Pedro

Spending the day with Costa, early morning drive to the forest and walk. Then breakfast and now watching a little tv. His favourite person is away for a while and I’m the next best thing. Also the weather is iffy, don’t feel like going out on the bike at all, yesterday was enough.

What was she doing?

I repeat, you are responsible (not to the law, to yourself as in being responsible to what you're doing) when you're passing, more so when on a bike which is easily missed on mirrors. Nobody ever felt better when in a hospital bed saying "it's not my fault"

Not less likely, though. I know that is a serious sad story, but if you drive aggressively and properly heat up your brakes, to then park with the handbrake on you might be tempted to not pull the handbrake very hard to not put too much pressure on an already hot system. What happens is that as brakes cool off stuff starts to contract back to normal size and handbrake pads with pull away a little bit from the "bells" (don't know what you call the hubs, bells?), thus releasing the brakes. I learned about this in the Nurburgring, where after a summer afternoon a few cars parked on top of a downhill meadow found themselves 500m down a grass field.

Brum is Birmingham, that's all you need to know.

I know brum is Birmingham! It's a thing, and I maintain my original idea that it comes from dogging, Helen from Manchester, John from Swansea, James from Brum...

You're responsible for your own safety when overtaking like that, not too close but the motorcyclist started closing back in without due attention. If you're riding a way faster vehicle than the one in front you assume the one in front doesn't know you're in a faster one. The error is in not buying a nice boxer 1200 with torque on tap to do that overtake safely in ignorant bliss. Buy a shit bike and you're still ignorant but clearly not in bliss anymore.

James might be, but "James from Brum" sounds wrong, in a dogging way

Is that a real thing? I always thought it was a joke about a random gay sex nickname ...

There's monsoons in India ...

It's breakfast... I shared slices of apple with him and then a couple of little bits of cheese.

Took Costa for a walk in the morning, then both of us had breakfast, and for a while now hard at hardly working waiting for clients and supplier to get their fingers out. Right after lunch will be taking the GS and spending the afternoon at my mechanic's to get a service done. That's when everyone will get their urgent issues and decide to pester me.

I used to do that everyday going to school, barefoot, and it was snowing and uphill both ways.

My dad's company has had 2 Renault cars since forever, before Megane and Clio with a 1.5 diesel and now two Kadjars with also a small diesel, they're replaced at around 300.000km and never had a problem. If used properly, modern french small diesels are reliable engines. A diesel like that shouldn't be bought as an urban run around doing very short trips to the grocery and back.

And not even a Harley

Has something hinky been happening tonight with deleting posts? Did the mods touch stuff, or did I imagine things?

I meant the Megane and Clio, Sport, they're assembled in a different factory and very much different cars as quality goes even though they look the same.

I don't know what that is about. On one side it's cool that they're racing non race bikes, on the other it's just sad that they keep the sidebars and huge fairings. To make that series worse they should invite BMW to race the K1600 or invite big trail bikes to make it totally ridiculous. The nice thing is that being on the US, those guys probably make more money than the bottom half of the MotoGP grid.

I would have a Renault Sport, they're built better. Not really my kind of cars but they really are built nice.

I once drove a Megane Scenic with 5 adults inside from Galicia to home. Worse car I ever drove, on the motorway it would rock from side to side as well as front to back at a steady 120kmh, felt like a small fishing boat on high seas.

What is a Benley?

They’re good cars, it’ll last

Not nice for a motorcycle ride up in mountain roads?

See? You‘re a modern man, not like xTreme Caveman in Spain

I would trust it too, but electronics on newer cars are easier. Back in E46 time if something goes wrong you’re mostly guessing and try and error fixing it.