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    Speed Pedelecs

    Indeed; and if a putput/autocycle motor was replaced with an electric unit, it's nothing more than a simple change of motive power and adequately covered under any regulations I can think of. We have been free to swap engines and powerplants to our hearts' content for ages, have we not? A putput...
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    Speed Pedelecs

    Didn't bother the hundreds of thousands of putput owners in the late 40s and 50s. The major appeal to many, many people is the low running cost, and for urban areas to keep up with most traffic with all that extra POWER (500W isn't exactly earth shattering, though). There is a need for this...
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    Made me laugh

    Double-think - perhaps a mis-direction?
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    Chenglish....

    我明天把钱还给你。 ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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    Cash point machune/atm security advice please be on the alert!!!!!!

    Strikes me as another urban myth. I wonder if Grannie's still up on that roof?
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    Magura hydraulic brake cut-off switch

    Oh, that's bad luck.
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    Speed Pedelecs

    750W hub motor does me 41km/h
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    Chenglish....

    Dodgy stuff, yer axunge.
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    Building in CREE light

    Damn. Has that big forum brute being forcing you to read it? Down, Mongo! Down, I tell you! Don't force reading!
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    Trade Free Sunday

    Traders posting is fine by me, as long as what they have to say is relevant and not just a plug for their wares. Then it gets tedious. There are some forums where some trade members take every and all opportunities to endlessly promote their stuff and all it does is p iss people off. Mind...
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    27W LED on the front

    That's exactly my application anyway - especially for the bicycle and even the motorcycle isn't on the main roads much. Traffic density around here is fairly minimal, especially at night, compared to the S. of England. A decent set of lights is an absolute essential, to avoid potholes, ditches...
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    27W LED on the front

    I ordered square spots (you have to, else they'll send round floods). In pleasant contrast to other sellers of these things, their lumens claim is a modest 70lm/W which is more believable and certainly borne out by observation. I always take the lumens claim with a large pinch of salt anyway...
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    27W LED on the front

    Today, my 27W LED lights arrived. By'eck they're bright, totally outshining the motorcycles own headlight. It was my original intention to have one main, one dip, as supplementaries for the existing headlight, but after I jury-rigged a portable unit to a 12V battery and carried them out into...
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    nice enough day for a bike ride.....

    Nice ride out. I see you're not a million miles from Strathallan Airfield, an old stamping ground of mine. :)
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    Dating in your 50s

    Here, have a stottie cake. :)
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    No more Jeremy?

    The Flounce has a long and noble history on Usenet, forums being a pale and inferior successor. Seasoned Flouncers can take offence at the change in the wind, begger off and be back within a few days as if nothing happened, so desperate are they to get their fix of high drama or sheer repetitive...
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    modifying a phillips saferide led bike light

    Is it overheating on high and the electronics are actually protecting it?
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    Magura hydraulic brake cut-off switch

    Indeed. Apart from learning the basic tool skills, there are always improved items of equipment and materials appearing too, so even those with the necessary skillset have to keep up to date with what's going on.
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    36v horn

    Grand job. :cool:
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    36v horn

    Excellent. I would suggest a protective wrapping around the wiring, as you put it on. Either Spirap or simple sleeving, but Spirap is brilliant stuff for this.