belfastguzzi

I never even noticed that – better mosey on down to the Quiz Forum. I could be on a winning streak. It's not very big though, is it?

Cousin Helicopter. We've found our long-lost grandpappy at last!

There's your problem right there Bennyboy. Solid steel? Seems like you've got a 3" nail in your back tyre.

Clearly this is a thread that requests daily attention and as it's posted by the Commander Chappy, everyone will feel it their duty to respond. Anything those Dutchys can do, we can do better. Guaranteed. I think that I'll read the 'What time is it?' thread tomorrow, when it will then be today, and report back on its entire contents.

Have you ever tried Googling for Frenchbob? He's postage stamp sized too.

Do yourself a favour, MacG. Just use air. It's a heck of a lot cheaper. If you want something exotic, you could at least change to LPG. Have you ever tried filling your tyres with electricity? It's the fuel of the future.

OF COURSE IT'S YOUR FAULT! You asked two completely separate questions in two posts in the same thread!! The people are talking about what you want them to talk about!!! Except for MacGuzzi who's now claiming that he fills his tyres with petrol instead of air!!!! I don't think that I'm even going to respond to that one.

'spose you change yer pistons every time you get petrol too, Mr Smarty Badpants.

What a gorgeous pic. Make? Tricky, as not much of the bike is shown, but I say that this is undoubtedly a Moto Guzzi Model? V.11 Sport Scura When picture was taken? at 12 hours 49 minutes and 10 secs on 11th June 2005 Where taken? at the Healy Pass, Kerry, Eire Valve settings? Don't try trick questions. This baby is transistorised. How many lace holes on the riders boots? Hey tricky-dickey, these boots have 14 D-rings and 6 hooks per foot-piece. Only one big hole per item, fer stickin yer fut in. Now, let that Jaap chap try to wriggle out of this one...

Do you want the registration number too? That's gotta be worth 2 Big Points.

That Mr Bartin will soon have enough points to get a nice picnic hamper.

Oh no. You never told me that you were going to post this. Now that Marret Bartin fellow has gone and done the dirty. You should know that I never look in the Quiz forum as I have no interest in such things. I need warning.

I'm still waiting for simple, basic non-esoteric parts ordered at the begining of November '05

It wasn't clear from previous threads whether there were different fittings in different parts of the world. As far as I remember, it was more UK people who reported the problems – though I can't really imagine that different valves are used for different places. Maybe there were different batches at different times? Ducati use, or have used, the same nasty alloy valves that develop splits around the valve stem. You can tell what you have by the look. Durable stainless steel valves will look like, well, like hard silver stainless steel. The other ones that come as standard are more of a yellow colour (I don't have one here to give a more accurate description – but it doesn't look like steel). I think it's worth changing when you have to change tyres, if you don't do it before that.

Suggest you put some air in and see what happens. But – you could have those crappy original valves that split and so leak air. Have you put stainless steel valves in? If not, do so. There have been posts about the perils of the rubbish lightweight valves. My valves split and leaked, but worse than that, was when the 'lightweight' retaining nut split. Air leaked past the valve and then got to the point when the valve seat dropped from the rim into the tyre so that tyre went completely flat when I was riding it. The bike didn't steer too good at that point.

What time .........................

The Society for Laingian Studies from the point of view of a man alienated from his source creation arises from despair and ends in failure. But such a man has not trodden the path to the end of time, the end of space, the end of darkness and the end of light. He does not know that where it all ends, there it all begins. from 'Politics of Experience' "D. Laing remains an important and controversial psychoanalyst and philosopher. His ideas are still provocative and powerful. They continue to irritate the psychiatric establishment. Nothing recommends a thinker better, to my mind, than the ability to irritate the professional and academic establishments years after his death. From my first encounter with Laing's writings in the eighties, as a college student when I heard about him in a philosophy class, I knew that this was a thinker whose ideas I would come to know well. I have now read many of Laing's published works and I have read a great deal about him. I am certain that Laing's work has saved lives**. It has inspired much interpretative commentary and reaction. In my judgment, Laing's philosophical contributions, apart from his work as a therapist, are significant and place him in the front rank of phenomenological thinkers. In what follows, I wish to say something about Laing's understaning of evil, of the harm that we do to one another and to ourselves, and of the unavoidable task of coming to terms with the capacity within each of us both to cause and to suffer, as well as to overcome, such harm." **(Hmmm. well, I know that he has offered some most excellent views in this Forum, but really, is it not taking things a bit too far to say that he has actually saved lives? I thought that it was only Al Rottenburger's posts that did that. )

looks at corner... shuffles feet ...cough......

HAa. EXcelLeNt ObSerVatiOn, Dr.Bad. Is there a CuRe?

Yes, remembered that afterwards. Now We'll just have to make the best of this awkward situation. Maybe I should post the original content after all.

no, i don't think i'll post this after all, but where's the delete?

Hehe, that's the fiend ok. I'd be pleased to get your autograph. Let me prepare a generous draft for you to sign. What's your bank? – just curious...

No, MC5 just won't do at all. Too scarey from what I remember. Besides, I think that MC5 is the old imperial lp measurement. You need to get the metric equivalent, which I believe is mp3+2. No MC5 or Necroharleypistonkillers for me. At this moment I'm listening to Canteloube: Chants d'Auvergne: Baîléro (Chant de bergers de Haute-Auvergne) I suspect some sort of subliminal pastorale influence seeping through from Frenchbob in his Elysian fields. Or it could just be that it's at the top of the iPod playlist as the Artist starts with A: American Symphony Orchestra, Anna Moffo...blahcetera... KB talks earnestly to the man from ......Michelin... but it all goes in one ear and out the other

See (hear) the link that I added above, in case you missed it. Hear – this is what I remember as classic CC It sounds much better though, if you open it twice, with about a 10 second gap between each stream and then keep them looping