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My Brother had these bicyclebungee.com devices made. Essentially a self-retracting cord that allows a rider to assist a following rider.
Perfect for keeping the bike team together by giving a small amount of energy from the over-energetic rider to the second rider.
Perfect for gravel bikers, parents with children.
While riding, the second rider just cruises up, pulls out the bungee and hooks it on. At the top of the hill, just cut loose.
Adventure team-racers use these in a mini form.
People struggled with the idea of 'being seen towing my wife' so they haven't sold out.
Posting bc I know TwitterX users usually are more self confident than the average 🐑 - we dgaf what other people think or say.
They're honestly a gamechanger that allows couples/families to enjoy riding instead of becoming frustrated by uneven riding speeds/difficult hills/headwinds.
Brother has just a hundred left and will be unlikely to get another run.
They're full carbon. Produced in the same Taiwan factory that makes all the carbon bike parts. So they're priced over USD/Euro/GBP 100
Brother just wants them out there being used by peoplewho will appreciate them. Mention me and he'll cut a deal if price is a barrier.
Fully unspooled, the bungee is ~3m plus stretch. In practice provided the following rider is pedaling normally, the tension is surprisingly low. Typically the front rider changes 1 gear lower.
I bungee-assisted my wife for the last 20 km of 100 in heatwave France when her ebike went flat. She was impressed that i could easily keep her moving without cooking myself.
We're now looking at putting her on a carbon gravel bike on a future bikepack tour instead of hiring an ebike for her.
Settle.
Last second registration favoured people wanting to pressure others to vote a particular way. The fact that Left parties are so upset about a two week cutoff suggests they were doing this.
Well, they can't now.
Suck it up.
It is a legal requirement for all NZers to register as soon as they become eligible.
What exactly are you trying to spin here, Liam!?
That Nationals corruption of our democracy is somehow legitimate?
They were their voter supression law change was against human rights law — by Judith Collins no less, as Attorney-General.
Hardly a f'n lefty then eh mate.
It was technically illegal, and should have been impossible, if successive govts had thought to safeguard our constitutional law.
They were told it would disenfranchise marginalised voters.
They were told it was unjustified.
It was voter suppression and it is corrupt.
Given the historic weighting of specials, it was a straight-up attempt to steal the election.
They knew exactly what they were doing.
So don't try to whitewash it with your BS.
Even if National do cobble together a half-arsed far-right nut-job govt, usurping power by such a narrow and manipulated margin, it will objectively be illegitimate and have zero f'ing mandate.
The western Left just refuses to even consider that Palestine/Israel are being used as pawns in expansionist Islam's plans to dominate as much of the world as possible.
To those who scoff at such a concept, it is no different from the extraordinary success of the Roman Catholic religion around the world.
Islamic regime has funded and promoted conflict between Arabs and Israel in the region.
Because of the hardships I face living in Iran, I have become emotionally vulnerable. I sincerely ask those of you who support Palestine: please don't attack me or blame me for wanting to liberate my country. Please don't hurt me emotionally with your comments. Don't turn a blind eye to the suffering of the Iranian people because of Palestine, and don't support the regime in Iran simply because it supports Palestine.
I hate Palestine so much that I don't even want to hear its name. And none of you seem to understand why.
It's natural for us to feel this way. Palestine has always been a priority for the Iranian regime, never the Iranian people. Our money has constantly been spent on them while we, the people of Iran, have been left to live in misery and poverty.
And now Islamists, communists, and leftists are using their influence behind the scenes in international politics to prevent the fall of the Iranian regime, all in the name of Palestine. After all, this regime was born out of an alliance between these very three groups.
Meanwhile, we are being killed by that same regime simply because we want our country to prosper and our ancient Iranian civilization to stop being destroyed by Islamists.
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Israeli woman vs Jordanian man:
Her: “What’s the difference between a Palestinian and a Jordanian?”
Him: “Nothing. Same language. Same culture. Same traditions. Same religion. Not only Jordan… all our countries are the same.”
Her:
“So Arabs came from the Arabian Peninsula, colonized the entire Middle East, and now have **22 countries**…
But the Jews, Bnei Israel, can’t have **one**?
The Holy Land that **your own book** says Allah assigned to us?”
She quotes the Quran directly.
He has no answer.
Then she drops Golda Meir:
“The day Arabs love their children more than they hate the Jews… that will be the day we have peace.”
He just sits there smiling.
Same language. Same culture. 22 countries.
And still somehow the Jews are the problem for wanting one.
Am Yisrael Chai 🇮🇱
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I want to add something important here as an ex-Muslim who has studied the theology this regime follows:
This is the part most people simply cannot grasp, largely because it is so alien to how their own minds work.
The regime in Iran is far more dangerous than Russia or North Korea.
It is not merely authoritarian.
It is driven by a theological framework that actively encourages expansion and treats this life as worthless. In this worldview, the only life that matters is the afterlife.
The theology followed by the Islamic regime explicitly rewards the killing of the enemy, whether that enemy is a soldier, a woman, or a child.
It celebrates those who die in the process as “martyrs” and promises them rewards in the hereafter.
When your soldiers are taught that dying while killing is not a cost but a victory, the normal logic of deterrence collapses.
This ideology further teaches that the Mahdi will only appear when the world has reached an apocalyptic state. The result is something closer to an army of the walking dead than a conventional military force.
Please understand that this is not comparable to North Korea or Russia. Those regimes, for all their brutality, still operate within the realm of worldly power.
The Islamic regime does not. That is what makes it uniquely dangerous.
It's amazing how many people think “North Korea has nukes and we're fine” is a good argument for allowing Iran to obtain nuclear weapons.
North Korea is literally the perfect example of why we should be terrified of nuclear proliferation.
Just this week, North Korea stole over $6 BILLION in cryptocurrency. And what exactly are we going to do about it?
Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
We can impose sanctions and stomp our feet all we want. But when it comes to actually confronting North Korea militarily, everyone is terrified of what happens next because they have nuclear weapons. And the North Koreans know that perfectly well.
It's the same in Europe. Putin invaded Ukraine, and years later, the war is still going on. NATO countries have sent Ukraine enormous amounts of weapons and financial assistance, but they've refused to fight Russia directly, in large part because Russia's nuclear arsenal has given Putin a degree of protection from direct Western military intervention that he would never otherwise enjoy.
And people are seriously pointing to these countries as examples of why we shouldn't worry about Iran obtaining nuclear weapons?
Have we completely lost our minds?
The Islamic Republic is a revolutionary theocracy built around the belief that its Islamic revolution should be exported beyond Iran's borders. Its leaders have spent decades calling America the Great Satan, chanting “Death to America,” openly advocating the destruction of multiple countries, and funding terrorist organizations throughout the Middle East.
Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis, and militias across Iraq have received Iranian weapons, funding, or training. These organizations have attacked American forces, murdered civilians, destabilized governments, and helped Tehran project power far beyond its borders.
And they've done all of this WITHOUT nuclear weapons.
Now give the Islamic Republic a nuclear arsenal and ask yourself what happens the next time an Iranian backed militia kills American soldiers, Hezbollah launches another war, or Tehran decides to threaten its neighbors.
Who exactly is going to confront them when the Ayatollah can threaten nuclear retaliation?
And what happens when Saudi Arabia follows through on Mohammed bin Salman's explicit warning that if Iran gets nuclear weapons, Saudi Arabia will get them too? How many other countries in the Middle East will decide they need their own?
Yet the entire argument from people dismissing the Iranian nuclear threat seems to begin and end with “Iran would never actually nuke America.”
Fine. Let's assume they wouldn't.
What about everything else? What about the terrorism, the proxy wars, the threats against American troops, the regional aggression, and the nuclear arms race that will undoubtedly follow?
I have yet to see anybody addressing these arguments.
The comments are wide open 👇
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This graphic is crazy.
Just like worldwide , rural is always right, cities are left. Why is that?
Yes, the kids of Gaza and Israel have paid a terrible price.
Islamic regime meticulously orchestrated years of rocket attacks against Israel, the Oct7 live-streamed torture-porn snuff movie, and the Gazan family-shielded war infrastructure, for maximum real (and some faked) civilian carnage.
Israel and Hamas played their starring roles 100% to the script. Their kids were expendable props as far as the Islamic regime script writers were concerned.
The prize was not a win or loss either way in Israel/Gaza.
The prize is Islamic expansion into the West.
The target audience was the Western Left. And they lapped it up.
Israel, the villain. Hamas/Gaza, the victims, fighting bravely for freedom and peace.
Western leftists leapt at the opportunity to side with the Gazan victims and against the villainous Israelis.
Right on cue, Leftist governments raced to admit Gazan refugees and recognise 'Palestine' as a thing. The Islamic regime successfully recruited half of the West's voters to sympathise with an invasion force that's taking aim at us all in the West.
Most importantly the whole Israel/Gaza reality series successfully divided the dumb-arse West against itself.
Here we are, trading insults, when life is difficult enough as it is. The western left anti-Israel crew have yet to believe that the Oct7 savagery meted out to Israeli youth and families wasn't just a shock tactic for effect, it is what we can expect if extreme Islamism becomes dominant in our own countries. And domination of the world is what Islamists say they're aiming for.
Thanks if you have read this far. I don't expect you to believe any of it. But this is believed by many commentators, especially Iranian expats, to be what is really happening.
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Congratulations, Abdul El-Sayed. You won.
You outsmarted millions. If voters in other states had been allowed to vote for you, many more would have fallen for your charm. Keep going and maybe one day it's the presidency.
Like it or not, they will call you Senator. You beat them at their own game. Western democracy gave you representation, and you're using that power to shape your country (yes, your country) closer to your worldview. Who knows, maybe you'll even work to undo the Muslim Brotherhood designation. As an observant Muslim, why wouldn't you pursue what you believe in?
And let's be honest: you read your voters far better than they read you. Your critics put the questions about your associations in front of them. Your voters, many of them Jewish, shrugged and backed you anyway. As we say in Arabic: القانون لا يحمي المغفلين. The law doesn't protect the gullible.
The political current that cheered your victory has spent decades working patiently toward this, for the good of humanity as it sees it, and for the good of its children.
I disagree. I grew up where Islam has ruled since the 7th century. Since the eighties, the Muslim Brotherhood has promised us الإسلام هو الحل, "Islam is the solution." We lived the result, and nothing could be further from the truth. That was our experience in the Muslim world, the same world your parents chose to leave.
Maybe America will be different. Maybe here it will finally work, because the people who mistake your smug smile for a sweet one are so much easier to win over. They have no resilience. They take every smile at face value. And they have so little sense of who they are that some would trade it for anything that offers certainty.
Congratulations. The hard work paid off. While your side spent decades organizing, the people who should have been paying attention were busy inventing new identities, new grievances, new reasons to be offended, new things to smoke, new gods. Then the Palestinian cause led them straight into bed with Islamism. And for Palestine, they'll march hypnotized to the end of the earth.
@AbdulElSayed
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The midterms were an absolute disaster for the Republicans.
Cultural ineptitude is to blame, and that's why it'll be very difficult to course correct.
Three things are working against the 'Right,' plus the tool they had for two years and never used.
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I was usually the ONLY WOMAN in my convoy in Afghanistan. Not only was I a military police team leader, I was the one who searched the Afghan women.
Those women told me things their husbands never would. They also told me things they wouldn't tell their husbands. They let me hold their babies and talk to their kids. These women had NO voice in that country. No rights. They were men's property.
40 months in a Muslim country taught me this: Sharia doesn't "coexist." It TAKES. And here in the USA, it will take from women FIRST.
Ladies, it starts with your voice. DO NOT hand it over. It wasn't very long ago at all that we fought for and WON our freedom here in America. We owe it to our daughters not to go backwards. 🇺🇸🪖
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Hipkins licks the boots of terrorism. Hes a gutless spineless cowardly little maggot
Carry sticks to poke through the spokes when moving and drawing pins for the tyres if stationary
The bicycles will understand even if the bigoted riders don't. Get photos of them.
By Shira Lankin Sheps :
This latest antisemitic nightmare is personal.
Let me explain: A bicycle rally planned for November 8 in Philadelphia is targeting six local restaurants under the label “Zionist establishments.”
The flyer says, “No business for Zionists! These Zionist establishments must go! Not in our city!”
The businesses named include Israeli restaurants associated with chef Michael Solomonov, as well as American Jewish-owned businesses such as Mac Mart and Schlesinger’s Deli.
Not all the owners of these establishments are Israeli. Some of them are American Jews. The only thing that ties these places together is that their owners are Jewish.
There is a network of explicitly anti-Zionist activists, who are treating Israeli cultural visibility or Jewishness as a target for hatred.
Let me say it again: American Jews who own neighborhood businesses are being told that their establishments must leave their city. The city of brotherly love.
I was born in Philadelphia. I was visiting last week.
I have a large family who live and work there, our roots go back several generations.
My own grandfather was a baker, and had a Jewish bakery in Philadelphia.
A city close to my heart, and honestly this story makes me sick.
The date of the "bike rally" is disgusting.
Nov 8. The day before the anniversary of Kristalnacht.
You know, the night where the Nazis destroyed Jewish businesses and synagogues in Germany.
Don't tell me the organizers of this disgusting event didn't choose that date on purpose. Of course they did.
My grandmother on the other side of the family witnessed Kristalnacht with her own eyes- the night of the broken glass.
When Jewish livelihoods were targeted and Jewish life in Germany shattered, never to recover.
I grew up believing that America was a place where our family could build a life and belong.
Now Jewish business owners in the city where I was born are being told they must go.
I want their neighbors to answer.
I want the people who eat at their tables, work beside them, and walk past their doors to make it clear that these families belong here.
Jewish families should not have to be the only ones defending our place in America.
When they tell Jews to leave, everyday Americans need to stand shoulder to shoulder with us.
If they don't, America has a much bigger problem.
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The islamo-leftist alliance destroyed Iran and Libanon through muslim mass immigration in the XX century. We have learned nothing. And the progressive, inclusive and democratic Western civilization will die as well with applause by the progressivists, inclusivists and democrats.
He’s gloating. He’s giddy with delight over his Taqiyya delivered victory and how he will advance the global intifada, pursue dominion over the Western world by exploiting their ignorance, stupidity and weakness, and dreaming of his goal of destroying Israel. It’s what he wants. It’s what he dreams of.
If you voted for him and you’re not a fellow Islamist you’re stupid.
Just because you get a bit of HIV virus - doesn't necessarily mean you'll become chronically infected or get full-on AIDS.
Shall we all just lighten up a bit?
Aren't viruses good for the immune system?
An Iranian man who lived through the 1979 Revolution just dropped a raw warning after America elected its first Muslim US Senator (Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan) and NYC’s Muslim democratic-socialist mayor (Zohran Mamdani).
“Why on earth do you think some of these people you’ve elected will make your life better?”
He says Iranians like him are “allergic to having Muslims in politics” because they watched religious figures come in under the cover of socialism and democracy, topple the monarchy, and deliver something far worse.
“Islam doesn’t build, it destroys. It’s about death and destruction and murder.”
Don't stoop to the Hamas level of violence they support.
Use words, not weapons.
Note, the driver didn't actually impact the protesters. Replies in the thread suggested a physical attack on these protesters would be justified.
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NZ voters- If you think for 1 minute the left’s radical, woke, dei, co governance believe system has been abandoned just because they don’t talk about it, you are wrong. It’s packaged up & ready to deploy again in a heartbeat & will be if you vote them back in.
The current government isn’t fantastic, but they deserve 3 more years, because the alternative will set us back another 10 years.
You have been warned.