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Autumn glory and as Van Morrison said, In September, when the leaves come falling down Follow me down, follow me down, follow me down To the place between the garden and the wall Follow me down, follow me down To the space between the twilight and the dawn Follow my butt, to the Scura Hut.

Thanks Jaap - it's another of those weird ones. The photos do not all display on my computer at work or the one at home. I have checked on my phone and it is same thing: in posts 1, 2, 3 & 6 there are no photos!

Suede is good, Fergal. I once made a motorbike seat cover from beautiful brown leather – with fringes all around it. Bothersome in the wet, yes, but, it had fringes - and it was real leather. Just don't tell anyone. Jaap, for me, the photos in posts 1, 2, 3 & 6 only appear as messages from Flickr saying that the photos are unavailable. I'll try refreshing the cache. D

Oh well, just to show that Fergal really was there: I'll try a couple more, smaller photos. We'll see if they stay put.

Couldn't edit the above post either. So – the save post button etc don't work at all.

I can't edit the original post either. After clicking 'edit', the 'save post' and the 'use full editor' buttons don't work, only the 'cancel' button. I was going to add this as a PS to above post, but as per the query in the Motha forum here, doing that makes the html code appear in the post. Jaap, do my comments make sense? Seems like a couple of anomalies/faults?

Yes it does. That's why it is so exciting to see the suede. Fergal is in the South, so he's ok: the sun shines there. (Not) I see that half the photos aren't showing anymore. I wonder why Flickr does that? Anyone know what's happening? Photos appear ok at first and then after a day the link doesn't work anymore.

Great that Fergal made it across from the other side of Ireland for a quick morning hello before people went home. I didn't (over)hear the whole conversation, but it sounded like there was delay due to having a baby in mid-air. It wasn't necessarily Fergal who had the baby, though with that seat and of course the whole Tenni thing – it could have been.

I could post scenery ones. Maybe in the Travel forum? Or you can go to Flickr album.

Business: but not as usual. Why have a chain & sprocket when you can have big lumps of stuff – everywhere.

A Scura with non-wrinkly casings? What's his secret lotion? Mo_biker's own. Ex-John O'S.

I will post another V11 pic in a while, to satisfy the purists. Just keeping you hanging on.

BTW KB, I will RSVP your PM when I get a free AM TTFN DB

Skeeve mentioned something, which is why I put his name in the first post. Original comment came about because of the strange artwork where a Moto Guzzi Classic was rebadged as an Indian Scout, for an advertising pitch. Other Topic

Get onto Facebook you Luddite – satisfy your inner party-animal.

Here There you are, Skeeve.

and I use a chest strap.. handlebar mount and other clamps. Ok, I see where you're going with this 'artistic video' stuff Foto – and I don't know that I like it.

JM there are lots of posts around the place,including here, about the 8V Griso's thirst. Over the years since having mine, the fuel consumption readout has displayed mid to high 20s and into low 30s in good conditions. Of course it's got that messy open pipe, but still, the motor is just thirsty and that's that. Those figures are mpg and the dash only deals in USA gallons. You need to convert that to euro speak in order to compare, but yours does seem worse. In decent conditions I reckon on having a range of around 120 miles. Fuel light comes on between around 95 miles to 110. Yours is coming on after 100km which is 62 miles. I think it's 15 litres from 'reserve' to brim-full: you say 14L. Are you getting a complete fill? Maybe the sender is registering too early? Actually your readout is equivalent of 18 mpg US, is that right? That's pretty grim. I have seen lots of low 20s, but it's not always as bad as that and it did get somewhat better after I did a thorough tune-up. If my display shows average 28mpg that is 33mpg in UK terms. Not good, but 35ish is what I'm resigned to as a good average. Yours is a lot worse. Give it a bit longer, more tank-fills, in case that's a rogue stat.

wow, nice site there. A bike modelled on Ned Kelly and finished in campfire black belongs in The Scura Shed, most certainly.

A man and his pet seal walk into a bar. It's about 5pm, but they're ready for a good night of drinking. They start off slowly, watching TV, drinking beer, eating peanuts. As the night goes on they move to mixed drinks, and then shooters, one after the other. Finally, the bartender says: "Last call." So, the man says, "One more for me... and one more for my seal." The bartender sets them up and they shoot them back. Suddenly, the seal falls over dead. The man throws some money on the bar, puts on his coat and starts to leave. The bartender, yells: "Hey buddy, you can't just leave that lyin' there." To which the man replies: "That's not a lion, that's a seal."

Q: What did the seal say when it swam into a concrete wall? A: "Dam!" Q: What does a seal get from sitting on the ice too long at the zoo? A: Polaroids! Q: Where do seals go to see movies? A: The dive-in!

It's a pity that all the seal jokes have been done to death before.

BTW, Dynavector MC high output or Linn MM, or what? I'm in a quandry. I prefer MM, because it is simpler and is more 'universal', but a lot of purists say that MM is the better solution. My MM sounds just fine. As an aside.... Have an orange. That takes care of most of this scura-business Got a Linn Adikt MM, though was tempted by Dynavector MC (Hi output) and then an even more expensive, next one up, DV. I'm just realising that I must have been subconsciously influenced by the Adikt being – – BLACK Funny enough, the old K9 that it replaces was a kind of orange.