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Yes, Kendas are usually very heavy, they place a high emphasis on being puncture resistant so use plentiful rubber. .

I've found the weight for the 700 x 32: Weight: approx. 590g (+/-) 20g Since it's plus or minus 3.4% the 700 x 30 is probably very similar. .

Below is the chart of sources used by Bulb, my energy supplier: It's been like that since I joined Bulb. .

That was probably my fault. It's probably ok now I've got an electric car. :) .

Delighted to learn this Oyster, they are the nearest we have to a rainforest and have invaluable genetic diversity. Another example of how it's not all about the economy. .

She's now announced the investment will be £4 billions, claiming she aims the UK be the G7's largest investor in Africa. Of course the 7 is smallest G group, no mention of the G10, G12, G15, G20 or G24. To put our £4 billions into perspective, the latest investment in Africa announcement by...

No. They have physical pygmies, not mental ones. .

Years too late to get anything worthwhile, China has Africa well wrapped up and their investment there has been on a scale we couldn't dream of. The Africans aren't daft, they'll stick to the rich guy rather than the woman begging. .

Self appointed policeman rather than empire, operating to some sort of partial consensus on what is right and wrong and using the international court, Very imperfect, as witness only enforcing UN resolutions against those they don't like and not their allies like Israel, so much like all police...

But that's not true empire building, there's no desire to take over the country. Had Persia's new democratic government in 1948 not acted in such a hostile way over the oil supplies, the west wouldn't have used dirty tricks to restore the Shah. I didn't approve of what we did but understood...

That's what I posted, the likes of Coca Cola, McDonalds, Levi Strauss etc., an empire of the mind, rather than an old style physical one. It's not imposed, the mass of the populations of other countries exposed to the US culture very willingly adopt it and need no forcing. I don't like it...

I was speaking of serious international wars, not civil wars since they usually have a very different basis, as do revolutions. And the serious aspects of the Korean and Vietnamese wars were primarily due to sponsorship by the two world ideologies, not having a common language. Korea was the...

That learning English through karaoke and Hollywood films I regard as a thoroughly good thing, a step towards a future of only one language. Serious war between nations who speak the same language is very rare, probably due to greater understanding being easier to reach. .

The USA is agressively anti-Empire as a result of being part of one originally and they don't have one. That's why they atacked the Spanish Empire early in the 20th cebtury and liberated its countries, then planning to do the same to us. Our bankrupt outcome of WW2 meant they were in a...

I've never read it, gave up on newspapers many decades ago. .

I know, all true and the debt will eventually be written off. But the situation is improving and is much better now, depite being very bad still to outside eyes. That's the important thing, that the Greeks themselves see continuous gradual improvement. What outsiders think is of no...

A bit too cynical, the position has been improving as I posted. Although both still far too high, overall and youth unemployment have considerably fallen and are still improving. Climbing a ladder isn't using only the bottom and top rungs, those in between have to be used and that takes time...

The anti-EU elements have often said the position of Greece is economically hopeless after the bailouts and that they'd never be able to recover. They were wrong, last week Greece exited bailout debts restrictions, rejoined the eurozones full access and can now borrow on the money markets. It...

Yes, Ariane reliability still had to be improved back then. The Russians have always led in launch reliability. .

Not to mention that we have no launch vehicles for satellites, and indeed have never been able to design a viable space vehicle. That's why we conceded space exploration and satellite launching to the French Ariane under the EU banner. .