Pedro

Couscous I bet

Hope you can both enjoy the trip, Pete. As a tip, not really knowing where you'll be staying, the coolest motorcycle dealership I ever visited was Ten Kate Honda, a good few years ago though: https://goo.gl/maps/TEsZ6pMF49oNXihs9

This is Tata, in Morocco: Bit warm

Absolutely no planning at all going on there, and a lot of stopping specially dictated by other people.

A bag in NL

I don’t get the sizing on those machines. I’m probably a lot smaller than him and couldn’t fit in one without being twisted up either.

Metallic blue gs with white frame might be pretty, but I would rather buy a lw miles usef 1200 gs or rt than a 1300. My bmw guy is looking forward to a new HP2 sort of thing, and that’s what I’m curious about too. I would rather it had my engine in it but still I really am curious about it.

At least 10 times

Was it the shoes?

Then get the non standard bashplate?

Bloody expats always changing their minds! What’s an expat? A british migrant!

Peace of mind, those were the words. Total or absolute peace of mind. Piece of piss with no warranty more like!

Sounds very tiresome

Turns it into an adventure, he’ll be like Tom Hanks living in the airport except stopped in a gas station somewhere.

And apedemie? Is that like Covid?

A white one with the classic look ang gold wheels is the bike for you. Order one, surely the CB will last a few more months. A cheap flight or a train to Madrid and riding it back makes for a different couple of days.

Someone who needs a warmer jacket and heated grips, surely

Transalp, magic bike, that’s what you need, how much are they over there?

Maybe he really meant Bud Ekins, as a jumper of fences?

He meant Steve McQueen really, but Mushman is a good reference

That’s how you end up doing stuff by yourself again

That just doesn’t do, I get anxious and fuel up my bike when it gets to less than 60 miles

The 916 flattered paintworks, including the Senna which pushed the boundaries as to what that bike managed to make look ok.

It looks like they outsourced Suzuki for input on that paint scheme.