Pedro

Happy birthday Peter!

I love geckos, they get in my garage and after a week there's no more spider webs or any bugs. Also, when I was in Brasil 20 years ago I slept in a tiny inn with no aircon. With the window open I would get eaten alive by mosquitos until one night a gecko got in and I spent the remaining nights sleeping peacefully with the window open.

stylish dog walking around in a monsoon earlier this morning

I'm not one to put my bike through punishment for the sake of it, so won't be riding around doing loops to end up at the same place. The only bit I am really interested in doing is going from Limone to Monesi, seems to be the most scenic and spectacular, and sort of fits my trip to Milan, plus it's not a big distance. I watched a few videos of it and am pretty confident I'll be ok, unless it's raining a lot and it gets muddy, if it gets muddy I´ll turn back. As soon as they open for the season I'll book a day and pay the ticket, just to make sure. Not really annoyed they charge for it, it's really the only way to keep traffic to acceptable levels and have money to maintain it properly. I've seen what happens to some roads and paths when they go through harsh winters and aren't maintained.

My plan is for the GS to deal with motorway to Southern France, Alpine risky dirtroads, Milanese eclectic and fashionable streets, then Northern Italian countryside vistas, all in its stride at over 120.000km

Would get my interest with a 19 inch wheel

Spent the last couple of days prebooking a few rooms as I’ve learned my lesson last year in England. This is not Kansas anymore, so I’m fixing some prices down, it does take a lot of the romance away from the trip and I’d rather just look at the booking app at 16:00, like in Morocco, but that sort of spontaneously costs you in touristy Europe, so I’m planning stuff and booking shit down. I’m turning into fucking @Motobiker!!! Now over the next few days I’ll look into the ride from home over to South France and to the Alps, then back even if I don’t know wether to take the ferry back to Barcelona with them or not.

I searched for the thread where @XTremeasked what we’d be doing in 2024. Turns out I’ll be joining @Sofiaand our friend Barbara to a short trip to the North of Italy. They will be taking a ferry from Barcelona to Genoa and meeting me in Milan, while I’ll be riding from home through the south of France and over the Mediterranean Alps to Italy. I’m planning to take the short High Via del Sale road heading into Italy before heading to Milan, then a couple of nights there catching up with my friend Luca and showing the girls around, to then go to Moto Guzzi for a visit and over the “hills” to Lake Garda for a couple of days and another mountain pass when I get an afternoon by myself. Turning out to be an interesting trip on paper, if my business partners have the decency to keep to themselves in September. So this is the big trip in 2024, accompanying two women to Italy!

What the fuck is happening there?

I don’t know, Clive, you must be missing the mines by now.

You’re like @skyrider nowadays with your three word sentences. Post a ride report with 3 pictures to back it up.

You would eat an egg and an industrial roasted chicken which is 3 weeks old, but that unborn duck is the line?

You have a well? How do ypu have water without a meter?

Hey, at least you get uk jobs selling proper uk drugs.

It's really good at camouflaging!

Look at it another way, you haven't bought anything for it, just changed assembly status on stuff you already had in stock.

I struggled to translating the portuguese term for those eggs to English. Have to say it doesn't look very appetizing to me either, but I appreciate the exoticness of it, @cafebikerpro

What's your dream van?

She lives 50 meters high next to the atlantic in a flat with shit portuguese 80s isolation and windows, and minimum sun exposure. It's a very humid house and was starting to get black mould all over. 4 days of dehumidifiers cleared the air and after a week the mould was gone. If you switch them off for 12 hours the humidity goes to a steady 92º in winter, and after a week the walls would be in the same state. Granted it's more rain there but that just means you have to be intensive and constant in taking humidity off.

Even worse, he might be thinking someone would pay 250k for him.

Sofia has two modern ones and there’s hardly any change in electrical consumption since they’ve been on, they did however eliminate all moisture.

Is that an unborn egg?

You need another dehumidifier, Clive, working full time after a few days you'll get a nice dry house. It'll smell different once you start to get the moisture out of the walls.

Your bike's brand is weed?

Very clean chain, though!