Pedro

Cheap dates!

Gay!

I can’t believe I’m saying this but:

Yes, you don’t do enough miles to wear them you know I joke out of love

Doesn’t need to, it’s the bike

If I know where I'm going, and it involves motorways and main roads I try to remember to turn on Waze even if not needed, and just leave notifications off except alerts. This works well for speed camera warnings. To use as a digital map, stopping and checking the roads around, figuring out where to go, and maybe even silent navigation, Google Maps is way better than the apple version. Searching for hotels and having accurate prices instantly on your map, searching restaurants around, etc, for stuff like that Google is really impressive. As a guide, I'll be able to ride through most offroad paths that show up on google maps, it's a great way to find places I wouldn't consider otherwise.

There are some very short cables available, they make a difference in the way that it's easier to strap them to the handlebar and less flapping about putting strength on you phone's plug to hold it. Seems you can almost get rid of the quad lock arm, have you tried it without?

So you took the car and not the bike, then? All good?

Right, it’s way better to sit at home whining that you have to be on call.

I already hear that, I just don’t miss out on work calls too

I can almost hear @Tangowondering if his lady´s lack of enthusiasm to ride a bike can turn into her buying herself a two up bike to add to the stable.

When I worked from my office it was a 20km ride mostly on a motorway. Even with filtering through one or two stoplights it took me longer on the bike than on the car just from putting the jacket and helmet on and off and all the "event" that riding a bike and taking it off the garage compared to the car. Not compared to a freeking Goldwing

I don't know, shouldn't you check to see if your washing machine is posting rude things about you in facebook?

He bought your GS?

The Hungry and The Hairy, two celebrities ride motorcycles around Korea (south) and show the food and the biking roads. Every episode they get two different bikes, two Triumphs, two Harleys, etc… It’s very silly in a very asian humour kind of way, but really surprised me at what Korea is like. It’s very much 50% motorcycles/ 50% gastronomy though, and 100% silly. Produced by Netflix edit: Ewan and Charley could learn a thing or two from these two about showing enjoyment instead of whining

Stop wineing? That’s going too far!

Is Fury a real name?

I can only imagine the burocratic nightmare that must be for whoever is on both sides

Do you go around the street in France doing the same thing?

The fact it hardly turned a wheel in the last years was an indication. Also it had electric servo brakes, which if you research a little are not a nice thing to have on an older bike, as you found out. I don't think any of that was the point, though, my point was that most bikes (not just BMW) are solid and reliable. Obviously you shouldn't buy anything that's too expensive for you, too fast for you, that you fear won't start, etc...

Yes, his talks about bikes as well as random stuff are very interesting to me.

I have the Sena kit that you install on Schuberth. I like it because there's no external buttons or battery, everything is really well hidden. Overall battery life started out great and enough for 4 or 5 hours of music playing, but now doesn't cope with more than 2,5 hours. If not playing music I just leave it off, when the phone rings I turn it on and within 2 seconds it connects and instantly picks up the call straight to the helmet, which is very nice. On some phone calls I get, if I'm slow country roads, people aren't aware I'm using anything other than my phone, which is perfect. On the motorway they assume I've got no signal, but that might be my kit has been a little abused. The noise never transmits to the other side, though. Connectivity with other headsets has always been troublesome and I have trouble making myself understood too. Wouldn't recommend if that the intended use. Overall I like how it doesn't protrude from the helmet, but wouldn't really recommend it more than any other I haven't tested. The buttons next to my left eye and the little mic are all you can see from the outside, which I really like. Even though I don't particularly rate my option, I will continue to use intercoms on my next helmets.

Motorrad, the german magazine, used to do long term tests and then open up the bike, inspect everything, and tear the engine completely apart at sometime 100.000km. I saw very few of those magazines but that was properly interesting regardless of if you're interested in that specific bike or not. Being in German, most of it was lost on me, good thing they took pictures

I like the Zack and Ari videos, they always put out entertaining content. They're good on their individual things but together they bring out the best in each other. I also like Neevesy´s talks about bikes. Moto.it, the Italian Motociclismo, I like that too Gypsy Tales, a podcast also on youtube, mostly about racers, motocross and road, it's Australian. ARienman1, also Australian I hate Itchy Boots, Fortnine, Missenden Flyer, would rather watch commercials, they have this way of sounding super hiped and fakely enthusiastic.

Don't buy a neglected old shed the next time, which is what your R1200GS was. 99% of motorcycles are just fine and mostly troublefree for most of the use.