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  1. flecc

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    The young don't want that chance, they largely voted Remain. .
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    Woman fighting for life after 'e-bike' hit-and-run in east London

    I've often used chump or complete chump to express the same sentiment, since it seems somewhat more friendly while achieving the same end. Another of the delights of the infinite flexibility of the English language, our best ever export and we didn't even charge for it. .
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    Copyrights

    Yes that was their meaning, but their ruling "of little importance" is pointless. Lack of permission is of prime importance, since if the author doesn't bother to protect their work, it follows that they are very unlikely to take legal action to protect it later, having shown by the lack of any...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I think there's an age discrepancy here, those of us much older remember only too well the loss of our manufacturing since we lived and worked through it. In the exactly thirty-four years from 1945 to the year Thatcher became prime minister, we lost most of our bicycle, motorcycle, car, truck...
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    Woman fighting for life after 'e-bike' hit-and-run in east London

    Translated that's Electric bike = Man in Collision 2 doubled. .
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    A lurker has reached the surface

    Welcome to the forum Håkon, we have a few members in Norway and four shown in our Members Map. Two in the south are very close together and overlap in the map .
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Could've been painful if she'd missed. :( .
  8. flecc

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I thought you said you can't see the future! ;) Neither can I, but I can envisage that we might well join the euro at a future date. If Brexit doesn't work out and we rejoin the EU it's a condition of joining. .
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Indeed, that as well Dave from a Brexit point of view, but I still believe my given reasons are also valid for many. .
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I think an actual referendum would result in a far bigger margin for Remain. I'm convinced there is considerable disillusion among Brexiters as the problems and their intractable nature have increasingly become clear, the Irish border, jobs moving to the EU and losses like Galileo, nuclear and...
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    New Legal Speed Limit: What should it be?

    The question shouldn't be what speed would you prefer. The question should be, "Would you like your pedelec to be registered with number plate, insurance and be banned from cyclepaths, Sustrans routes and shared use paths, or would you like to leave things as they are?" Because that is the...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    It was a gross exaggeration. The parts Sheffield will make are very small ones for inclusion within wings made elsewhere, probably the USA: “The parts we will make are very small and will be machined in under 30 minutes on approximately 20 machining centres" Information link .
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    Coming out time...

    Much of the cost the large by e-bike standards lithium battery I suppose. Perhaps not so bad when one looks at high end e-bike prices. .
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    But strangely thay are not always Brexiters. My brother hates today's world and would wish for a return to the world of the 1950s and before, but he has long been consistent in saying that leaving the EU is an impossibility and to attempt it foolish in the extreme. .
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    Coming out time...

    There's also a hybrid X version of the above: "The Elettrica X version has a range of 124 miles, roughly double the base model, which uses an on board petrol generator and 3 litre fuel tank to keep the battery charged however to make space for the generator the battery is roughly half the size...
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    Coming out time...

    https://www.thebikemarket.co.uk/vespa/elettrica
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Not me, I'll be delighted if it works out well. With a miracle like that I might even start believing in God and the tooth fairy. .
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I'm aware that many remainers have done that, but I'm not one of them. I've heard many reasons why people voted Leave and no doubt there are more that I haven't heard of. I also agree that the EU is very far from perfect, though recognising that's inevitable in an organisation that depends on...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    But that's what individual sovereignty does. It's precisely because the EU does not dictate that those countries allow those things they have control over to happen. You are doing exactly what Zlatan does regularly in here, blaming the EU for things they have no control over, being only...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I invited you to open an opposing thread if you don't want to discuss in this thread, so hardly a closed shop. In what way to both points, I honestly don't recognise this or even know what you mean. What is old fashioned and last century about becoming a major player in the world, like the...