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Best sunset ever, photo doesn’t do it justice but makes me think of it

Carrying a box ready for buying supplies like chorizo, cured cheese and bread for a dinner with Sofia's friends in Alentejo

A group of kids trying the GS out for size

Mountain pass in Morocco, 2016, my kind of road and I remember this day like it was yesterday.

Cheese sandwich and a tiny glass of wine near the Serra da Estrela on a rainy miserable weather April day, Sofia felt like a local specialty cheese sandwich but covid had everything closed. This was good enough and really hit the spot. The cafe owner went home to fetch us some cheese for the sandwiches, northern hospitality.

June 2020, rode from home up the river Douro and south on the smallest roads I could find the closes to the border with Spain, all the way to the shore in the Algarve, and Sagres. Portugal had closed borders because of covid, this trip made me fall in love with riding around my own country. This is a tiny municipal road near the Tejo in Rosmaninhal, it's tarmac but very broken, very narrow, wavy, patches of gravel, it's one of my favourite spots. This was on the way to meet up with Sofia and my birthday was the next day, it was getting to 40º and I think you can almost see that in the picture.

Great idea, I’ll search later on tonight!

In fact, my brother was in Albania last I heard from him

Well, it is chinese

I started with the 21 Transalp, and then the 21 inch XR, the GS1150 felt natural as does the current one. However, I have ridden a few 17 inch bikes but all sporty bikes like Sofia's Speed Triple.

I've never ridden a bike with a 17 inch wheel but a proper traillie riding position like a Tracer or a Multistrada, have you?

Something bad is triggered in me when someone goes to the effort of putting a small mat on the floor to protect the carpet and then park the bike with one of the side stands off it.

The post office called asking for my address since the package only had the town's name and my house number It's a small package ...

@Buckster, do you think they might be the same?

I don’t know, I know of someone who is in trouble with the tax agency from information that could only have been accessed through his private online purchases

Down to the T, tax revenue offices must only be waiting for the case to pile up before knocking on the door.

i’ve now used Aliexpress: the order was shipped without street name in the adress! I’m now imagining a chinese guy wandering around my town asking which house is number 9

This was in Portuguese national evening news! Basically two world class gorgeous hotties marry each other, praise the lord! Praise gay marriage!

I wouldn’t eat today’s people, at leat black pigs eat from pasture, people eat all kinds of crap.

I know how they work, and how you’re supposed to work too, it’s just I rather people just bring me the chorizo instead of watching the pig being slaughtered. In the case of something being used with violence, I really prefer not to be involved with any of the assembly.

You insane? Everything was tightened with a torque wrench, that’s the only way I could get in the car in the first place!

No, I would really not. I have trouble thinking things are tight enough right until the point they break from over tightening. I once put my track car’s suspension together after having the shocks rebuilt, a long time ago, my first time on track in Germany and approaching a very rough corner I thought: “great… now if it creaks I won’t know if it’s half loose (from my work) or poorly rebuilt”

I would be wearing a full body armour if test riding a bike I assembled from a box sent from China

The squared headlight on the other pictures is hideous

It’s the widgets, Chris