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Hi!! Well spotted!! I was up North in my innicial stages in the UK, which was great to be able to deal with down South when moved to London. I started in Leeds, then Manchester, then Cheshire. 4 years of Northen England. I was very, very happy there. One of the reasons I left Portugal was because I wanted a bike and after 3 month in the UK I had one. I had the bike, the friends and the life I knew I wanted, but never thought I'd get!! For that, and so many more reasons, the UK is my real home. I landed in a job that had 5 bikers and then made friends with a very good group of guys in Cheshire and my biking life was a lot more then I could have ever dreament!! North Wales, Peak District, Lake District, yorkshiredales. Every weekend but also during the week, because I was working with the Foot a d Mouth outbreak and only had a bike, so that is how how I went to work most days, even in the bleak month of March 2001. I literally went from zero to hero in 3 month!! On a magical little bike, Hornet 250. I travelled from Cheshire to Lisbon on that bike, with its tiny 4 cilinders!! Through a massive storm that landed us ( me and the bike!) In Roscoff, France instead of Santander, Spain! My first ever solo trip was for sure the best start to adventuring any adventure rider can have. But that is another, very long, story. And I wont go into North-Sourh divisons, but, and much more relevant, I shall declare my allience in the War of the Roses to Lancashire, not Yorkshire!! Pedro is experienced with UK biking culture from afar. Is life has a huge whole in that he never had the chance to be there in person, to live it, to be around what is for sure the funniest, nicest, craziest biking scene ever! Maybe one day, who knows, he can spend some time there! You guys could push him a long, he needs a push to go North!! Saying that, it is true bikes and bikers have changed a lot. We have the Pre-Long Way Round Era and the Pos-Long Way Round Era, where BMW GS stopped being the Old man-odd (and very tall!)-unfashionable-bike to the hip-modern-racy-fashionable bike. Best bike in the World, true fact, but not my choice. Im very fortunate to have experienced so much in the UK. My love for bikes is old, as old as me basically and because I was brought up by an Anglophile, there could not be a better combination or a better place to be for me! I was Triumph through and through before I left Portugal and my heart is Speed Triple, so after having a crash on the Hornet, upgraded to the first 1050 in 2005, when I moved to London and became the Rat Pack girl at Jack Lilleys. Actually I lived in Sunningdale, so I didnt have the "pleasure" of the London pollution!! Another fabulous 4 years, new group of friends, different biking scene. Many trips to the Continent, alone or leading groups, weekly nights at the Ace cafe and weekend trips to the Surrey country side, mainly Newlan's Corner. Around 15 000 miles a year, I WAS busy!! And in between a challenge, Lands End to John O'Groats in less then "some" hours, have you heard of it?! Another story... made it, with some delays courtesy of the boys in blue!! Most surprised face I have ever seen, on that Scottish Policeman, when my helmet came off!! We have to do stupid things when we are young ( maybe when we are old too, maybe!), its how it goes. Great times!!

He used to until his wife told him he wasn’t allowed anymore, he is hoping to get permission to get a scooter one day. I heard she may even allow him to wear big boy pants soon as well.

I've had a few over the years, but since we got the Tiger my bike whorish ways have moderated, since then it's been all Tiger with a brief flirtation with a BMW Light Truck that was a really disappointing machine.

My current bike is a 2018 Speed Triple R, Dark Edition, Its a special edition done by 8 Ball for Triumph. It didnt really sell because the cot for the paint job was high, so I got lucky and bought it when everyone was buying the 2019 RS model for an excellent price from Jack Liileys. Its the 4th Speed Triple I have had, all from JL. To be fair I would have happily stayed with number one, that was my favourite, if it hadn't been stolen... So, originally bought in England, went to Germany and is now in Portgal. Ocasionally gets the company of the Mamoth and its little and large! And in Portugal keeps going inadvertadly off-road... On those ocasions I swear a lot and remember my childhood horse riding days!! I will try to put a video when at 1500 meters high the road was fit for GSs, not Pirelli Supercorse and MotoGP Ohlins.... 10CPRO190901-130821.MP4

Perfect for you as you don’t have a functioning bike. A few others in here could join you as well.

There's some fantastic bikes on here..........just think how much money we have spent between us! On second thoughts don't! ?

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Now Specs, assuming a bots gender identity is so 2005...lol

Manual of course anything else is a moped ?

that's the stuff, you're our own one man scooby gang, Pete

I don’t want to trust that

BTW, the Strom’s looking clean! I had one, borrowed from a friend for a weekend before I bought my R1150, did a lot of miles on it, nice bike.

I've used a Givi Tour X on my Strom for e years and I love it, I never once had an issue with the Peak causing any buffeting issues and I did like the beak in low sun conditions . However I've just bought an Arai Chaser X full face helmet. I did want the Arai Tour X4 but it was too expensive and the chaser X was on a clearance price as it was last seasons colour

I think you're mixing Pedro up with Bruce (BusBoy) ?

The Sidecar Guys have come up with a plan to fight quarantine-induced boredom. With adventure travel meetings sidelined due to the coronavirus pandemic, this globetrotting duo teamed up to present the Armchair Adventure Festival, running the weekend of April 24. The Sidecar Guys are a criminally underappreciated pair of adventurers carrying on the proud British traditions of world exploration and silliness—their steed of choice is a sidecar-equipped Honda SH300I scooter. They’re the first people to do a round-the-world ride by scooter and sidecar, and hold a Guinness record for longest journey by scooter and sidecar. Their mega-trip saw them travel 34,000 miles through 35 countries and five continents. There’s plenty of footage of their travels on YouTube. Like the rest of the adventure travel community, their adventures have been shut down by the coronavirus pandemic. In many places, round-the-world riders are now banned from even riding around their home countries. That’s where the Armchair Adventure Festival comes in. The Sidecar Guys are running a travel festival, with plenty of notable speakers, that you can enjoy from your living room. The Armchair event has interviews, panel discussions, and presentations with many well-known adventure riders. Presenters include Charley Boorman, Ted Simon, Simon and Lisa Thomas, Billy Ward, Elspeth Beard, and several others. Not everyone on the list is a motorcycle traveler, but most of the lineup is in the two-wheeled overland category. All the fun will be streamed through the festival’s website. The Sidecar Guys are also running a quiz and some other fun stuff for the event, and on Sunday, Austin Vince is screening The Road To Independence (alas, no motos in this adventure film). A full schedule is posted to the festival’s website. The event begins Friday, April 24, and runs through Sunday, April 26. Interested? You can sign up for free at the Armchair Adventure Festival’s homepage (you can make a donation, if you want to). If you miss out on something, the festival’s video will be recorded and available online after this weekend. Let's block ads! (Why?) Source

Now hold on a minute.

Hi Nick, I reckon you'll fit in here just fine. This guy is a legend where 'tank selling' is concerned ?

I hope so ?

Bloody hell. I remember following you going to Tregaron with the first wide boxes on. Thought that you were going to ground out, and disappear through a hedge on every corner. ??

I've put the word out on some of the forums and whatsapp groups i'm on ?

Hey, Mawsley Damned glad to meet you. Damned gladder to hear you are over the hump on Covid. I think you always have to joke about life - good or bad. My own mom (89) and her 82 yr old boy-toy are coming down the backside of their infection. Mom never event went into the hospital with it. Her husband was hospitalized with it. He went thru - on oxygen and feeling good, to full oxygen and probably not going to make it, finishing up with "I'm not dead yet!" and is home recuperating. There is hope!!!

That's the thing. That sort of shit is tolerated these days, when years ago you'd get asked politely at first to do a search and not to duplicate. Repeat offenders got flamed. These days people sign up, don't even introduce themselves and then start asking stupid questions, rather than lurk and learn. The whole damn world has got lazier and dumbed down drastically in the space of a decade. All bikes have their issues and a decent forum will have exposed and solved most of them. Which means there'll likely be a thread explaining a problem and fix in great detail. That was the case on CarpeTDM.

They're all waiting for you to die

When I was researching new bikes I lurked on the few Tracer sites around, both MT09 & 07, and they were all very poor, mainly because the FB groups took the energy. The Honda CB500X forum was very good though, lots of energy. Carpe lost quite a few people to FB and was almost dead, then it picked up again in recent years. I've warned people that if they lose forums to FB groups, they'll regret it badly in years to come. Forums are like pubs and have their own unique identity after a while.

That was a quick start, soon to be edited. I see that Stephen took down previous videos. not sure why, but they were just as great. I want to do justice with the Odom Point story, as that was done for a friend's friend. Here is another of the AGALOS band's take on Odom Point - http://nyemoto.com/index.php/2017/08/15/billysride/ This is Billy. Billy would destroy sport bikes on Tail of the Dragon, while on his GS. Billy would do anything for anyone. Billy is the kind of guy you would erect a monument to him, on top of a 12000 foot mtn, in Colorado. The story of Odom Point will blow your mind.

I’m sure that others have said the same about the Klim peak. Not a good place to attach a GoPro. They’re not exactly cheap either. ?

I don't know what a shill is, I suppose you want to make me your inside man over there, but I don't really know anyone there, and haven't posted for years. I never really liked place, although I do enjoy all their pictures and americanness. My presence online has been non existent over the last 4 or years. Posted a couple of questions on UKGser but don't know anyone there either. Basically, you bunch of twats are my only online friends!