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I find the mudguard pretty good at stopping detritus getting flung up over the back. Maybe wait n see how you find what you’ve already got? But don’t wait til your can’t undo mud caked bags before ordering

Well like all vehicles especially electric that very much depends how you ride it. It says 146 miles. I took it out recently and had as much fun as I could on it without breaking my Kermit arms or myself and after one n half hours I had about 35% charge left which was plenty to get home.

Prepare to eat your words

If electric vehicles don’t go the same way as Betamax video (entirely possible, hydrogen looks good) then that what I thought too.

Well 2years of reasonable hp payments (hate that sort of thing but it was a good deal) then you choose at the end of just two years whether you want to continue or they’ll buy it back guaranteed price - no less than 2k you payed for it. Fully warranted for the period (including battery). They clearly wanted shot of it. It’s a 2020. They needed to make way for the new unbranded Livewire (will no longer carry Harley badge cos they’re splitting it off). Tbh I thought it was cheap thrills for a couple of years. Now I can’t see parting with it.

I swear if the the deal hadn’t been so sweet I wudna have touched it with a barge pole

Ha if I was prepare to head north in the winter I’d be mad enough to buy an electric bike.. oh wait hang on. Nah I’m not that insane.

@Richzx6r Find your way down south I’ll meet you with the Livewire.. assuming I can get it charged en route that is

Try it. Dare ya.

Try it before you condemn it. But FFS don’t buy it. As sirfallsalot says. Italians, electrics, RUN

Petes OAP status means he needs another reminder it’s 2022

Bridgwater Fair is as dangerous as ever, probably more so, it’s the same rides as 40 years ago with minimal maintenance going on

Had a quick look. The NPCC (the police) say it’s used for speed enforcement and by Law Enforcement Agencies to track VOIs vehicles of interest like a possible terrorist threat or drug running. These VOIs flag up on the system. 90% of the recorded info (which is kept for two years) is never accessed or reviewed. So there you go they don’t do mot tax or insurance automatically.

I know what you mean @Richzx6r it seems daft to ban a subject that effects our daily lives so acutely but you’re approaching it from the stance of someone who’s doesn’t see a reason to throw a tantrum over a discussion about politics. Unfortunately because it has such a profound effect on peoples lives people feel passionately about what needs to be done and easily get carried away even if in other areas they’re perfectly reasonable. I was brought up in a house where politics was debated on a daily basis. It was a normal topic of conversation and you were rated on your ability to debate. Mostly this was simply a discussion about whys n wherefores but sometimes a huge amount of fun with whooping and jeering thrown in for good measure when someone exposed a weak point in someone’s argument and the OP couldn’t respond or keep up. I loved it when that happened it was a good laugh. Sometimes it would degenerate into someone getting called a wanker or having some physical attribute mocked for a laugh at their expense but we never took it seriously. When the conversation finished the topic was finished… for the time being until the person who lost came up with a new angle A lot of people do get very angry, it’s sad when people fall out over politics.

I believe they have to deliberately run a full check but I’m not sure.

My 9T failed it’s MOT cos I changed the plate and didn’t stick a reflector dot on it.

Yer I was referring to how they’d enforce the displaying of the manufacturer etc on the plate cos someone said it would be a mean police orifice to do you for that. Or words to that effect

Boboneleg didn’t mention garage plates but that’s a good point I hadn’t even thought about it.

Cos people often take their opinions on politics seriously and see any debate as a personal attack rather than a topic for discussion. People genuinely fall out for good over this stuff. Mainly cos they’re mental but there we are

Is that two vote switches away from the Busa? Where did they go?

Yes get the Busa. It fits me like it was made for me and it would make it so much easier to steal one if I knew where one was.

The evidence that MOTs make the roads safer is threadbare. Logic tells you if a car is inspected and passed as safe this must make the roads safer. But the stats don’t back this up at all. Mechanical failure accounts for around 2% of accidents in the UK. In countries without MOT it accounts for around… 2% I suppose the MOT really only says it was working on that day and vehicles can dramatically fail at any time MOT’d or not. I don’t understand why old vehicles are exempt. Personally seeing bald tyres on large vehicles (especially HGVs, buses n coaches) gives me the heeebiejeebies. So new boots once a year is at least something. There’s loads of them here in Spain compared with the uk but maybe the ITV (Spanish MOT) is more lenient. As for enforcing the new plate laws they just have to stick it on the MOT list.

Apnr shows all of that stuff doesn’t it?

I meant the bit Buck said about the manufacturer. But I guess it was the same time as other changes. Glad they’re spending time and energy taking us to the important post brexit sunlit uplands