Common Ninja
@commonninja.bsky.social
A garden variety ninja, trying to go unnoticed. Mostly.
Likes: Reading, walking, cycles, cycling, amateur radio, music, Hi-Fi
Dislikes: Neoliberalism, death by car, death by climate change, prospect of WW3
Likes: Reading, walking, cycles, cycling, amateur radio, music, Hi-Fi
Dislikes: Neoliberalism, death by car, death by climate change, prospect of WW3
You are too self-absorbed in your own unbased prejudism to even see the point.
November 13, 2025 at 10:55 PM
You are too self-absorbed in your own unbased prejudism to even see the point.
This is your response, despite the very fact I explicity said I was riding legally and safely?
Inhibiting traffic? I am traffic. And drivers do more to slow me down than I do to slow them down. The next traffic queue is never far away.
Quit trolling. It is boooring .
Inhibiting traffic? I am traffic. And drivers do more to slow me down than I do to slow them down. The next traffic queue is never far away.
Quit trolling. It is boooring .
November 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
This is your response, despite the very fact I explicity said I was riding legally and safely?
Inhibiting traffic? I am traffic. And drivers do more to slow me down than I do to slow them down. The next traffic queue is never far away.
Quit trolling. It is boooring .
Inhibiting traffic? I am traffic. And drivers do more to slow me down than I do to slow them down. The next traffic queue is never far away.
Quit trolling. It is boooring .
Likewise I have and have had colleagues who have bought C2W bikes to commute. Who would otherwise be in cars.
And a £1k cap is too low, even for a non e-bike.
Hub gears and belt drive mean reliability and less maintenance. Esp. through a british winter.
And a £1k cap is too low, even for a non e-bike.
Hub gears and belt drive mean reliability and less maintenance. Esp. through a british winter.
November 13, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Likewise I have and have had colleagues who have bought C2W bikes to commute. Who would otherwise be in cars.
And a £1k cap is too low, even for a non e-bike.
Hub gears and belt drive mean reliability and less maintenance. Esp. through a british winter.
And a £1k cap is too low, even for a non e-bike.
Hub gears and belt drive mean reliability and less maintenance. Esp. through a british winter.
Every active person is a massive saving foe government.
November 13, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Every active person is a massive saving foe government.
When the majority of car trips are less than five miles, and larger/heavier vehicles do most damage to infrastructure and people, it makes no sense.
Over 80% of people travel less than ten miles to one plave of work.
Over 80% of people travel less than ten miles to one plave of work.
November 13, 2025 at 10:35 AM
When the majority of car trips are less than five miles, and larger/heavier vehicles do most damage to infrastructure and people, it makes no sense.
Over 80% of people travel less than ten miles to one plave of work.
Over 80% of people travel less than ten miles to one plave of work.
Assuming an e-bicycle, cargo bicycle or adapted bicycle is not required?
And accessories like racks, decent redundant lighting, a saddle that suits ones arse etc.. quickly add up.
Add to that many discounts are excluded from CTW scheme.
And accessories like racks, decent redundant lighting, a saddle that suits ones arse etc.. quickly add up.
Add to that many discounts are excluded from CTW scheme.
November 13, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Assuming an e-bicycle, cargo bicycle or adapted bicycle is not required?
And accessories like racks, decent redundant lighting, a saddle that suits ones arse etc.. quickly add up.
Add to that many discounts are excluded from CTW scheme.
And accessories like racks, decent redundant lighting, a saddle that suits ones arse etc.. quickly add up.
Add to that many discounts are excluded from CTW scheme.
Odd that the tax breaks on salary sacrifice schemes to buy EVs don't receive the same level of scrutiny.
November 13, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Odd that the tax breaks on salary sacrifice schemes to buy EVs don't receive the same level of scrutiny.
If that was the intention, the chancellor could just cap the tax relief to the minimum PAYE tax rate.
When a good e-bike, cargo bike or adapted bicycle can easily cost in excess of £4k, a cap is pointless. Especially when the scheme includes helmets, locks, waterproofs etc..
When a good e-bike, cargo bike or adapted bicycle can easily cost in excess of £4k, a cap is pointless. Especially when the scheme includes helmets, locks, waterproofs etc..
November 13, 2025 at 8:56 AM
If that was the intention, the chancellor could just cap the tax relief to the minimum PAYE tax rate.
When a good e-bike, cargo bike or adapted bicycle can easily cost in excess of £4k, a cap is pointless. Especially when the scheme includes helmets, locks, waterproofs etc..
When a good e-bike, cargo bike or adapted bicycle can easily cost in excess of £4k, a cap is pointless. Especially when the scheme includes helmets, locks, waterproofs etc..
Absolutely.
Also odd that Government would do this, but ignore tax breaks on salary sacrifice to buy an EV.
Also odd that Government would do this, but ignore tax breaks on salary sacrifice to buy an EV.
November 13, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Absolutely.
Also odd that Government would do this, but ignore tax breaks on salary sacrifice to buy an EV.
Also odd that Government would do this, but ignore tax breaks on salary sacrifice to buy an EV.
But there is.
No questions asked when JLR need bailing out due to their own incompetence.
No questions asked when JLR need bailing out due to their own incompetence.
November 13, 2025 at 8:38 AM
But there is.
No questions asked when JLR need bailing out due to their own incompetence.
No questions asked when JLR need bailing out due to their own incompetence.
You accuse cyclists of thinking they "own the roads".
Do you know how many times I have had that levelled at me, whilst riding legally and safely?
Yet, as a driver, I never get any such remarks. Which is surprising, as drivers are involved and at fault in overwhelming majority of pedestriam deaths
Do you know how many times I have had that levelled at me, whilst riding legally and safely?
Yet, as a driver, I never get any such remarks. Which is surprising, as drivers are involved and at fault in overwhelming majority of pedestriam deaths
November 13, 2025 at 8:35 AM
You accuse cyclists of thinking they "own the roads".
Do you know how many times I have had that levelled at me, whilst riding legally and safely?
Yet, as a driver, I never get any such remarks. Which is surprising, as drivers are involved and at fault in overwhelming majority of pedestriam deaths
Do you know how many times I have had that levelled at me, whilst riding legally and safely?
Yet, as a driver, I never get any such remarks. Which is surprising, as drivers are involved and at fault in overwhelming majority of pedestriam deaths
We get it. You have an unjustified irrational hatred of cyclists.
November 13, 2025 at 7:38 AM
We get it. You have an unjustified irrational hatred of cyclists.
And ironically, pensions are a much larger proportion of Government liability massively reduced by the high interest rates. At least according to the arbitrary way the Government calculates its balance sheets.
Next.
Next.
November 13, 2025 at 7:30 AM
And ironically, pensions are a much larger proportion of Government liability massively reduced by the high interest rates. At least according to the arbitrary way the Government calculates its balance sheets.
Next.
Next.
We don't have hyper inflation.
We do have stagnating wages, fiscal drag and an ever increasing tax burden that disproportionately affects the less well off.
We do have stagnating wages, fiscal drag and an ever increasing tax burden that disproportionately affects the less well off.
November 13, 2025 at 7:30 AM
We don't have hyper inflation.
We do have stagnating wages, fiscal drag and an ever increasing tax burden that disproportionately affects the less well off.
We do have stagnating wages, fiscal drag and an ever increasing tax burden that disproportionately affects the less well off.
We are the only country that pays the full interest rate on QE money. Money in commercial banks reserve accounts that those banks takebin profit for doing absolutely nothing.
The BoE sets interest rates on behalf of who? The Government. That could be changed with the stroke of a pen.
The BoE sets interest rates on behalf of who? The Government. That could be changed with the stroke of a pen.
November 13, 2025 at 7:30 AM
We are the only country that pays the full interest rate on QE money. Money in commercial banks reserve accounts that those banks takebin profit for doing absolutely nothing.
The BoE sets interest rates on behalf of who? The Government. That could be changed with the stroke of a pen.
The BoE sets interest rates on behalf of who? The Government. That could be changed with the stroke of a pen.
And that is a problem because?
My town is hostile to pedesteians and cyclists. Yet it has five bike shops.
The minority that cycle don't make the noise audiable every time I step outside.
They are not polluting the air I breathe.
They are not causing congestion.
And generally they don't kill.
My town is hostile to pedesteians and cyclists. Yet it has five bike shops.
The minority that cycle don't make the noise audiable every time I step outside.
They are not polluting the air I breathe.
They are not causing congestion.
And generally they don't kill.
November 13, 2025 at 7:21 AM
And that is a problem because?
My town is hostile to pedesteians and cyclists. Yet it has five bike shops.
The minority that cycle don't make the noise audiable every time I step outside.
They are not polluting the air I breathe.
They are not causing congestion.
And generally they don't kill.
My town is hostile to pedesteians and cyclists. Yet it has five bike shops.
The minority that cycle don't make the noise audiable every time I step outside.
They are not polluting the air I breathe.
They are not causing congestion.
And generally they don't kill.
I think you are missing the point.
November 13, 2025 at 7:14 AM
I think you are missing the point.
If it gets people cycling and active, it pays for itself.
I know plenty of people who have used it and cycled to work.
Inactivity costs NHS £125 bn a year.
I know plenty of people who have used it and cycled to work.
Inactivity costs NHS £125 bn a year.
November 12, 2025 at 10:54 PM
If it gets people cycling and active, it pays for itself.
I know plenty of people who have used it and cycled to work.
Inactivity costs NHS £125 bn a year.
I know plenty of people who have used it and cycled to work.
Inactivity costs NHS £125 bn a year.
We are not "broke" nor could we possibly be "broke". The Government has its own bank and is responsible for the money supply.
November 12, 2025 at 10:51 PM
We are not "broke" nor could we possibly be "broke". The Government has its own bank and is responsible for the money supply.
Thank you for self-owning your utter ignorance.
November 12, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Thank you for self-owning your utter ignorance.
Anyone travelling at 25 mph on a legal e-bicycle is not getting any assistance from the motor.
You seem to be exagerating.
You seem to be exagerating.
November 12, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Anyone travelling at 25 mph on a legal e-bicycle is not getting any assistance from the motor.
You seem to be exagerating.
You seem to be exagerating.
Legal pedal assist e-bikes in the UK don't offer any assistance beyond 15.5 mph.
And I can ride any of my regular bicycles faster than that.
Which makes the above comment utter bollocks.
And I can ride any of my regular bicycles faster than that.
Which makes the above comment utter bollocks.
November 12, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Legal pedal assist e-bikes in the UK don't offer any assistance beyond 15.5 mph.
And I can ride any of my regular bicycles faster than that.
Which makes the above comment utter bollocks.
And I can ride any of my regular bicycles faster than that.
Which makes the above comment utter bollocks.