Recent content by Stefan Mikes

I asked because you put a kind of "number plate" on your e-bike and I thought you wanted to cover the number plate support (which is present on HS e-bikes) :)

Is your R&M the High Speed (HS) version, @Dima? Well, well, well... Snow? "Motivation" Ride with Tommy Tommy had requested a relatively short but interesting ride, so I invented something for him in my neighbourhood :) The first 15 km were totally uneventful, almost all on bike paths. As we...

Oh, come on, it is :) At least for some of us :)

Jeremy, perhaps I will say something obvious, yet... There is no sales tax in Europe. The Value Added Tax is what any end consumer (an individual or a business) has to pay. Only the business can deduct the VAT from the goods or services it bought to produce something more valuable (which is...

Elks in Valley of Josaphat, Rabe Mountain, Fixing the Second Mirrycle, Vistula Gravel, The New Warsaw-West Train Station I rode to my brother Jacek in the late Saturday morning. This time, I chose one of the shortest routes, that is, the one leading through Kampinos National Park (KPN). Elks...

You have a low VAT. Ours is 23%.

News: The reportedly 1/8" Chinese made hex wrench turned out to be as good as the rest of the Chinese scrap metal. 1/8" = 3.175 mm. The key measures 3.08 mm on one side and 3.52 mm on the other (I didn't measure the third side). So the key does not fit the 1/8" American bolt socket of the...

Sweet!

Just tow the glider with a motorcycle, or, better, a car :)

Heard of those "shadow fleet" tankers recently damaged in the Black Sea? Russia had to move her Black Sea navy to the seaports in the east because... Are you sure those got impounded? (St. Catherine Quay, Londongrad, July 2022).

Stomp, our tragedy is the market here is still unprepared for the system. Yes, you can get the payout anywhere if the bottlemats existed but it is coming very slowly.

No, it is not because of any fines. Poles learned keeping the home country clean. It is just not right to litter the country. "There's no such a place as London. It is Lądek, Lądek-Zdrój..." :D See the totally clean roadside (except for some twigs brought there by the wind). Such a clean...

It's Putin's narrative. It is just the opposite. Russia attacked an independent and peaceful country Ukraine in 2014 and 2022. Ukraine gave up her nuclear weapons in 1990s and got security guarantees, worthless as usual. Since the Putin's rule, numerous countries were attacked by Russia, and it...

I didn't experience tyre flats for years. Recently, I got a way more flats than expected. Why suffer? The only issue is I need to share the pump between two e-bikes: it's easy to forget moving it from bike to bike! I might carry the e-pump in my small backpack or inside the hydration pack...

It might be my own fate, soon. Poland has introduced a deposit-refund system for plastic and glass bottles as well as cans; a similar system has worked in Germany for many years. Meaning, I have accumulated a big number of such bottles in big plastic bags. Will need to carry them to a collection...