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Well that would be you then Donald. Cheeky beggar..... , there speaks a member of the funny handshake forum tell you what Bigfoot, thoroughly enjoyed myself on Sunday, must have done more miles in one day than I've ever done. Great day out, superb weather (all excellently forecast, of course) couldn't have been better.

I'll give the same response as I gave before.... It a secret society...at certain trials watch for funny handshakes, winks, hats.....just things that look out of the ordinary

No going, but apparently Bill Gates throws a great buffet Just think, you could bring home some more Chorizo and meet a few more "friendly" security guards at Heathrow....

nice biuld Hondanut....has a look of an Ossa in Green

Let's do it. If people don't have the courage to stand up for their comments, they shouldn't make them Donald Young Slapshot 3

Another **** comes out of the closet. Lets see now, Andy kinda frowns on personal attacks but with luck he'll let this ride long enough for everyone to see it. Where does a nameless, faceless, wonder like yourself get off on a post like that, does it give you a buzz ripping into people, when obviously you are someone who's more of the sit back, relax and let others do the work type. Every individual who puts their head above the parapet in life understands that someone will try to shoot it off at some point but the individuals who take the responsibility of organising the infrastructure behind our sport should be respected if for nothing more than the time they devote to make it work. Your attack was needless and totally unfair, been excluded from any events by the SACU Steward recently??? Perhaps a little more knowledge of the person in question might be advised. If you are so hacked off at the way John and the SACU conduct themselves around our sport then stand up and do something about it. I've known John Moffat all my life and there are few others like him in Scotland that are so dedicated to trials that they devote their lives to it, Mark Witham(SSDT), Andy Grieg(TC), Archie Shedden (SACU Chair) to name a couple more. I know how much of their lives people dedicate to the sport because I do the same in other areas. I also know how painful the cheapshots can be. John, keep doing what you do because with out you and others like you we wouldn't have our sport at all.

Hi Chris, Try your Stator plate and the coil as a first step. Did it run "Lumpy" before it stopped, If so it could be the cdi unit.my old man has had similar problems recently. If you're stumped and get no joy on here give Lampkins a ring, either Gary or John are always happy to help Cheers Donald

I want that thing Does it have GPS.......

what about moisturisers then boys........

I notice you didn't add yours to the list..... ???

Fully trained Meteorologist though currently involved in the IT/Communications management side. Work for the UK Met Office, the best weather services provider on the planet....cue the gags... Been doing this malarkey for 21 years, UK(Scotland and Yorkshire for a couple of years) Germany, Falklands, Antarctica. Spent a lot of time with the Army Air Corp 1 Regt in Germany & 9 Regt in Yorkshire and the Falklands is a Joint Operation between all three services. Its good fun and the best part is every day is different

Hi Mark, Apparently the belford Hospital in Fort William takes bookings........ She'll be after you

Nah, w've all got webbed feet and personally insulated up here Ian. Only you southern softies complain when It's wet up here

Not a huge Gasser fan but that one pretty....

Paioli, Chill out mate

I can see Big John descend into raptures when he reads this...

No No No Andy.......we do trials on two wheels but even kickstart used a crappy old car not a ferrari !!!

Nothing wrong with a healthy discussion. The people with religious beliefs tend to want to discuss it less than the non-religious once there is any question of proof. There are far more arguments against it than for it (not that that in itself proves anything) Not sure how heartache or happiness has any bearing on whether a God exists though? Being brought up told that god is everything GOOD in life, the joy and the happiness of life etc, think it could be called brainwashing.... When you have a minister pontificating aout how good God is and how he will heal your pain when you are about to bury your own child makes you think. Mrs Slapshot and I have gone through this twice and the religous element is always the same, God's greater purpose and all that. Carolyn can deal with that my limited faith can't. Get this all the time, Carolyn and I argued about this to the extent we don't talk about faith and religon any more. I can believe something I can prove or understand scientifically. I can't put my fundamental faith in something like the bible, the koran, the talmud or any other religous writing beause the proof is not there. If people want to question this then so be it, I'll state my opinions but won't try to change theirs. Yup, Schools have to teach a broad scale of religion these days but I think it's gone too far. Example Small daughter brought a project home on Sikhism, spent a huge amount of time on it but took it back to school and was slated by the Teacher for it because it wasn't detailed enough,next one was Judaism and she has the Islam one to come, is it necessary, is it relevant, personally I don't think so. Teach these things as a general topic not individually. Touch on our own faiths for a time as well. We've gone nuts on this correctness nonsense. I think it's a waste of time. We want society to be open, integrated and fair but, we continually make exceptions to groups who don't want to integrate who don't want to be open and whose own fundamental views lead them to blow things up to get their way.

Wasn't going to get into the whole religion thing but why the hell not. So there's the start, what do you believe? Heaven and Hell or are they just words, why the hell not, cleaning that section was heaven.....the conundrum. Personally, I'm a scientist, I believe what I can tangibly understand and prove, Darwinian Theory, Einstiens Theory of Relativity etc etc etc BUT I also want to believe in a greater power, call it God, call it the Force call it Bhudda, Mohammet whatever you want. I've had enough personal heartache in life to question whether the great God exists to bring happiness and joy to us all. Ultimately it's down to where your faith lies. We each have a choice in life to believe what we want. We can open ourselves to brainwashing or we can open our own minds to decide for ourselves, we should never decry anyone for the power of their beliefs. This is strong in many areas the US, various places and maybe therein lies one of the problems we've discussed in the erosion of society. Is the breakdown due to there being less influence of the church, of discipline, of respect and all the other fundamental elements of the society we and our parents grew up in. tolerance is great......my favourite line; I'm not racist just don't bring me bad people

Weren't they travelin around together. If you look at some of Vinnie's pics you can see his Ubergeekness's bonce in many of them

While they are at it any chance we can have some feedback on the Auction......TA

Wonder what happenned to Grimbo?? Once that begger Grieg gets over his undoubted hangover and gets home we'll find out!!!

Looks stunning, I'll tell the old man about these, he'll appreciate them

The country went downhill when they stopped National Service, there is no respect left in the country for anything, property, people you name it. When our leaders become lilly livered and politically correct the country rapidly follows. One of the unfortunate things though, bringing back NationalService wouldn't work, the Senior Army/Navy/RAF folk don't want the Riff Raff and thugs in green or blue. Just give them a safari trip instead Don't know the answer, wish I did.

ATF, 10hrs riding then change it, better than anything else I've tried