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  1. flecc

    Prices of the electricity we use to charge

    Even more so with water which is essential to life in any conditions. .
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    question about 20 inch (451) tyres - any tyre experts on here?

    SJS have three 37-451 from Michelin and Raleigh on this web page .
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I haven't said it did, I was rhetorically questioning why the treatment of the two is so different. One shrugged off, the other uniquely treated hysterically. .
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Agreed. Since the USA crossed those boundaries even more spectacularly during the early years of the cold war, but escaped worldwide criticism, I suppose the perverse moral is that Russia should have started a new cold war before starting their war in Ukraine. .
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    Who remembers Anotherkiwi ?

    You aren't missing anything, most of the rest of the threads seems to be some weird spam posting by a list of probably robot made up names, responding to each other with three posts per thread. .
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    I think I may have talked myself out of buying an electric bike………for now anyway.

    I've found something similar. In a hilly area and a very fit cyclist, I resisted getting a pedelec until I was in my late 60s and then mainly bought one to help with pulling a trailer. However, the unfortunate side effect it had was that it progressively ruined my unpowered cycling fitness...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Looking at what has happened since WW2, surely you meant the USA? They are by far the champions in this field. .
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    Who remembers Anotherkiwi ?

    There was nothing wrong with your thread to begin with, but it later became a repository for a variety of waffling about crackpot subjects not even vaguely related to cycling. I did post this in The Charging Post first WITHOUT the words to charge, but added the e-bike forum entry afterwards so...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    They'll be largely back to the USSR days. Half the Russians who live in those days have regretted that disappearing. .
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Confiscating property is theft, preventing travel is imprisonment. .
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    So by your token Putin isn't guilty of any human rights abuse and an international court has no legitimacy or function. You can't have it both ways, but that is what the West is always guilty of trying to do. .
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    The West are making complete fools of themselved over human rights laws. They've just imposed sanctions on the children of Putin and Lavrov. Since when can the sins of the fathers be visited upon their children? What about their human rights? The same applies to all the other sanctions...
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    Pedelec Law - The Details

    That is definitely legal, caravanners do similar all the time for all sorts of purposes, including charging e-bike batteries. It might well invite a stop, since the sound of an i.c. engine when an unregistered vehicle was moving would excite curiosity, but I don't know what laws might be...
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    Pedelec Law - The Details

    There is some obscure law forbidding manufacturing etc on the public highway so that could be breached. However, in the way you've descibed it as a range unlimited system, it would definitely be illegal since it would arguably be a petrol-electric drive, regardless of any delay in swapping the...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I do see that, but recognise it doesn't matter to Russia. With plenty of gas and oil they can just sell more if they wish to get the same income. Excluded from the world financial system they don't need the foreign currency anyway, they have plenty of that stockpiled already, so just some...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    You are missing the point again, that Russia's client countries can't afford those high prices so they'll continue to buy gas, oil and fertiliser from Russia, sanctions regardless as they've always done. That point was made once again on today's BBC news, that the EU's politicians are scared of...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Indeed, but the clue is in the word profiteering. The Russian fertiliser supplies are very much cheaper and their client countries can't afford the western luxury priced products. Just another of the reasons those countries are so well disposed to Russia. .
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Of course the vast majority of the 150,000 will be going home in due course. There won't be anything like that death toll. Regardless of having superior weapons, if and when the Ukrainians fight back in the south east corner and south to try to expel the Russians from their gains, they'll find...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I wouldn't disagree with any of that, but it doesn't alter the fact that some 40% of the world does not share the Western view of Russia. Or alter the fact that Russia will handle the sanctions situation with ease, as it always has done. Russia's immense resources are needed by the world. You...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    You are incredibly western biased to the point of blindness. Votes count for nothing, countries act in their own best interests. Just look at all the other sanction busters and Russia friendly countries you haven't mentioned, China, India, Pakistan, Turkey, Hungary, 18 of the 23 African...