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You're not wrong Pete. On one of our trips to the Pyrenees we were stopped at a cafe somewhere in France. The patron brought out the coffee's and then proceeded to check out the bikes. He got excited when he saw the Welsh flags on some of the bikes, he asked if we were Welsh. As I was the best French speaker I told him that they were all Welsh except for me . He asked where I was from, when I told him I was English he looked at me and spat on the floor . All my mates pissed themselves laughing, I just laughed along with them ?

I should have paid these people to do this when i bought the thing in late '02! She has never run better! My best guess is the fact i threw in a finger adjusted fuel air jet in violation of Federal Govt USA law dint hurt! Dont snitch, snitches get stiches...lol So i took her for a spin, 41F, no humidity...perfect numbers for hp, and she pulled from idle to redline like never before... And my IRC GP 110's are the best dual sport tyres i have ever run on my KLR. They dint dig in on sand, my KLR hated sand, not now. End of this ride report! Oh ps, Suzukis are gay!

Ugh, now Buck wants to play nice! This isnt fair!!!

No hedges here Alan! Dell's accident was nothing to do with the environment.......more to do with the shock of him seeing this in his rear view mirror!

@XTreme Tymeh is off his meds again.

Its about riding during a pandemic while the cops cant do chit because i carry more firearms then they do. Now, you arnt allowed an air powered toy gun because, you are a pussy..LOLOLOLOLOLOL!

He was the double in Girl on a motorcycle as well. More your kind of movie.

Fuck that! I may not ever get back into Spain again!

I was hoping to do this at the beginning of June but things being as they are it is on hold. North coast 500

My first bike after inheriting my father’s C50. Got it new and got pulled for speeding that night, running in. ?

Nothing that glamorous ??

I've experienced the wet but the locals were all fine

If it was Bruce would be fucked

Once or twice a year I attend a meeting with sales guys from all over Spain, around 12 guys from different areas. You can imagine the conversations at dinner, and these are educated guys that do like each other, but even then their rivalry shows in the most interesting things, like who makes the best olive oil, the best sardines, the best whatever... One of them told me, a couple years ago, that kids from the same grade from all over Spain learnt history from 31 or 41 different history manuals. Each one deleting Spain's feats as a country and finding a way to make their own area more important.

No danger of being bitten at least.

I’m going to say the KH750 triple, it was the era of two strokes.

Well at least there's one real motorcyclist from Cardiff! It goes without saying that I'm the one real motorcyclist from Swansea! Think it's going to be down to you and me to represent our cities with distinction Alan!

Just let me know where and when, and I’ll make it happen. I’ll follow @Sir Fallsalot

Y;all are doing my head in!

Unlikely to be in 2020 due to the virus restrictions and whatever gets decided with Brexit. Everything's just up in the air!

i stashed the go pro in my jacket so it was behind the air flow of the windshield, im sure Buck would like to comment on airflow and mics...lol not...lol

blah blah blah my KLR runs! 17years and counting while you...umm never had a pic...

The girl who rode her Fireblade up the Sommelier in Italy (an off road track) with her partner on pillion (a guy) gets my vote https://www.dangerousroads.org/europe/france/8294-col-del-sommeiller.html

There are usually quite a few DR650's for sale in France, would that be a pain to register in Spain ? https://www.leboncoin.fr/motos/1765249795.htm/ https://www.leboncoin.fr/motos/1762596757.htm/

No......it's the euphoria of having a working KLR Ian! Very rare occasion......sort of like a solar eclipse really. It won't last long!

I have absolutely no idea what this is about.

We should try to do this trip next year, those of us with bikes can meet along the way. Tym can fly in if he is off the no fly list by then.

Scotland fans come to Porto for soccer, huge amounts of beer and singing England fans come to Porto for soccer, huge amounts of been and police escorts back to catch an early flight home

I think riding a motorbike for pleasure is a different skill set than getting around town on a scooter - certainly here in south east asia, every woman can ride a scooter (usually also off road to the village, loaded with a couple of children, her neighbour, 3 chickens and one pig). When you go to transfer to an actual motorbike, they have fantastic roadcraft when in dense traffic but the skills required for managing a taller, heavier motorbike at higher speeds, with bigger wheels, different steering geometry, different centrifugal dynamics, a clutch and proper gearing - these are quite different skills that need to be learnt. And I find that most ladies here, who have been riding scooters since they were children, still find that switch very intimidating. Is it because it's just new? Is it because all the men in their lives have told them that girls can't ride big motorbikes? I dunno. But I find that confidence and risk appetite are really influential factors when it comes to learning to ride a big bike and, more importantly, whether you enjoy doing it. Whereas I LOVE watching little girls fanging around on pee wee 50s like they're indestructible. They're so small that they don't even know that apparently girls can't ride motorbikes. They're just little wild animals, having fun, learning about physics in the dirt, and I absolutely love it. I reckon, teach your daughter to ride dirt bikes with the boys and even if she never grows up to be a rider, she'll never be intimidated...

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to harangue all your small-daughter-having friends into getting their little girls motorbikes and encouraging them give it a red hot go!

About 300 miles Dave! This is where you should have gone.......about 30 minutes from me. There's camping with wifi and also caves as well......which maintain an 18C temp all year round.

Here's a true story Dave! When I came over here in October 2005 I needed to return the hire car back to the UK. Got lost somewhere in France in the early hours of the morning and stopped at a service area to get directions. The cafe was full of truckers and I tried my best to get across that i needed to get back to Britain. They weren't remotely interested in helping me. Then thinking back to French I did in school I remembered "Pays de Galles" (Wales) and told them I was from there. Total change! They all wanted to shake my hand and buy me coffee. A few of them could even speak decent English and were telling me about how welcome they were made in Cardiff when they went there for the rugby. They fucking loved the Welsh! Eventually one of them said to follow him and he got me back on the motorway. Now I'm not saying it's a disadvantage being English.......it's more a case of having an advantage if you're not!

@ XTreme --------------------------->?

Just affect a French accent and they'll roll out the red carpet

I wonder why that might be Dave? @Specs @Sir Fallsalot.........you ever experienced this?

@XTreme might be the last dance for you old farts, I have at least 50 years riding left in me.... but sure I’ll play work permitting.

It's a great idea Pedro.......here's the things we've got to consider: 1. Who's coming and where they're travelling from? 2. How long virus restrictions are going to be in place? 3. What needs to be in place for Brits due to Brexit repercussions? Like possible visas, health cover, loss of mobile roaming etc. 4. Timing......late June to the end of August are out of the question due to the heat. December, January, and February should also be avoided due to variable Winter conditions. Unfortunately we can't plan anything at the moment.......because we could still have restrictions of sorts in place this time next year. Putting the idea out there to gauge interest is all we can do at the moment. In fact given our ages now......this could be the Last Dance! @Specs @boboneleg @Renegade @Catteeclan @DangerRuss58 @Skippy @Sir Fallsalot @Buckster @Sofia @Cupid Stunt @Muddy @yen_powell @Pedro @MooN @BusBoy

Well, if i got on my KLR and started riding, how many motors would i need to get there? lol

Same thing with my Jeep CJ.5's, they loved fresh snow, next day, not so much.. of course my KLR loves snow...lol .

Well, i can honestly say its one of the best bikes in the world if you dont like going over 45mph....and if you want to ride off-road get 3 of these first.?

If you've got a KLR I can't imagine any scenario whereby everything in the world is right Pedro!

Nice think with carburated thumpers or twins is that when they are set up and valves put to spec and carbs synchronized you can really tell the difference and it seems everything in the world is right! That's how it felt in my Hondas and BMWs, don't know about KLRs ?

Did this mid February!

My present DR650 is an Australian model 2012, I've got all the aussie paperwork with it . Guy was a Brit who worked in the mines near Perth , bought it back to the UK with him when he moved back, I was lucky enough to snap it up when he put it up for sale. Here's the Aussie bike in the foreground with my 1996 UK bike behind............ Once i had them both I began the process of swapping over all the 'adventure' parts onto the Aussie bike...... Once it was all done I put the '96 UK bike back to almost o/e spec and put it up for sale.........

https://www.facebook.com/Sjiriki/videos/vb.639440458/10157777548450459/?type=3 this one? very low quality I'm sorry, was filmed with an old phone

I think it's brilliant all these ladies doing this stuff! Wish I had a daughter like that!

Good to see you here too!!!

My R1100GS in travel modus before the conversion My R1100GS after the conversion in travel mode My 790 Adv in travel mode

That's good news, especially for the employees.