Pedro

Had the same from a portuguese online shop. Confirmed the order with a 3 day delivery time, then two days later claimed it would take them three days more, then then three days later informed they had no stock delivery date, and tried to give me a refund in form of a credit on a different set, asked for a refund and took them three weeks. I think online tyre shops are a scam, at least here anyway. I’ve been buying tyres for 20 years, cars and bikes, from the same two shops and wouldn’t change unless for a specific unavailable product.

This bike is a guilty pleasure for me, I really like the looks and feel it would be really cool to ride, except for two things which are that exhaust being not nice for warm weather in jeans, and it being a Triumph, Triumph is shit in Portugal and I don't want one.

From the smile and weird beard I want to say Cat Stevens, but I'm terrible with faces and music stuff.

Yes

That's a sweet road!

No, but he's also a brit and a motorsport success

I have, I wasn't prepared for tales of Gwyneth Paltrow's vagina scents OK, @XTreme, here you go, who is this working as a motorcycle messenger?

@XTreme, your dream motorcycle trip would be to East Germany?

Having never ridden an R18 or a big Harley, I would go for the Harley every time, provided it's not one of these modern ones with the "already custom" rear end with the chopped fender and weird side placed rear light and plate. Same as I wouldn't go for Harley if choosing between one and a GS or KTM or Tenere, horses for courses.

I was thinking that you wouldn't like to play football on your leg, @boboneleg, but to each his own

It's George Clooney, I know because I saw a picture of him on a scooter a while ago with his hot wife in the back, and he had a Harley helmet, and there you go, there must not be two guys on scooters with harley helmets

Two that don't really translate into english: "Teso que nem um carapau" Translated "Hard like a mackerel", fish, specially smaller fish get stiff after a few hours from being dead. Somehow being hard or stiff like a dead mackerel is what you are when you're broke and have no money. So you would say something like "I would invite you for a beer but I'm stiff like a mackerel" My favourite: "armado em carapau de corrida" Translated into "acting like (or pretending to be) a racing mackerel", obviously a racing mackerel is not a thing. When you're acting like you're the man, the best there is, playing yourself up, when in fact you are shit, you are acting like a racing mackerel.

George Lazenby One of my least favourite Bonds

I know, I know!

I loved that. Thanks for sharing.

Sadly that is a tendency on even the most moderate of parties in the most moderate of countries. Power corrupts, and giving it back is a bitch regardless of how it is obtained.

I had a kidney stone once, it was hell for a couple of hours until pain killers arrived. Good luck with it, @yen_powell I love seeing that, English villages always look so quaint

That's some big sky, good stuff!

That's some scenery, I know the road has been posted before but you can always repeat it. That waving rolling tarmac is road porn.

For cars, we have an equivalent, for bikes not yet.

How fast do trucks drive there? Trucks, I mean big cargo trailers, not pickups

I am sure you are a real Evel Knievel of the modern world when you start your engine, I'll be sure to warn everyone in the Eifel to be aware that you are coming. They'll all try and make way.

A difficult track is exactly what one needs to calm down on the road. That kind of emotion gives you nothing if you want to go fast, there will be a hundred people driving faster than you with less "need for speed" and bring you down a notch. Spend a decade on the Nurburgring and you'll still be chasing that edge

On track, knowledge and control is fast, "problem with speed" is slow, you can have all the problem you want but it's not going to get you going any faster.