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by UpWrong
18 Mar 2024, 9:35am
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: BEVs
Replies: 2120
Views: 108176

Re: BEVs

Carlton green wrote: 18 Mar 2024, 7:39am Insurance costs!!!

Insurance groups for BEV’s seem to start at group 9 and go rapidly upwards. I checked a second gen Leaf out and it’s group 21.
https://www.cinch.co.uk/electric-cars/c ... -to-insure

One could be excused from thinking that BEV’s were toys for the wealthy and the business expenses driver. Why are these cars so expensive to insure? In part because they are so expensive to repair, so subject to non-repairability, so heavy (heavy cars do a lot of damage) and so powerful.
Thanks. I think my current Skoda TSi turbo is group 9.

I've been watching video reviews of the Silence S04 with it's removable batteries and admiring the design. A number of reviewers after test rides have described it as sporty and it seems well finished.
by UpWrong
16 Mar 2024, 12:32pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: BEVs
Replies: 2120
Views: 108176

Re: BEVs

Nearholmer wrote: 16 Mar 2024, 9:37am
Anyway, if our political leaders want us to use BEV’s then one of the things that’s needed is cheap and easy repair and replacement of battery packs. Manufacturers aren’t interested in allowing cheap and easy repair and it will require legislation to change that poor state of affairs.
Very much agreed. See my previous rants about this very same thing.
Yes, I think that and the consequential insurance costs are now the main issues preventing me going down the BEV route.
by UpWrong
15 Mar 2024, 4:29pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: BEVs
Replies: 2120
Views: 108176

Re: Dacia Spring UK prices

Jdsk wrote: 14 Mar 2024, 6:56pm
UpWrong wrote: 13 Mar 2024, 12:06pm Confirmed as sub £15K, https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/dacia/spr ... ting-price
And the VW ID.1 announced at €20k:
https://electrek.co/2024/03/14/volkswag ... k-id-1-ev/

Jonathan
But not available until 2027 whereas the Dacia Spring and Citroen eC3 will be available this year.
by UpWrong
13 Mar 2024, 12:06pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: BEVs
Replies: 2120
Views: 108176

Dacia Spring UK prices

by UpWrong
12 Mar 2024, 5:15pm
Forum: Electrically assisted pedal cycles
Topic: Hill Starts - E-assist not helping
Replies: 58
Views: 8370

Re: Hill Starts - E-assist not helping

Generally I've found the standard Wisper walk-assist sufficient help to get going on slight inclines, but that's after lowering the gearing to make a 42" first gear which is still rather tall for a loaded eBike. I engage the walk assist carefully (brakes off) and as it starts to strain I push off with my left foot and push down with my right.
by UpWrong
12 Mar 2024, 2:33pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Why does Trump lie so much?
Replies: 235
Views: 13421

Re: Why does Trump lie so much?

Bonefishblues wrote: 12 Mar 2024, 2:10pm In any event, a Trump/President can only pardon Federal Crimes, not civil case, nor State cases.
Indeed. I've lost track of all the indictments to know what's what.
by UpWrong
12 Mar 2024, 1:03pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Why does Trump lie so much?
Replies: 235
Views: 13421

Re: Why does Trump lie so much?

Psamathe wrote: 12 Mar 2024, 12:45pm
UpWrong wrote: 12 Mar 2024, 12:36pm ... Trump can't pardon himself and he gets locked up for being unable to pay the fines.
Why can't he pardon himself?
If Congress doesn't ratify the result! A taste of his own medicine.
by UpWrong
12 Mar 2024, 12:36pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Why does Trump lie so much?
Replies: 235
Views: 13421

Re: Why does Trump lie so much?

A possible scenario, Trump is elected and Congress refuse to ratify the result because he is an insurrectionist. Trump can't pardon himself and he gets locked up for being unable to pay the fines.
by UpWrong
12 Mar 2024, 10:51am
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: War on Our Doorstep: How do we respond?
Replies: 1865
Views: 82067

Re: War on Our Doorstep: How do we respond?

djnotts wrote: 12 Mar 2024, 10:38am ^ "We in Europe shouldn't agree and should oppose him forever. That means continuing to support Ukraine no matter what, even if Putin takes Kiev we should actively support a resistance."

"...no matter what..." would surely be more than "actively support(ing) a resistance". How much more? Would UK masses support a war economy, doubling taxes etc? Would Germany or France? 250,000 troops fighting on the ground? If "we" did would need to openly admit and accept nuclear destruction a possibility. Without USA could "we" even win?

Damn, more questions....
My point was partly to say, never make an agrement with Putin since that is giving him victory. He never keeps to them anyway. Yes, I think all EU and European NATO countries should be gearing up their defence industries to the tune of 5% GDP for starters. Putin's military economy will break eventually.
by UpWrong
12 Mar 2024, 10:11am
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: War on Our Doorstep: How do we respond?
Replies: 1865
Views: 82067

Re: War on Our Doorstep: How do we respond?

Putin is a cold war dinosaur who has long been seeking a restored imperial Russia with an eastern bloc under its control. This view of the world is now 2 or 3 generations out of date. What Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill did at Yalta was wrong then and even more wrong now. Putin wants another Yalta. We in Europe shouldn't agree and should oppose him forever. That means continuing to support Ukraine no matter what, even if Putin takes Kiev we should actively support a resistance.
by UpWrong
11 Mar 2024, 1:25pm
Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
Topic: "Plus" vs breaker for fairy protection
Replies: 16
Views: 855

Re: "Plus" vs breaker for fairy protection

mig wrote: 11 Mar 2024, 12:53pm
UpWrong wrote: 11 Mar 2024, 12:15pm
531colin wrote: 11 Mar 2024, 12:00pm I don’t think I’m imagining it, I think I have seen ( on here) a photo of a nail not just embedded in a (rear?) tyre, but also piercing the rim. That implies to me a lot of force.
Yes, the screw put a hole in the rim tape and with the tyre deflated I can believe that iit would quickly have damaged the rim if I hadn't stopped immediately. I wonder if the screw had been there for a few hundred years, sealing the hole it created and only becoming apparent as the tyre gradually lost pressure with subsequent rotations.

As you say, rather different from the usual piece of flint, glass or a thorn.
that's quite a while for it to be lodged..! :wink:
Oops. I can't even blame autocorrect :lol:
by UpWrong
11 Mar 2024, 12:26pm
Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
Topic: "Plus" vs breaker for fairy protection
Replies: 16
Views: 855

Re: "Plus" vs breaker for fairy protection

UpWrong wrote: 11 Mar 2024, 12:15pm
531colin wrote: 11 Mar 2024, 12:00pm I don’t think I’m imagining it, I think I have seen ( on here) a photo of a nail not just embedded in a (rear?) tyre, but also piercing the rim. That implies to me a lot of force.
Yes, the screw put a hole in the rim tape and with the tyre deflated I can believe that iit would quickly have damaged the rim if I hadn't stopped immediately. I wonder if the screw had been there for a few hundred years, sealing the hole it created and only becoming apparent as the tyre gradually lost pressure with subsequent rotations.

As you say, rather different from the usual piece of flint, glass or a thorn.
Actually, thinking about that, a treaded tyre might be more likely to catch a flipped screw or nail than a slick tyre. Maybe I should have replaced the GG with a Kojak.
by UpWrong
11 Mar 2024, 12:15pm
Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
Topic: "Plus" vs breaker for fairy protection
Replies: 16
Views: 855

Re: "Plus" vs breaker for fairy protection

531colin wrote: 11 Mar 2024, 12:00pm I don’t think I’m imagining it, I think I have seen ( on here) a photo of a nail not just embedded in a (rear?) tyre, but also piercing the rim. That implies to me a lot of force.
Yes, the screw put a hole in the rim tape and with the tyre deflated I can believe that iit would quickly have damaged the rim if I hadn't stopped immediately. I wonder if the screw had been there for a few hundred yards, sealing the hole it created and only becoming apparent as the tyre gradually lost pressure with subsequent rotations.

As you say, rather different from the usual piece of flint, glass or a thorn.
by UpWrong
11 Mar 2024, 11:03am
Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
Topic: "Plus" vs breaker for fairy protection
Replies: 16
Views: 855

"Plus" vs breaker for fairy protection

Having suffered an embedded 35mm screw in my 47-559 Greenguard tyre (8.4mm tyre centre tread depth according to BRR), I am wondering if:
1. the tread helped to pick up and guide the screw to impale the tyre (the impalation was between the tread blocks)
2. a breaker belt would have deflected the screw rather than the plus layer capturing it

I replaced said tyre with a 42-559 Pasela Protite I had in my tyre box largely because it reduces the tyre height on the rim from 45mm to 35mm so I can get more foot of the ground but I'm wondering whether to order a 40-559 GG. Would it be more reliable for road use that the Pasela?
by UpWrong
11 Mar 2024, 8:16am
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Ex-Post Office CEO Paula Vennells
Replies: 552
Views: 33656

Re: Ex-Post Office CEO Paula Vennells

roubaixtuesday wrote: 10 Mar 2024, 9:37pm
Carlton green wrote: 9 Mar 2024, 10:52am
roubaixtuesday wrote: 7 Mar 2024, 9:56am

The Guardian is not remotely the mirror image of the Mail. It's not even the mirror image of the Telegraph.
Just out of interest:

# Is the Guardian the mirror image of any paper and if so then which one / ones?

# How, in objective terms, would you describe the Guardian?
1. Probably the Times

2. The Guardian is regarded as a newspaper of record, ie factually reliable.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gua ... 0105%2C134.

It has left leaning, "soft left" editorial position but also includes commentary from other positions eg a regular column from Simon Jenkins. Editorial and reporting are generally kept separate.
The Daily Telegraph is also a newspaper of record according to Wikipedia.