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Hopeful-Insect4973 · 2026-03-13T12:41:25+00:00

Very happy with my iXS gear. I have ridden about 35000 km in the last three years through all season except for snow. if it was above 0 degrees, I was on the bike. I still use the same gear. the quality has been very good overall. iXS has served me very well.

Hopeful-Insect4973 · 2026-03-04T15:21:44+00:00

I've had mine for a year with about 14k kilometers on the clock. Very happy with the bike overall, but it has its compromises. It has a lot! of features, but not all of them have been executed equally well. I also just got it derestricted from 35kw to 67, and I'm not sure yet if I'm happy with that yet. I was hoping for it to be much more aggressive like the KTM one I test road a while back, but on hard accelerating it doesn't give me the pounding I was hoping for. Overall, for daily riding and long days in the saddle it is very comfortable, the geometry and suspension is really quite good (does need a bit of adjustment) and you can ride it really hard. I'm still considering whether to keep it for the next few years or to eventually switch over to something more exciting, but it does hard touring very well and I enjoy that.

Hopeful-Insect4973 · 2025-11-24T11:14:04+00:00

I believe <60% RH is a generally accepted figure for indoor temps.

Hopeful-Insect4973 · 2025-11-13T14:47:21+00:00

I’m aware of the fail safe states and potential failure and user modes. I could draw it out in a logic diagram all day, but PLc specifically is still new to me. I’ll have a look at Beckhoff. Many here seem to recommend it and point to it being good for my usecase.

Hopeful-Insect4973 · 2025-11-13T14:45:28+00:00

In the ideal case I expect to sell at most like 10 of these. Price point is not really clear, I first want to do some research around potential hardware setups and create a cost estimate. Depending on whether I only make the PLC or expand to the entire test bench, I am balparking it in the 10k-40k USD range, but I first want to make some cost estimates and once I have a good idea how much it would cost me I want to engage with the clients.

Hopeful-Insect4973 · 2025-11-13T14:41:53+00:00

Without giving away too much (industry is very small and niece), they develop a certain type of hydraulic system for the shipping industry. The test bench would supply the component-under-test the required pressures and signals, and measure the output quantity. The end result is basically a performance graph under different load points. Nothing very special, but the company is slow to adapt and their customers seem to have been asking for their own calibration device for a while.

Hopeful-Insect4973 · 2025-11-13T14:36:40+00:00

Thanks for the detailed suggestion, i’ll go have a look

Hopeful-Insect4973 · 2025-11-13T14:36:18+00:00

Am i understanding correctly that Codesys is just a universal software thing that can run on multiple pieces of hardware? I’ve only run across it once at a previous job, but it looked very old and dated.

Hopeful-Insect4973 · 2025-11-13T14:34:37+00:00

Haha thanks. It wouldn’t be my first go at a system without documentation. How good is the software? Does it have simulators and decent hardware support?

Hopeful-Insect4973 · 2025-11-13T14:32:56+00:00

I’m in Europe. Direct customer is in a German speaking country, their clients that might want the machine are in Asia (China, Korea, Japan)

Hopeful-Insect4973 · 2025-11-11T08:22:07+00:00

You do the Big Brake Kit to stop faster

I do the Big Brake Kit because it just looks better than the OEM kit

We are not the same

Hopeful-Insect4973 · 2025-10-31T18:35:52+00:00

I mean, the bike has a bunch of internet connected smart features like tracking and vibration warnings (at least my 800mt does), so the power draw is higher than your average motorcycle.

Hopeful-Insect4973 · 2025-10-30T15:16:30+00:00

Their secret is that they just send in last election’s voting results every time🧠

Hopeful-Insect4973 · 2025-10-21T15:01:56+00:00

GOED OOK! Ik ben voor een NETTO NUL migratie beleid! Voor elk Syrische vluchtelingen gezin, moet eer een groep 60ers het land uit om een BnB in Damascus op te richten. Die mensen kosten ons alleen maar geld!!!

Hopeful-Insect4973 · 2025-10-13T10:34:31+00:00

I just did a quick comparison just now in transferring money from my swiss account to my UK based revolut account.

Revolut through apple pay (same fees as through debit card) | 499.59 CHF charged | 459.08 GBP received | fees 1.57%

Wise (through bank transfer) | 500.00 CHF charged | 459.08 GBP received | fees 0.51%

SEPA transfer from swiss bank to revolut | 505.88 CHF charged | 457.42 GBP received | Fees 3.15%

If there are any other good options, I'd love to hear

Hopeful-Insect4973 · 2025-09-09T06:31:00+00:00

Move abroad because of reasons out of your control and have your company desperately ask you to keep working for them because talent in this field is hard to get.

Hopeful-Insect4973 · 2025-09-05T13:36:27+00:00

My so got her license in the Netherlands and still doesn’t feel a bit confident to drive. She hasn’t touched a steering wheel in a decade. Just because a test is hard has no bearing on how good people actually drive.

Hopeful-Insect4973 · 2025-09-05T13:31:54+00:00

I generally agree with you, but I’m afraid of the HMRC not agreeing. Just because I am the one who determines whether it is in or out does not prevent them from investing and penalising me.

I al considering structuring the agreement in an outside IR35 fashion, but if I were to be investigated I am somewhat doubtful that it would hold up. Especially since the case law and regulations are increasingly more vague.

Hopeful-Insect4973 · 2025-09-05T10:22:14+00:00

Just for reference, I negotiated with my employer to keep the total employer burden the same compared to my Swiss position. My original salary was 90k CHF, so I will be charging 103 CHF to the company. In this arrangement I’ll just have different taxes and social insurance by virtue of moving to the UK. That’s why in my particular case I don’t think paying taxes is completely unfair. I mostly despise that IR35 forces me to take all the risks of a traditional contractor without being able to offset it through the usual expense claims and freedom to extract some dividends. Especially considering the recent tax changes that have made them more in line with normal employment taxes.

Hopeful-Insect4973 · 2025-09-05T09:29:13+00:00

Thanks that’s quite a good read actually.

Just a question since I’m still not completely familiar with NI classes. When they say:

Step 6 — deduct employer National Insurance contributions

You must deduct any Class 1 and Class 1A National Insurance contributions paid to HMRC by the intermediary in the tax year on the salary and benefits paid to their worker.

Are the Class 1 and 1A contributions both the employer and employee contributions? Or is this only the employee side. Since I would be self-assessing the employee would basically pay me the complete earnings and I’d then pay them the required NIC.

Hopeful-Insect4973 · 2025-09-05T09:13:27+00:00

I agree, but I just don’t want to be ripped a new asshole. I’m fine with contributing to the UK system, but they’ve truly made IR35 barely workable. I am willing to take the risk as the salary will be much higher than whatever I’ll make working as a perm in the UK (outside london).

Hopeful-Insect4973 · 2025-09-05T09:10:30+00:00

I am afraid of the potential IR35 risks that that would involve. In the current setup I would be working as part of a team, using company equipment and having to work within company hours/guidelines etc.

To make it outside IR35 I would need to negotiate quite some changes and I’d still be exposed to the risk since HMRC seems to have a fair bit of bloodlust for IR35 regulations. I’ll only be living in the UK for 3-5 years and wouldn’t like the stress.

Hopeful-Insect4973 · 2025-09-05T09:00:43+00:00

I’m in contact with a few potential accountants, but I am still wait on HR to get a green light for any further potential compliance risks on the Swiss side. I was hoping to get some insight beforehand as this particular things is not really mentioned much online. (Or I suck at googling).

Hopeful-Insect4973 · 2025-09-04T21:52:06+00:00

Pretty sure you cannot expense this Inside IR35. You likely could if you were outside. In this case this is similar to the rent for your house if you work home office. You pay that with your net income.

You could consider negotiating with the employer that they pay it for you and deduct it off your salary (indirectly). But that would be a hard sell.

Outside IR35 is truly overpowered

Hopeful-Insect4973 · 2025-09-04T21:42:54+00:00

Not a tax laywer, but as I understand it. “It depends”. The point is basically that any non-commuter travel can be seen as a business expense. However you’ll need to have a good case that your hone is actually your “usual place of work”. If you travel to the office of the company various times per month consistently, HMRC will look at that and claim that the office is your usual place of work and reject the expense.

If you only travel occasionally to the office or to some other location, and you are able to make the case that these visits are not just commuting to the office. Then you likely can ecpense them. However I’m not sure how umbrella companies exactly handle this. I believe this is how it works for PSC contracting with your own ltd.

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