Perhaps it's odd, but I have never seen anyone use a vape in public. Nor have I seen one just lying on the ground. I maybe need to get out the forest here and visit civilization for a bit again.
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Go to a nightclub sometime. Discounted vapes in the outside areas are a tripping Hazard.
Ain't no night clubs within 100 miles of me. Plenty of bars, but no night clubs.
Discarded vapes? The only immediate trip hazard of tripping on discounted vapes would be the mob of people trying to buy them.
I so so want to purchase an ebike.But the companies don't seem likely to stick around for long though.
Get one from Halfords then. They'll repair any e-bike that they sell and they sell a wide variety of brands. Where I got mine from.
I wouldn't worry about it too much. The bikes are very simple and the battery pack can be rebuilt. Any decent bike shop should be able to repair an orphaned e-bike.
Most will not repair an ebikes outside of the brand they sell. I'd ask the shop first.
Perhaps where you live. I recently helped a young man get an e-bike, (somewhat mentally handicapped-- we raised funds to purchase the bike to get him to have better mobility), We got him an Aventon Cargo bike. The local bike shop plainly stated they would work on any e-bike you brought in. And that that all of the area bike shops were the same.
One does not turn away a paying customer.
I see your point, but I also saw Juiced Bikes go out of business last month after 15 years in the industry.
You pretty much should only buy one from a shop that has a physical location near you and can do repairs. Like everybody around me sells Trek, so if I ever got one, it'd be a Trek with a Bosch motor. Bike shops will not repair ebikes they don't sell, even though they'll repair regular bikes. And neither Trek nor Bosch are going anywhere.
Engwe has been around for some time, have one of their bikes (M20). If a part fails, you just need to send them an email, and they'll give you a price and picture of the part and they'll send it out to you. I have had to replace my rear fender and the front light once and they've arrived quite fast (to Europe). Although they aren't high quality bikes, they're priced accordingly.
Disposable vapes will be banned in the UK starting in June 2025.
Based.
Just wanted to comment that this should happen faster than in a few years... and then checked the calendar
Still there's no reason to wait that long. Ban now the supply to the stores and full ban on 2025 if they still have stock.
cool! in no time at all, disposable vapes will usurp cigarette butts as the #1 form of litter across the globe! but in all seriousness, god bless this guy. hopefully his example will inspire people to be slightly less careless and slightly more cognizant of how they dispose of their waste (audience laughter turns to applause)
Yeah, disposable vapes should be made illegal, not only are they lowering the bar for the access because they're cheap and accessible to minors, not only because they are an e-waste, but because it wastes valuable lithium, also those are perfectly chargeable batteries, is a bit fucked up that it's more profitable to use rechargeable lithium batteries than something disposable
My evil side wants them to be more popular where I live so I can collect massive amounts of lithium batteries for free
is a bit fucked up that it's more profitable to use rechargeable lithium batteries than something disposable
That's because the global manufacturing industries have almost exclusively gone over to lithium-ion batteries. Disposable batteries are ceasing to be commodity items. It's seriously difficult to find a D cell battery these days.