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    Breaking Bad

    Expedia do £1000ish pp 2 week breaks with air caraibes from Paris to Martinique,air caraibes show breaking bad nonstop,I like it too,but follow watching it nonstop with a surreal wim of a tropical beach and a hallucinogenic sunset and its just american TV again
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    Help! Which bike for 6 mile hilly commute

    IMHO legality isn't the major problem, I've built a BMP 500w that runs at 2.5kw with hobbyking lipos and a s12sh controller from BMS battery,it will do 15mph up almost any hill and total cost was less than £500. The major problem is that it is a moped and needs moped shocks and disc brakes and...
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    Where do I buy spokes?

    many thanks for this and apologies for the delay: I will go and measure the ERD this weekend on an old MTB that came my way for free (Dahon espresso - flimsy, without disc brakes or suspension and largely complete rubbish, BUT it was free, the budget is tight, and it does have an upright...
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    Help! Which bike for 6 mile hilly commute

    this may be heresy, but are you sure you need a pedelec: my pedelec (oxygen, i like it) broke, and ive had to use my brompton for my six mile (on some days) commute - it's simiplicity and serenity itself, and only a few minutes longer, i like pedelecs, but they have nothing on bicycles for sheer...
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    Will a 50A BMC controller work with a direct drive hub?

    forgot to add, off course you'd get a different RPM version (i think there is one faster one than this) and put it in a bigger wheel, and at 60V, so loads of speed
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    Will a 50A BMC controller work with a direct drive hub?

    i think that's about 3kw? here's a thought - i run a bpm 500w with a few hobbyking lipos (12S, 44V) and a 45 A sine wave controller (S12SH from BMS battery) - on the LCD3 it frequently says something like 2560W so either the LCD or the controller is fibbing or not to spec. it never overheats -...
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    Currency Market Fix fines banks £3.6billion

    afraid i dont see it this way - i think the financial crisis of 2008 and astronomic amounts governments spent on bailing out banks (and are now recouping by cutting back on services to ordinary citizens) do have something to do with it. But i think we will have to agree to differ, either way i...
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    What gadget, product or thing has been a major disappointment?

    under "thing" (in the frankenstein's monster or "what is that thing?" as one gaze into the cuvette sense), how about elections?
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    Currency Market Fix fines banks £3.6billion

    i guess none of you are taxpayers either, or use the NHS? hmm, not that easy to get out o the casino after all huh? i work in a specialist service in the nhs, the waiting period for treatment has doubled over the past 24 months, a direct result of cost cutting. There's been a few deaths -...
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    Currency Market Fix fines banks £3.6billion

    bizarrly - if one for a moment turns a blind eye to the significant fact that these bankers have destroyed much of the civilised world's social infrastructure - there is teh money: for barclays alone 1.5 million times a million - that's enough to buy all teh property on a carribean island liek...
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    Two wheel invalid carriages again

    rich fantasy life, sadly rather revealing - look, we all feel inadequate at times(though we dont all invent rugby teams and bars with others that listen to us to compensate, off course). here's a thought, go see the GP and ask for that leaflet for the local personality diosorder service
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    Where do I buy spokes?

    apologies for a related question - for some reason i find spoke length calculation a complete find muck - i just can't do it (when it come sto unequal lengths and flanges i end up gettig visions of brulee and completely loose the plot). i'm hoping to build teh 350w oxydrive motor into a 26 rim...
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    What Election Result would have been with PR

    in principal i agree, felt despairing when seeing lineup of professional politicians polishing soundbites and posture to lead labour. i cant really belief there's any voter naive enough to buy any of that self serving crap. len mc cluskey said something like this - that its this patent...
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    Nearly lost my new sunglasses

    My sympathy, to state the obvious, you had clear right of way https://www.gov.uk/general-rules-all-drivers-riders-103-to-158/multilane-carriageways-133-to-143 He didn't even bother to respond afterwards,as a motorist I find that kind of behaviour extremely selfish
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    What Election Result would have been with PR

    More than that,under a Westminster system some central "party office" decides which most succesful sychophant deserves a safe seat. Not exactly local representation.
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    Do 2nd hand ebikes sell for sensible money? (ebay etc)

    fears altogether would do it for me: straight after i got an oxydrive kit teh electrics went up in smoke in a way that would - had i bought it second hand - done around £200 damage - oxydrive replaced it all under warranty - if one is a newbie one has a morbid fear of that happening often...
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    Two wheel invalid carriages

    curious though - i re-eead the OP: someone who recognises a whisper ebike on sight - not quite the complete disinterest in ebikes he pretends - in fact it seems an elaborate orchestrated dig at whisper - and apparently runs a bike business - i'm not poirot, but this seems a troll with a specific...
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    Two wheel invalid carriages

    my sympathy with the difficult menopause.
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    What Election Result would have been with PR

    All of that seem entirely possible anyway (though I imagine the pound dropping by 30% and 50% taking out bupa while doing zero hour contracts)
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    Custom battery specs needed for this kit

    apologies for butting in (i have a brompton and have thoughts about electrifying it too), what made you like this kit? i see 500 plus quid (postage, tax etc), an overseas supplier (i.e. no backup warranty wise), wouldnt banging together the cheapest stuff on BMS' website be better?