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This is bad advice Edward

How did I not see this. Did it sell?

Does anyone here know if it's possible to source spares for Tektro brakes?
I have a set of Tektro CR720's with two right springs.

Also anyone from the industry know why the CR720 are so hard to track down in the UK at the moment?

Set up as 1x, then live a long and happy life together

According to Mike @ VD they have some machine / tooling issues. 26 x 60 guards have been in short supply for a while, so not sure if thats connected, and VD short on details so also not sure if thats the fender rolling or stay forming tooling.

Lots of out of opts currently out of stock on Berthoud site https://berthoudcycles.fr/en/71-fenders

I did think maybe they are working through old stock piles before relaunching shapes or new tech, which is why they are shipping 50mm stays with with 60mm guard. But it would also make sense if they are looking to reinvest in new tooling due to machine failure to work through significant stockpiles before they do that, if the new tooling means designs need to change ...

Any more photos + info on the HSK? Wanted one of these for years

Will do. Hopeful that if it turns out at all hokey VD will be able to refund and claim back via GB. Seems reasonable if you're just diligently following mfgers advice.

Did a quick test by hand / eye – the stays are much more maleable than the guard thankfully.

TBH more worried about getting it right in terms of drilling + alignment.

Had Mike on the line about this earlier in the week, seems like a universal issue with GB 60mm's at the moment.

Apparently Berthoud now advising to drill as normal + bolt down and the stay should deform to fit the curve. We will see!

This is such a pathetic drain of political energy. Labour forcing her to jump is daft and yes, I actually do think there are many people who could attest to being victims of corporate internal witch hunts.

Personally no, I don't think she tried to defraud her employer. Yes, I think that she's a victim of circumstance and her own poor judgement.

This is a non story. From my understanding it was a work phone she assumed had been taken in a mugging, but then she found in the house some time later turned on and got investigated after her employer saw it ping. Crap solicitor gave crap advice to plead guilty for whatever reason.

ICC finally issues warrant for arrest of Netanyahu and Gallant (for war crimes and crimes against humanity).

https://news.sky.com/story/arrest-warrants-issued-for-israeli-pm-netanyahu-and-former-defence-secretary-gallant-over-alleged-war-crimes-13257801

Would be interested to know if thats salary paid, exclusive of business net profits also

Hmm, ok. How about some sort of left / money-cunt / auth-cunt / libertarian-cunt matrix?

Americanism in full effect

(As long as they dont call it fucking Great British Farms or some other bollocks)

The future is big gov, no GM, pro biodiversity farming.

taxing something makes it less affordable

new tax

IHT is not new or additional – they have been exempt. This is a duty levied on personal wealth, and not a regular tax on operating profit for a farming business.

For the business this really is just another risk which can be managed and mitigated.

For the individual ... I believe in fair taxation and the concept that sometimes a tax pound spent on someones behalf can often return greater value for the individual than a pound in their pocket. Why wealthy farmers were ever exempt from IHT baffles me.

Your hypothetical narrative talks about businesses close to unviability in the round but it's probably more useful to look at who would actually have enough hoarded personal wealth through farming to be liable to meet the IHT threshold.

From data I've seen doing the rounds I'm assuming it's unlikely to be anyone without a significant buffer for their personal and business finances, even if assets need to be liquidated to meet the IHT.

So yeah, I stand by my point that if farming businesses are so close to the edge they can't weather the impacts of IHT, then they certainly could not navigate the financial shock from other risks and are therefore unviable. That is mismanaged wealth.

If farming businesses are so close to the edge that 500 farms a year can't weather the impacts of IHT, then they certainly could not navigate the financial shock from other risks ... flood, blight, accident, liability, etc.

Changes to the industry and broader economic contexts are just other inevitable risks.

I guess you either believe they should have IHT relief (for whatever reason, I literally cannot think of one) or you think they should not. Personally I would rather they pay in and take out in the form of better agri subsidaries when and where hard hit farms need it.

There were a total of 462 inherited farms valued above £1m in 2021-22, according to HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), external:

• 345 valued between £1m and £2.5m
  
• 80 at £2.5m to £5m
  
• 37 above £5m
  

It's because if forced to sell assets to cover an IHT bill, the working farm could become non-viable.

Sounds as though the farm is already unviable if it cannot meet tax liabilities.

To give you an example, let's say I inherit a 500 acre arable farm with a farmhouse on it, several barns and grain sheds, a couple of tractors, a manitou, and a combine harvester. Let's say it's worth 5 million.

Average farm net worth is £2.2m. Worth noting that most farms this value (£5m) tend to be land owning farmers rather than tenant and falls into a very slim top percentage.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/660fdb6763b7f80011de191b/bs_mean_net_worth_per_farm_2022_23.csv/preview

So I realise that I'm going to have to sell 40 acres of fields to cover the bill.

Yes, in this story – you should. Sell them so people can build houses, solar, turbines or more agriculturally diverse smaller farms and save us all.

This is pretty concise and from what I can tell, accurate.

https://x.com/Channel4News/status/1858955436537286975

Not just that but also in step with wider societal trends re: fall in handing down professions / vocations, a significant number of farm kids dont actually want to go into farming.

What happens then?

I know we're talking IHT but on topic, due to the noise from Farmers there's going to be plenty more industrial agri hit pieces over the coming weeks.

When inspections did take place, 22% of farms were found not to meet animal welfare law standards but only 1% of non-compliances were prosecuted, a slight increase from 2018-21.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/20/uk-failing-animals-with-just-one-welfare-inspector-for-every-878-farms-report

The plus side being more people will hopefully understand how fucked parts of agricultural practice are in this country, in terms of welfare, ecocide, economic viability of food production, farmer class priveleges, etc.

There needs to be a serious conversation about responsibsilities of entities that provide in essential sectors like food production, that also already receive incredibly heavy public purse subsidies (that invariably partly gets creamed into private profit). State needs to get serious about taking interests in agri if anything as a better foothold to regulate (practices and prices/value).

Wait I thought we weren't allowed to do this to r flag