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I've never heard of this overlap method apart from utility bikes. On a tubular you'll get a horrible lump.

https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/mullocks-specialist-auctioneers-and-valuers/catalogue-id-srmu10223?page=3#lot-d24dbbf7-9218-42d0-a916-b38a00a16049

I'm amazed ebay can avoid being sued for selling dodgy fireball ebikes. Some of them have done a million£ damage🤯

I was thinking he'd be a sole trader, so no corporation tax afaik. Big advantage of the limited company thing is putting "company director" on your employment status for insurance, even for motorcycles, bizarrely🤣

You're vattable over 90k turnover whatever your business structure, even nothing at all. A limited company is its own legal entity, so your home and other assets are protected from legal claims. The disadvantage is you have to pay another 14% (employers) national insurance, and submit...

Trikes are mental at high speed through corners. Especially on a rough road. Mental. And anyone who says otherwise is also Mental😉

In almost the words of David Sylvian: Whatever gets you on the bike, Just keep on ridin'... Whatever gets you on the bike Just keep on ridin', babe... Basically the rougher the terrain, the wider the bar and shorter the stem tends to be. And the faster you want to go, the longer the stem...

Drops draw you into an efficient position, and the arm orientation allows more upper body muscle use and generally greater long distance comfort. A wide flat or riser bar gives more control, but suits a more upright body, less efficient. The flared drop bar implies greater control on the...

Well if he's registered as a business on ebay then he's probably fully legit. There's no VAT number though so he must keep his turnover below £90,000 Can't sell that many explosif frames then🤣

Maybe they put them out there at a crazy price, then "do a deal" with a build or another explosif, at "only £400" Is Granniegear a one- man band in his bedroom or a taxpaying business with premises?

Don't understand why he hasn't got one already. Had they been culled in East Sussex or wherever it is he lives?😉

My friends work in food import /distribution and they tell me environmental stress is raising most food commodity prices fast. Corporate greed often then raises profit on a rising price - I think the joke Musk blue plaque wasn't suggesting he had a duty to feed the poor, but that he could...

There were also a lot of tandems in the postwar period - I think one reason was that disposable income was increasing, and yet the motor car was still beyond reach of a working man. I think there was a much stronger bike cult in those last days before universal motoring. Sidecars...

Seems I spend most of my money on food. Food used to cost 1/3 of household income- i think ours still does. National average is under 10% https://ahdb.org.uk/news/consumer-insight-how-much-money-are-uk-consumers-spending-on-food-since-the-cost-of-living-crisis Being old can have the benefit...