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's funny thing with builders. I've known a few and have never recommended any of them. The reason was simple, much building work goes pear shaped and ends up with acrimony between builder and client. I didn't want to be in the middle of it.

You forgot Gasser. You can't leave them out. Direct injection? Apparently, according to two mates, with with PhD's in IC motors, DI is problematic with petrol engines. Do Orbital use DI? What about Rotax, Mercury and others? I think that indirect injection is here to stay and Sherco and Gasser will adopt it soon. Let Ossa work out the bugs. Prediction: Bou, Fuji or Raga, Cabastany or Fuji, Fejardo or Dibs maybe Alexz. Neo I'll give you call tomorrow eve.

Do you know why the Japanese tsunami did so much damage and went so far inland? It's because water always picks up speed running down slopes.

Bloody funny, I hope Slappers didn't send it from work.

Phillip might say things that shouldn't be said (but somebody needed to say 'em) but I don't think he's bent.

Arthur is 81 years old. He's played golf every day since his retirement 16 years ago. One day he arrives home looking downcast. "That's it" he tells his wife "I'm giving up golf. My eyesight has got so bad. Once I've hit the ball I can't see where it went." His wife sympathizes. As they sit down, she makes a suggestion: "Why don't you take my brother with you and give it one more try." "That's no good" sighs Arthur. "Your brother is 93 years old. He can't help." "He may be a ninety three" says the wife "but his eyesight is perfect." So the next day, Arthur heads off to the golf course with his brother-in-law. He tees up, takes an almighty swing and squints down the fairway. He turns to the brother-in-law. "Did you see the ball?" "Of course I did!" says the brother-in-law. "I have perfect eyesight." "Where did it go?" asks Arthur. "Can't remember."

I recently opened a cafe in Japan, business started off a bit shaky, but customers are starting to drift in.

A few weeks ago I was reminded about Nina Hagen. Now this:

In the case of a trials bike yes but the general definition is as follows: If a motorcycle is to be deemed a production motorcycle, for instance if it is to be raced in the world SBK championship, the manufacturer must manufacture a minimum number of that motorcycle. In the case of the world SBK championship I think the number is 200. So the MotoGP series is for non-homolgated machines.

Well ain't you a little ray of sunshine? There's our tyros eager for a bit of wisdom from Dibs and you reckon he'll be gone

Hacked Todotrial. Fortunately only the front page. The content is untouched.

Derbi have closed? The one Spanish motorcycle manufacturer that weathered the storm of the early '80's has closed? Derbi have been a fixture for years. What a sad turn of events. *edit* I see that the Catalunian plant has been closed and manufacturing outsourced to Vietnam.

Greg Minaars Honda on which he won the world downhill MTB championship:

To all our Japanese trials riding friends.

Have a look at Clake. It's supposed to be set up for the clutch and REAR brake but I don't see why you can't connect the front instead of the rear.

Any hills in the less affluent areas of Newcastle then?

Nope it didn't escape this asute observer. Possibly it was to save the undertakers any hassle of fitting his mortal coil into a suit?

Sheesh! My gonads were in my throat the whole way down.

It's possible the adjuster is broken on the hardest damping setting. Take it into a decent off-road shop and let them have a look. Worst case is they can revalve to suit you. P.S. Have you compared it to another, similar, bike? It's possible your expectations need to be recalibrated. Watching WTC riders hop about is not a good example. They could make a marshmallow hop.

Mark, sniff around at the specialist hiking stores (don't mention you're on off-road motorcyclist of they'll lynch you) but find out who they recommend. I used to use a place in Cape Town that was brilliant (not much used to you) but hiking boots were their bread and butter.

Oh dear.

Water Buffalo:

The Jesus nut is the single nut that holds the rotor on to the 'copter. So called because when it falls off the pilot says: "oh J$%#@"....

Isn't a bit unusual to see the 'lights so far south? The earth swaps magnetic poles every 10,000 years or so and we're due a swap now, so we could see the 'lights appearing over the equator, assuming that the swap is gradual and not abrupt. P.S. it's the interaction between high energy particles and the earths magnetic field that 'causes the lights (hmm, sounds familiar..Lorentz's force...)