Pedro

She runs, and sounds smooth and sweet as new! Only ran for a few minutes, then on Monday it’ll be calibrated going thrpugh a couple of heat cycles. I won’t see it, as tomorrow I’ll be taking my mum on a roadtrip around Portugal for a few days. Get her out of the house and see some sights.

How sad is that, Marcel? you went to a pawn shop asking for an autograph?

For Canadians, Rolls Royce is the Rolls Royce of cars!

Small-cylinder car? Sounds like AI generated words.

Well, strawberry icecream IS strawberry icecream!

I rode a working motorcycle today. Scenic backdrop for your viewing pleasure

Do you just throw your helmet to the bushes when you stop at places?

Tomorrow we’re going to put Costa to sleep. Morning drives and walks, then steak lunch, nap, and then say goodbye. I’m feeling heartbroken, but the little guy is not ok at all anymore.

Poor Ersilia, when you get bad you get an Italian woman cooking, when she gets sick …

Looking forward to this report developing, and also your views on my country. There's a few reports here if you're looking for inspiration on where to go. Another tip, if you're carrying actual road maps, the best one for Morocco is the Michelin 742. As you know Morocco does not recognize Western Sahara as a country, so they confiscate everything that goes against that. Just pack your map under your clothes or somewhere not in open view when you open your luggage and they probably won't take it. Or just censor it so that it is not sellable on the street behind the customs by the same people that confiscated it in the first place

Does she have a phone mount on her handlebars, to put navigation on her phone? Good on you for saving the night! Bet it felt good that she called you instead of the boyfriend?

You have to ask AI to make the bike parts not match in colour.

This is funny but completely real. A friend of my brother teaches in a californian university. Two days ago the administration sent out a message to all students saying that the elections might not go as they were expecting, and that emotional support would be provided for free for whoever felt they needed it.

Nevermind him. He was just being racist.

Pretty hard price negotiations going on before they agreed to meet more or less halfway between 955 and 950

Something like adding a modern exhaust and injection to the old one, or is it much more than the old one?

In Europe I would just stop on Vodafone shops and buy prepaid cards. In Morocco, you want Inwi. In Tangier you can buy one easily as you get out of the harbor and into town, any communications shop sells them all over the country. You can them go to any phone or convenience shop all around the country and charge it up using money over the counter, no fuss or need to register. Inwi has great reception and fast data in places where you would think you wouldn’t.

Scrambler with 130mm suspension travel?

It exists, Wiesmann: It’s a really cool coachbuilder in Germany and it’s so cool everyone on the BMW board drives one. The ones powered by an S54 and manual box are dreamy, nazis have great taste is cars!

That's probably what I meant. Except involving just the heads done and not the pistons.

It's not a complete over haul, it's had the timing chain replaced and valves turned and head cleaned. The bottom end is untouched, which in a boxer engine is the middle end? The gearbox bearings and stuff: I'll take the fault for that, using it off-road while sometimes downshifting like on a motocross bike with no clutch, and in heat and heavy dust and moroccan silt All in all, it has led a hard life, between difficult fuel, hard use in dusty and hot conditions, etc. But it'll be back for more, I love that bike. The thing is, considering what motorcycling has done to my mental health over the last 6 years, riding this bike has probably saved my life. It's been more than a therapist, so I want it alive and well and ready for more. It'll see 200, 300 or 400.000km, as it won't be with me until I stop.

It's on 122.000km, not too much but I think I have hurt it going two up on bad fuel in Morocco in high altitudes. I heard it pinging a little and it went away after fueling up (this happened a few times), so I suspected fuel quality at the time, it's been a while since.

You haven't got full mastery of your own thumbs in 60 years, or English, or French!

Only thing I regret is not having had the shocks sent for refurbishment when the bike was stopped, that would have saved the next lay over in a year or two, but who was to know it was a going to take so long (including the dude going through the flu), but maybe I'll have a talk to an Ohlins guy and see about a replacement for the Touratech shocks I have been told sell for good money online.