Pedro

Get a tall van

I think around 114000km. Was thinking the same today but forgot to check.

Perfect sunny day today, 300km in summer jacket and tshirt underneath, not too hot not too cold. Phone was going off with emails and a few calls so stopped to sort all that while having an espresso.

Did a detour to stop by a botm picture in one of my favourite northern Portugal coastal spots.

Less hollywood, more pikey. His friends will appreciate it more.

See? I'm no good at electrics

Take the plates off, ride into an airport and just throw someone the keys and say "it's yours", it's very hollywood!

This is Ducati's more off-road extreme version of the very nice DesertX, it's got a developed suspension, proper off-road wheels, all that stuff. Plus the video shows two Italian very pro riders showing what it can do off-road in Morocco. It troubles me a little that these videos now show Morocco (and Portugal sometimes) as free for all lawless destinations. Some of this behaviour is not respectful for locals, like riding over desert shrubs or disturbing streams. The Italians are huge rally Dakar fans, but if it comes across that countries like these are free for all lawless destinations then it'll ruin it all for people traveling around the place enjoying it at a pace that suits carrying luggage and actually traveling.

I could have used you as an electrics teacher. So the coil is a condom.

There's always a point to a poll!

Its too warm for a proper biker's black leather jacket, which has been established as the proper motorcyclist thing to wear. But better to not wait too long, or else winter starts and the rain is not good either, there´s 3 days of usable weather betwen the jacket weather and only long enough for setting the points on the bike, if the good season happens during weekdays he's screwed.

Well, now you'll have to keep it under 20mph... On the other hand, getting a nice picture of you doing well over the speed limit would be worth printing and framing on the wall.

Yes, the coil!

I love it when people say shit like that. Still doesn't mean shit to me, but it feels like you're Gandalf talking magic that you simply know from ages of experience.

It's like he just doesn't care!

You hope to get money for it over there or kick it to a ditch and fly back?

If you need dates you better stay clear of where Pete lives.

Cool bike! They’re very popular, as a brand, in northern Portugal.

These days? there’s a serow picture? In the wild?

He’s better after breaking his leg, only drove him today because yesterday he curbed a wheel in his car and it had to urgently be fixed as he couldn’t live with it. He’s not acting less like a twat since getting sick, which I suppose is a good thing?

Drove my dad to Porto today, and walked around for an hour while he was in for a doctor's appointment

Degrees of enthusiasm vary, I would say not really worth it but then again we were there on the weekend with production stopped. Also showed up with no booking but they squeezed us in. Also I found the guy annoyingly over enthusiastic about being "addicted to motorcycles", he was playing his part though.

I was calling clients today while this was on: This guy might be very tall and big, and his T7's suspension is like a motocross bike, but that is a proper workout. The man's a beast.