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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    That was a very interesting post.
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    Police say electric bikes illegal in Northern Ireland

    My reading of this is ... If you using the bike sensibly, the psni officer will ignore you. They will see the battery and the motor but will ignore it. If you are involved in a collision or an accident all bets are off. They won't be prosecuting on the basis it's an ebike, but would if it was...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Well since Mark Deary gets my vote every time, I have not been helping him.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    From what I looked at the French , the Dutch and a few others were listed as charities, whereas the German and the American seemed to be arms of the state.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    That Barnier was flustrated at the press conference was evident, but I suggest not for the reasons you propose. He used the words educate which the British press have chosen to misrepresent "as teaching a lesson". The UK team seen only now to have started to engage after wasting all that time...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    .. certainly a great organisation. Was it the first ?, as there now seems to be similar in the other coastal countries the Dutch one dates from the same year 1824. Another similar charity would be the blood transfusion services
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    .. why wouldn't we be friendly, we are the same people.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    How on earth could you have inferred that from my post?. You must be psychic! You might like what George Bernard Shaw, a Dalkey co Dublin boy, said... The greatest gift the English gave Ireland was the English language !!!
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I might agree with you that that is the perception that many in the UK and some in all of the other constitutant countries of the EU , have , but is it a true or a false reality. I would suggest that it is not true but has been a perception foisted by a right wing media . It is very easy to...
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    Recelling NiMH battery to Li-On/range

    . The ebike shop person was correct, if you were using NI cads or NI mh , but it's the wrong advice for lithium.
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    You know you're having a bad day when.....

    It's really fun trying to align a rivet which has come all the way out. .. much easier to just give up and add on a few links from another chain and then substract if necessary. Chain breakers are cheap, and work very well .10 euro . provided you don't let a rivet escape... Practice on the old...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Careful now... We enjoyed 700 years of that partnership, but only joined the UK in 1801, following a campaign of bribery ( the Scots had enjoyed the same circus a hundred years previously). British beneficial practices then led to a famine whereby half the population disappeared, .. a number...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Woosh, that is an extraordinary. Set of statements. Previously and to about 1918 the UK was a global empire, it then started losing bits of its empire piece meal. It simply has not yet got over that. The reason why the Brits are so bad with languages, and we Irish are not much better, is...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Ah you are only a newbe, the oc72 was in operation from about 1956\7 and powered mw radios and other kit. The silicon transistor didn't come until 1960 and the bc108 family dates from about 1965.. a decade later. ...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    .. carrfour currently have ebikes , listed as made in France , with 280 whr Samsung batteries, 250w rear hub motor with gears , lights mudguards, carrier no suspension , listed as town bikes at 499 euro! Non electric at 90
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    .. ah the venerable germanium glass bottled mullard ones. Did you know they could also be used as photo detectors by scrapping off the black paint. ??
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I think it was more the space program rather than the cold war. ... . The reason why those early rts were as large as they were due to low energy storage in lead acid battery and nicds, the larger energy consumption of tubes valves, and the larger range required. Of course the valves were needed...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    .. I think that's a good question. If the UK crashes out without acknowledging debts that it legally agreed to , and engages in the types of current tantrum, then there will be great concern. I don't know which are actually the legal agreements, but failure of a country to honour them has major...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    .. congratulations on post 20000 . But if time runs out the UK crashes out .. there is no legal alternative. The EU negotiators cannot unilaterally hold the UK in, the UK would need to request it and I am inclined think in terms of the hell and snow in that regard. The EU parliment would need...
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    Overweight and looking for what to buy.

    The Raleigh Captus is at about that price, and claims 120 kg load, so don't use the paniers for a few weeks.