Pedro

You wouldn’t know a holiday if it hit you in the face!

You think that where you live? You’re trying for more drama! I think this is all a ploy by Pete to try and get out of going out to dinner a couple of times with real people. You’ll go all the way to Spain to hang out in a deserted village for an hour and off you go

Really, a section at the bottom of the forum for this shit. Or a specific thread, call it “stuff to ignore”.

I am not one for big meals at lunch if on a trip, but do enjoy something nice to eat. For mediterranean (including most of France) people, sitting at a table and sharing food and wine is the ideal way to socialize, that changes when you go north. The lack of those dinners is a culture shock for the southern people when travelling and getting to know foreign friends. Then we mistake this lack of comfort meals and breaking bread with being cold and unfriendly.

Oh it’s most certainly a fact that I want wine at the end of a day on the bike. However, in Portugal having wine doesn’t make a meal any more “posh” per se, it’s the culture as I think also is in France, Spain, Italy…

Love the sound, but I do think you’ll get tired of it on long trips.

That made me smile Good stuff, too. Nothing like a properly "watered" nice meal at the end of a riding day, although you guys seem like you do serious lunches too.

That’s a pretty gas station, looks like a great day to ride a motorcycle.

Hey @Sir Fallsalot, a guy with an old Vespa told me today about this oil: https://www.ipone.com/en/eshop/product/samourai-racing-strawberry It's Ipone 2 stroke oil with a strawberry scent! The guy told me he went on a ride with a few people and since he was by far the slowest bike he went ahead, when they stopped for coffee everyone was wondering how it could smell so much like strawberries when they were riding through vineyards Maybe it's a nice solution so that people don't get upset with two stroke dirt bikes riding through the lanes. On other scents, I used a Motul cleaning product today to clean a few smudges off my paint that left a clear orange scent

morning walk with Costa today took us to the beach Coffee in Porto now, waiting for my mechanic to show up. Doing a couple of little freshen ups on the gs. Took a close up picture of the bike for next botm:

And then you sold her for money!

That’s a weird name for your wife

That frame doesn't give designers a lot of margin for creativity though. How shit must that suspension be, considering it's a "scrambler"?

First it's this, then it's that... You're just coming up with excuses to go back and buy another GS, you know you want to

He wasn't to fight you?

They still sell them now, not too late.

It was between Tango's Triumph and Bob's Ducati for me. The Triumph is a pretty picture and I like how cool the background looks, but went for the Ducati instead as I like how the fat rear tire dominates the look of the bike plus it's got a pretty green scenery in the background.

Do keep up updated on everything, Pete. Please don't let anything go. Good on groceries too, or are you running low on tea bags? Horses fed today? How is the weather there today? How much is a Transalp in south Spain? They'll sell loads of them. Retirement age is going up, they´ll try to kill everyone off!

Bibles are heavy, you should really use a trailer with braking capacity.

Doubt he is too worried about the bike. If you’re worried you first avoid it, then if gone too far don’t take pictures of your bike being killed instead of fishing it out.

It’s easy to turn around instead of drowning that bike. It’s clear if you can ride a big bike in mud on those gay tires, if you’ve got doubts you can’t.

Smart tire choice, guess someone wasn’t expecting rain in the plain in Spain