looking around online and while it has a certain slickness to the design, I could help being put off by the whole take to dealer for service attitude. I have built and manitained all my bikes from childhood and I think it is the only way to...
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    Is World Population Exploding?

    Wasn't that Mae West's prefered method to kill a man!
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    Is World Population Exploding?

    Intresting. https://journal-neo.org/2015/01/01/world-overpopulation-hold-on-buddy/
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    When I think back to The Election The big thing was open borders, the free flow of emigration and the problems it has possed. Along with many secondary issues,, not least of which was EU dictates. I was amazed at the result of the election,, but my feelings at the time was that it would not...
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    Is Green Aviation Really Coming?

    Bill Gates would be proud of you!
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Tommy, I'm not sure 8X4 sheds would get health and safty approval the size will also have to be stated in metric. Remember we will still have to bow to all the EU legistation past present and future.
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    Is Green Aviation Really Coming?

    Flecc, forgive my cynicism,, it's something I acquired in a life observing man and his habits.
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    Is Green Aviation Really Coming?

    I wonder where Capt. Blight first discovered the Bounty Bar :)
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    Is Green Aviation Really Coming?

    I think it's perhaps a fashionable thing to say that little problems like Chernobyl, Jaslovské Bohunice, Three Mile Island, Fukushima were just "first generation problems" in the assumption that,, we can do better next try. Man in his infinite learning retains the ability to assume that it...
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    Is Green Aviation Really Coming?

    Flecc, The trouble is when it goes wrong,,, it goes very wrong,,,, Very Very Very Wrong! The second problem is profit and corperate hunger for more and more profit, yet that more will never be enough so ways are then sought to do things the cheapest way possible. Unless they fully find a way to...
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    N. Ireland.

    LeighPing, Thankyou for the link posted by Ted. I looked at some of Ted's other posts and found them most informitive. It seems that our thoughts meet in the area of current legislation (I will not call it LAW) I also found another local (Tommy) in the same posts and thought it pertinant to...
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    N. Ireland.

    Fat Rat, I'm informing myself at present before I make any decisions. That's the way I have always been,, people with the ability to make uninformed long term decisions amaze me. If and when I do make a decisions it will probably be that of adding a midmount onto a Downtube folder with 8 speed...
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    N. Ireland.

    Hello to you all,,, My name in Ray but it wouldn't let me have that as a user name, As you may have guessed I'm form N,Ireland where it is aleged we need a motorbike licence to have one of these things until someone decides other. I'm sure there are plenty of them around irrespective...