From: doetnietcomputeren on
On 2010-02-27 11:47:31 +0100, totallydeadmailbox(a)yahoo.co.uk (The Older
Gentleman) said:

>> I could see that working back in the days of proper borders, but how
>> does one go about proving the bike left Germany these days?
>
> Gatso photograph on a French or Dutch road?

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From: Dr Ivan D. Reid on
On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 03:41:13 GMT, platypus <monotreme(a)blueyonder.co.uk>
wrote in <tv0in.45319$Ym4.20205(a)text.news.virginmedia.com>:

> "Mark Olson" <olsonm(a)tiny.invalid> wrote in message
> news:yZWdnSU3NYB7HRXWnZ2dnUVZ_v-dnZ2d(a)posted.visi...

>> This is starting to look like a viable round-robin deal. Maybe I can take
>> it over from you in 2012.

> Surely the world will have ended by then?

Maybe not; there was a glitch in a new magnet safety system this
week, so we're limiting the dipoles to 2 kA for the time being. Since they
were talking of 4 kA, I think that means collisions limited to 3.5 TeV total
for now.

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From: Mark Olson on
turby wrote:
> On Feb 26, 6:18 pm, Mark Olson <ols...(a)tiny.invalid> wrote:
>> sleazy wrote:
>>> On 2010-02-26 12:45:31 -0500, turby <keens...(a)hotmail.com> said:
>>>> Thanks, Mark. This is a California bike, with California plates, and
>>>> if it's all the seller claims, ridiculously cheap. After my trip, I
>>>> can either store it there or ship it home. We'll see.
>>> I may want to rent it from you next summer if you leave it behind. You
>>> know, to keep the oil and gas from going stale and all. ;) My boy just
>>> got his orders to Ramstein AB and I'm going over next summer for three
>>> to six weeks of fun myself.
>> This is starting to look like a viable round-robin deal. Maybe I can take
>> it over from you in 2012.
>
> Hmmm. I'm starting to think this could be a real money-making deal.

For the California DMV, no doubt whatsoever.

From: platypus on

"Dr Ivan D. Reid" <Ivan.Reid(a)brunel.ac.uk> wrote in message
news:slrnhohuqj.ui.Ivan.Reid(a)loki.brunel.ac.uk...
> On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 03:41:13 GMT, platypus <monotreme(a)blueyonder.co.uk>
> wrote in <tv0in.45319$Ym4.20205(a)text.news.virginmedia.com>:
>
>> "Mark Olson" <olsonm(a)tiny.invalid> wrote in message
>> news:yZWdnSU3NYB7HRXWnZ2dnUVZ_v-dnZ2d(a)posted.visi...
>
>>> This is starting to look like a viable round-robin deal. Maybe I can
>>> take
>>> it over from you in 2012.
>
>> Surely the world will have ended by then?
>
> Maybe not; there was a glitch in a new magnet safety system this
> week, so we're limiting the dipoles to 2 kA for the time being. Since
> they
> were talking of 4 kA, I think that means collisions limited to 3.5 TeV
> total
> for now.

But what about the mutated neutrinos?


From: wessie on
doetnietcomputeren <doesnotcompute(a)gmail.com> wrote in
news:2010022711282529267-doesnotcompute(a)gmailcom:

> On 2010-02-27 10:54:52 +0100, Timo Geusch
> <tnewsSPAMMENOT(a)unixconsult.co.uk> said:
>>>> The
>>>> only issue will be that if someone notices that the bike has been
>>>> in Germany for longer than a year without moving out of the
>>>> country, they might feel compelled to make you officially import it
>>>> into Germany. Otherwise it's a bit of a grey area - this was a big
>>>> loophole for people self-importing cars from the US who had a US
>>>> address a while back. Keep an address in the US, take the car to
>>>> Germany, "export/import" it via another EU country at least once a
>>>> year and you could keep your vaguely legal US reg.
>>>
>>> Does that mean "ride it to the nearest border, over the border and
>>> back" or something more substantial?
>>
>> That's what it used to mean a while back.
>
> I could see that working back in the days of proper borders, but how
> does one go about proving the bike left Germany these days? (assuming
> you're going somewhere other than the UK).
>
>

the Swiss are quite happy to provide such evidence as you leave their
country, for a price, so I hear


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