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someone who moved from the UK to NL put up on his blog the start of the old cop show "Van Der Valk". I remember this as a small boy, it had a really good theme tune but was utterly boring compared to the Sweeney or Professionals, there was only ever one car chase and a gun only got fired once...

You already pay VAT on your bike and battery. At present, a lot of our taxes are simply spent on fixing roads after heavy vehicles have wrecked them, fixing (or burying!) people who have been unfortunate to be involved in collissions, and paying for soldiers to take oil away from foreigners...

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Wisper is misspelt in that article, they have instead used the spelling for the 1980s chocolate bar! Unfortunately I think with the current economic situation that won't happen for many years. that said, on a well used bike and in comparison with keeping a motor car running for single person...

According to Wazz Mughal himself the Powacycle Sales department will also sell spares (although they don't list this on the website). How responsive they will be I don't know (its worth chasing the request after a few days). Their phone number is 01279 821243

Anyone got any ideas what you can do with this mapping data? Can it be loaded into any open source software or existing stuff like memory map? OpenData - Increasing innovation and supporting Making Public Data Public

Alien and Synergie are the same company now. I don't see any regulation on the number of physical showrooms that a BEBA member must have, just that they have one. from what my Scottish friends said its not an insignificant business in that area either.

I don't think 50 cycles or Alien/Synergie were ever "exclusively online". Both have some sort of physical presence which people can and do visit, its just that Alien are way out in Scotland! Even Wispers are sold online and that is a good thing for those who don't have a local dealer (its how...

I thought 50 cycles have some sort of presence in London or Surrey?

I told a load of Scottish folk on another forum about Alien and they said they knew of the factory and they were good bikes (I think some of them were getting bikes). One lass said she lived quite near their factory/showroom.

the red/green LED is on the charger, not on the batteries. There are only 3 red LEDs on the battery...

my first ebike was a Powacycle (still got it) and they aren't bad. not the most powerful and they can have a few quirks but when you get a decent one they seem OK. Sadly I think Powacycle have ironically been victims of their own success whilst also suffering a drop in quality control/ a rise...

a few of them were (are?) used in Soviet/Russian lighthouses in remote areas. Following the fall of the USSR, some of these devices were decommisioned and fell into the hands of the conventional scrap metal markets by fair or foul means, with predictable unfortunate results. One bunch of...

privatising the electricity boards and the telecoms industry didn't help either, as they could also have worked together to develop many renewable energy sources - every major Telephone Exchange has a huge lead acid battery which needs to be kept charged with DC (usually from the mains), and...

for all the claimed Liberté, Égalite et Fraternité, the French government (of all political colours) very often just go ahead and do things without even bothering to consult the local people, anything from foisting nuclear power stations to music festivals on them! (you might think "what is...

Although it looks good for leisure runs, unfortunately if I had kids (I don't, and indeed this is one reason I don't want any!) I'd end up driving them around for school runs or travelling in any risky/congested area, unless there was some really good infrastructure. I simply do not have the...

I would still think if people really are using stolen cards many are more likely the foreign criminals wanting to export the bikes in containers to their native lands (as has been mentioned in some reports), but a increasing minority of the thefts out of the total. (A comment on christian...

I've been curious about this, as although most people here do drive (and most report taking their e-bike back for maintenance :rolleyes:) I think there's at least two others, Straylight mentioned not owning a car and there was someone else.. and if you do (other than for e-bike maintenance)...

Anyone "smart" enough to nick credit cards and PINs (both are needed to get the back) is IMO very unlikely to use them for such a trivial and obvious purpose (particularly as a load of yobs riding these bikes would be under the eagle eyes of CCTV) - especially when such fraud can earn then a...

apparently London is getting theirs in July. It seems a lot of European cities (as you would expect, the Scandinavian ones) actually have reasonably successful city bikes schemes currently running, more than I expected!