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No. If that was their objective, they'd take the very profitable option of shifting the employment to Eastern Europe where wages are often even lower than our minimums. This even applies to farming, where a number of English arable farmers have shifted to such as Romania and Bulgaria where...

Emigrate? .

I wouldn't mind Corbyn having a crack at it. A quiet man, who knows? He could turn out to be like that very great quiet man, Clement Attlee. .

You're in StewC, riding on the downs near Titch Hill. Map Link .

An interesting talk and I had already agreed long ago on many of Hitchens contentions. This is particularly witn regard to the Ukraine, which is in truth not a country but a patchwork of recent hastily stitched together territories which has never worked as a whole. I think a point that he...

Soldering the shunt in the controller will only increase the power a little, it doesn't increase the speed. . .

Hi Footie, welcome back, good to learn your bike is going to be back on the road again. Once the casing is finished it'll be time for a new photo of it. .

Welcome to the forum Komar251. .

Me too, I hate the way other people pollute with their music. It belongs within their homes and cars or inside their headphones. .

That's correct, in UK law it's illegal for a retailer to sell a bike without a bell, but it doesn't have to be fitted. To comply they only have to offer one to the bike purchaser. It's not illegal to ride without one. But like so much in bicycle law, this retailing law is very widely ignored. .

No chance I'm afraid, it is 250 watts rating per bike. There's been a number of two hub motor e-bikes created, including one by our own d8veh. An interesting variant was those Lafree owners with the Panasonic crank unit adding a front hub motor as well. This one below also has a...

Indeed, Justin Trudeau is truly a 21st century Prime Minister, a rare beast. .

During Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's visit to Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in April 2016, a journalist jokingly asked the Prime Minister to explain quantum computing. He called their bluff with a spot-on explanation. Imagine one of our UK politicians being able to do...

That'll teach those money grabbing relatives who think you can't take it with you! :D .

That you want it buried with you? .

And the added complication is that motors of CD units and geared hub motors have reduction gearing before their output. .

Economy measure, I couldn't have fitted that all in one line! It's the cut-back age we live in. .

It does look scary, but among some other weird things, Google tells me HBDF is the Houston Black Dance Festival? .

I agree, most electric folders are very compromised and don't compare with full size models in riding pleasure. With your short initial journey, best to go straight to what is best. .

Great photos Flud, thanks for sharing them. .