Posts by Joe Wylie
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Hard News: Music! That one album, in reply to Farmer Green,
It was all high art. All of it!
Who knows, that Billy T.K. album art might have provided inspiration for Yes's later Going For the One - or, as Rick Wakeman would have it, Going For the Bum.
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Hard News: Music! That one album, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Thinking of Mammal, reminds me of these...
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Hard News: 2016: The arc of a year, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
'Compassion Not Consumption')
Like.
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Hard News: Friday Music! Digging Doug, in reply to Russell Brown,
You do make me wish we had a "like" button, Ian.
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Hard News: The fake news problem, in reply to Farmer Green,
Taoism.
80s Taoist vampires. My favourite kind.
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Hard News: Do e-bikes ease traffic…, in reply to Moz,
...another argument against requiring registration - many regular cyclists will either pay multiple registration fees, have unregistered bikes, or sell/dump them.
I've seen this happen already, where the handy scooter as secondary transport has been traded for an e-bike to avoid having to pay two rego and WOF fees. Regarding e-bike prices, the venerable Honda Today scooter currently retails for around $2300. 12 months rego is $208.18.
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Hard News: Do e-bikes ease traffic…, in reply to Paul Campbell,
Mind you some people are not happy with them ….
Golly. The English-teaching expat who told me about swipe card e-bikes being installed in the city where he was working mentioned that they wouldn't last long in NZ. Perhaps China's catching up with us, rather than the other way around.
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Hard News: Do e-bikes ease traffic…, in reply to Paul Campbell,
How about public e-bikes in China? I've heard that even provincial cities have installed networks of swipe card operated bikes.
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Hard News: Do e-bikes ease traffic…, in reply to BenWilson,
There is significant danger in this, of course.
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Hard News: Do e-bikes ease traffic…, in reply to BenWilson,
But there is an official limit of 300W of power output.
I'm not aware of any actual testing regime for that, though.
As far as I'm aware there's no requirement for dealers to gain approval for a specific model of bike before offering it for sale. There are claims that many bikes are effectively "underclocked" power-wise, and can be significantly boosted simply by swapping the inexpensive controller. Naturally it would help to know what you're doing.
One importer, an electrical engineer who's since sold his operation, discovered that, while the innards of the direct drive motor from the folding bike he was importing were different from his standard models, they bolted straight in, resulting in a 500w+ bike. While he never advertised such a beast he did share the info for the edification of his customers.
