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Hmm. Do I have to remind you how speedily I got this one? And don't forget to check Martin Barretts reference to his quiz that I got but didn't get a point for! And I need a stumper for this one, if Mike Wilson doesn't come back.

So what make is it? You must be able to get the front straps round under the front of the frame or around the steering head. Do the ends not connect to each other?

Yes.

Yes, it's hard to believe! Usually a strap at the front will go down around the headstock and a strap at the back will go under / around the frame where the rear of the tank is, but I doubt if it uses the tank securing bolt. Have you got any extra straps with it? Do the two top straps connect to each other? What is the make of the tank bag? Is it for any particular bike or is it a generic fitting? Maybe it is for a different type of tank altogether. The rounded plastic V.11 tank isn't great for attaching a bag to. Can't you keep your fish in the tail-space?

For starters, don't use those screws. Here are some tips: (This is one of the most useful – Tape the bottom of the bag, eliminating corners that fish can wedge themselves into.) Bag Preparation The key to success is to plan ahead. Don't wait until the last minute for anything. Make sure that you have your bag, rubber bands, oxygen supply, boxes, tape, insulation, packing water materials (Sea Salts, AmQuel, Antibiotics), have the fish cleaned out, substrate and decorations cleaned, and capture nets or cups. Bag Preparation The bag should be minimum 2.5 mil thickness. For the larger, spinier fish like Surgeons, Triggers, etc., we used a triple layered 3 mil bags. Different kinds of fish need more or less room in a bag, and more or less water. Keep in mind that it isn't so much the "water" that ensures a good "ride" for the fish, it is the column of O2. Most fish will do well in a bag that they can comfortably turn around in, depending on the length of the trip. Just enough water to keep them covered while swimming upright, plus and extra 1/2" of water in the bag is all that is needed. However, for larger more active fishes, like Wrasses, Triggers and Groupers as examples, they need more water coverage. Make an "envelope" of newspaper, using about two or three thicknesses, to put between the bottom 1/3 of the bags. If a fish spine pokes through the first bag (and this happens alot), the newspaper will help stop the spine from going into the second or third bag, helping to retain the water. Even Wrasses can poke through a bag. Their pectoral fins contain a sharp spine. The other thing to consider are fishes that have sharp teeth, like larger Wrasses and Triggerfishes. Many times they will try and bite through a bag, so the use of a newspaper liner is wise. Tape the bottom of the bag, eliminating corners that the fish can wedge themselves into. Use Oxygen when you gas your bag. It might sound difficult to find, but it isn't, really. Nearly all shops that do auto work have an acetylene torch. You can use this quite nicely. It won't be "hospital grade", but we used this kind of O2 for years with great success.

It's the Global Warming issue, J.R.

No, still not at all convinced by high level pipes on the Griso. Don't fit the bike's design.

I've got one. What about it?

Why don't you post a link, Hatcheck?

Like I've posted before BigJ, I've been looking out for such a fitting and haven't seen one yet. Haven't seen anything in catalogues either. There must be something available around the place...

That's right you're wrong and it could be left at that but Nogbad's post is evidence that I correctly identified the characters in the pic – so is that one point or three?

This is the 50th post on the subject of new tyres for a Tenni

subjective or objective observation? I bet it is shining

For a moment I thought that the dotted line on NW of the map indicated a point in N.I. Disappointed to realise that it's just the ferry route and the point is at the Scotland end of the line. I thought that I might have got one point – and you know how much I'd like that.

R.D.Laing, Rats Hatcheck and let me see, Badnog? 3 points, surely?

Good gracious! June 2004! That other Spanish Inquisition stuff was way back then! So far I'm managing to resist the HelicopterJim Inquisition but I'm not sure how much longer I can hold out against his insistance that the beastly machine is a Puch 125. Bendy better give me a Stumper Point soon, or he'll have a broken man on his conscience.

I say! Better late than never. And you come bearing gifts. What an elucidating, nay momentous contribution. Do stay. This could be the very wampeter of a newly waxing era of Motononguzzism. Who'd have thought it! I'm delighted. I propose Bendy for Chief Scribe of the Oracle. And Nogbad as Prime Example of the Daily Saying, which today is: "Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way." Hairypony gets the task of artfully painting this onto some long-abandoned drum-brake housing, which shall be mounted on the forum gatepost: "Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything."

"No-one expects the Spanish Raceposition!"

See above

Spirogram? send and receive coded messages (How come R. Hatcheck still hasn't been enticed in?)

Rossi tagged & thrown off at first corner. Eventually picked up damaged bike and rode on without footpeg and back brake, broken front brake lever and probably twisted stuff. Picked up a couple of points. Maybe shouldn't say much more if people still have to watch the race later.

front end chatter and back end batter one out of three – not bad

Na, not in any way.

'Hear, hear.' I agree