Pedro

Agreed, it’s great to see someone bringing back benches on ride reports!

That’s just really pretty, and your bike suits the landscape.

Lovely bike, Pete, it suits the land.

That can actually can’t

I do like that chrome

Great stuff, Bob, love those not too wet trails. Ideal for a 650

I like the idea, it shouldn’t have less than 20 / 25 litres

Riding with another rider is the best you can do, I wouldn’t worry. Great video and what a gorgeous place you found!

Get a sidestand extension under the sidestand foot, Pete, job done.

Tomorrow I shall take a short ride to Ericeira, probably the last one while the weather's amazing, and will enjoy that cool vibe for a day or two. On the way there I will stop by my favourite hilltop cafe where I will attempt to style and profile if the place is Covid friendly and not crowded. If it is crowded, I will sulk and carry on to stop somewhere less cool to have coffee.

Got any pictures? Because otherwise ...

How far do you ride for fuel? Regardless of weather I never start any vehicle specifically to go for fuel, but then again I live one km away from a fuel station.

Get rid of that box, Pete, and just carry a small bag if you want to carry a sandwich or some water. A big box like that ruins the lightness of a small bike like that 650, it just doesn't look cool

Givi stuff is simple, reasonably priced, and just works.

There are no spacers between that base plate and the bike's base plate, though, or are there?

I think there is another top box base plate (BMW original or givi?) to which they permanently screwed the 4 spacers holding the Shad base plate on, I just hope they didn't glue it onto the base plate. That's proper pikey, if that's what they did

Hand it over to you local car paint shop, it'll match your bike for 50€. Kind regards, Pedro

Lyn (male)! Great to hear from you!!

Nice one, Pete, glad you like the new bike! Bet you're looking forward for some smaller roads now.

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SOber? WTF @boboneleg, is covid not enough?

There are false positives but obviously you always have to treat them like a sure thing. A second test settles it. Hope all goes for her!

Rode to Ericeira in the morning, a few showers on the motorway but didn’t even get my legs really wet Watching some surfing now, will enjoy the weekend here then spend some quality time by myself at home next week.

Oh, those knobs!