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  1. flecc

    Where Do You Live V2.0

    You're in Steve, riding on the B4364: Map Link .
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    Electric bikes on The Apprentice next Wednesday

    Agree with all the above, I wouldn't waste time on that sort of trash TV. .
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    Could this be a lead-acid battery?

    Could be. This 36 volt Li-ion from a bit over a decade ago weighed over 4 kilos:
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    What's happening at 50 Cycles?

    It's not the first time their status has been in question, the company being up for sale previously though always returning to trading under the same ownership. They gave up handling Kalkhoff some while ago and this follows a long pattern of trading in many brands for short periods and support...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Agreed, though I wish their women wouldn't dress as Chad:
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    It's 300 pages, but the following may be sufficient: "Tété-Michel Kpomassie was a teenager in Togo when he discovered a book about Greenland--and knew that he must go there. Working his way north over nearly a decade, Kpomassie finally arrived in the country of his dreams. This brilliantly...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Don't be too sure. Some more knighthoods for the remaining nine of the ten DUP MPs without a knighthood, plus some promises of Boris's largesse one he's in office as PM after Brexit could do the trick. We already know they can be bought. .
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Isn't being accompanied by a burk sufficient? .
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    You've got a point. The Pakistanis don't even dress in our local clobber when they come to live here. Not even after several decades! .
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    Could this be a lead-acid battery?

    At 4.9 kilos possibly an NiMh battery as VFR says. For example when Ezee bikes were offering an overlap choice of NiMh and Li-ion for a while, in the identical battery case, they weighed 4.2 and 2.5 kilos respectively. I'm sure only Heinzmann used NiCad more recently than the last 15 years, so...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I suppose it depends on who you want to look a fool to, In a dark pinstriped suit, stout brogues and a bowler hat, he'd have looked a fool to the locals, and a lot of us too. .
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    And the first name, Woosh typed Jemery Vine. .
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    It might as well be for all the good it will do! .
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    With no rebate and the euro, though the latter I think a thoroughly good thing. It would have been an even better thing if we'd joined the euro long ago. .
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    . Groan. These TV debates have to be the most futile exercises ever, far from clarifying they invariably further entrench views. They even achieve the seemingly impossible, being even more entrenching than this thread. .
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    And outside the EU will undoubtedly continue to be low for a very long time, possibly permanently. Brexit loses us our key attraction for receiving FDI. .
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    A recidivist who's stopped reoffending? .
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Judging by the number of very short sentences so often starting "My government will - - - ", I'd guess it was a primary schools competition. .
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    That's a job for Pinewood Studios, producing historic fiction paid for by the commercial world that those who want it can enjoy. I don't know if you are aware of it, but much of that pageantry is fake history, created by Queen Victoria. A glance at the royal coach she inherited before she...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    That's right, this country gets more and more like an historic theme park all the time. That's reaching its logical conclusion now with figures from the 19th century in government. .