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Norge My new Norge is at MPH cycles in Houston. I hope to pick it up Friday. If the weather isn't too awful I'll fly down and ride it home (497 miles). Otherwise, it's down with the truck and back again. A sidetrip to Bastrop, Texas is in the plans as well. Gotta show it to my brother.

This whole thread started silly, has degenerated into absurdity, so I'll just throw this in. "Remember: In promulgating your esoteric cogitations or in articulating your superficial sentimentalities on amicable, physical, or psychological observations, beware of platitudinous ponderosities. Let your conversational communications possess a clear conciseness, concatenated coherency and coalescent consistency'. Eschew all conglomeration of flatulent garrulity, jejune babblement, and asinine affectation! Seduously avoid all polysyllabic profundities, pompous prolificacy, ventriloquial verbosities, and vain vapidities. Abstain from magnanimous sesquipedalianisms." Hey Jaap, maybe you should just delete this entire thread...

I'm not fond of WalMart (bring back White Front and FedMart!) but it's pretty much the only game in town for where I live. I am realistic enough to realize that to the tune of 9 Billion dollars a year, it should be called "The Peoples Republic of WalMart", because it is a major outlet for PRC made goods.

Theme song from the James Bond flick "Live and Let Die" with Roger Moore. "LIVE AND LET DIE" (title song) Composed by Paul McCartney and Linda McCartney Performed by Paul McCartney and Wings

Motociclismo.it just ran a comparison between the 1200 Sport, a Ducati Sport 1000 and the new Moto Morini 9 /2. La strada di Casa

MPH, Houston, it should get there Wednesday. Uncertain as to just when I'll get down there. Hopefully by this coming weekend.

Looks like the "Golden Goose" laid an egg, rather than the goose that laid a golden egg.

I'm probably going to have to get one of these so I can get the Ural out of the garage and make room for the Norge. Bike Barn Not cheap, but definitely cheaper than adding to the garage. Of course, if someone here were to buy one or two of my Guzzis really cheap, that would suffice for adding space as well...

Crikey! I can make that kind of mistake without investing in satellite navigation!

bike on paddock stand support the engine - jack, soap box, oversized beer swilling neighbor, whatever yank the tank unbolt intake hardware remove exhaust headers remove starter remove speedometer cable - prior to hosing it remove engine mount sub-frame at front (if you're not going to crab it) unbolt everything on the rest of the engine holding it in frame, pull it forward and remove it That's close to what it takes although I haven't actually done it that way. There's bound to be a bit more to it than that. My experience has been removing the transmission on a V11 Sport which entails most of these steps because you have to crab the frame. Removing the transmission takes about 1.5 hours for a klutz like me. Taking bigbikerricks B11 Sport (B for burned), was pretty much as above but a lot of stuff was already removed or just plain burned away. For that one, the engine remained positioned on a box or stand (don't recall) and the frame was unbolted and lifted off of the engine and transmission in pieces.

KY jelly is really good for slipping auto front windshield glass into the old channel style rubber window molding.

If you're riding the bike at all, the tires won't last long enough for any physical change caused by either air or nitrogen. Fill 'em with helium if you want - they'll be flat in days. Helium is the smallest molecule we've got next to hydrogen. Seeps right through stuff. That's why the preferred balloon used for parties etc is the metallic ones. The helium seeps through slower. Still goes flat. There was a huge thread (humor) on synthetic air a few years back on one of the forums. Right up there with synthetic blinker fluid. I'm guessing this thread will pass likewise in a few days...

48 hours ago, it was 74˚ F. Now it's 21˚ F and there's a foot of snow outside my door. Snowed in today. Had to blow off $70 worth of tickets to a jazz concert in Tulsa because of the storm and even the damned Ural can't get out of my garage. Probably won't make it to work either. Even if I had a snow shovel - which I don't - I'm not going to shovel 4000 feet of gravel road. Not gonna happen...

In 1999 I was told by the MGNA head salesguy that Guzzi would be releasing a full touring bike "Real soon now". Seven years later, it's a reality. That was without the benefit of a mock-up or picture or anything. So, I would guess that the wait for the 8V will be a tad shorter than that. I suspect that waiting for the "maybe it'll happen" H2O engine might be a better choice.

And for a mere $850 (tax, shipping, sake, etc - not included), you can try and convince this Japanese shop to export you a set of these: "Dr. John" replicas. Todd's version looks better and better all of the time.

There are a couple of free extensions to Firefox that allow for downloading .flv files. They vary in success though.

I've got a fairly good flv player for the Mac. It's this particular video that I'm having trouble getting a clean download from. If it were on youtube or one of the common spots, there are extensions to Firefox to get a clean download. Not from the site where the Guy Webster video is though, so I resorted to finding the file in the browser cache. It's the right size (maybe), but is corrupted fairly in the video. After several of these tries, I'll just have to wait for the video to pop up somewhere else, be downloadable directly, or show up in a more computer friendly format.

I've tried the cache file recovery and it's worked well in the past for a lot of things, but not for this video. I'm on a Mac though and Alex's method involves completely different software, operating system and file systems. I guess I'm going to have to let this one pass...

I've got a deposit down on one and the funds sitting in the bank. When I get it, I'm going to call it mine.

Ta da!!! Quiz ended. Good work Gary. Turn Berva inside-out and you get Breva.

All of the letters from a certain late model Guzzi. No more. No less. One word. I don't know that I'll ever find the web site again that I got this image from. Somewhere in Russia. The bike is not Russian, but is of a former iron curtain nation. I sure hope they weren't fibbing about the name of this little beastie because it would certainly spoil this quiz.

Grossohc got remarkably close but... no cigar.

Nope.

Sooooo much fun! Leave out Norge.

Let me give you a better clue. Think of really late model Guzzi name...