belfastguzzi

the 70's wasn't that long ago ...and surely... it must be Nantucket Sleighride?

A test is a test. Docc didn't qualify it according to the individual posting The Phrase. He just said 'someone' should post it. So the result stands fair and square. We'll have to wait until 2007 to see if there's any improvement in the Gentleman ratio. Unless anyone would like there to be an annual test.

Well, the Docc Real Acid Test (2003 & 2005) has run its course, throwing up surprise results. The V.11 Gentlemen Register has two names. Only slightly less than the Tenni Register. Gentleman Jim had an immediate gentlemanly response to the test phrase. That was a surprise, but an even greater surprise was when Gentleman Nog stepped in at a later stage with, 'But the truth will set you free. (John 8:31-32)'. It wasn't a response to the test phrase, but still, it was a timely and most helpful intervention. Well done.

Fortunately, there is a way. Send your money to me by trusty Royal Mail and I'll do the rest. This arrangement is jointly approved by Jaap and the Queen of England. Honest. Usual handling fee applies.

wot – just like wine gums?

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Not a tease – a test. And... an acid test that ought to be carried out every couple of years, to allow reflection on the state of the Forum. Docc proposed the test, back in the good old days when posters were, mostly, gentlemen. The acid test is for someone to post "I think I'll get rid of my Guzzi." This forum has always been most gentlemanly in response.> When we've got the likes of Nogbad and Badbadmotogoosey running about the place, the chances are that traditional values will be trampled underfoot. Jaap, in his quiet way, sought to address the issue by creating a Tenni Forum, within the Board. Undoubtedly he saw this as a haven that gentlemen could retire to, when, for example, things take a turn for the worse on Tech Topics. Unfortunately he failed to spot the rather obvious drawback to this solution: that the Tenni Forum would actually be populated by Tenni Guys. Everyone knows Tenni Guys are more than , so, that idea is never going to work. However, a Register of Gentlemen – that might just work. It would be a starting point anyway.

What length of string would you say is needed for a job like that, Martin?

Ah yes, the Moto Guzzi strap-line. Jaap should re-title Tech Topics with that phrase.

just cos he's standing on one leg don't mean that it's Ian Anderson – it could be Docc.

Here you are Jim, you'll get the info that you need here: one good favour deserves another, with thanks for your kind post in the gentleman's thread.

Time – now that's a pretty fascinating subject that you've raised there, Docc...

The footpeg is not a good place to set it. It could easily fall off and could even end up in the spokes of the back wheel. If you want to take that busted leg along with you (I suppose you're sentimentally attached to it?) why don't you tie it on top of the tank, like Martin does when he has bits breakf off? I'm sure he'll gladly post the picture AGAIN to show how it's done.

Yes indeed. At the moment I'm trying to separate out the louts from the gentlemen. A Register could be the next, mutually supportive, phase in this humble little campaign.

DIDN'T YOU EVEN NOTICE that the boy wot posted that isn't a Scura Man?????? AND... who is it that rides around on bikes with whopping big fairings on the front – eh?? 'nuff said

Well really! A less gentlemanly response I can scarcely imagine. Even if it is true. (I did reduce a Honda 500T to cardboard boxes once and eventually sold said boxes for a paltry amount.) Nogbad, a gentleman does not necessarily tell the truth.

Yes indeedy. Most of the respondents have failed the test quite atrociously. (GentlemanJim being the notable exception as he chose to tease out the good in what appeared, at first, a most disturbing statement.) Something has obviously gone wrong since the days of 2003 when Docc first mentioned The Acid Test. What could have happened? Are Moto Guzzis becoming the plaything of louts and ruffians?

So far, this is the most Gentlemanly response. I have to say I'm surpsied: chopperJim is a gentlemanJim?

Dear sirs "I think I'll get rid of my Guzzi." I await appropriate responses.

No. Jaap is very inversely snobbish – he only allows little jpegs here, or maybe a png or two. Why can't we be like other forums?

Hey, this sort of stuff doesn't belong in the Scura hut. Get yourself (your shoe stretcher and your cod piece) round to the Ballet Boys in the Tenni Forum.

You can't tell a Bodger what to do. He'll work it out for himself, in his own way (though what he uses the grinder for, I've no idea). PS I notice that his points aren't actually very big. 38x36 are very definitely the wrong size.

....*size of jeans again* ??

'spose I could have phrased it more delicately, however, don't get distracted – it's the science that counts here.

Subversion, I don't mind – but throwing bodge points about as if, as if... as if just anyone could get one for any old knuckle-headed mess-up, well: that's unforgiveable. Where we go from here, I don't know. I feel that my achievements have been soiled, terminally devalued. I'll have to carefully consider my position. Ok, I've considered. I don't think that I ever was a common Bodger. I should have been recognised as a true Fettler. Do you want a report on my Filtration Trials – impregnating K&N foam filters with Golden Syrup?