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• 1976 Condor Italia barn find refurb

  in Current Projects • 1 month

  

  Lovely Bike. You should consider shimming the handlebars, otherwise you will make your dentist rich

• Hidden faces

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 month, 2 weeks

  

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• M_V's multitude of bikes and adventures in the land of framebuilding

  in Current Projects • 1 month, 4 weeks

  

  Must have missed the mini Honzo when you first showed it. Absolutely amazing!

• Hacks / Bodges

  in Bikes & Bits • 2 months, 1 week

  

  very nice

• In the news

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 3 months, 2 weeks

  

  No, after phasing out nuclear power plants in Germany, the vast majority of cost lies still ahead. Demolishing those reactors and storing the nuclear waste will cost billions. The main players like RWE in Germany are already trying to get out of their contractual obligations to bear these costs.

  Moreover, if you criticize the dependence on Russian gas, you must also criticize the same dependence on uranium. More than 20 per cent of uranium came from Russia and another 20 per cent from Putin's then ally Kazakhstan. With Rosatom Russia is also one of the leading suppliers of nuclear power plants worldwide. Phasing out nuclear power therefore means reducing dependence on Russia.

• vp's Cogworks: The Marin and Beyond

  in Current Projects • 3 months, 2 weeks

  

  If you're looking for a bigger front rack, I'm selling mine (bag too)

  

• vp's Cogworks: The Marin and Beyond

  in Current Projects • 3 months, 3 weeks

  

  Love the Brodie!

  You're in Vienna, right? In the hills to the west you'll find all the tracks you could want. When I'm out there on my narrow tire gravel, I usually think 80% of the time: “hey, this is really nice” and 20%: “something's going to break this time”.

• Russian invasion of Ukraine

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 4 months

  

  Who have denied it.

  This only proves that they don't have someone like Arthur Zimmermann in their midst.
  The suspected saboteur was the subject of an international arrest warrant, which they ignored for 2 months. Then, after his escape, they blamed it on some bureaucratic mishap.

  If that was gross negligence, incompetence or really aiding a criminal on Poland's side and sabotage on Ukraine's side is expectedly shrouded in propaganda from all sides and the truth will probably be revealed only decades from now. Until then and without new and better information, I rather suspect foul play on Poland's part and probably also Ukraine's as both have good reason to do so due to the Russian attack.

• Russian invasion of Ukraine

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 4 months

  

  Ok, probably should not have called Nord Stream German. Let me rephrase that to "considered infrastructure of national importance".

  The lessened dependency on gas (regardless if from Russia, the US or Norway) is of course great and most important.

• Russian invasion of Ukraine

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 4 months

  

  That´s true. And Austria still gets at least 81% (April 2024) and up to 98% (December 2023)of its gas from Russia. https://energie.gv.at/hintergrund/import-von-russischem-gas