Pedro

Ever since the attack in Brussels airport

Proper day of riding today, left home at 11:30, stopped at 20:00 went through 11 degrees at 2000m and wet fog to 27 degrees at sunset, including a cow traffic jam.

The other day I saw a youtube video of some guys making a custom Low Rider ST, and the front wheel had Made In China stamped on it hidden by the wheel bearings

Raining... I'll give it a few hours

Barely time enough to enjoy the place or catch up with your son, Pete. Are you planning on going back soon with a less hectic schedule?

If I was expecting 25° maximum temperature I would take my winter jacket

I like the colour on sportsbike kawasakis, but that front end…

For someone built like a racer, this must be a blast of a bike to ride, so ugly though.

Tomorrow earlyish I’ll be riding off and have a plan for the first 2 or 3 hours, then spending two or three days riding around. It’ll probably be warmer than I would prefer but it’s summertime.

You can certainly see Buell in there, though. It’s cool if you can look at something and know who makes it.

Tell him about the 60mpg, Rich!

Puppy is feeling much better, he's bouncing back better than anyone thought and being a real trooper with having a daily visit to the vet for two shots for 9 days now. His catheter came off today, tomorrow first few stitches also come off.

Couscous I bet

Hope you can both enjoy the trip, Pete. As a tip, not really knowing where you'll be staying, the coolest motorcycle dealership I ever visited was Ten Kate Honda, a good few years ago though: https://goo.gl/maps/TEsZ6pMF49oNXihs9

Surely a combination of both. Are you worried you’ll ruin that look with a topbox, Marcel?

This is Tata, in Morocco: Bit warm

Absolutely no planning at all going on there, and a lot of stopping specially dictated by other people.

I did that two or three times, always in the back of my head is the thought that a lone goat shepherd is looking at me in a distance running back and forth from the bike and striking the same pose, laughing at the scene.

I would surely do it on a borrowed GS I don’t care about, just not my own. They are capable bikes on easy trails, but if you don’t care about them they suddenly get 50% more capable . I don’t fancy dropping mine on water, or flooding the shaft drive.

I would spend a full day on the GS cruising a road like that! None of the water crossings though, water crossing on my bike …

It’s been creeping up over the last year, Marcel

There’s no point in wanting something Pete, you just want it.

I think you answered your own question, and what’s wrong in getting what you want?

A bag in NL

I don’t get the sizing on those machines. I’m probably a lot smaller than him and couldn’t fit in one without being twisted up either.