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853 wrote: ↑19 Jan 2024, 7:17pm

rareposter wrote: ↑19 Jan 2024, 3:43pm

Jdsk wrote: ↑19 Jan 2024, 3:14pm
Against what? And over what time period?

Everything.
The dollar and the yen are the main ones but the Euro is a big one too.

Brexit was the major factor. Now inflation has added another big spike.

And here are the figures:

Pound to the Euro -2,9%

GDP-Euro.jpg


https://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from ... UR&view=2Y

Pound to the Dollar -6,7%

GDP-Dollar.jpg

https://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from ... SD&view=2Y

Pound to the Yen +20.9%

GDP-Yen.jpg

https://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from ... PY&view=2Y

ncutler wrote: ↑14 Jan 2024, 9:12pm
I think this really does illustrate the difference between the 'sack of potatoes' style of electric cycling and a very modest approach to cycling gently with a bit of uphill help.

willcee wrote: ↑18 Jan 2024, 7:02pm MICK ET ALL.. good to hear that you're on the mend, and like someone else here said it takes a few weeks or more to gradually get back some bike fitness and perhaps a year to get most of the strength back without blowing a gasket as a 70 year old, ask me at 72 how i know.. the awful wet weather, my health and caring responsibilities together with refettling my 3rd Eunos Mazda i haven't cycled for more than 3 months, and an old 50's Rotrax that i was half coaxed to buy, now rebuilt and dying for a few miles on her.. anyhow to reach back into a good story about a die hard racing man a vet and hard cyclist who was totally anti E...
He had bought a high end machine from a local retailer, a boutique LBS real fancy pants operation with a heralded cafe house tied on at the side, said machine was due a service and he was asked to bring it down, it was early summer, he rode down the 30 miles from his home and landed early morning, and they said they would loan him a bike so he could have a run around the nearby seaside routes for a few hours while they did the work, but all they had was an road E bike, he was annoyed and sulked the owner cajouled him and eventaully he got it tuned to his size with his saddle and pedals and some instructions and off he went..i just don't remember what they gave him as the place worked with several marques but rest assured it would have been several thousand ... must have been 3PM before he was spotted back and came in with a huge smiling face, and leaving out the F's regaled them with his ride, and how the hell could i have been so wrong.. The guy would have been in same vein as mickf..never me never...will

PH wrote: ↑16 Jan 2024, 1:00pm

Airsporter1st wrote: ↑16 Jan 2024, 12:46pm

PH wrote: ↑15 Jan 2024, 2:22pm It isn't simple, that's why it's such fun batting opinions around. If anyone suffers a sufficient loss or enough indignation to take the matter further, it won't be decided on regulation or legal precedent, but on whether there as a contract in place and if not which parties acted reasonably.
It could be argued that a notice saying bikes chained to a railing will be removed forms a contract, that's effectively what notices in car parks do. Otherwise what was reasonable? My opinion would be that removing a lock to gain access is, but leaving a bike unsecured isn't. Doesn't matter if someone else has a different opinion, the only one that matters is that of whoever comes to judge it.

I thought for a contract to exist, there must be, at a minimum: an offer, an acceptance and a consideration.

Hard to see how that works in the cases you cite?

The offer is the notice in the car park
The acceptance is you parking there
The consideration is you purchasing and displaying a ticket (Or whatever terms are in the notice)

Contracts can be explicit or implied, or contain elements of both.

PH wrote: ↑15 Jan 2024, 2:22pm

Carlton green wrote: ↑15 Jan 2024, 1:57pm

Bmblbzzz wrote: ↑15 Jan 2024, 12:19pm Because it's very common for bikes and cars to be left in one place for more than one week without being moved or attended to.

When you park your bike or car on someone else’s land then you either do it with their permission (and obey their rules) or lay yourself open to adverse consequences. It’s simple really.

It isn't simple, that's why it's such fun batting opinions around. If anyone suffers a sufficient loss or enough indignation to take the matter further, it won't be decided on regulation or legal precedent, but on whether there as a contract in place and if not which parties acted reasonably.
It could be argued that a notice saying bikes chained to a railing will be removed forms a contract, that's effectively what notices in car parks do. Otherwise what was reasonable? My opinion would be that removing a lock to gain access is, but leaving a bike unsecured isn't. Doesn't matter if someone else has a different opinion, the only one that matters is that of whoever comes to judge it.

borisface wrote: ↑15 Jan 2024, 1:56pm Great until you get a rear wheel puncture. Then not so great unless you're a bodybuilder.

George goodyear wrote: ↑10 Jan 2024, 4:20am 2012 seems very recent!

PH wrote: ↑5 Jan 2024, 2:07pm

deliquium wrote: ↑5 Jan 2024, 10:28am Replacement lower legs fitted and sent back the same day. Just arrived

Good result, but they look so significantly different, that IMO it ought to have been picked up long before it got to you. The fork manufacturer's quality control, bike assembly QC, and our last line of defence the PDI from the retailer, all seem to have either missed it or not cared.

mjr wrote: ↑4 Jan 2024, 11:30am

Airsporter1st wrote: ↑4 Jan 2024, 7:18am Given that one of the arguments for wearing helmets is the possibility of insurers denying liability for the helmetless, might any kind of third-party modification to a helmet present a similar risk?

………but I've yet to see any warnings against wrapping the straps…….

cycle tramp wrote: ↑4 Jan 2024, 5:14pm

Airsporter1st wrote: ↑3 Jan 2024, 2:32pm
As a result, I am now able to cycle longer distances without having to face the ignominy of having to get off and push the last bit of my journey!

What's the ignominy of pushing a bike up a hill? After all it's an exercise which promotes bone density.

Pinhead wrote: ↑
Please stop correcting mistakes in the English Language that do not exist. Just because the youth culture have wrongly adopted CAPITAL letters as shouting and many falsely believe it does not make it right !