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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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at Heathrow many years ago.

Only a Scotsman could move to Seattle

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