DD_Brando

An interesting and informative vid - only a pity that the 5.2(final) software wasn't available when it was made. In my opinion these new drivers are quite a lot better, btw. Besides that change I found Mr Fish's explanations useful and illuminating - although I didn't feel his settings would work for me - and I recommend taking the time to watch it. Then you can go and make your own arrangement, as Fish clearly pointed out. B

Awesome!

Happy Birthday!

Yes it is. 0 is the best option if the card will hack it

Hi Col - it looks like your game is running in 16 bit colour. Here's a bit of conf.ini..............

Yep, 95% Green here,

My thoughts exactly - and there's an e-con to match - this one is called "nuts roasting on an open fire" Seasonal anyway

http://www.overclock...tid=510&subcat= buy two!

Through a fine mist of paracetamol and snot I can still just see as far as my desk. Ain't that grand? (and I've just spotted a missing screwdriver! )

Clogs?.......termites? Aaaarrghh! Google Cuprinol immediately! B -

Hey fellas Admittedly I've been hitting the painkillers a bit heavy the last few days, so I was a little freaked out when I read the post title just now. I mean, I do tend to nod off after a dose, but I never lost a whole 6 days before ! It's strangely reassuring to know though, that in our digitised, solid-state world, someone is still using guesswork In appreciation of the thought I will do my best to have a really great day - and an even better one next Wednesday Thank you all for the greetings, they're much appreciated. B

Ha haa! I rode a Zed when they were first imported - very embarrassing At 5'4" I couldn't reach the ground even on tippy-toes

Can you plagiarise a photograph? A personalised print that might break a copyright

Well. I did have a poxy little chair once, fitted to the XS650 Yam which was my first bike after the accident. I didn't carry a passenger very often until I'd re-learnt riding - which took me a couple of hundred miles to get confident. It wasn't until a mate who followed me on a group run from Crediton to Exeter told me that the sidecar wheel touched down only about 50% of the time! I'll quickly add, take a look at the map, lots of bends It was, believe it or not, a Harley Davison chair Back in the 70s (80s) Harley bought out an Italian bike company - Aermacchi - and marketed a two-stroke, air-cooled 350 twin and sidehack, badged as a Harley. What were they thinking of?

Kicking over the Panther could be a humiliating experience for the novice. Once mastered it was a doddle. The 'trick' was to fully retard the ignition and lift up the decompression lever mounted just in front of the gear lever - ease the piston just past top-dead-centre and just push the start lever down with your foot, hard. Not so much a kick, more a long swing, similar to starting a Velocette. Once it started chuffing, you eased the decomp lever level with your toe and advanced the ignition with the handlebar-mounted lever. I recall it needing a little choke on very cold mornings - again that was applied from another bar-mounted lever. That worked well for me every time. It didn't work so well for everybody... I was sat in a cider house in the back streets of Cheltenham late one Saturday lunchtime when a uniformed gent with a pointed head entered the bar. Unperturbed by the hasty exit of several of my companions he asked "Which of you gentlemen owns the black combination parked outside?" Fighting the scrumpy-induced haze I reviewed the essentials: tax current, MOT ditto, insurance OK, unpaid fines none, and raised my hand in answer. "Well, sir, I believe I have apprehended a man trying to steal your machine." Reeling slightly, partly through being called both a gentleman and sir in the space of a minute, I followed him out to the street, where a ratty-looking individual in scruffy leathers was sitting slumped in the gutter, grasping his right ankle and swearing continuously. The rat in question was fairly well known on the local bike scene as a sneak thief - the kind that makes bikers buy expensive and heavy chains and locks; or, for my part, leave the ignition on full advance. At the time, kicking over a fully-advanced Panther was probably one of Britain's best chances of putting a man in orbit - as our friend had discovered. Had he released his grip on the bars immediately we might have found out, but instead he held on too long and merely somersaulted over the front wheel to land in the road. Even the friendly copper had enjoyed relating his eye witness view of the event a couple of times for the benefit of the assembling crowd, and was enjoying the general mirth that ensued. Amidst the laughter we almost managed to get a pint of scrumpy into his hand.........

There you are, see, Arthur - the natural way forward was denied you, by way o' that there oil-in-frame Trumpet's bein' unable to carry a chair! Here's a Panther with its own conservatory for the offspring - of which I also had a prime example - though mine was the correct colour for this Yorkshire heavyweight - coal-black! This gent is called Gunnar (I know no more) and maybe the over-colourful livery was only available for export. Clearly it's done nothing for his sense of dress. But the smile tells all. T A 646cc single with a massive 88x106mm bore + stroke - in top gear (4th) at around 60mph this really was the source of the the old joke, "one thump per lamp-post" - and the company literature showed a line-drawing of a Panther chained to, and tearing down, a wall. The proper colour-scheme is shown here in a modern setting: ..and it is a tad too clean for my taste but you can clearly see the cast-in lug for the top link of the sidecar chassis just below the headstock. The engine is a stressed member, avoiding the need for a cradle frame. This example also looks to sport the Dowty Oleomatic forks. Air-sprung and oil-damped,they were developed from wartime aircraft undercarriage design. Most of the sidecar-based rigs I knew back in Yorkshire had the left side silencer and pipe removed , and the outlet blanked, as there was one perennial problem with hauling around a small shed. You can look - but you can't clean - without wedging yourself 'twixt bike and chair so you end up watching your nearside chrome gently rust away. Back in the period before crash hat use became law I wore a long, waterproof cavalry coat and a trilby hat most of the time. Leather and jet-style lid; pub nights only

Yeah - I had the sheepskin car coat and the flat tweed cap to go with my yellow Capri (with beefed up rear suspension an 'go faster' stripes) which meant I inevitably got called Del Boy I got it at Bristol Car Auction for £150 and used it to ferry myself and a couple of other guys from Bristol to Ludgershall in Wiltshire efd (every f......g day) where we were building a new supermarket. And I bought the upgraded leaf springs, two bucket seats and a bank of four Italian carbs from a bloke who'd had them on his tricked out Capri, but who managed an epic fail when he tried to drive it out of a car park without removing the Crooklok first Note: never connect the crooklok to the brake pedal, always the clutch. I never had Trumpets though many swear by them. I did get a ride on a Trident once and it was pretty impressive, but BSAs and Nortons were always my first love. My pal Birddog was a Triumph man though, and had a Bonneville cafe-racered with which he terrified the town of Torquay for many years.

Brando bestowing belated birthday benevolence, beautiful boyz. B

Thanks for all your efforts, FT

What I wanted most of all was that his Dad would turn up at the end and whoop his ass for screwing with the family compact. As it says on my trusty BMW mug ~ "Doughnuts are for eating."

The Harley of the submarine world?