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  1. flecc

    Conservative Majority

    London would certainly be very rich, but much of the rest of the country would squeal when their subsidy money stopped coming in! .
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    Conservative Majority

    I feel the same about these aspects. London has done things differently though, below I repost what I just posted in another thread: Like Scotland with the SNP, once again London has shown itself to be a different country from the rest of the UK. Here in London the Conservatives made only...
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    UKIP Manifesto

    Like Scotland with the SNP, once again London has shown itself to be a different country from the rest of the UK. Here in London the Conservatives made only three gains from the Liberals and none from Labour, but Labour won seven Conservative seats to become easily the overall winner. And...
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    weirdest spider ever....need help identifying

    Was this after you trod on it or before? :) Seriously, these aren't spiders of course, though they are arachnids. Could this one be it? Or this one ? .
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    Connecting a charger correctly?

    For me it's always mains connect first, battery connect second. Lets the charger circuit stabilise before the battery load is applied. And that's everything, electric razor, phone etc. .
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    UKIP Manifesto

    I had a private bet on with someone that the pollsters were obviously wrong and that it would be an outright Conservative victory. So I'm feeling smug about that, but politically it wasn't an outcome I wanted so feeling I'm downhearted as well. I actually didn't want any of them, but the...
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    Opinions Please.....?

    Will this video and views on it of it help a little? There's no reviews that i can find. .
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    Batteries in Serial

    I understand too. I do mean less far than one battery alone if they were in series, but only if the extra speed is used. If you are not using the extra speed, there's no point in having the two batteries in series, adding unnecessary weight which itself entails losses. That loss of range due...
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    Without red tape - Ideal set up

    We'd need to know of it was a flat, easy gradient or steep gradient route for the best answer. .
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    Freewheel to cassette conversion?

    You can tell I've mostly been a hub gear man! :) Left the cassettes to the lycras, only freewheels on the rear hub motors I've had, and took it on good faith when told the reason for that (spindle size). It seems was wrongly informed. .
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    Where Do You Live V2.0

    You'd need a lot of batteries! :) .
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    Battery power:

    Asking for information is never idiotic, it's sensible. The power from the battery doesn't go directly to the motor. The battery connects to the controller and the controller feeds the necessary power pulses to the motor. If your controller doesn't have the two cables to go to the battery...
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    Where Do You Live V2.0

    You're in Jim, riding on the A696: Map Link Theres also an NE19 in Bratislava, Czech Republic, but I'm guessing that's not you! .
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    Matching paint colour for replacement fork for donor bike (or alternatively a diy V-brake mount)

    I wouldn't trust either Jubilee clips or rivnuts to hold a front of fork mounted brake under braking strain, it would be an accident waiting to happen. However, on some fork and frame combinations there's room to fit the brake on the rear of the fork, thrusting into the fork under braking, and...
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    Freewheel to cassette conversion?

    If right handed, use your left arm over the wheel to pin it down onto the floor and hold a ring spanner end in onto the removal tool with that hand. Then with a hammer in your right hand strike the outer end of the ring spanner sharply to break the initial bond of the thread. The tool will...
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    Battery power:

    The controller will have a set of cables to match, plus the connections for the battery terminals, throttle, pedelec sensor and any other facilities that it has like brake cut-outs, Here's an example controller illustrated on ebay, and you can see all the connectors etc coming from it. . .
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    Where Do You Live V2.0

    You're in John, riding on Hulham Road: Map Link .
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    Opinions Please.....?

    Historically it was both levels. When first into e-bikes from the end of 2007, both their models, the Agattu and the Pro Connect, were badge engineered as Raleigh for example, and that brand name imported by Hilderthorpe Cycles. Later they introduced a small degree of variation in those...
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    Opinions Please.....?

    Not just cheap makes but also premium ones. The German company Derby Cycles gmbh make the Kalkhoff brand well known here, but the same models have appeared with other brand names that they own like Raleigh gmbh and Univega etc. Derby Cycles are in turn owned. Most of the European bike...
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    Opinions Please.....?

    Indeed, but the good brand's warranties rescue that situation. I won't mention the brand to save red faces, but one buyer of a well known make got on his new purchase only to find the frame down tube parting company with the bottom bracket due to his added weight. It had never been welded...