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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?

I've NEVER ruined anything. Only re-purposed them.

well yes. Cut the neck off an empty coke bottle and clamp it round your air inlet. A 100% efficient filter. It doesn't even need to be a dirty coke bottle. (post script to the lesson)

There was even a picture of his new sportified bike and as it was on the world-wide internet it must be true. He seems to be denying his own future. bink the dink

Didn't I say those Tenni Guys are ballerinas?

No major issues as long as you don't mess with it too much. Some people chuck the front blade and then find the handling goes to pot. The blade isn't just 'handy' when making your way through traffic – it balances the weight of the rear muffler(s). The underbody road grader can be a problem when you hit speed bumps, but only the first time...

Yeah. He's already promised that he would biff the donk, clonk the tickler and other stuff like that. What gives? I reckon an imposter has figured out his password. Something just isn't Docc Real and p.roper about this.

Come back when you've broken something. Then you can have an application form.

Well 'never mind the material, feel the position'. I think you're all daft – putting air filter pods outside, directly exposed to all the wet and muck of the day. So what, if one filter lets through a few microns more than another – if it's actually covered in hovered-up flotsam and jetsam. Keep it dry and snuggly, breathing comfortably in the box where it belongs.

Yep, you guys – your quiz points are all worthless, THEY'LL ALL WORTHLESS

Hey not bad, You're getting 30year old programmes now. I thought that you guys in the Tenni Sea were backward, but you're catching-up rightly. Watch out for a sophisticated and hillarious new comedy coming your way soon. It's called the Beverley Hillbillies. Edit just remembered I'm sure that there was a series on tv about 40 years ago, featuring that other fine Ulsterman, Davy Crockett. 'Davy, Davy Crockett, King of the wild frontier...' can't remember the rest of the theme song. Keep your eyes peeled for that one. Edit 2 It was actually made in the 50s, so turn your tv on NOW. It could be the Tenni Sea premiere anytime, even as you read this.