Pedro

Took this picture specifically for you special people. Bike is taking up most of the space, there's no scenic background either, hope you like it!

I know the Nurburgring properly, in a slow car. The level of track knowledge it takes to do those speeds with the control they process on such a long and varied track is nothing but awesome. It takes repetition and obsessive learning, it obviously takes balls but from the brain it’s a lot more training and learning than being mental.

Now do the bottom and the left! Or use mine

Gave one of your pictures a little touch with the cropper:

The guy was moving!

Belts are quite a nice solution for motorcycles that don’t face offroad or very powerful engines.

It’s good for 100k miles, I think, doesn’t get a lot better than that. edit: looked it up, it’s 100k kms, not bad either.

The swimming pool guys are probably happy that you’re restricted to 180 days, though.

Saw one of these FTRs riding through my village yesterday, and decided to see their specs and prices. The “scrambler” version has only 150mm travel in the front, which doesn’t excite me much, but the worse is a 13 litre tank. What kind of pussy thing to do is putting a 13 litre tank in a 1200 twin?

Isn’t it tiny for you?

Looks bigger and heavier in person than on pictures, to me.

Cool bike, have you ridden it?

Rabbit goes well with vegetable stew, rabbit cacciatore!

That’s too young for you to be driving around, total irresponsibility!

Any El Corte Ingles near you? You'll find a selection of asian stuff on their supermarkets, usually, as well as good quality pasta and specialty fruits and stuff you usually don't find in more local budget supermarkets.

You think that phone is high enough, Pete?

Couldn't give two shits, a Tesla? It's easy to assume that a Honda engine powers a chinese bike when all they did was reverse engineer it and copy the design, it's an ugly industry.

Yes, that's great, buy that! It comes with yellow stripes on the wheels from the factory!

Ok, keep complaining then.

How much for the deposit? 500€? Just do it then and get it in 5 months like everyone else.

Don’t think that’s really available in the EU? I don’t bother with customs.

I would be interested in riding the same big trail style bike with both and knowing if I could tell the difference. If you want to buy one just put a deposit down and wait a few months, nothing else you can do. You can always complain for years though, but that won’t get you the bike.

The storm passing by a few days ago reminded me of riding back from Morocco last year, and a bit ago with Sofia in Northern Portugal, I got properly wet both times using my 20 year old rain overalls. Will order some tonight, anyone has any recommendations for rain plastic pants and jacket?

He’s one funny dude!