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    Bosch! The good, the bad and the ugly!

    Was he using a Bosch certified battery tester or some generic device?. The capacity of a battery will depend on the discharge rate,and the temperature it is operating at.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Which part of UK leaving the EU ,do you fail to understand. The EU is depriving the UK of nothing!. It is all the UK's doing. What the EU is attempting at present is to save the UK from the LOGICAL and FORESEEABLE consequences of their unilateral actions. If they were not foreseen in mainland...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Regrettably, Simon Coventry is not the Irish PM.. he would have been my preference, but is instead the Deputy PM and minister for foreign affairs. Slightly less of a showman. Of course ,Ireland and consequently the EU cannot accept a time limited backstop. It is a ludicrous suggestion What they...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I fully agree and concur with your last sentence, however all the preceding ones are what in this country we might call "ramais" .. loosely translated as balderdash. . If we succeed in getting to a stage where there is no hard border,it will be because people like M. Barnier have saved the...
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    Transporting batteries when off bike

    There is not a snow ball chance in hell of your Bosch battery shorting.. unless perhaps you intend carrying it in a container filled with metal shavings. .and even then I doubt it. There is a safety interlock whereby signals have to come on the auxiliary connection before the main terminals go...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I believe she was US Secretary of State, when they used to have a foreign policy. But maybe I'm dreaming.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Ms Foster has achieved the impossible. She has succeeded in uniting not only all the political parties south of the border, but also has succeeded in getting the official unionist party, in agreement with Dublin. To achieve unity between SF, FF, Labour, SDLP, Workers Party, UUP ,take a rare...
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    halfords staff complete retards!

    AcyActua I think it is you!. The Comms protocols should have no difficulty with the extremely low frequency, in their terms, of the pulsating waveforms in the wheel area.
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    E-bike disassembly for travel on European trains

    I remember taking a bike by plane to Paris in 76. What I had to do was remove the two wheels and secure them to the frame ,rotate the handle bars and deflate the tyres. No bike bags then, but it appeared on the conveyor belt along with other baggage. .. The fun was reinflating the tyres in a...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    .. Ooh! can we get 300 of these for our border with NI.? I know of a number of steel merchants who would fancy the work..
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    EU trying to impose insurance for E-Bikes

    Let us not be too hasty. The EU commission accepts petitions and proposes actions. The proposal then goes to the EU who discuss and eventually come to a decision. The decision, can be in any number of levels, .suggestions, recommendation or directives. A directive, will in time become law in...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    There must have been a lot of custard floating around to get lost in the dessert!.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    The point, is that either there will be less business transactions in the UK, with a reduction in employment, or they will be replicating work with added costs. Now as has been stated many times on this forum, financial services is was one of the" aces in the hole " of the UK system, and if...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Well it has officially started.. Today i received a letter from my insurance company..(house and car. ) They advise me that They will be petitioning the high court in Scotland, to transfer all my business, and since I am not that special, all the business ,of other Irish Customers, to a new...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Were they not in ."A night at the opera?"
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    .. I see it as embracing the future not running away and hiding!.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Thanks and after that has refreshed the soul, continue with the Widow.. It's on the same album. We male Celts have our problems.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    ..Was that in reference to competent or crooked?. We had in Ireland a few decades ago a Prime Minister who was known to be be capable..very capable, and maybe sticky fingers. The view of the electrorate was along the lines .. Yep we know he is a sneaky b********, but he is our sneaky b********...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    .. it is never too late. There is a really beautiful and hopeful song by a Scottish group the Poozies called Another Train. ,which starts with the words ..The Beginning is now.... YouTube might oblige.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Is that the green eyed envy i am picking up. Let's see, highly successful regional politican ,who delivers goods to his constituents is promoted to bigger continental office,and delivers on the continental stage. ..bad back notwithstanding. Perhaps had the UK decided to send their competent...