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E-Bikes Are Real Bikes—and They’re Great for Everyone
  • I ride an ebike to work and to the grocery store when I feel like it and I think it's great.

    I got a ride1up Turris. It tops out at 28 mph, which feels like a good pace on a bicycle. When the weather is nice, I use it to commute about 15 miles round trip to work, which requires about 0.4 kWh of electricity and a little over 20 minutes each way. This is compared to about 0.7 gallons of gas and about 15 minutes each way in my 20 year old truck.

    So, if I charge the battery half at home and half at work, I pay about 10 cents a day for energy for the bike vs about $3 a day for the truck.

    I hope lots of people start commuting on ebikes, given their decreasing cost. it would be a great way to reduce our carbon footprint and get a little exercise. It's just the right amount of exertion where I feel like I get my blood flowing but don't get to work all sweaty and gross.

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    Over 200,000 subscribers flee 'Washington Post' after Bezos blocks Harris endorsement.
  • Don't most brick and mortar stores also have websites that deliver? Just think of what store might sell what you're lookng for and buy it from them or at least compare prices.

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    Driver spotted going 234 km/h on Hwy. 174 in Ottawa's east end
  • Where I am, the ebike speed limit is 28. Which actually seems reasonable for something that lightweight.

    I wish they would make a 35mph class for mopeds that could accommodate higher powered ebikes.

    Much faster than that, you're undoubtedly on an electric motorcycle and the relevant regulations surrounding that seem appropriate.

    But to answer your question, the guy was breaking the law. If you're envious, I mean, you can go out and break the law too.

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    Boomers
  • Xennial here. Indeed, those things tend to be gay and/or retarded. For clarification on my intended meaning when I use these words, refer to the disambiguations provided by Marshall Mathers and Michael Scott, respectively.

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    Glock pistols popular among US criminals because they're easily modified, report says.
  • They have a safety device on the trigger. It amounts to a little plastic piece in the middle of the trigger. Pressing on the trigger from the front causes this piece to slide in, allowing the trigger to be depressed. It doesn't do much but it would prevent the trigger from being pulled by something scraping it from the side, as might accidentally happen during holstering. It seems like the point of this device is to prevent accidental trigger pulls.

    When you pull back the slide and chamber a round, you also pull back the striker. The gun is then ready to fire. The trigger pull is always the same weight. This doesn't put the gun into an "extra light trigger pull" setting. After a shot is fired, when the gun cycles, this chambers a new round and pulls the striker back again. There's no way to have a round chambered but not have the striker pulled back. Glocks don't have a single action / double action like there is on some other guns, where the first trigger pull takes extra weight because it's also cocking a hammer.

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    Anon enjoys life
  • That's that evolutionary programming kicking in, convincing you to slave away with the goal of increasing the survival rate of your offspring.

    I'm not saying it's good or bad. I'm just saying that your'e a machine and this affects your program:

    If(havebaby=true){parentalmotivation++}

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    NHS scientists find new blood group solving 50-year mystery
  • Most people are familiar with A, B, O, and Rh red cell antigens, as they are the most significant. Completely separate from this "blood group system" there are many other potentially antigenic molecules present on the red cell membrane.

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    NHS scientists find new blood group solving 50-year mystery
  • These antigens are mainly significant in regards to blood transfusions.

    People generally don't create antibodies against antigens that they have on their own cells.

    If someone receives blood containing an antigen that isn't present on their own cells, and their body has already created antibodies against this "foregin" antigen, this can cause a hemolytic transfusion reaction (the transfused blood cells will rupture in the recipient), which can be fatal.

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