Pedro

108 miles is proper distance. Surely a few nice rolling trails to do that?

Maybe, or it might be a marketing thing to make you make up your mind if you think they're not obtainable.

I meant 4 months delay on top of the the original delivery time of 4 or 5 months.

I wouldn't be in a rush, my mate bought a new CB500S a few months ago and delivery time after ordering it was postponed 3 or 4 times to a total of more than 4 months.

I'm on my second C3Pro, which was still lighter and quieter than the C4 and C4Pro when I got it. They are ok and I obviously bought a second one so I like them. I would go straight for the C5 instead of the C4 range, though, they seem so much better built. My next helmet is probably going to be a Shoei, though, and probably this year. Something to do with the sizing as I think I am an L in Shoei but an XL in Schubert, and my Schubert gets a little too big once getting a little older.

In Portugal the Transalp 750 is going to be showing up at dealers only on the end of Abril / first days of May.

To celebrate, me and Sofia are going for a ride. waiting for her to meet me in Constancia right now

You making fun of yourself takes away all the joy

I hope you mean a mars bar

What exactly are you so afraid that the police might do against you? You didn’t exactly have a chance against an impact from the rear, and they won’t accuse a panicking foreigner of retrieving their belongings from the road. Also, women get away with everything

Snow crabs? Is that right? snow?

Went to have a coffee with a mate in the morning, lasted until midday. Saw a family arriving on motorcycles, parents on a R1200RT and a young guy on a Yamaha 125cc, that was very cool to see. Plenty of dad and daughters out of little sunday morning rides. I liked that. Then home for lunch as it was starting to get properly warm. Now gathering the strength to get up the sofa and clean the house, make the bed again with newly washed linens, and leave it all nice for when I leave in the morning.

They said fanny packs were gone, I said no way!

I see Paris Hilton still hasn’t got her shades back. Have fun!

Now I remember too, closest I was to dying was probably on a hotel room in Palma de Maiorca jumping from on balcony to the other. It was a short distance but I sort of slipped. Wasn’t using my best judgement there, and never felt like doing that ever since. was about 14 or 15

Possibly the scariest thing ever in my life just happened. As I was stuffing some cardboard into the recycling bin the neighbours cat screamed and flew from the inside right through the narrow slit and flew right past my face. I almost just died from the fright, gave a proper scream too.

Reminded myself, I once rode a small plastic sled onto the middle of a frozen lake in Serra da Estrela, once it stopped and I got up the i e broke and I fell in. Couldn’t get out as all ice kept breaking as I tried to get out. Before I went under from the weight of soaked clothing someone slid to near me and threw me a rope. Must have been about 8 or 10. Remember changing clothes and feeling ultra warm on jeans and a tshirt for hours after

Not my intention, though, I did get how stressed of panicked you were from your account of it and do understand you were very scared. Sorry if it translated into unkind. I'm happy you didn't get run over. My written english seems to convey coldness and my humor is frequently missed.

Second season is the best one, out of all.

I will try to buy either from keihin or Honda. Most fuel I buy still is E5, though.

Someone hit you from behind and you started to brake hard after? That sounds more dangerous that walking out into the motorway.

When I was about 10 I put a thumb in a lamp socket at the end of an extension, just to see what happened. Think you can die from that, but it wasn't as bad as i had imagined. Probably the most stupid thing I ever did. Around 12 or 14 a friend lent me his bicycle, it was a road bike with skinny tires, back then kids usually didn't have those so I was very excited to go on a fast bicycle, he forgot to tell me the brakes weren't connected. I proceeded to go on on a very steep street and ramp that ended on a garage, didn't get what he was shouting about, rode straight into a concrete wall, over the handlebars and headlong into it. Proceeded to stumble home, made it to bed and passed out for a while, was dizzy for hours. Pretty sure you couldn't die from that but it really hurt. Nurburgring, Miss-Hit-Miss is a fast downhill section with three apexes that you miss, hit and miss and exit quite wide, very narrow and fastish. If done fast it's a little scary as you don't have much margin for error. On a very optimistic laptime chasing moment I entered it way too fast, backed it in through the miss and the hit and only managed to get it back properly together on the third apex. I remember thinking I would not do that again, but it was one of my calls to fame at the time as I had a GPS recorded minimum speed through there of 152kmh, which is very fast this side of a proper car with slicks. Coming down to Lisbon to meet my girlfriend for lunch on a friday, I was riding my current bike, new at the time. It had a fresh pair of Heidenau K60 and full sidecases, and I was on the motorway, some how got into evaluating how stable those tires were going fast, they were ok for 200, but started weaving at about 180. The weave was very controlable and felt predictable right until a truck started showing it's blinker to pass someone on a very fast topspeedish downhill long left-hander. On the brakes it wasn't as nice. Stupid moment, but not as stupid as clambering around a busy motorway picking up your stuff, you don't leave stuff like that and go (regardless of its it identifies you or not) because that's how other people get killed on motorcycles, but you sit back and call an emergency number that sends help to fetch your stuff.

I've working like a fucking phone and email ninja since 8:30. It'll be a lazy weekend. I'll see if there are places nearby with stock of Keihin parts, probably not. Will go for a short ride on saturday and on sunday. It'll get warm here so curious to see how my new "winter" jacket copes with that, it better do well because all the other stuff is 300km away then on monday will act as a guide on a trip north, with a female riding a Triumph following along nice twisty roads through center Portugal.

If it ends up running as good as that tastes, it's a result! Will look into buying a kit of the sealants for this before taking it apart. The point being that if I disassemble it, clean it and get it back together the next day it might stand a 50% change of working, if I disassemble it now and try in a month time to put it back together that 50% will drop significantly I wonder if it wouldn't make sense to get a Mikuni pump carb, are they easier to start? Is it a direct replacement?