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D.A. has never shown up on UK iTunes Store. I have just tried the USA Store – and there is some stuff. Unfortunately I can't get at it. 'Road to Cairo' is something that I've wanted. You should check it. You might hate it. Montana Song isn't there though Try here If you don't have iTunes I guess it won't work. If you get there, sample: Waiting for the Moving Van Love's Enough One Night Stand Another Friday Night My record player & records are packed away, otherwise I'd make a file and send it. If you are really going to Montana? Maybe that was just some sort of code, or rhyming slang? Did you go and have a banana? edit: I've made my order through Amazon now, so that's that.

It goes on the bike? I missed that bit. Yours, slippin' an' slidin'

Johnny's in the basement Mixing up the medicine Wow – that's a freaky Bob Dylan cover there, JR

On the web?

What part of your body did they sew it on to?

So that's not a no then – I think you're cracking.

...so I rush to Tesco on the way home this evening. Car on roundabout ahead doesn't bother about the fact that I have right of way through the O-about and pulls on...and me with no life insurance...anyway, having risked life and limb, I collect Ride mag to devour the 'test'. It's rather small and limited (I think one of the staff saw one somewhere), so didn't add anything new: they do like the look of the thing though and pretty much advise The Readership to go out and buy one. Hope that doesn't happen. Over the page there's a small piece on fitting a Scottoiler. So I didn't risk my life for nothing then.

please mister

It has been extremely hard to come by, over here anyway. Thanks to this surge of interest (isn't V.11 Forum marvelous) I've just checked Amazon UK and there are a few cds now, I'm don't think there were when I previously looked, so things are looking up – must get the credit card out. I got the fabulous American Gothic back in the days when I had a life. That was 30 years ago.

Can't be sure. Didn't seem to be a Harley or a BM – in which case it would have been easier to have given you an answer.

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. ?