Pedro

I don't know, if you're commuting, when it takes you more time to put in your gear, get warm, ride the bike, get out of your gear, than it does to drive, just drive and be warm and healthy to enjoy motorcycling when it's meant to be enjoyed. I once commuted on my Transalp, in winter it took longer than driving, but I never had to face serious traffic.

Not really. I mean, when in the right mood there are roads that I might do over 3 times the speed limit, some might call that being a bad boy. On motorways sometimes I kind of let it rip just so those young dudes on the CBR600 don’t think they’re the shit, bit what annoys me is that the tickets that have been pinned on my permit are an 80kmh exiting a village in the countryside on a 70kmh area and a 110kmh on a 60kmh between two 120kmh motorways, the ladt one I was quite lucky as I usually do that bit on cruise control doing 130kmh. seems like you can’t be a responsible speeder nowadays without being caught out for crap. Almost makes me want to get a hayabusa and a roll of white sticky tape just for going out on sunday mornings for coffee! PS: oh, I forgot, while I was away my dad felt an urgent need to fill out a Euromillions and parked my car on a crosswalk, the twat!

I also like the first gold colour, only because when it came out it was so impressive that I grew to like that. I’m a big fan, but am a step away from loosing my permit as it is. The Dainese shop where I go for coffee and to buy wine is a meeting point for the Hayabusa club, always a sight:

A black Hayabusa is a pretty thing. With a clean looking stock exhaust and the cowl on instead of the rear seat even more. Looks clean and pretty.

It identifies as a Yamaha now

I slept in a cave there once, it’s an experience, and if there are no more guests to make a sound the complete darkness and silence makes for an interesting night. You wake up and have no idea if it’s 3am or already day

Honest question: is that normal in the uk now? Kids’ tantrums leading to people fighting at the first word? People looking for a fight in a normal area like a restaurant or a ferry?

Look at shops, find one with good looking dirtbikes on the storage area. Pop up with tour bike, point at stuff and if they don’t know what to fix go away. Same as you would in the Uk, you’re not on another planet. Go on google maps and find anyone, chances are they’ll be better than that monkey you currently have in the UK working on your bikes.

That’s how Pete bought his, too.

I’m struggling with anticipation of wether you get your man in a fight or if it’s all innuendo from Exeter to the south of Spain.

I hate kites, whenever I used to ride up to the beach in the afternoon and spot them a mile away you know it’s going to be windy as fuck.

Yes there will, you’ll drag it for two weeks and then say there’s no match for your current bike. Because you are a troll!

What kind of 1200GS interests you?

There's really no pleasing you. Brits!

You said it plenty of times before, so unless it's a Hayabusa you're getting something you don't want as much

You would here too, that's why they put sticky tape while they're on the motorway going past cameras and toll booths and while it's easy to run from cops, and it's back to a normal plate in town and where cops can fine you. On your hipster plate, you can neither run away or avoid a ticket when you're stopped.

If you're showing your license plate numbers anyway, why risk getting a ticket? If you want to avoid cameras and stuff like that, on weekends the tape over the plate thing or national flag tied from blinker to blinker is still common here for people riding fast on motorways. No use for those on a Royal Enfield, obviously, as the only place they can speed through is a school zone.

Look at the smiling fish on the card, then the reality of the sad fish used for company by strangers night after night, his life turned into a haze of watching strange men in Belgium, made worse by the fisheye effect of his bowl

Or: heated grips with mitts, then when out of winter you don't use the mitts and still have heated grips. It's not like all other three seasons in the UK are exactly warm.

Only the Belgians to pimp out a fish! People don't realize how loud some fish can bubble, though. I used to hear Fish, my fish, bubble through the night

Heated grips work well, but if you're using proper winter gloves they'll also isolate your palms from the grips. I would go for heated gloves or heated mitts if commuting in proper cold.

Pete’s needy and clingy like that

Kawasaki actually found a way to make that bike look shittier! Lower it and make it look like the spring collapsed

Shit, that’s the one, I was wondering something looked wrong in my one i found in google