mike wilson

More likely an autojumble these days. It's getting harder and harder to get these basic requirements. As Pete says, any 0.2ish microfarad one will do but you can get them with attached bracketry for bolting to your parts. That's a good thing, in many cases.

An MEP on a stick if you can't find any.

Two for me. I'll have to pay someone here to Paypal for me, if we are going that route.

Bring us back some Zubrowka and Sliwki w Czekoladzie?

Looks more like coiled tubing to me.

That will do for the point. BFG was so close but I can't find the time, either. 8-) There doesn't seem to be a list of transcontinental records online anywhere. Unless _you_ know differently....

Sorry, no white mice in my cranium. I'm a weather predicting computer. Sumer is ecumen in. So very nearly right that I'm almost.... But no. A clue. It is an NSU. Not as in the venereal disease.

From all the posts I've seen on the reliability of instrumentations, I'd think there was a marketing opportunity for a direct-replacement-Jetsons-motor-scooter-LED-all-singing-all-dancing-type piece of kit. http://www.motogadget.com/en/frameset.html

The string method works very badly, especially if your tyres are of different widths..... It's just using a piece of string, looped round one tyre and brought back to the other one and seeing if there is parallelism of the wheels by viewing along the string. If I had 2mm runout on a modern tyre, I would not be happy. Don't forget that the outside of rims has no engineering for accuracy, so it could happily be all over the shop as long as it does not affect balance.

Last time I tried photochromics, they took eons to change. Very dangerous when, for an extreme example, entering an unlit tunnel. Have they improved?

One nearly right, one very wrong. It's not Pinnochio, it's Bob Hope.

What has this guy just done (precisely, please - you will know what I mean when you find out) when did he do it and what were the numbers?

Found its long lost (almost) identical twin, the Junak M14 Iskra from Poland..

Manufacturer, date and model designation please.

Jaap is almost certainly right. The UK one, the Wellbike, was 98cc. Never seen one with double wheels. Time to waste time.

Poop. 8-) On the plus side, my internet travels to find what I did brought me to a page of pictures of unusual and interesting machines. Prepare for a blizzard of quizzes. If I can get my bot in gear. Well done, Jim.

I see three. Plus a whole host of eejits with a lot more money than sense in the background. £60 for one football match and that's a cheap one? I'd sooner watch the money burn.

Cycle magazine was at a track, where the latest spunkbubble (or is it crotchrocket? this modern terminology confuses me) was being showcased by factory test riders before the journos got a go. One of the staff writers, sensing the opportunity to get a bit of background noise, asked one of the riders how many development miles this completely new model had done. After thinking, the test rider said "At least 20,000miles". And was then promptly hustled off by managers. That figure probably says a lot more about "modern" (it was about 20 years ago) riders than modern machines but I have had a healthy disrespect for Japanese engineering since.

Ujoint life is very variable - mainly because of this: http://www.v11lemans.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=9989

Looks like I will be in the Cambridge area 10/11th March. You around then?

I think you would be suprised how little you can see really ahead on dipped headlights. I would think that maybe 100ft would be a good set of lights and that does not take into account getting acclimatised, dazzle factor from oncoming traffic, differing road surfaces, etc, etc, etc. Factor in bad weather and you will get less than that. Bear in mind also that you are looking at a hazard that is pretty nigh invisible, as it's only 1-2cm above the road surface and running right across. It could easily be mistaken for a change of material. The hazard also manifests on a road that may be substantially dry. It occurs after heavy, prolonged rain but obviously continues after the rain stops, until its source dries out. Stopping (I know we don't want to stop in this instance) distance at 60mph? About 240ft, in good conditions, for a car. 60ft thinking distance alone. So you are almost on top of the hazard at best before you can even begin to brake, assuming you can do that as a first resort. Remembering that the ones who are losing the plot are "pressing on" around a curve and may not be in a position to immediately brake, it's not suprising that one or two lose control when hitting an essentially unseen hazard. No doubt there are contributing factors from poor driver input after commencement of the incident. It would be interesting to know how many incidents occur that do not end up in collision with the sign. None of the above changes the fact that this is an incident which is, at least partly, the fault of the local highway maintainer and the injurious outcome is, in my opinion, almost wholly the fault of the highway maintainer. FWIW, I've seen a Mercedes coupe, a largish 4WD, a Citroen Saxa and a Nissan Micra piled into the sign.

He's _not_ straight?

Not once it's had a "Q" plate. It's there for life. Same if you get an age related number because you or some previous money-grubbing barsteward has removed the original. Those numbers, on some beaurocratic whim, stay with the vehicle for the rest of its days. "Cherished" numbers can waltz around like a deb at a ball. I was going to suggest some chicanery with the original logbook and frame but, as they are no longer there, one is farked.

Might be the RC149. Five cylinder 125cc.

Honda CR110 1962