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2 dog power. Fab. I've never seen that before. Judicious addition of a hamster to this set-up would have been the equivalent of today's fine tuning with a Power Commander. And this one, BJ, is for you & your lady to go shopping in

It was produced with two different sizes of engines. As you can see, there's plenty of room in the frame. ?? No-one is getting Jim's scrambler in a hurry. As with most of these quizes, if you happen to know about a specialist or esoteric area of machinery then you might recognise something. If you don't, then Google for it. I call that interesting – not mean.

I'd give an arm and a leg...

I'd give an arm...

OK Folks I'm running out of time on this as I've gotta do it tonight. I was taken by the head of Alfred Garcia and a few other things, but I'm gonna stick with the Easy Rider theme, for better or worse. It's gonna be 'Ulster Rider' though. 'A man looking for Assembly and couldn't find it anywhere'. Resident politician,Nogbad, might get the significance of that. At least that's a bit more realistic than the original strapline, 'A man looking for America and couldn't find it anywhere". Well really, I know Cullybacky is hard to find, but America...? Generally it finds you, like it or not.

Oh right. That's handy. Unfortunately I've got to dash, so no time to answer just now.

Hi Big I'm kinda waiting for Jaap to officially confirm that this question counts as a Quiz. Points are points, after all.

I've got you down as an anthracite man.

I charged a couple of batteries. Having lashed up a battery form a couple of small batteries, I hope that they will start the new old bike and I'll go out for a ride in the rain. I feel this is the start of reminders about the diabolical aspects of older bikes. The seat and whole rear of the bike hinges up at the end of the frame, so as soon as it opens, the number plate hits the back tyre and the seat can't be lifted more than a few inches! Good job that I'm squeezing two small batteries in rather than a full-size one. Can't quite understand why this wasn't attended to a long time ago. I feel a bodge coming on.

Magnus Magnusson? Yes, I can see him as a Guzzi man. I bet he goes round to Aironepony's house too. He probably doesn't get to snort coke there though.

I haven't read all this thread, but it seems to be repeating what was said in the previous threads on same topic. I agree with G.rider that the trip should be admired and enjoyed. Why be damningly critical about such a venture? The fact is that they got out and did it – in whatever way made sense in their circumstances. Of course it was going to be different than 'the average trip', for all sports of reasons. One reason being that there was not much time for planning and preparation. In that case, it makes sense to set-up a project office and get people to help with the planning and prep. It got them out there and they've done the thing. Even better, they took along people to film it, which among other things means that we can vicariously enjoy and understand a bit more about such a venture.

The wider/bigger your tyre contact area is, the greater will be the floating effect. If you were driving across a beach or a soft muddy field then you would benefit from lower pressure & a bigger/wider footprint. With a hard, stable surface (tarmac road) under rainwater, then you benefit from a smaller section tyre footprint for the same weight of machine, as you want to cut through the surface water as much as possible and float as little as possible. In the muddy field example, if the ground under the mud was hard stone, then you would probably benefit from a narrower tyre as it would cut through to the hard ground under the muck. Better to drive on the hard rather than floating/spinning on the surface mud. I think you don't want to pump the tyre up as hard as possible because you still want a decent length of contact area. For a given contact area, I guess that if it is long/narrow there will be more rubber on dry road than if the section is wider/shorter. Don't know how 'scientific' that is.

""When you get that BMW, you take it right? Right. But when you get that break, and your reach the top, savor it, take it all in. And let 'em suck your KTMs! while you tell them how wrong they were for not believing you in the first place. Then get out. Quit. Exit. Be sure to leave them wondering" --McGewen McGregor (You have to have seen/read The Long Way Round to get that.)

Do I get a(nother) quiz point if I give the correct answer?

Today (actually yesterday by about 10 minutes) I got a new old motorbike

I'm sure you mean Johnny Depp

don't know what made you think that – ahem

Is a ram air effect really going to be achieved anyway? I cut the back half of the airbox lid off (which gives the less restrictive intake that you are after, by way of destroying MG's carefully designed aerodynamics) but left the front half with the full intake snorkels, for the purpose Skeeve mentions – to assist the passage of cool air to the underseat area and intake system.

1) It was up at the top! 2) The whale gets it. 3) Cheap Rusky sites 4) Ointment. It's an American thing.

Candy Floss or Big Harley – never heard of 'em. Yeah, I considered Barry Sheene's part in Siver Dream Racer. Badmotogirly: that role's alredy been taken by a fellow forum member. As for the penguin, I wondered who would be first to mention that, though I had a pretty good idea

(memo to self – don't change avatar pic. again in the next few days)

I've considered Tarka the Otter, but moved on now. To be honest, I'm thinking of writing one of my own.

That's the link I gave you above – didn't you read the post, thoroughly? Those Russian dowloads seem to be very cheap? ?? ?? A whole album seems to be less than a dollar and a single track is nothing at all really? Am I reading that American money right?

I've been asked by the newspaper to do the next "if I could star in a movie..." section in their weekend 'lifestyle' supplement. While I thought of Bob Dylan in Renaldo and Clara, or Jimi Hendrix in Woodstock – I don't think that they are the sort of movies that the paper is wanting. I've just watched Easy Rider again, after 35 years or so and to be honest, it's slightly on the diabolical side of whimsy. Anyway, I wouldn't want Jack Nicholson riding pillion. Motorcycle Diaries – Ché and picturesque landscape – no, there must be something else. Trouble is, I'm no movie buff. What would be a good film to star in? Help! - ahh, yes maybe that's it!

yes, yees, yeees. Of course of course