Pedro

If it does live inside my walls, maybe I do. I'm ok with them keeping at a distance though.

It's not leaking after I tapped it lightly a few times. Tomorrow I'll get to it in the afternoon when I feel like smelling like gasoline.

The ride was shit, turned into rain 5 minutes in and ended up having lunch at home. At home I did exactly that as I remembered this one time many years ago when I took the bowl off for changing the jets. A few taps fixed the leaking problem, however with all the fussing I fucked up the magic procedure to start the bike so it didn't and I left it for tomorrow. Also took apart a compost box in my garden as there are suspicions it might have been converted to a snake nest. There are a lot of small lizards and stuff like that living in the wild bush that is my garden, and they slither around when I'm around, but after a few more or less big snakes were seen I have become a little skittish of grabbing into grasses. Snakes here are mostly non venomous and eat rodents, but they are very aggressive and will make for painful encounters.

Frustrated with myself and my mechanical incompetence. I've got a XR400 pissing fluid down the carb's little escape tube instead of starting, fuel all over, even resorted to pushing it up the ramp to bump start it going down. I'm clueless. Considering selling the thing as I haven't ridden it more than 2 or 3 times in the last 3 years. Will take the GS and go for lunch up in the hills.

That's very interesting, let us know when it's done.

all balls racing

A shop lost in time:

If Pete got his way, perfect bike/topcase proportions…

Correction, lost count

Did they name a Harley after a burger?

We have an issue with them, similarly maybe how the Scots or Irish might have an issue with the English. Towards Portuguese, they think they’re superior, but they think they’re superior to anyone else, same as the French. Who likes the French? Not fair really, the company I work for isn’t even Spanish owned or managed, it’s that company in itself that’s too complicated and dramatic.

I don’t dig it one bit.

Not my kind of bike really, and it’s a properly tiny bike, but heard a few go by on full throttle and it must be one of the coolest sounding motorcycles made today.

Correction, two glasses.

In the morning took the E30 to go shop for a shirt, it started first thing yesterday after way more than a month standing. This car is like a donkey, always happy to go for a walk. Ran into my dad's salesman who lives 400km away and was going back home with his family after the Easter weekend in Lisbon, what are the chances? Did a little work, not much to do today since my clients are almost all closed on Easter monday, but the Spaniards alway find new things to annoy me, then had a pretty healthy lunch of raw cherry tomatoes with a toast and olive oil. Spend most of the afternoon picking up grass and wild stuff growing in between the stones in my portuguese pavement, which is similar to cobblestones but white and smaller stones. Hard work in the warm sun. Missed a lot of them, managed to fill two 50 liter buckets and it still looks like shit! Then washed the GS, which is the easiest bike in the world to get really dirty from normal riding, and the hardest to wash. Managed to bang my knuckles into the aluminium bashplate while scrubbing under the cylinders, and my neighbors got to hear some northern words they're not used to. A short ride to warm it up after drying and found someone ran out of talent and crashed a Citroen AX into a wall, the car was left on the outside of a corner on a very dark not lit road, smart! Then vacuumed the house in a 50% ok way, had a shower, and am now enjoying a glass of wine outside, while the sun sets over the front neighbors houses. My almond tree (the one with the sun through it) is really growing and shows some pretty nice big almonds in the making, I should spray it against aphids this week. I'm tired, such is the life of a quiet day in the Ribatejo. Tomorrow I have work and a ride to go somewhere eat a sandwich for lunch. I'll take the stylish leather jacket!

12€ for a Portuguese style Russian salad. The world's going insane.

Got home today and my garden is in bloom. Looks brighter in reality, pretty warm out here too.

Try and do that to see if it messes them up, or maybe they’ll put a detective on you after!

Usually the habit of a siesta during a work day is meant to keep you from the extremes in heat, and also means people work until later. The factory I work with has a normal office schedule of 9:00 to 14:00, and 16:00 to 19:00. In the three summer months it’s 8:00 to 15:00.

Good stuff! Napoli!

Napoli is playing today at 6, @boboneleg! I’m in sunny Ericeira, going to have an american friend of Sofia’s for wine and food, so I’ll make some parmigiana and some delicious simple stuff to nibble on. On sunday I’m going to my place for a few days, so getting on the bike and maybe stop for a meet with a friend for lunch on the way. Although today is a holiday I have managed to get an order for 6 trucks of chipboard, so not a bad holiday either.

That does sound like a conspiracy

No, but whoever did massively improved the ugly box and did the community a favour.

Hero made motorcycles that competed competently in the Dakar, similarly to that Chinese brand we were discussing a few days ago. I might be a racist because I mix up all the Asian brands. A Hero was the bike Paulo Gonçalves was riding when he crashed and died in the Dakar.