Steven,

Great news!!!!

As a member of the SOC with very little technical knowledge but a copy of the Technicalities (and Book of the Scott), I have found them very useful (even with all of their contradictory info – it just gives a longer time reading and thinking about what to do), I congratuate you on making these available to new comers.

I recommend anyone without them to get the CD – I had planned to offer this service once I had retired, but am too busy with work to do it before then.

I recommend anyone with an internet connection who reads Steven’s post to pass it on to those who are not in the internat age (many years ago I had a secretary, now I don’t, but I do have a laptop, email address, mobile phone and answering machine!!!).

As an Ozzie in the London area, I am glad to hear that you guys back of Woop Woop have got your finger out and done us all a service.

All the very best,

Colin

Recieved a copy today, excellent work, only time can tell the help recieved this way.
Absolutely a work the club should be happy to support.
Have allready got a sore arm, scrolling through all the informations.
To all you others, qiuck, get a copy while you can.

Jan B

Thanks for your kind words Roger. Just to clarify, the CD Rom is not searchable, it is essentially an electronic photo copy of each individual section and sub-section broken up into PDF files. Great for reading and printing out individual sections or pages whilst you work on your Scott in the shed (without worrying about ruining your good copy as you can simply re-print or refer back to CD) It is the way of the future, I even keep an old laptop in my shed now as I have other motorcycle manuals that I have purchased on CD as well – Just look on e-bay now, there is a huge selection of electronic based manuals. I even look at my garage bookshelf now and think what a waste of space – I should start to sell of all my old manuals and buy the cheap e-bay copies..It’s a sickness.

To make something like Technicalities searchable you would need plenty of time on your hands and some powerful OCR software (Optical Character Recognition). Technicalities is mainly photo-copies of printed articles then re-printed, it would be very time consuming and costly (if someone was paid to do it) to do. No matter how good the OCR software is, it is reliant on the quality of the print, which as mentioned earlier is average at best. After scanning with OCR it would need someone with Scott knowledge to read every article to ensure the OCR has picked each word correctly, mate, very time consuming.

If someone wants to take on the challenge I can spend some time and scan Technicalities with OCR and send to them, be warned it will be “garbled, unformatted and mis-fonted” and an enormous task to take on !

Steven,
Many thanks for the copy, it is very good and a useful addition to the information I now have available. My PDF programme seems to require that each seperate folder requires to be told how to open but this is no handicap it just takes a little longer to view the area of interest, again steven many thanks.

‘Cheers’
Jeff meehan

Steven,
Many thanks for the CD which arrived yeaterday (Friday 17th December 04).
Just had a flick through and found it to be very useful indeed. I’ll be making a donation to the Charity we discussed, on Monday.
Congrats on the fine looking machine of yours on the cd. I can well imagine it purring along in some excellent weather perhaps 50 miles from nowhere on a dusty track rather than in the salt & rain that I am presently enduring on my ride to work in Manchester each day (not on my Scott however).

Thanks Steven, Bill and all Australian members involved.
Kind Regards and happy Christmas
Roger Moss

ps Take a look at a larger Two Stroke! Click the link —

https://www.bath.ac.uk/~ccsshb/12cyl/

hi steven–i received copy 23 dec ,best christmas present i have had for along time. i have still got L plates on the computer, but this is idiot proof.-switch on stick it in and im a way–thanks jim