Pedro

Probably emissions in a couple of years time? Rear cylinder heat issues with the fairing/tank? I'm very curious.

That dude's hair! What the fuck?

Tomorrow I shall take Costa out for a little walk in the morning, and then getting on my bike and riding home. It's a 2,5 hour motorway ride but I've got a feeling it'll take way longer than that as I'll check out some smaller roads that look twisty on the map. Unless the weather is shitty. Ducati is currently touring Portuguese dealers with a couple of DesertX bikes for showing them off and they're close by today, but I'm resisting going to see them as the local dealership is so unfriendly. I am tempted to give one a proper look in a few months once they're out though, what you think of that engine @boboneleg?

Well I never thought I would see the day... Lovely place to ride around!

pus faced ballsacks?

Sounds like a perfect storm

they're probably in California, so can't blame them for that really

Can he still do that at will, write both ways? That is a cool skill!

However, there's a point to be made regarding public health about moving car pollution away from crowded places and into electricity production locations. I agree with what you're saying, though.

What about in the European side? No policies regarding brits? I ask because I find it funny that everyone I hear always talks about what the UK demands of people going back instead of what Europe demands of people coming over.

I read "this angel gave the owl a rag"

These testers treat every bike like a racebike, it's almost amusing.

I have modded my bike's ECU with an ant poison trap ... this is my life!

No vodka around the bike, either

I haven't received a shipment for over a week now, shit´s not funny

I thought of that, but tempting more ants to invade the garage didn't feel like a solution I went to have a look just now, not the numbers of yesterday but there were still a few around. I'm getting annoyed, also made me look closely into the bike and realize what a fucking state it's in, proper dirty. Will have to buy some sort of liquid to give it a good soaking once the weather changes. Fuck it, I'll ride it on the weekend making my way somewhere, it's going to be nice by then, let's see how they like 200kmh. Only Berlin assembled engines for these ants!

I did have a good look under the main seat where the ECU is, and couldn't spot any. Apart from that only if on the intake. The whole bike's guts are plastic vent like things, bloody ants are black too so they only run out of camouflage when they walk onto white or light grey plastic

Can you picture what 50 ants say to each other when they're traveling at 130kmh on a motorway?

They have been popping up randomly in the garage and outside, but now there are none to be seen anywhere but in the bike, I've made surprise attacks and killed about 50 or 100 by now, all of them only on the top of bike, I can´t spot them in the mess of black nooks and tubes that is the GS's lower half. I'll send an email to BMW Motorrad and ask them that if they wish me to consider a GS1300 it better come equipped with an electronic pest repellent

Or to throw her off it

Really, I’ve looked everywhere around the engine and hidden places for a dead bird or something like that, and there’s none, there’s no ants around the bike, but still they keep popping up … What the fuck, is there a hidden ant colony on my bike? Stay tuned… I sprayed ant killer on the center stand, but that might just make them not want to leave

What a great thing, a tiny adjustable pepper mill: I’m easily amused…

I said you don't learn it because it's fun, not that it can't or shouldn't be fun, in the same way you should know how to drive a vehicle even if you don't have fun doing it.

I get people not being interested in cars or bikes as a hobby or something fun, but being able to get in a vehicle andmove around is a valuable ability to have, as Pete’s son is in the risk of learning. Like goingto school, you learn to read not because it’s fun.