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    Night time biking

    It's moments like that you curse the broken camera in the glove box. Today's reasonable quality phone cams mean that many such moments will be caught from now on. Perhaps.
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    What have I bought?

    Home-made job. It's exactly what the late, great Sheldon Brown wrote about doing when he was younger - he made several tandems out of standard bikes by welding strategically. I've been looking seriously at making either a tandem or cargobike frame myself, for two main reasons: 1. Carrying...
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    Not from London

    Alf Tupper was still running and refused selection because he couldn't stand the posh folk in "that London". Besides, there's no chippies in London that rival Alf's in Barnsley.
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    We got ebikes at last - Pro Rider e-Wayfarer folders!

    I'd thought about that, too. Sadly, no, is the opinion. Mind you, as a possessor of current licence and insurance for a motorcycle (just put one back on the road) it would cost me next to nothing extra to add it on (still might have the hassle of plating, etc) If you carried the dormant genset...
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    We got ebikes at last - Pro Rider e-Wayfarer folders!

    I'd thought about that, too. Sadly, no, is the opinion. Mind you, as a possessor of current licence and insurance for a motorcycle (just put one back on the road) it would cost me next to nothing extra to add it on (still might have the hassle of plating, etc)
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    Do you regularly wear a cycle helmet?

    4/4 The Best Of Dave Allen...The Comedy Sketches - YouTube
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    Warning on spam received to pedelecs email address - phishing attempt

    Another one that had me intrigued enough to look it up was a request from gmail to 'authenticate' my account. Certainly well done, but fools forgot that mouseovers reveal the real address underneath. It's been doing the rounds for a few months, according to a quick search.
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    Boris.....and this is a serious question.....

    Because, by multi-tasking, starting children at school at 2, voting for Boris and resurrecting The Evil Bitch, we could have a race of supermen ready to beat the world at the electric bike game.
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    Cycling under the rain

    Dog's bogies are disgusting, but the cat likes them.
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    Backpack battery. What amp wire?

    If you expressed them in normal sizes, ie, cross sectional area, it would give a better idea. 30A or 41A is more or less a guide and the heavier the better, but bear in mind the working voltage of a bike. 24V or 36V - the heavier cable will offer less volt drop under load and every volt is...
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    Boris.....and this is a serious question.....

    Yes, because we all know how compassionate that crazy bitch Thatcher was. Just dripping with it.
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    The French put a stop to it.

    Rab C. Nesbitt; "We, the Scum..."
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    Bradley Wiggins Sparks Helmet Debate

    I can see you never owned a Ferguson dual-standard push-button set.
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    The Olympic road race,why so dissapointing?

    The basket must have slowed him down a bit.
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    It seems team GB have faith in their own abilities

    Apart from some well-shaped bums, the female athletes in general, but especially in beach volleyball are hardly porn icons. An overtrained female athlete near enough ceases to be womanly and becomes quite androgynous. Dear god, it'd be like fancying Ziggy Stardust.
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    Cycling under the rain

    If I recall correctly, whenever The Prisoner was on the village bicycle, he'd use his umbrella. :)
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    Kudos is clearing out our old test bikes on e-bay

    Yep. If you start something too high it really puts people off. Start at 99p and you get all the bottom feeders hoping it will stay low - but you also get some of them who will stick with it and continue to drive the bids up, so it's a win-win situation. If you chicken out and pull it because...
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    The French put a stop to it.

    True. I have no trouble understanding most of what's said in other parts of these islands. A lot of that is because the wireless spread RP which did influence the way that many people spoke over several generations. I would say it's gone downhill since the demise of RP - RP was a good thing in...
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    A Win for Chargepoint and e-biking

    Great; quick charge for the bike and a gottle of geer.
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    Bradley Wiggins Sparks Helmet Debate

    I have a helmet, I sometimes wear it, sometimes I don't. I am totally against compulsion. Having had a couple of serious offs on motorcycles, in which helmets played a large part in protecting my head, I'm convinced of the part they play in saving lives - at the right speed and the right angles...