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Great to read this thread. I noticed the gocycle looking around online and while it has a certain slickness to the design, I could help being put off by the whole take to dealer for service attitude. I have built and manitained all my bikes from childhood and I think it is the only way to really get to know and look after your bike. I also have a fair grounding in electronics. Somehow the i[phone style gimickeness is all quite offputing and made me question reliability, hense ending up here. At least when you have a bike it's all standard parts you can get in any bikeshop. The GoCycle seems to be riddled with problems from forks to motors. Also reading that post with the company saying that they had sent the dealer things that were intended for the purchesser,, seems a somewhat obtuse way to make up to a customer for the trouble caused by dodgy goods. At around £2500 there are much better and more dependable options so GoCycle will be a non runner !

Wasn't that Mae West's prefered method to kill a man!

Intresting. https://journal-neo.org/2015/01/01/world-overpopulation-hold-on-buddy/

When I think back to The Election The big thing was open borders, the free flow of emigration and the problems it has possed. Along with many secondary issues,, not least of which was EU dictates. I was amazed at the result of the election,, but my feelings at the time was that it would not be alowed and if we were to exit the EU it would be in Name Only. It now seems that my gut instincts were quite correct

Bill Gates would be proud of you!

Tommy, I'm not sure 8X4 sheds would get health and safty approval the size will also have to be stated in metric. Remember we will still have to bow to all the EU legistation past present and future.

Flecc, forgive my cynicism,, it's something I acquired in a life observing man and his habits.

I wonder where Capt. Blight first discovered the Bounty Bar

I think it's perhaps a fashionable thing to say that little problems like Chernobyl, Jaslovské Bohunice, Three Mile Island, Fukushima were just "first generation problems" in the assumption that,, we can do better next try. Man in his infinite learning retains the ability to assume that it will be better next time. However 24,000 years it a long time to be nursing something in a barrel just for it to reach 1/2 of former potential with maybe another 200,000 years to go for it to be considered safe,, sounds like a lot of responsibility to be placed on anyone. Do we put the next batch of minor catastrophes down to Second Generation Problems in the style of Apple Macintosh. Will someone publicly apologise and say that engineers are currently looking at the situation and we are going to take steps to see that something like this never happens again: Which seems to be the fashionable phrasing used when something goes wrong today. A friends father who was a physicist thought there would be much value in turning to Thorium with the short half life and the ability to keep using the spent Thorium until it posed little potential for harm to anyone.

Flecc, The trouble is when it goes wrong,,, it goes very wrong,,,, Very Very Very Wrong! The second problem is profit and corperate hunger for more and more profit, yet that more will never be enough so ways are then sought to do things the cheapest way possible. Unless they fully find a way to use the energy that is left until it is totaly depleted then the problem of stroage is going to be a problem.

LeighPing, Thankyou for the link posted by Ted. I looked at some of Ted's other posts and found them most informitive. It seems that our thoughts meet in the area of current legislation (I will not call it LAW) I also found another local (Tommy) in the same posts and thought it pertinant to click the "Follow" button on both Ted and Tommy,, I'm sure being local their views and experiance will be very relevant to my situation. Thanks again, Ray

Fat Rat, I'm informing myself at present before I make any decisions. That's the way I have always been,, people with the ability to make uninformed long term decisions amaze me. If and when I do make a decisions it will probably be that of adding a midmount onto a Downtube folder with 8 speed internal hub gears,, that is as far as my thoughts go at present. Ray

Hello to you all,,, My name in Ray but it wouldn't let me have that as a user name, As you may have guessed I'm form N,Ireland where it is aleged we need a motorbike licence to have one of these things until someone decides other. I'm sure there are plenty of them around irrespective! Anyway, Just to say hello. Ray