Pedro

Grass fed horse cock, if you please

My 1150, I loved that bike, the balance on rough roads and the feeling it would always stop on a dime with a passenger no matter what kind of road, I also liked you could do a week's traveling on back roads and never really go above 2500 rpm. It's what got me touring with Maria so really fond memories of it, but it never really rode right. It was a 2001 or 2003 bike, I don't remember, imported from Hong Kong a couple of years after. I must have bought it with a clocked odometer as I got it with just 50 something thousand and sold with it 75000km. The gear change was always hard to get right at the end of a long day, the engine was perfectly smooth after my mechanic synched the throttles and adjusted valves but pretty vibey on the motorway after a few thousand kms. It rode fine balance wise, but something about that engine and gearbox made it tiresome after a few hours on the road, the hotter the weather the worse it got. After I sold it, a bearing inside the gearbox fell apart completely and it had to be completely torn apart, and a few weeks later the diff also needed a proper rebuild even though the tolerances were set straight at my last service when replacing the bearing and seal. Here it is looking cool: And looking less cool:

I think it's boring to vote over the same pictures again, and it's interesting to see what each specific member considers their own favourite picture of their bike for the entire year.

I like that exception, particularly since a specific flouncer had some nice editing and picture taking skills #comebackmawsley #dontflounce I think that's nice, but also think Bike Of The Year should be more interesting, open to all members and to other pictures than the previous votes and be a bigger thing than the monthly voting.

We get MOTY and TOTY, since December is pretty harsh riding weather for a few or most of our members why not have December's Bike Of The Month be Bike Of The Year with a picture taken anytime this year? (including December obviously)

Without wanting to sound alarmist. I would say the smart thing to do is go see a brain guy to rule out nasty degenerative stuff. My dad started having ocasional light lapses in balance, and only after other symptoms appeared (occasional lack of grip strength in one hand) did he take it seriously. The trip in France stuff, might it also have been something simple enough your confidence affected by the first fall and hurt ribs?

Love all of that. What a location with the castle on the cliff.

We're a really old country and just 10,5 or 11 million living here. I was talking about containing the excitement, god knows how bikes haven't been forbidden when every sunday sounds like a GP near a motorway heading to some cafe, it's just too much sometimes

That would be carnage in Portugal, stick all bikes inside for half a year and then suddenly it's riding season? 20% wouldn't return home

Marcel, apparently, in the UK Honda riders have anal sex with each other.

To their defense, in a proper “adventure” there is no rush. And there’s also just newspapers in there, a Jeep Wrangler carries all the real stuff. It’s an internet trip!

Thing is, it’s nice to decide to go on a multi day ride and just doing it, way a couple of weeks at the worst time of year and it’ll still be shit to me, but paradise to a brit. @Marcel, how can it be motorcycling paradise if the motorcycle is grounded more time in a year than it is allowed out?

He wished the guy rode anything, a bike, a sheep, his wife probably would be less of a pest if she got some too

Japanese warrior helmets share some lines with the german nazi time ones, so there’s that. That step on the helmets is great on the battlefield but funny enough make no sense on a bike unless you’re stranded in the rain and preventing droplets from getting in your collar.

Right, I get taking trophies if you killed nazis, still don’t get going to a shop and buyong a helmet like that out of fashion.

A nice nazi BMW, and I’d get it, but it seams like something that should get you in court martial and yet lots of them do it?

I don’t get the thing with nazi helmets on Harleys, it seems confusing to say the least.

Why isn't it cooler like here? Why do you choose to have such heat?

Great looking sky, so it's warm there is it?

Don’t be cocky assuming you’d be that toned You just don’t look healthy, that’s all

Or: Life on earth would be just fine with no humans

I looked it up and that's 56kg in a unit I understand. Seems to me if you really want to show off you should get some meat and muscle to go with your bones.

I felt the same. Sticky seat, hot temperatures, you're sliding front and your nuts are getting squeezed by the too warm pants, it's not fun. Try the cover, it'll help with heat and sweat, feel less grippy than the seat, while also making the seat itself comfier.

Much obliged! Sitting on your scrotum is indeed the deal we got dealt. Maybe you would be happy to try a mesh seat cover like I have on the GS, it's cheap and maybe it helps spread pressure points and air things down there. I hear those KTM can radiate quite a lot of heat to the rider. See, even pussies like it:

Something wrong if people are using their members to scroll through their mobiles! It´ll bring an adequately inane level of psychedelic to the whole thing.