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Old, I should be a fairly easy job to bring her back to glory if you have the parts. They are a beautifully simple design. It would be a pity to see her just sit in pieces in a shed. I can help if needed.

What do you mean by excessive clearances? In the motor? Suspension? The carbs are known to wear. Did you want it back to stock or improved to suit your taste?

A Lario is a 650 cc Moto Guzzi it has 4 valve heads. They are made in Italy in a factory on the shores of Lake Como at Mandello de Lario. The V50 is a 500 cc and a cute little thing. It is a two valve engine, they are both V twins, across the frame. Not in line like a hog. They are all shaft drive like a BMW. Guzzi is famous for racing machines mainly endurance racing. A well known one is the LeMans 850 to 1000 cc models from the early to late 1980's. They are also famous for the California model which is a cruiser looking beast that handles like a sporting bike. They are loved as police bikes esp in USA. The le mans is a very tuff machine faster then a period Ducati, as strong as a BMW twin for big miles, and a sound that can wake the dead. I have owned a LeMans and my bro had one as well as a California. They are amazing machines and very different to any other machine. A well run in Guzzi will leave a period desmo ducati owner in tears for revving higher with its pushrods rather than desmo valves . And the Ducati will be on its fourth rebuild before the Guzzi needs a clutch. They are much loved and have space in my shed any day.

Ah.......yes, off course that's what I meant. What's wrong with the little beasty?

For those uneducated heathens, A Guzzi has very proud jugs and you buggers keep your eyes and grubby mittens off.

Old k, I could have a fondle of your wife's v50 if you like. I am in Sydney.

Like all proper bike men, I am a Guzziologist. All types of cycle medicine, but I prefer to work on those with big jugs sticking out proudly.

I have a intensive care ward waiting for your Guzzi. I can guarantee quality care and much throttle abuse. All Guzzi's get free lifetime care at my retirement home and include visitations for the owner.

Yes, Classic rego has a few rules that are easy to follow and still use your steed. Join a few mates and start a classic bike and or car club. Rules are simple and you can still do some extended journeys without needing the club along for every ride.

Its OK Jerry, That counts as old enough for me. A fine motorcycle and worthy of a place in the shed. Keep in mind bikes over 30 years so, 1989 and older are now 'classic' rego . That means no huge rego rip off just a small fee to enjoy your riding. Bargain riding if you ask me.

I don't think there is much relevance between Bill and Barnaby in the affair stakes. Bill was honest from the start and did not make up excuses, misstruths and run about slandering even his girlfriend by saying it might not be his child. Barnaby even used the press to make money from it but refused to speak with payment. Barnaby was sleeping with a employee paid by the taxpayer. He was only months earlier campaigning on family values and the same sex marriage debate, at the same time as his affair. It was these values he said was the difference between him and the rest. He was found to be a hypocrite.

No one is asking you to freeze, stay in the dark or starve. The metric of change is Not in the normal range nor within normal time scales.

Guys, We can debate as much as you want but at the end that is just a masturbate, and only makes us feel good. It helps nothing. We have a existential problem and it must be dealt with. Not just for our kids but for us living today. The effects are real and been felt today, they will only increase. We are the frog, put us in a saucespan and by the time it starts to boil it is too late, we thought it was just a warming bath. There is no possible metric where doing something to help can be the wrong thing. Even if we don't believe, the world's economic masters do, so the only profitable way forward is to change. If we are wrong we will get a nicer environment, cheaper decentralized power, and more jobs that don't really on over industrialized power hungry products. We win anyway. To do nothing- will at best lead to a economic deadend. At worst...........life as we know becomes very difficult.

That would be the deluxe brexit edition. White gold exterior and gold interior.

And don't forget Palmer gets a preference deal for his divided Australia party.

What is the big need in the Kimberly's for dams? The Ord river scheme has not been a huge success. What are the dams for?

The example of the irrigation in the USA is not relevant as they have far more available water. However they too have suffered water shortages and it is all not a rosy picture. Any scheme to divert water west has been studied at length and found to be a fail on economic and environmental grounds. The costs and eventual flows available to use can not justify the expense. Anyone arguing for such a scheme is diverting attention elsewhere. A case of look that way.

I think it was a lot closer than 10 years and he went from the board to a MP. The deal was not for land just the flood water allocation. Labour suggested a buy of all water allocation and the actual farm. That is a huge difference. The tax haven use is a separate but relevant matter. The price has no reflection on the market as no tender was issued at all. So that is a red flag to start with. Even if the decision was a good one, we can have no confidence in it as the prescribed process was not followed and no transparentcy in the deal. When you were in energex, did you have a CEO job? Did you start the company? Did you leave and join parliament? Did you become involved in dealings with big government money deals to Energex? Was a fully transparent process followed and was a open tender done? That is all revelant Information. It would not matter who was involved the principles are the same.

Yes, I read that article and thought it must have been a guest from the IPA or LNP doing a comment piece. I agree that seemed extremely biased and dissmissive of any concerns. How can they say nothing dodgy about someone creating a water company then resigning and get elected to a position of power that makes a decision that benefits the same company? And Barnyard screaming he is not responsible as minister for a decision he had direct control over. And actually approved? If it was labour that did this we would not hear anything but wall to wall press screaming from the right wing press. Alas the LNP seem Teflon coated. Barnaby could burn down your house and would blame labour or the greens.

I have spent the last week at Nepean with my son. He had a bike accident, home now doing well. I meet many who were there for surgery and were cancelled repeatedly due to emergency needs. Fair enough but some have cancer and that should not have to wait ever. But you can bet a private patient could get a private bed and operation even if it was not urgent. Maybe not at nepean but somewhere in the system. We have a public system that supports the private patient through big subsidies to private health funds and grants/ loans to private hospitals. It is a joke, just like education, a two their system that benefits the well off. No federal or state funds or grants or loans should available. It should all go to the public system. The choice argument is just a lie to justify the largesse to private profits. Then people have a choice, the free government system or user pays. If surgeons or specialists wont do public operations etc they should be excluded from any public funding.that is called choice.

At first glance you would think the yanks had a similar car in production. They did not. The commodore was fairly unique in the GM world. Most US cars were either front wheel drive or big hulking truck like rear wheel drive. A lot of yank cop cars we're ancient designs that were only sold as cop cars and had no public market. The commodore was vastly superior as a cop car and faster. The yanks had stopped making a equivilant car, so wanted ours. Just like the Comaro was based on a commodore. The commodore has never been related to any US model until models were developed from the actual commodore. Engine excluded.

I prefer the compulsory vote over voluntary systems. They have a inherent trap for actual democracy. They are easy to manipulate by making sections of the community disenfranchised from the right of a vote to the privilege of a vote. Millions in the US have no ability to vote because of a previous conviction or no fixed address or lots of other manipulations to remove voters that don't vote for a Dominant party. Then you get a media baron helping push a particular view that alienates the majorities faith in politics. So they are less likely to vote. That's how we get silly elections where only a small proportion of adult citizens actually vote. And that cohort have a disproportionate number if people venting on the propaganda of conservative Murdoch press or their equivalent. Just look to the US and be glad we have to vote so are forced to actually think about the government we want rather than let the loudest barking dog whistle win.

That is some scary rail in Ohio. The rest is just funny.

I can see your logic Bruce but it would be a tad excessive solution and might prove a bit off a problem. Given our current pollies love for privatisation. They would jump at the chance to contract out our defences. Welcome to Serco been paid the same as our defence budget to protect and service said nukes. But naturally as commercial on confidence, and no oversight or responsibility. Finding the 200 high speed drones to deliver them could also be a issue, at least ones that could be trusted not to be hacked and used to drop it on us instead or even to not become lost nukes. And then our only response to any problem with be hit it with a nuclear hammer. Throwing rocks at other country's will be the war after that.

They I respectively suggest the Gold mine is a exception.