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All the freewheels I've had did this. It annoyed me but didn't give any problems. I'v swapped over to a free hub now.

francovendee

SprokenBroke wrote: ↑13 Sep 2024, 11:52pm
Mtb tourer wrote: ↑13 Sep 2024, 8:54pm We used to cycle down to York Rally ,well 20-30 years ago and once south of Scotch Corner you noticed the increase of traffic. This was eye-opening so it was traveling to Europe and beyond for cycling holidays.Another reason is cyclists are considered scum of the earth by most motorists. The giving routes a name has ruined lots of places .
A couple of times I've ridden around the Bournemouth area and noticed a pattern. Motorists deliberately drive at high speed within an inch of of your body. At first you think it's an accident but the same thing keeps happening. It's very scary. I've never seen this anywhere else.

I've only toured once in France along the Loire valley and I remember the cars would be on the other side of the road when they passed you.

I've always found the same respect to cyclists in France until this year in the Dordogne. Close passes all the time, not giving way on priority passing places, revving the engine when close behind, the lot. Could it be that it's full of British ex pats?
I'm certain I heard as much English as French spoken.
Pretty place but off my list to visit again.

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Nearholmer wrote: ↑12 Sep 2024, 4:22pm They are making the winter fuel allowance a means tested benefit, a principle with which I 100% agree at a time when many working people are getting by on less than a proportion of pensioners have as income.

Whether the threshold is appropriate is another question, but to fall hook line and sinker for the misleading messaging from the Tories and their newspaper mates is to fall hook line and sinker.

The idea that all pensioners fit the stereotype of living on very slender means is an illusion. As these figures from the IFS show, the gap between median incomes for pensioner households and working households is nothing like as great as is often assumed, especially once housing costs are factored into the equation.

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I agree with your view that making the winter fuel benefit means tested is the way to go.
I do feel sorry for pensioners that have incomes a few £s over the limit for other benefits but when you set a limit this will always be the case.
There is an enormous number of things to fix, the economy is just one, and if he stands a chance to fix the mess the Tories left there will be many more unpopular measures to come. Does it matter if he becomes (more) unpopular? Probably not if he's successful in turning the country around for all and not one section or the other.
I expect far more criticism on here from the usual right wing people as parliament makes changes, and from me if he doesn't!

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roubaixtuesday wrote: ↑10 Sep 2024, 6:30pm
al_yrpal wrote: ↑10 Sep 2024, 5:40pm Its tougher when you have to decide to heat or eat!

Al
Indeed. The worst scandal in our current social security system is the two child limit, meaning children are hungry and cold.

4.3 million children are affected by it.

https://cpag.org.uk/news/things-will-on ... it-must-go

You've made an interesting point. If you mention the two child policy limit you get told it's a personal choice having children. Whilst this is true isn't it also true that pensioners have had a lifetime to put aside some cash into a private pension. This may not be true today but it certainly was when current pensioners were working.
I'm referring to the majority and not those who had misfortunes and lost their savings.

francovendee

I think it's only food that has been fully integrated in our society. Dishes from around the world are eaten by those for and against immigration.
We don't consider the origins of the food, in the same way the origins of a doctor or nurse aren't questioned
Should a 'foreign' family move nextdoor then it's a different matter.
Bye the way it's the same in France.

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Jdsk wrote: ↑5 Sep 2024, 12:53pm Commons vote on means-testing winter payments next Tuesday.

Jonathan

I hope this is the route we follow even if the country breaks even after offsetting the cost of collection. Just seems fairer.

francovendee

Only those sucked in by the lies told about Brexit ever believed we'd rewrite EU standards that we were part of drafting.
Hopefully with a move away from the party that gave us Brexit a more sensible approach will be taken to regulations and laws.
Change for the sake of change is potty.

francovendee

Wow! Settling the rail dispute and taking fuel allowance from wealthy pensioners equals 'vile Labour'!
If this constitutes vileness what term should be used about the last Tory government?

francovendee

As a school hater and a bit naughty in the classroom I received the full range of available punishments.
Ruler, slipper and 2 foot steel rule if in the workshops.
Chalk and board rubber as missiles we're also common.
Lines, no problem, just tape multiple pens together.
Detention was a different matter, if they realized this it would have been the punishment of choice.
Today I understand kids just don't turn up for detentions, I wouldn't have dared to do this.

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al_yrpal wrote: ↑3 Sep 2024, 11:07am Rachel Reeves' unwelcome present to pensioners is going to haunt her for the rest of Labours term. Watching her delivery of the statement it was clear there was lots of venom reserved for the 'Rich' retired and old folk in general. Must have been influenced by Two Brains pressure group? Some other Labour person claimed that delivering the Heating Allowance risked crashing the economy, never mind doshing out £9 billion of pay rises to the public sector, with their gold plated final salary, inflation proofed pensions.
With the Tories despatched to the wilderness one couldnt imagine anyting worse...but its happened. Millipede running amok, Lammy insulting our allies and energy suppliers. Whatever next?

Al

I must say I've heard more wails of woe from pensioners who don't need the heating allowance than I would have believed. Friends with two pensions are very upset. I do have a number of rich friends mind;

Still I suppose nobody likes to lose something they 'deserved' as it seems unfair.
I think Rachel Reeves has done the right thing and I hope it's a sign of real change in the way government is going.
Awaiting more wails and gnashing of teeth with the coming tax increases.
My disappointment is they aren't pushing to rejoin the EU although every survey I've seen shows the public regrets leaving.

francovendee

36V 250 W 18ah battery;
Overall very pleased. Great value and very grateful I chose a toque sensor system.
Under 1500 miles in 18 months, mostly country roads and fairly flat.
Range is very good and I mostly leave the setting at 2;
What is annoying is the lever of mechanical noise. Compared to other ebikes I've ridden it's very noisy.
A facebook group offered some suggestions to reduce it but none worked.

If the noise was less it would be perfect and I'd ride it more often.

francovendee

I agree with Al on this, nothing is rocket science,but-----
many people will find that it's beyond them. Easy prey for the cowboys. They'll be very plausible people I suspect.
If the industry offered a cast iron guarantee that for any defective work an inspection be carried out by an independent person and that the industry would foot the bill, then I think it would be a good thing.
Not a chance!

francovendee

If your liberty to harm yourself doesn't harm others then I'm fairly relaxed about people's choices.
I think smoking is a tricky one, if there's not a complete ban where would it be allowed. If you stipulate it is only allowed in your own home what about other family members who breath the smoke in.
If the harm is a general cost to the health service then I'm not sure. Smoking or drinking aside ,we all do things that carry varying degrees of risk.
I've never smoked but smoking killed my mother and father so have seen what it does.
Sadly my son is a 40 a day addict.

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You can perhaps check the installer as Gugel has done but if heat pumps take off as the government plans then thousands of additional installers will be required. I'd say many of these won't have had much experience. I'm sure they'll be able to wave their certificate but in my experience a bit of paper doesn't prove competence in any field of employment.

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