belfastguzzi

WHEN Bendy gives me my point, I'll share it with you.

What did you get with the Stelvio?

Did you see the time lapse Superbike rebuild? Oh to have a workshop with space in it, lovely. http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/nw200...elapse_bike_512

Don't just stand there man, get on with it! 'Mild' had me flummoxed for a minute, but I guess you mean Wildguzzi? Let us know when you post it. By the way, a minor(ish) point, but what do you think of the motor's whining? Maybe it's not so present for you if you're operating in more open spaces at higher revs than those of us in town/city traffic? The whole inlet-airbox is a bit of a crocodile. Are you going to... tamper with it?

Ah ha. It's a helmet lock cable? There is a steel rod spur-finger-what would you call it? welded to the frame under the seat, the purpose of which I could not see. The cable eyelets must slide onto it. I'll check tomorrow. So why the fancy shrink-sleeve at one end of the cable? Must be to ensure that the cable-cover sleeve is tight to both ends and no cable wire is exposed, though I can't see why that is crucial. A point to me, Bendy, you dirty rotten multi-voting poll-cheater.

They're alloy and they're rounded profile.

On being a couple of inches away from bikes doing 200 mph It's May, it's nearly NW200 time. 150,000 spectators from around the world are expected this year. S-u-s-t-a-i-n-e-d flat-out straights; hairpins; you might want to watch it (main day 17th May) at http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/nw200/ Superbike races will feature the cream of road racers including NW200 record holder Michael Rutter on board the Ducati. Steve Plater is the current circuit record holder at 124.109 mph. Is anyone going to be here in the early part of the week? At the moment, there's some good footage on that site, from 2007. Look at the 'Onboard Montage 2007'. '2007 Action' has stunning, er, action. See also http://www.northwest200.org/ but the BBC site, above, is a cracker. And this is a good feature: Michael Rutter's guide to viewing points on the circuit http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/nw200...v=mathers_cross http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/nw200...tml?v=york_road etc 2005 Remember Rutter cracking 200mph on the road? Watch this –––––> Good video of the year that 201mph was being topped. http://www.u.tv/nw200/asx/liveaction-x_1.asx ~ compilation http://www.u.tv/nw200/asx/liveaction-x_2.asx ~ Superbike race http://www.u.tv/nw200/asx/liveaction-x_3.asx ~ onboard http://www.u.tv/nw200/asx/liveaction-x_4.asx ~ onboard from start If you're pressed for time, here's a short couple of minutes from 2006 on YouTube - Duke Video http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xnQS3ngyUEY

This is no tailgate hook-up! I said, this is sophisticated! Look at the sleeving up at the top end.

As Guzzitech has got a bug, I can't post there, unfortunately. So I'll post here. Not that you guys would know anything about the toolery required by MODERN sophisticated motor cycles. So The opulent toolkit supplied with my Griso 8V has a few items extra to the list in the User's Manual. The Manual shows: one toolkit pouch, nice one screwdriver one fuse-puller one open-ended spanner two Allen keys Here's what I got. It must have been packed by Santa because there are these extras: another Allen key a box spanner and a mystery item. What on earth is the cable with the eyelet ends for?

Harumph.

WHAT! It wasn't the same bike, if it was silver, not yellow. Anyway, I demand a recount of Guzzirider's points. Something's not right there.

what's a little . between friends, or between tappety bits? Frank – Can you post a link to the original info?

...and Slug should devote his spare time to making better use of that dead area in the fuel tank. What about a little wine cask in there, with an outlet tap from the bottom right corner of the tank? Gets rid of hip-flasks in chest pockets, lowers/centralises the weight. 97 octane house red. Win-win. On the other hand, a secondary fuel tank in that corner would also be useful. Feed it back out into, say, a hip-flask: empty hip-flask into main fuel tank. Extra fifty miles range. Bob's your uncle. This solution by-passes the horrendous double-vortex push-pull recirculation problems that plagued previous attempts at solving this problem. Is it dinner-time yet?

Isn't that for mustard?

It's all 'pros' The extra storage space could be handy, like, say you sometime wanted to go out and buy another battery. The extra deadweight when carrying it home would be kept nice and low, under the seat, instead of up in a backpack. Slug, you're a genius! An improvement would be to relocate the battery to inside the fuel tank. As well as getting the weight forward, you also gain space to carry two extra batteries, or a small chainsaw if it's split into two parts. (Put the battery in the bottom right side of the tank, where the petrol is 'wasted' in dead-storage anyway.)

Yeah... I can't go through Coney Island, County Down, without thinking of fun-fairs and hot-dogs! And now of course, Van Morrison too.

And m-m-m-maybe there's grease in the shock-mount... swingarm... head-bearings etc?

Rubbish! Don't you know nuffink, Bendy? Prove your points you scoundrel! Anyhow, the protocol is: you offer me the point – then I refuse it. You can't rob me of my principled stand on behalf of the common man!

I'm sure I had pics of a Fox in an earlier quiz. So more definite details are required. I might even ask for pictures. Depends what the 'waders' are made of. Now, if they were to be leather... (not that I'm insisting that they are) Anyway, I'm off to London and then Brussels. Need to make sure that Jihem is maintaining a healthy diet of raw horse mince. That there list sure is making me hungry

or not, as the case may be...

€£$1 Prize Fund to the first person who can prove Ratchet wrong. C'mon, nothing's impossible.

Who can come up with the best list of motorbike names, which connect with the list here? Preferably a model as well as the manufacturer, for each beast. A bonus BFG point for best identification of the bike make / model that the two chaps ride. The leg-wear is a bit of a giveaway, but judge for yourself.

Actually, it should be a quiz for all the animals. Obviously there's Guzzi and Ducati there, Honda too... Right I'm off to the QF.

That's the sort of sidestand that I need.

A bit off-topic and could well go in the Quiz Forum. Spot the MG connection: