Pedro

Yours will never make it to that mileage. The reason that one does is that they drive it a lot, if you heat cycle things 100 times more they’ll never last as long, never mind the time limit on plastic parts.

Replacing the oil, didn’t need to but I feel better leaving and not coming back right on the limit of 10000km oil use. Also there are a few water drops on the beak. Can’t have that!

15 minutes waiting for the garage to open. This raining thing is not really my thing though

There would have been no reason to evolve

It's absolutely pouring down. Picked my brother up from the airport yesterday night so my dog didn't wake ME up early today, so slept a little more. 08:30 tomorrow I'll be at the dealership with the GS, with this weather it'll be an interesting motorcycling day. I hate riding in the wet and am no good at it. Might take the chance to investigate on a better fitting set of rain over pants and jacket, mine is very practical but is 2 sizes too big so it does get tiring if facing a long motorway ride. I do trust in Saint Peter for nicer weather from wednesday onwards ...

Warm muff, or cozy muff, that's what you want on a cold motorcycle.

The Homos invented climate change, sold it to the guys before who believed them and look where that got them

Thanks, I hope you see pictures of blue skies. But it might not be so.

If you’re going to do that daily over winter, and your bike doing very little in weather protection, have you considered heated midlayers?

You didn't let your wife get a coffee on a shop, so to please her you went home and ordered COFFEE online?

I saw one of those the other day in traffic, MG badge attached to some very modern looking small suv, I thought I was seeing things

Coming up for food?

he is slowly making a stealthy campaign, people get elected like that

Funerals in the UK seem to be a lot of fun, compared to funerals here.

Marcel, everything not fish or meat is vegetarian. Grain, flour, rice, that's not meat. You think Africans used to eat mostly meat?

In my industry post Covid has even been better up until now. Prices went up and up and up, while demand did as well so everyone happy. I never earned so much money doing so little. Now all is turning to shit

It's raining. It's been raining everyday for more than a week now. Plus it's getting colder. I don't know how you brits and other nationalities cope with this shit. I know water is needed and Portugal really needs it, and I appreciate the lord for sending it, but it's not nice to live like this. It'll keep raining through the weekend so if I'm lucky it'll stop in my daily walk with Costa The Dog, but the bike will stay put once again until Monday. It's been sitting for more than a month except to go to mechanic shops to do things a couple of times.

I wouldn't know how to go back and looking at my week with a rigid work schedule, even more if it meant going to the office for specific times. The Covid years up until 6 or 10 months ago were the best for my work / life schedule, good times ...

No, that's a Touratech Tractive aftermarket one. The original had a mud protector thingy on it. Looking back, I would have gone with Ohlins instead.

I like your humor more now that you´ve got moderators

The NHS is really in the shits in the UK, no fridges over there?

Firstly, I am free to manage my time daily, I can go for a walk with my dog instead of "working", or take a trip while working too, I can manage during normal work load to enjoy myself when I want to. That happens because most of my profit comes out of taking opportunities that come to me, I don't need to be sitting at a desk or driving around to clients 7 hours a day, and most of my clients have been for a very long time. On the other hand, I'm expected to do the same whenever those opportunities appear, or to solve crisis when they appear, be it now, be it in June or August when I'm one day into a beach holiday week. Shit breaks out two weeks from now and I'll be sitting at a table in Merzouga for two days looking at my laptop and asking clients not to bail out on my supplier. The part I like is that a most of them will think I'm 30km away, while a few will know I'm on the bike and tell me to fuck off in dearest way To be able to do this is cool, but never spending a week without a plan altering email popping up in the middle of your day for years is also getting old. I miss when I'd clock out to go on holidays on friday at lunch, and on saturday evening I'd be on the track car driving through France having forgotten all work things.

In what seems like a trend, now that I again decided to go to Morocco, stuff keeps happening. This morning my mechanic texted me he’s got the flu, so not available for the pre trip checkout and tyre change. This afternoon I begrudgingly called a friend who runs Porto’s biggest tyre selling shop and went there to have them fitted. They have a small shop for bikes, as it’s mostly cars and commercial vehicles. Then called a few places, and I’m booked at 8:30 monday for an oil and filters change at the local dealership, and the bike should be ready to go. The plan is to ride to my place for two or three nights. Hope to be in Tangier on Thursday or Friday next week.

I love how my bike looks with beefier tyres