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I didn't watch it all, it's been commented on here before: just a thought – The lane splitting doesn't seem extraordinarily EXTREME. If there is space, he goes through. If there isn't he stops. He/she doesn't wheely up the gap or drive over the top of the cars. One of the things that makes it seem more dodgy is the fixed camera viewpoint. The camera is looking from low down, can't look around and doesn't have peripheral vision. Where it goes a bit daft is outside the lane splitting. A lot of this run has open road ahead. When there is empty road, she/he guns it and charges on with the front end up in the air. The weaving-about makes it look dodgy too, though again it is exagerated by the camera. People crossing the road aren't given much time of day either. They're treated as obstacles rather than people. But driving up the gap and round the cars... maybe not so extraordinarily EXTREME?

Most excellent and glorious indeed. I particularly enjoyed the hiss. Can Jaap not set the site up to play these things as soon as you connect? We might find that there is more respect and less frivolity amongst the patrons then.

Breva may be well designed in terms of how it is made: of course that doesn't mean it's well designed for every purpose or to every taste or that it's well designed as a raw motorbike. (Ok, it's not meant to be a 'raw' bike – and the V.11 is much closer to that). Some bikes are well designed, as comfy armchairs. Some bikes are well designed as fashion items or jewellery. Some bikes are well designed as cars: and so and so on... Some bikes don't seem to be fastidiously designed – but they are great bikes. I think you are right about the Griso, though I don't think that it will flop. Generally I like it, but mostly because I like the idea that the machinery is much better sorted and that it is made to much better quality standards. – And that it is not the Breva. I very much want to see a real one. My fear is that this might be a bike designed as jewellery, slightly vulgar jewellery. From the pictures it looks a bit like the equivalent of a big gold medallion, to hang on the hairy chest of swarthy Italian Medallion Man. It may not be as bad as that in real life. I think I might want one, but the bike is not 100% convincing. From the pictures, it's about 80% convincing. I still think that the V.11 may be the last 'proper motorbike', in a rounded sense, to come from Guzzi.

It's screeching again. These things seem to lose lubrication and go dry relatively quickly. Can't think why that shoud be?

Wow, hold the press– you got a photo of a GHOST, Martin! Look, behind the motorbike.

Give your ears a good clean out and listen to this little ditty (need realPlayer)

V.ELEVENERS: Yes, we're all individuals! BRIAN: You're all different! V.ELEVENERS: Yes, we are all different! DENNIS: I'm not.

I can supply those myself, thank you.

I can imagine Father Martin on that actually, popeing around the 'holey' roads of Hertfordshire

This one is Canadian, but surprisingly, despite that fact, it's also utterly tasteless.

The Popemobile had humble origins I see. I note that he rides 'His Bobness' stylee

There's a Matchless G12 in the paper tonight – ??

Got a letter from the insurance company tonight, when I got home. They've refused me life insurance. S'pose the sensible thing is to get sensible:

Don't suppose you know David Ackles either? 'Montana Song' – a masterpiece

Converting to Catholicism, Martin? Re Erin:from what they wrote in the magazine, it looks like they are planning to do the Erin again in 2006, with better camping facilities. ?

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____________________________ and don't you know nuthin about your morose fellow Aymerikans?

stop stop stop we can never reveal who it is now

Just back from seeing Richmond Fontaine. Enough to make a feller want to tunnel into Broadmoor. I know the days of 'supergroups' has long gone, but I reckon those Portland boys should get together with the Handsome Family. SuperSad groups could be the next big thing. Oh yeah, Mark Eitzel could join in too. Actually, they were great.

Hey! Tyres are people too! You can't just replace them when they go bald.

? ? Fatboy you fool, it's the "Big Medicine" Club.

Ok JR remember that query about what additive to put in the 'gas' tank? Seems like Vitamin C could be the answer: not to keep the injectors clean, but to cure that perennial American problem of Vapour Lock, sorry, Vapor Lock. Evidence the first Anyway, you guys shouldn't be complaining about the problem. Don't eliminate the vapor: think smart and bottle it. You could make a fortune, enough to buy a BMW: keep the Guzzi just for what it's good at – producing vapor. Evidence the second Just steps from the Hotel Colorado in Glenwood Springs are two facilities that seduce visitors back to the mountains again and again. The first is the Yampah Spa and Vapor Caves. This 106-year-old spa offers massage, body wraps, herbal wraps, facials, mud packs, and Melanie's favorite, taking the vapors in the geothermal steam baths. ... Lying supine on the granite slabs that line the walls while breathing the vapors as they swirl about in a soothing fog unknots every kink, she says. **Yampah means "big medicine" in Ute, and the Indians believed the caves purified body and spirit. A day pass costs only $8.75. Call 970-945-0667. **Surely some mistake. I thought Yamaha is the "big medicine". Or is that m1 mistake? Notice I chickened out of posting this in tech topics.

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Yikes! Did something give you a sudden fright? If you get the urge again, ask Guzzirider if you can borrow his special bike. Or just get stronger trousers.

Those guys need help. Do you think a raid is in order? They probably don't even know what sort of oil to use.