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A Hovercraft swims the English Channel . . . A Gilera is Born . . . . . . and goes to the races . . . A brief interlude with the members of Team Zimmer . . . The rotor on the Norton goes 'round and 'round . . . . . . while a nuclear technician explains it all A Woodburning BMW is scrutinized . . . ▶ An Irishman customizes his bavarian roadburner . . . The Trida answers a question nobody asked . . . A Ratbike squeeks by . . . A new Mini Cooper drives up a building . . . The Ace Cafe is refurbished . . . almost A colourful English country pub biker night . . . A steam traction engine is scrutinized . . . A Scotsman fights boredom with machine tools . . . A combine harvester breaks . . . An Irish country ride leads to herring guts . . . A Rover engine is misused by a Rabbit . . . A Welshman ruins a CX500 forever . . . A Belgian fixes a Russian sidecar for good . . . A posh seaside resort welcomes bikers . . . A bicycle grows a motor and calls itself Solex . . . A taxi courts cat people . . . The Japanese ape International Harvester . . . The Germans build a scooter with alien technology . . . TO ALL WHO HAVE FED ME followed by a brief plug for my other project . . .

Protected by Sumo, if I am protected at all An unlikely oil leak Man Reinvents the Wheel A Dangerous Product is Demonstrated A Dangerous Object Contrived Darius does his best to kill himself A Dinner is Delayed by Theft Invention Works Late and Wears Red Silk Pants Cable Tie Immortality is demonstrated Cobalt Left-hand Drill Bits remove a stuck fastener A Homebrew Leakdown Tester is Improvised My Headstone Works for a living Telecommunications Bondage Gear is Admired A Grown Man Plays with a Very Large Robot Sign Language for Big Toys A Woodburning Vehicle is Explained An Unhealthy Obsession Documented A Fuel Tank is Sawed in Half▶ A Ducati Supplies Gun Camera Footage A Bajaj is Quadraphrenic Catalonian Brake Components Provoke Memories A Bultaco is Rescued Pepsi and Volkswagen Product Placement Not Home on the Range, Range on the Home The Arcane Car Society Gathers A Ford Tractor is a Fetish Object An Elderly Brit Receives a Macho Heart Transplant The Tadpole Becomes a Frog Prince The Golden Mummy is Unwrapped A Mystery Tool is Revealed The Unknown Wheel Fits Something Ancient An Unnatural Hot Spring Smells Funny A Solar Nite Lite: Oxymoron or Appropriate Technology? Samurai Wedding Rings are Examined from Every Angle Bumpersticker Philosophy from the Door to my Garage and then there is a shameless plug for my other project

First of all, Holland LOOKS AT YOU Then, a Series of Roadsigns by a Canal Followed by Dutch Pictograms And an Opportunity to Wear Silly Hats Antwerp: Rules, Art and Design in Diamondtown Arty Farty Ghent: from Train to Trebuchet Solar Power, Tarzan and Domestic Violence as Art
are all Over the Edges Belgian Waves and Turkish Candles at a Soccer Riot The MotoLoftHotel, an Unlikely Business Venture A Non-Union Dummy Directs Traffic Living is . . . a Piece of the True Cross Lawrence of Arabia at Home Kindly Advice from a Lama in Your Watercloset Weird Wood, Gnome Magic & a Secret Nuclear Bunker
among other English Roadsigns The Commercial Icons of Camden are Solid Stuff Foot and Mouth Disease: Countermeasures and Poetry Wheel Bearing Replacement Employs Fire and Ice A Bulletin Board Pleads, Promises and Instructs A Natural Hot Spring in the Eastern Sierras A Pump Action Flashlight and a Solar Pith Helmet Catholic Schoolgrrls Gone Bad at the Pride Parade A Pink Cadillac Tows a Teenaged Boys Dream Directions for the Topless, an Introduction to the Gestapo A Confection, Or a Deep Fried Planet? Art Time, Ambushes, Dumbasses and Geniuses A Camera Makes Two Armed Soldiers Nervous Road Repair Teaches Lessons Learned More Than Once Irish Ashram: a Place of Peace for Players Sex, Silliness and Threats are all Propaganda Isn't it Just a Saddlebag?*NINETEEN QUESTIONS . . . BUT ONLY ONE ANSWER*

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First Sighting . . . . 1995 September 11th 2001

Half a Tank The Apparatus: First Use Take That Philosophy

On the longest day of the year my old BMW
splutters to a stop in the village of Bready,
at the petrol station across the lane from the church.
At one point there are seven locals
quietly observing me removing and replacing my top end.

As i finish at eleven o'clock
the sun has just dipped below the horizon.
Northern ireland is quite far north.

Victor stays until the end,
observes my helmetless test ride
and then offers me a room at his family's farm
where we watch Wade Boyd on the telly.
When i awaken in the morning the house is empty.

Everyone is out making hay while the sun shines . . .

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