Pedro

I have spent the day riding, and got pretty affected by polen clergies now at the end of the day, so am resting a little bit before going to dinner at a friend's house.

On the weekend I think I will do very little, it's getting warmer and I don't like warm riding around here, plus my summer jacket is home, 300km away 

I think it'll be a weekend of playing with Costa and little else.

Good stuff @Tym, I am very curious as to american home made food, most Europeans think it’s shit but my theory is that good home cooked food is good anywhere

Mac and cheese is plain wrong! I assume you’re talking macaroni.

Meatloaf, then, if forced to choose with a gun to my head

Am I seeing the original news post after our conversation?

I want to be able to do that, Pete, coment before someone makes a post. Or are you god?

"No time to die" is also a great name describe the time you spend it an portuguese Triumph dealership waiting for an "expert"'s opinion on what's wrong with your bike and a justification on why they won't proceed with your warranty claim.

If I were to buy a Japanese bike today to have along with the GS, it would either be a Kawasaki GTR, a Yamaha T700, or a Kawasaki Z900.

 I mean the pretty Z900 with the nice paint and cushy seat, not the Z900 that looks like it was taken out of an apocalypse zombie movie.

Let's not start to post the undercacks picture again, it's taken a decade for the internet to forget it!

I've never been to wales, but "hard blokes" could have two meanings!

As the topic creator and idea giver, I think it's fair to say I'm not against a two or three night stay, but I'm sleeping in a hotel room regardless of weather season.

I say this with warranted alarm, since I've been presented with pictures and video evidence of what you brits consider a "rally" and I do not wish to partake in winter sleeping in a muddy field with no access to toilets or complimentary breakfast, nor summer sleeping in a hot tent with no AC in the Andaluz summer.

Adventuremotorcycles.net first meet must be a class act in which I drunkly stumble to my slumber in comfort.  

That notoriously powerful UK sun puts most products to the test for sure.

Most of us have our favorite manufacturers of motorcycles, I tend to like BMWs with boxer engines, most Hondas, Harleys, Kawasakis, KTM and Husqvarna offroad bikes, some Ducatis, etc, I appreciate most non chinese brands.

What I am curious is about what bike brands wouldn't you buy? Although I like Sofia's bike, I think I wouldn't buy a Triumph, I dislike their dealers here in Portugal, BOTH of them, and to be honest some details in their bikes just seem to rub me off the wrong way.

Nice trip, nice people and nice food. Monza is a crazy track as well, but would rather be in a car than on a bike there.

I forget very little, my memory works very peculiarly. I remember a conversation, the moment itself, the dogs, etc, but can't remember if it was 5 years ago or 15 years ago.

I remember him from my lesson in Spain a few years ago.

Pete sat me down with Rottweilers keeping me in check, gave me a cup of tea with milk in it and proceeded to lecture me on why this guy was the greatest ever. Motocross tires for racing on ice against blokes with studded tires, guy was a legend.

Bruce, to lighten things up, you'll be moving into what is officially a Yacht 

That must be hell on the kid, Bruce, it's a real shame he's going through that but I don't think that wouldn't happen in other countries.

Word

Good job

1 hour ago, Skippy said:

What a pair of fucking idiots they've turned out to be! So much so that we haven't spoken for months and walk right past them in the street without any contact...........although I am sorely tempted to punch the fuck out of him; he's just got that kind of face you'd be happy to slap.

I don't get why would you get along with another brit just because they're from the same place as you. I'm sure that when you lived in the uk you weren't walking down the road saying hello and being best mates with everyone, so why would you do it there?

Same thing with bikers, I don't get why some people think all bikers are friends and like each other. There are twats using all sorts of vehicles.

Nice gesture.

Sand paper!

Also useful for "for competition use only" markers 

Having said that, I am envious of how clean that bike looks.

A nice scooter is a nice thing, but I would think someone with back back would struggle on one on medium to long rides?

You got some black marker to paint over those white letters on your tires, Pete? They take away from how clean the bike is, they're all I can see!

When the economy starts putting small businesses out of work people start starving a losing homes. I have a few clients very much afraid and not sleeping because of this, because a few of their clients are a few weeks away from being broke, and by broke I mean not having money to eat and pay for anything.

It was supposed to be an easy morning for me, followed by picking up my shocks at the shop for them spaniards to collect them from my place tomorrow for testing and fixing, with a brief stop by the office for picking up some boxes of samples to be distributed by most of my clients tomorrow.

Thing is, my spanish plant is stoping for two weeks and they were meant to have everything on stock for all deliveries for these two weeks, today they realize there is only enough for two or three days. As always, they had a month to plan it and still turn it into a complete fucking shit show, as they say in Spain, un merdero!

Now I've been on the laptop and phone stressed as fuck, but the rest is still going to happen. I'm just posting to make myself seem as busy as @yen_powell