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but I don't think that the cranked pipe and small high level can look great with the style of this bike, which is long, horizontal, flowing Maybe it looks better from a different angle.

He doesn't have one. He just wishes that he had one. Unfortunately his is shiny, though he did try to rough it up a bit, a while ago. As far as I know.

Riding Enzo's sofa! Cool. Don't drop that Sigma – what do you reckon it's going to say?

That's 'cause there's one on the other side too, so that they both make the same volume as the original fitment. Clever chaps, those Italians. I think they'll pull in the traditionalists with this one.

Oh no!!!!!! Now I've got nothing to do after Christmas lunch!

I have acquired a niggle. What should I do with it?

No steering mech? Don't worry Guzzi lovers. It's an optional extra on this model, so if you really want it, you can have it. This new era Guzzi has a pretty neat options list. You've seen that this model comes with an under-body earth grader as standard, but did you know that there's a handy drop-down dozer blade too? So neat. Word on the grapevine is that they're working on a refrigerated combination. The Mandello top brass were leafing through a back catalogue and were inspired to ressurect one of the old names, again. They're gonna call it The Big Norge. Cool. Not sure if they had the right catalogue though.

I was taken by the bolt hole that he has, clean through his neck. I thought that the head modification was streamlining, so that nothing sticks up in the airflow when he's tucked behind that windshield. Your explanation is more likely though. The bolt hole must be for neck panniers when he can't get his stuff on the luggage rack up top. Those FancyBikes sure are impractical and call for unusual measures when it comes to real life, everyday shifting and carrying.

define 'working'

The V.11 that has elbowed its way into the photo of the quaint green iron, red-doored Oirish shed is, I think, that belonging to Big'dodgy'J. Bigdodgey is, no doubt, in the pub on the other side of the road. The dodgyrider of the R.Corsa likewise seems to have repaired to the pub. Pity for Guzzbun that they sneaked a snap of him on his FancyBike with stabilisers attached. Perhaps he needed them 'cause he's returning from the pub.

Come back when you are sober

As it happens, that's my third favourite question. I'm very partial to a bit of wine and I do insist on wearing something wine-coloured every day. Here are some of my favourite pieces. I hope that this visual display helps you to understand the joy of wine and how it differs from the various other colours that inhabit this kaleidoscopic world. Now, which one shall I wear tomorrow?

So it was you! Problem solved. Do you and Ferguzzi often go on drinking sprees? What town are you hitting next?

Depends what angle the sun is at and Guzzi doesn't do 'wine' anyway, so I'm thinking that most likely the wine was in Ferg and goodness only knows what colour that bike actually was, if indeed there really was a bike, and if indeed he really was walking down the street surrounded by Harley - Fergussons and not just lolling in a wine-coloured haze on a Pasadena park bench. Pasadena? well really! Are we expected to believe that. Next thing – Ferg will be telling us that he can fly!

grr. If I don't get a quiz point by, let's say, this time next year, I'm defecting to the WildGuzzimen's Forum.

Santa selected it as a Christmas surprise for Ben deBen?

It might have been me... what time was it, exactly?

WHAT! Just spotted this. That means I'm due one as nobody has gotten my quiz right either!

Yes indeed. They're not mutually exclusive options. You CAN do both, if you've got a suitable vehicle. I tried the thumb shear on a VW Polo today, but there was no way – modern cars have had all the fun removed from them. It works perfectly on an older Land Rover (Defender type) where there is a built in guillotine to trap fingers/thumb and scissor them off. For modern cars, your technique is the best. It's no wonder that steering wheels on motorbikes never caught on. The accident rate must have been pretty high.

Have you ever wrapped your thumb around the spoke of a steering wheel, down at the boss, and then trapped it against the indicator stalks or whatever gubbins protrudes from the steering column, as you turn a corner? You can't get your thumb out, 'cos you've got to keep turning the car to keep it on the road, but you can't turn the car because your thumb is jammed in the steering wheel... Or you've got feet like Martin and you stand on the brake pedal, but half your boot is pushing the accelerator pedal down too – possibly while you're wrestling with the steering wheel to turn the car but it's going straight for the wall 'cos you're all jammed up in everything???? and an apple has probably fallen off the seat and rolled under the brake pedal anyway

Oh oh. You want to be careful of those bows and arrows, you do. A fellow could get his eye put out with one of those; or nose taken off.

In the Tenni Forum, when they're all out at ballet class sshhhhh...

Has that thing got any sharp edges on it?

Yeah, I just spotted it at the last minute. Unfortunately I was so tired that I missed a lot of it anyway. I kept falling asleep. It wasn't actually that interesting to watch. Because it's all on a road circuit enclosed by solid high barriers, you just see a bike, or a few bikes hurtling along in isolation. There really isn't even any audience to create an atmosphere. It's all solid walls, armco, buildings. Road racing through the countryside, with people packing out the hedges and gateways, is a much better spectacle.

Wow, thanks. Jaap won't give me a Quiz Point, but I knew someone would see sense, eventually. I'm having trouble with the instructions. I generously wet the back of the computer screen and pressed the picture against a solid gold plate I had in the trophy cabinet. The picture hasn't transferred to the gold plate yet. Should I ask about this in Tech Topics? What is all the smoke that's now coming from the computer?