marksuttonbike
@marksuttonbike
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Editor in the electric bike space with https://t.co/SihgOpn5eW. Market insights & trade consultant. Also at https://t.co/DEnQDbHCBw
Hertford, uk
Joined December 2008
A message to the bike industry: let's talk about what we can do in the here and now on climate
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A big picture post incoming here, so if you're one to unsubscribe from LinkedIn posts that go on for ages and don't have a firm conclusion please do just skip right on by and please don't hit the...
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The BBC (among others) continue to get this so wrong at the detriment of genuine electric bike riders and those who could be one day. Look at the video and it's obvious this is throttle-powered, so an e-motorbike. Feel for the victim, of course.
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Sam Bevan only found out what had happened to him when a neighbour showed him CCTV two days later.
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172 Labour MPs resigned to try and prevent Jeremy Corbyn's left wing politics. 0 Labour MPs have resigned to try and prevent Keir Starmer turning Labour into a far right party.
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This is sinister. This place is warped. @grok is calling for the BBC to be defunded and calling GBNews impartial. This is very dark and very dangerous.
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I knew the 'outrage' was Lee Anderson before scrolling on for more info. People just want to be able to afford to live, but let's argue about gingerbread instead 🙃
NEW: The sale of “gingerbread people” in the House of Commons has sparked outrage among MPs today Politicians hit out at parliamentary authorities for forcing iconic Christmas snacks to be gender neutral
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„In an internal memo from September, CEO Sam Altman said that OpenAI’s “audacious long-term goal is to build 250 gigawatts of capacity by 2033.” If Altman achieves this goal, OpenAI will need almost exactly as much electricity as India’s 1.5 billion people, and is likely to emit
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You may have read that the Cycle to Work scheme may get a new ceiling cap to cut exploitation by enthusiasts. However, only 6% of sales are over £2,000. If this is the Treasury's justification, then the maths on worthwhile 'savings' simply don't add up:
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Under pressure Chancellor Rachel Reeves is rumoured to be looking at reintroducing a cap to the cycle to work scheme
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So Mr Brexit says the UK is helpless on its own… Oh, the glorious hypocrisy of it all https://t.co/yvKs4WpqJD
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Musk sacked 80% of staff when he bought twitter Bezos is sacking 14,000 people to replace with AI Microsoft are cutting 4.1% of jobs (9,100) to replace with AI Intel are cutting up to 25% of staff to replace with AI What's that about billionaires creating jobs?
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🚨 NEW: Rachel Reeves will use the Budget to impose a £2k-a-year limit on how much salary can go into a pension before paying National Insurance The move will raise £2bn and hit salary sacrifice schemes [@thetimes]
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Trevor Phillips tried everything to trip up @ZackPolanski but Zack rose to the challenge. Calm, confident, and razor-sharp, he fired back: 🔹 “There’s always money for nuclear weapons but not for protecting the lungs of the planet.” 🔹 “Since the pandemic, billionaire wealth
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“China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels. This trend will continue simply because renewables are cheap.” Gift link: China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics https://t.co/VtBc2owvV0
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The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising
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A new study reveals Antarctica's Hektoria Glacier retreated over 15 miles in just 15 months, the fastest Antarctic glacier retreat ever recorded, per research published in Nature.
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We were sold AI on the basis it was going to cure cancer, solve climate change and advance our lives. Instead all it does is produce social media slop and put ordinary people out of work. I think we're entitled to feel a lot more pissed off than we currently seem to.
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Fancy a Lidl electric bike? Supermarket debuts €999 folder with large battery: https://t.co/2wSZhMwTON
cyclingelectric.com
Lidl has launched another electric bike under its Crivit label, this time a folding bike with an impressively large battery
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So this is a de-facto ban on protest, then. Who needs Reform when you've got this Labour government legislating for them?
🚨 BREAKING: The government has tabled their plan to restrict repeat protests. Demonstrations could now banned based on the 'cumulative disruption' that previous protests have caused in the area - regardless of if they have been organised by the same people or not.
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"If we lose, we're going to be held accountable for our crimes" is not the campaign slogan Steve Bannon thinks it is
Steve Bannon: If we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison, myself included.
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A new study of London’s Cycle Superhighways found that segregated routes increase cycling without raising collision risk, whereas non-segregated routes raise collision rates without boosting cycling. https://t.co/qkPR9jZWJW
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E-bike conversion giant Swytch on the ropes: I looked into why many customers were not receiving their deliveries and found the company's investor backers again trying to raise to plug gaps prompted by U.S. tariffs, among other things:
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A presentation seen by Cycling Electric last month has revealed that e-bike conversion kit leader Swytch has in place a
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I asked @grok if an AI image of the train attack was real. It said it was. We argued and I provided evidence and it kept lying. Eventually it admitted it was fake. I asked again 2 minutes later it lied again. 7 minutes later the same (time in corner) It's lying purposefully.
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