Pedro

This afternoon I'll take my bike for a service. It's got 81000km, time for spark plugs, air filter, all fluids plus taking the valve covers off and check valve clearance and overall wear on the camshafts. Being this engine's most known weak spot my dude is going to have a proper look around, I will take pictures and think the bike is falling apart while he tells me everything is ok, that's our routine Will also fit a borrowed center stand while mine goes to be stripped and painted. If everything is normal, tomorrow I'll pack up and go for a ride, taking some small and pretty roads all the way home, again turning what could be a 2,5 hour commute on a motorway into a day's ride, might make it home instead of sleeping away this time. It's really cold but nice clear skies, hopefully it'll be a nice day's riding without too much weekend traffic or too many bikes out.

That is very much an occupational hazard and not a nationality thing

Why not? show me a time travel rule that says that!

Now you're on a spending spree, time for a Magura setup?

Ride it with no top box on a long ride, see if you don't like not having the sail effect on sidewinds. Don't come up with the excuse for locking your helmet and jacket, you stop in deserted places where nobody would steal shit. He probably knows how to take it off. He's just too scared to not being able to put it back on

I have almost always wore Dainese, jackets since I've bought my first bike up until now, jeans, boots, only wearing a pair of bmw summer gloves now. Dainese used to be the brand that Honda dealers carried back when Honda was THE main brand in Portugal. Now my new home is near a Dainese outlet and portuguese distributer, so ever since I bought the 1150 it's just been convenient to buy the brand. That's the place I stop by for a coffee and sometimes to buy a box of wine to take home, people treat me nice and their cuts suit my weird body better than anything else I've tried. I wouldn't say no to other brands of stuff, but I do like design and like to feel like something suits me. I went shopping for jeans and a jacket last year and tried several BMW, Revit, Spidi, etc, but somehow ended back with Dainese. I like my Schuberth helmet and I'm on my second one of the same model. To be honest I like it because the C3Pro is the lightest of the modulars, and supposedly the quietest, but I've bought the second one because being a previous model it was 250€ cheaper than anything else I would consider an alternative.

Up for what, exactly …?

Do that, I’ve got a garden and space for them

I can't! Feels wrong throwing them out ...

If I could I'd tell my hair to fuck off, don't want nothing to do with it after knowing it's going to quit on me

Maybe the point of it is having a great house in a convenient location, such a great house he doesn't feel like walking out at dusk and doesn't resent staying in? Having said that, nothing pays feeling unsafe in your own home.

Sounds nice, I like that typical Honda whine

Cops in the UK used to be really well regarded in Europe, I bet most still are well trained professionals but these news are a surprise to me.

A jailed officer, one hopes

I didn’t get that, they put their face on the victim’s body?

Some carefully placed sound isolation inside some panels to sort it? Or will it no longer matter once you can ride?

Pretty village! How are you liking the new car, Bob?

Just to make things clear, I'm not against brits or any other specific people, I do spend my online time here after all...

Yes, they're very common in Morocco as military vehicles. They were patrolling around a gas or fuel pipeline station or something like that, some parts of Morocco are always a little more alert to terrorist attacks and their own internal struggles.

Haven't the Afghanis lived through enough shit?

I have been told by an educated person; young, all yoga and enlightened, earning her money off the books from the UK and paying rent off the books to a british person, who ows thousands of euros worth of tolls on purpose, drives a long expired mot british car that hasn't been home for years, that the portuguese should think themselves lucky people like her are here because it inspires the locals to be more advanced and better. She told me this not as an insult but like something that totally makes sense to her. This reality isn't really just from brits, it's also from germans, dutch, and swiss, and is not really connected to people looking to move country and end up retired there like it's the topic in this thread, but more with young people in their 20s up to 40s that really noticed Portugal over the last few years as a good surfing destination where there were no enforced rules for wild camping or van life. So they turned their surfing holidays into a few years of living cheaply in a way that they wouldn't be able to if they tried to pay any tax or be in the system. They turned quiet great locations into their own rule free paradises, which I think is an escape to the strict behavior they are expected to adere to when at home. Portugal is to blame, really, but some think we do profit from it so to each their own. I do like the "lack of rules" here, but they will ruin things for all. I dislike how these youngsters are creating country animosity where there used to be none, but I can understand how a restaurant owner starts disliking people fitting a certain look and age after repeatedly kicking off groups of people taking a 4 person sea view table to order one coke and proceed to eat snacks brought from a supermarket, who then pretend to be innocent and ignorant and leave bad reviews online when asked to move on. Or people who get tired of having black waters dumped from caravans in town parking areas or beach accesses.

You stay out of politics, and I'll stay out of voicing my opinions on that yet again

No, I deleted it because I know that's how it's seen. However, day of the dead also happens in Spain, it's literally two different things happening at the same time. One is a rememberance of the dead, first the kids then the adults, the other is a celebration in honor of christian saints.