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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I assume that the section from paragraph 2 is a cut and paste from the newspaper, otherwise your zeal does you credit, if nothing else. if so it should have been referenced to it author, as it is obviously an opinion piece. Let's talk facts.. 1. That the unemployment level is down is good news...
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    Volt range of e-bikes.

    Is that not The best recommendation. Cost is one thing, value another , as a canny NI person, you know the difference.
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    New member advice on new ebike please

    Woosh would be better placed to respond to this The only observation I could make is that the models of crank drive bike being suggested are at twice the price point and hub motors are a less expensive technology
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    ... Or it's possible that the charge on the electron does not exactly balance the charge on the proton .. despite our best experimental evidence and measurements that they do. We can only proceed on the evidence we measure and observe, if and when anomalies arise, we need to question whether...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Yes we are earth bound but with a boundless appetite .. Is there any evidence that the laws of physics are different else where? There well may be additional elements like the unobtainium needed for the voyage to the centre of the earth... But likely also to be composed of neutrons and protons...
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    New member advice on new ebike please

    ... Do you have any experience of central drive motor overheating while in a wrong gear??. Otherwise seems fanciful to me. My Bosch powered central drive has a 9 speed gears, but most of the time I sit around 5 and only move away from this when I would have to change cadence a lot. . I suspect...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    My point is about there being absolutes. Agreed the triangle is an agreed definition, which then allows an entire logic structure to be built in it. My point about absolute zero as a thermodynamic concept, does provide the validity for the 4K radio noise, and is independent of any internal...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Dammit, why did I waste so many years. Studying when the truth was that obvious.. lovely
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Would you not agree that there are absolutes.. how many triangles have you seen with 4 sides, irrespective of the planes of reference, does the concept of absolute zero on the temperature scale not have universal applicability.. otherwise our belief in the big bang theory goes bang... Do not...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Woosh, I also have a physics background, not everything is relative. There are absolutes. There are principles and operational laws, when more information becomes available, sometimes these principles have to be amended , .. the classical gas laws as an example. They were not proved wrong, just...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    If membership of EFTA was such a good idea, would you not think that it would been touted before now and by major Brexit supporters?. From a cursory glance at its website, it seems to have all the drawbacks of EU membership, from a Brexit supporter viewpoint, and none of the advantages of EU...
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    Recommend a rack bag

    Use the Halfords cheapies 20 euro each, are waterproof and hold 4 litres milk and d lock...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    The ROI UK border is a special case for a number of legal reasons. The Ireland act of 1922, the long standing rights of Irish citizens to live and work in the UK bilaterally. The Good Friday agreement copper fastened a number of outstanding issues. And this has been listed as an international...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Simple we like being citizens, not subjects. We like having a constitution so we can bring errant police to book. There would be an upside however, with our votes and with your votes, we could reverse the madness of Brexit and again allow the UK regain its rightful place in Europe. Even...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    .. ooh who is being racist now!! I was wondering where I had acquired all those extra fingers Don't equate slow speaking to slow witted
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    .. much of this thread is obsessed with whether there will or will not be a general election in the UK and who may or may not be the PM. Can you not see that that is a sideshow? Once out from Brexit, the world moves on, and UK clout diminishes.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    The only logical solution to a hard border is no border and that would mean the island of Ireland joining into union with the current UK. .. like Bobbie Ewing waking up from a sleep from 1921 and assuming the last 95 years were a dream. That simply will not happen. For the Northern Ireland area...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    .. yep we agree on that also. I will willingly agree that the majority of the smuggler dynasties are south of the border. Those lovely Dallas style mansions didn't build themselves.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    We have a grand history of people vanishing. So Irish immigration has to implement full passport control of all EU citizens arriving at our ports, and get them to fill up hotel registration data and check up on these on a daily basis?. We then have to check that not a single bicycle smuggled...
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    Police say electric bikes illegal in Northern Ireland

    .. looks a nice product. I would be pleased to see them more in use in France, where the noise of the little 50cc bikes ridden by 16 year olds is intensely irritating. Incidentally that bike can be ridden in France without any additional licence test by those born pre 1988 , but it does need...