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  1. flecc

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    The answer as I've posted previously is a proper triage. At present it's single sided, only assessing urgency. A full scope triage would also identify those who do not need to be at A & E and issue a substantial charge for the service, such as £50. That would deter those who turn up with a...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    What are you talking about? The electricity rationing by 2 hour cuts turning the lights out was due to Edward Heath's Tory government. Labour winning the 1974 General Election inherited Heath's electricity shortage and the need for a factory three day week that resulted. And it was under the...
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    Replacement battery for Raleigh Stow e Way

    Here's a reliable recelling company wHo may be able to do that for you: Insat International (BGA): The UK's leading eBike Battery Specialists http://www.bga-reworking.co.uk/ 1A Gateway Mews, Ringway, London N11 2UT Tel: +44 (0)208 361 1790 Email: info@bga-reworking.co.uk...
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    Giant Lafree twist (photographed)

    Hi Rory, welcome to the forum. David Henshaw of A to B magazine who is a Lafree enthusiast arranged to have some CNC machined 14 tooth motor sprockets made for your unit. I'm sure he'll still have some, the last price I saw was £15, much cheaper than Giant's before they discontinued them...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Yes, even London has a vineyard and it's own vintages, the first since the Middle Ages and it's run by the community. This years harvest is particularly good: Forty Hall Vineyard .
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Their initial fortunes very long ago were from coal mining, since when they've always prospered in a variety of ways. Being small has many benefits, not least economic flexibility. .
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

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    Derestricted or legal

    You can do it from home, following the instructions on this webpage .
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    Derestricted or legal

    Can't see it happening with e-bikes. As you well know being in the trade, a typical "on the road" price added to the car is around £500. That easily covers registration, VED cost, number plates etc., even leaving some extra profit margin. But a bike dealer would find it very difficult to...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    It's just been announced that increases in our life expectancy are reducing and they've now stopped. All was well with it increasing up to 2015, but since then it's been falling with higher than usual numbers of deaths. In Europe that's almost unique to the UK, our EU partners still have...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I'm speaking of pain by 2022, not at an interim point. I think there'll be plenty upsetting the public even more by then. And Corbyn's age won't be a factor. Trump is now what he will be then and Churchill didn't resign from PM office until he was eighty. .
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Of course you can't, the blinkers are getting in the way. As I said, wait and see. The public are increasingly sick of the expensive, inadequate and failing outcomes of Tory privatisation. This issue as it's affected the NHS, Water and Rail makes Labour's alternative attractive to ever...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    But there will probably be more pain for the public by 2022 when the next GE will have to be held. That, coupled with a couple of Labour attractions could easily tip the balance. .
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    You omit the alternative, that at some point the country sees the Tories as not being re-electable and Labour offering some attractions. By the time the Tories have completed their Brexit shambles there's a very real prospect of that happening. .
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    As I've said many times before, just be patient and wait. There's over two and a half years to the next scheduled General Election and only when that occurs or an earlier one is announced will we know what Labour will do. Meanwhile Labour continue to hedge their bets by avoiding establishing...
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    Kudos Secret vs Kudos K16

    I didn't know that one but it looks a good match for what you want, and at that reduced price even more attractive. No lights fitted though, so you'll need to add those which will add a little weight. .
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I'm not so sure, I thought Cameron had gone bananas in calling a referendum and the electorate definitely went bananas in voting for Brexit. And the EU negotiators have been going bananas faced with the UK's unreasonable demands, while Nigel Farage has definitely gone bananas in the European...
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    Kudos Secret vs Kudos K16

    It will have to be a folder, since full size e-bikes with mudguards and lights weighing under 18 kilos have to be more exotic and cost far more than £1000. In the lower price ranges you're already looking at the best options. The Secret is the only one that really matches what you want...
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    Kudos Secret vs Kudos K16

    This is a big problem for everyone with e-folders. A to B Magazine are folder and e-bike specialists with huge experience and their honest opinion is that no e-folder yet is truly portable, 15 kilos upwards being too much to carry for any length of time or up flights of stairs. And even at 15...
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    Kudos Secret vs Kudos K16

    Looking at it closely in this enlargement, it doesn't seem it's easily possible. If you are a DIY handyman you may be able to rig brackets to hold a cut section of an accessory mudguard to the carrier for the rear. There's no mounting for a front mudgard, though the fork head could be drilled...