Pedro

There's lettuce in that, @Tym I do like a great burger, but that's just revolting.

On liquid cooled bikes, since 2013 or so, it's been a wet clutch that you access from the front of the engine.

A modern GS is not a bike you want to have problems with, that's certain, as things get expensive fast. However, my bike has done 60.000km last week and has never needed anything. It'll get new clutch plates, though, as I've been advised to change them to improve the gearbox smoothness and as preventive measure against oil contamination fucking up the engine. Plates will be 300€ plus fitting, which is easy compared to previous generations. It is frugal, I love the handling, the brakes, etc, and I really like boxer engines, no other engine I would rather have for the riding I like to do. Also, when I bought it I chose it specifically with two up touring intended, and there is absolutely no other big trail that can do that better than this bike, period. Would I live with a Super Tenere? Surely I would, and I would love that if I had one, and maybe it would last longer too. But I like riding my bike a lot more so that's what I do and just put up with the risk of fixing it.

The GS500 was a bestseller in Portugal. Really a cool bike to have in it's time, maybe cooler than the bigger sellers XT600 and CBR600.

Bloody hell Ian, thank you for that trip through English culture

I would like to thank everyone that made this possible, it was a team effort and it's your award as much as mine. God bless America!

just leave the honey jar in plain sight and make it easy on the poor guys

@XTreme

Here you go, @XTreme

That's easy to manage, just don't do it in the peak of summertime like I did.

OK, do you want it via email?

Yes, very similar in texture to codfish livers, which I think you guys in the UK know about It's cooked with sliced garlic and white wine.

I see a bike with an aggressive road geometry like that and tires pretending to be offroad, and I instantly default to hate mode. Also, what's up with bigger diameter rear wheel, is this reality or is this just fantasy? Bloody hipsters!

Garlic doesn’t do that to me, or to most people in southern countries. Don’t know if it’s because of the way you cook it, but none of that here, I think.

My dinner was composed mainly of cuttlefish eggs, just to let you guys know.

Correction, old simpletons

You two are just a couple of simpletons

Nowadays, being good and gentle to others. Used to be going off on killing sprees accross the middle east

Welcome from Pedro, also known as Pedro

I do like Multistradas, a friend of mine has one with a stopped odometer after going past 100.000km, he bought it with 70, had an issue with the electronic suspension sorted under warranty but been happy with it all. No oil leaks, no problems whatsoever. Doesn't look like new, though

I say this as a joke towards the UK, but those guys go through hell. When Maria died I was put in a cell for a while before being questioned, and all other 6 or 7 guys where black dudes (proper dark black, from central Africa) having been caught trying to jump the border. I was living a nightmare, but even so managed to see the shambles they were in, most destitute people I have ever met. And even then, not knowing anything about me and half wearing ripped clothing in winter, a couple of them tried to comfort and support me.

Poor deluded fools, imagine the disapointment after months of walking accross Africa and risking their lives in a shoddy boat, enduring months of refugee camps, to end up in the uk.

A long time ago, spanish magazine La Moto put a fast rider on a DR650 on road tires, and compared it to a CRB600 on a stretch of road used for what can best be described as a mix of motorcycle hillclimb and wrc tarmac rally, they used to have that kind of racing back then. Result was pretty much a tie.