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A guy who buys a condo on the seafront in Miami has no fear of sea level. His mortgage would have been paid long before he gets any closer to the water. Look at this from the point of view of poor people in the third world, the subsistence farmer in the Maldives or Bangladesh or some other...

yes, you are correct.

I reckon that the XF07 front hub kit is OK for power, weight and noise but as you have fixed forks, the vibrations from the motor won't be absorbed like with a Carrera with suspension fork, so it's not as pleasant to ride. For your 75kg weight and hilly terrain, you would be better off with my...

did you watch what Trump says about NATO? The way he said it could well be understood that those NATO members without nuclear weapons of their own should pay the USA for protection. He could win in November with the help of the evangelicals.

it's a cross he wants to bear. I think he has done enough for the JLM.

I don't know, at least 1000 years.

sea level rises on average about 1mm-2mm a year. At that rate, most of the Maldives will have gone under water in about 1 to 1.5 century.

Our engineers can certainly build an airport on a bank of sand or even in the middle of the Thames estuary (remember Boris airport?) but protecting the land that is left for the Maldivians to grow their own food is still beyond our engineering ability.

short term optimism? The BBC did a long reportage on the 'climategate' and Prof Jones were pretty much innocent of being selective. The problem is climatology is still very much work in progress. Not so long ago, Michael Fish predicted that the hurricane of 15 October 1987 was a storm. I...

It may be more difficult to set fire to an electric car without breaking in.

the article that saneagle linked to contains a lot more information about what we know and what we still are looking into. It's by no mean the most authoritative study but it recaps in an easily accessible language the pathology of covid, the mechanism which may release active oxygen and...

unlikely. There are litterally hundreds of vendors out there selling batteries.

True. Quite often, those advices don't come with a reminder about liabilities of being an importer. Perhaps even those who give the advice don't think about this themselves. No website is going to warn you of the possibility of being sued if an accident occurs involving their products.

they are a Chinese company. When you buy a battery from Aliexpress or their website, you are the importer in the eyes of the law. As importer, you assume all product liabilities, you can't sue your supplier if their battery burns your flat, your neighbour's flat or hurts someone. Your neighbour...

earth has gone through a lot of climate changes since its formation but on a scale in millions of years, not in single digit 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10 or 20 years. The recent warming up over the last 50-100 years is just too fast for humans to adapt. the perception of climate change is made worse by...

Often, the brakes are set properly at the factory but later, the wheel is removed for packing. When the customer puts the front wheel back onto the fork, they may have not centered the wheel properly before tightening the quick release skewer. The fix is simple on a bike with hydraulic brakes...

Don't touch those you circle in red. They are for the hydraulics. The two M6 screws you need are above and below those you circle and that you see sideways. sometimes it's difficult to adjust the brakes against rubbing when the pads are new, especially on front wheel with fixed fork. The pads...

It's much easier to detect the transition between assisted and non assisted when you turn the cranks by hand.

I rekon it's a false impression. You should test again, preferably you should do the test with the bike on a stand or ask someone to help lifting up the rear motor wheel while you spin the cranks by hand.

The white stuff is prion. It is usually a mixture of denatured proteins. The authors of the article you sent me recapped the current thinking how covid kills people.