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    Mid Drive for off trail and Hub Motor for flat commutes, true or false?

    Woosh, you are better than that. My arguement about efficiency is that motors have a natural speed range over which their efficiency is high and it drops off when rotating much slower or higher... with a mid drive that is possible. With hub drive it is not. Secondly the other point is what...
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    Mid Drive for off trail and Hub Motor for flat commutes, true or false?

    Your second last paragraph says it all.. . I have at this stage purchased three electric bikes, .. I am on my second and I purchased a bike for my wife last October. The first purchased 11 years ago was a small hub unit Urban Mover , the second with a Bosch mid motor about 5 years ago, and the...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    1. Fascists can be democratically elected. 2. The Current UK Government was elected by less than 50% of the voting population ,so the argument that it what the majority of people in the UK want is tenuous. Just keeping your logic straight.
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    Question about regen braking

    My understanding is that there is no regen.in the terms you are thinking about. If the motor rotates faster than the switching wants it to, the excess current induced in the windings just makes them warmer!. Basically there is no path backwards into the battery with the correct polarities...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Really!!. The WAB is between the EU and the UK, not between individual states . Now a Constitution is a constitution and is not up for interpretation. The transition period has started BECAUSE the UK has left the EU. Germany will no doubt be very happy to extradite British people to the UK ...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I did not intend re-entering the debate. But you need to understand what a Constitution is. Essentially these countries CANNOT extradite without breaking the most fundamental of their laws..It is that simple.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Happy Spring!. Tomorrow being St Bridget's Day is the traditional commencement of Spring . If the Chinese can commence their new year this week, we can commence our Spring and we do . La Feile Brid agaibh. !. I made a committment that I would exit this Thread on the day the UK left .. So...
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    Northern Ireland EAPC status.

    Just two items... 1. I am hoping that the ebike exemption is legalised in the NI ASAP.. 2. It has been found that the same defects in the hoist equipment are in equipment sold into the Irish NCT..our MoT equivalent. . However the Irish response is more proportional. Cars are expected to...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    The EU Office is in Molesworth St ,Tommie. Just get off the Enterprise, walk past Trinity and up Dawson St. .. . Its beside the Dail.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    ..as Fingers and Tommie and 50 made the point often , not mine!.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    .. who is this "Ours " Kimo Sabe?.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    And the fact that Ericsson has a major European presence is irrelevant?. .. They have a major software centre in Athlone Ireland. Nokia would have partnered them on previous ventures. I suspect that Alcatel, Sagem, and Thompson CSF will feature with other French providers.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    ..oh no, we have our own snakes in the grass.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    They paved Paradise .... Don't it always seem to go, you don't known what you've got till its gone... I think you might be reflecting rueing on Joni Mitchell's words before long
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    ... He was probably,in his typically generous fashion including St Georges Channel
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Your commute sequence is exactly the problem that inadequate public services, in the hand of profit making private enterprise create.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    But on a related topic. The flight from Wutan will be one of the last EU actions of the UK. It is being done with French cooperation ,and will be using quarantine facilities in the Wirrel., Which I am sure Fingers will suggest is the real capital of Ireland. We do appreciate that this flight...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    My information suggested it was snake meat.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    And Tommie, my references to the Ireland of 1912, is an extremely accurate, if very concise summary. There never was a Curragh Mutiny ..The Curragh Camp in Kildare being the headquarters of the British Army , only because no order was given. The Home Office conferred with the War Office in...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    More power to your legs , if doing a 50 mile round trip as a commuter, even with an ebike.