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  1. Woosh

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    so RT's guys are the pros then?
  2. Woosh

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    No, she's become Eurosceptic even before her speech to the College of Europe in 1988: “We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain, only to see them reimposed at a European level with a European superstate exercising a new dominance from Brussels. Certainly we...
  3. Woosh

    Why has the Nexus 8 speed hub gear not caught on?

    I fitted gear shift sensors to my crank drive bikes for two years now. Before that, some get it immediately after a minute on the bike, some take longer but nobody reported a problem with changing gears. People get used to shifting gears on a CD bike pretty quickly. However, the gear sensor...
  4. Woosh

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    the BXP has a very slick digital campaign going on for a while on twitter (introducing xxx as a candidate, prominent opposition personalities like Andrew Adonis contradicting themselves), I think their momentum has peaked because they run out of material, as simple as that. Some polls give them...
  5. Woosh

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Professor Sir John Curtice has calculated how Thursday's vote would translate across Britain in the next GE:
  6. Woosh

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    if you look at the ratio number of candidates / seats won - about 8 / 1 in Southend, do you think it's worth it?
  7. Woosh

    Why has the Nexus 8 speed hub gear not caught on?

    you don't have to eliminate the load entirely, only reduce the load. Also, some e-bikes are fitted with gear shift sensor to get round shifting under load. Buyers only have to choose suitable models.
  8. Woosh

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Labour are 70/30 remain and the conservatives 70/30 leave, not a huge difference. Both parties share the same responsibilities toward brexit. Conservatives will lose maybe 800 seats against Labour possibly 200 seats due to their composition, but out of 8,000 seats, a substantial number but...
  9. Woosh

    Why has the Nexus 8 speed hub gear not caught on?

    may be not for the customers but for the vendors, who regularly take off the pedals to reduce headline weight, when most e-bikes weigh around 20kg, 1kg lighter is worth maybe £200?
  10. Woosh

    Why has the Nexus 8 speed hub gear not caught on?

    beside adding about £70-£100 to the price of the bike, the Nexus-8 hub gear weighs 1.7kgs against about 500g for 8-speed freehub + derailleur. Also, the derailleur has less loss and higher load.
  11. Woosh

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    not as bad as expected, much less so than UKIP. seats up for grab: 8,000 so far: 3,101 declared seats Conservatives: 1,210 (39%) Labour: 894 (29%) LibDems: 562 (18%) UKIP: 17 (0.5%) Green: 48 (1%)
  12. Woosh

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    either the DE treats their readers like idiots or written by idiots.
  13. Woosh

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    the article in your link is quite comprehensive. Huawei gives access to source code to their customers, enabling them to add their own security layer, a far cry from the practice of their competitors. To me, that's enlightened policy, a bit like open source software. It seems to me that the USA...
  14. Woosh

    Help! Replacement electronic controller required

    controllers are not difficult to replace. There are plenty on amazon. post some pictures. of the controller's label, connectors and LCD.
  15. Woosh

    Bike to carry 8 -10 year old

    would an 8 year old child be tall enough to block the view of the road? I am thinking of potholes with the state of our roads in mind.
  16. Woosh

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    the dishonest MPs are those who campaign for Leave then vote against the deal because deep down, they want to continue wth campaigning for Leave and not delivering it. If brexit is delivered and it turns out to cost a large packet, they may lose their jobs. On the other hand, if brexit is still...
  17. Woosh

    What are the best bikes for converting to pedelecs?

    late July/beginning of August. They have to be assembled in Southend, hence a bit of delay. The price is about £940 without LCD, £980 with LCD. You can ride it with or without LCD.
  18. Woosh

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    there is a grain of truth in that. whatever happens to brexit, hard, soft or none, the division will run and run. If the conservatives remain in power after 2020, brexit has to happen and continue to divide the country because polls still put remain ahead. Brexit will increase that lead even...
  19. Woosh

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    no, JC wants us to keep our regulations aligned to the single market. It's only one aspect of the Single Market that is a problem for him, concerning state intervention. The SM's rules don't stop state intervention but limit them severely.
  20. Woosh

    What are the best bikes for converting to pedelecs?

    one reason I mentioned the zephyr is because it is well waterproofed. All the electronics are inside the bike and high up, well away from surface water, the pedal sensor is on the left side, well protected with a metal shield and rubber gasket. I've been selling commuter bikes since 2011. Water...