Pedro

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!

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!

Are you interested in ordering one? Just do it then, you would have got it 6 months ago. This is the same as other manufacturers and parts, nothing works the same as before regarding supply chains. It’s got tubed wheels though, just letting you know.

If you want to buy a new one, just order it and get it 3 or 4 months later, what’s the issue?

What's that? For cycling events?

Gave the GS a little love in form of few new plastic parts, the supports for the luggage were quite worn down, plus a couple of cable holders and the two little rubber stops on which the seat rests. Looking prettier now, wondering if they will look like shit after the first few kms of dirtroad, maybe

Love the red head’s voice!

It’s certainly not photogenic, but it’s ok in person

Saw one a couple of days ago riding around my town. It’s not gorgeous but it’s not as bad as on the pictures here. Looks like what it is…

This is very interesting. What happened the next day?

Your cousin looks like he drives a truck for a colombian cartel. Hope he hunts for food, does he eat bear?

You’re the birthday boy?