Pedro

I like how you plan 4 or more hour long rides, Chris. I never do that and it's either a short local ride with no plan that can turn out to last anything from 1 hour to 3 or 4 including lunch, or something that ends with overnight stops somewhere else. Cool looking forest road, too!

Still waiting for a nice ride report from you, show Yen how it's done!

I think that's how it's done here, as I frequently spot a guy with a telescope on a tripod and another holding a staff in the distance.

That Moot Hall is a properly cool building. Thanks for the explanation too, I always wondered how they measured levels with those tripods and telescopes

Weird listening to that coming from an Italian singing “weirdly”

So sort of a potato and onion grilled/fried thing? I would take that except for the ketchup or whatever that red sauce is, and that nasty looking bread

What's the triangle shaped thing north of the mushrooms?

I voted for @yen_powell because he´s one of the forum´s best contributers, a cool guy with a cool bike, and someone on their bike waving to the camera is always a nice picture. My picture was better though, how come you don't like a sandy trail through a pine forest with a high clearance GS and blue skies is beyond me

Confused myself with the other thread, they're doing the same to the Hornet, be it inline 4 or Twin everything's turning into a parallel twin with 270º

the Hornet is an inline 4, and that’s what it should be

No

Espinho aerodrome while taking the bike out for an after wash ride

And considering you must be a competent mechanic, you could probably take the pump off, file it, paint it, and put it back together better than they can in less time than it takes you to drive the bike there and back… and save the diesel money

Basically, he's saying you were foolish by driving it half a continent away to them since you stopped the leak before.

Anyway, I told him about the driveshaft thing they're doing, but was thinking there's someone else I forgot about. The thing about BMW is that (as will most brands, even more if Japanese) you need a nice dealership, and I think most dealerships here are good to their clients. My mechanic (who works as a consultant to a main dealer) told me to call them and ask, as soon as I told them about the mileage we just set a date for the replacement and that's it. My bike has had two things changed in warranty: the small reinforcement to the front forks stallions which is nothing more than a machined cap fitted to the top of the forks and would have never needed them, and the handlebar buttons where you change information on the left hand. That button would stick sometimes, and when I took it in they changed that and the one on the right hand too just because I hinted the warranty was running out. Cool people!

There’s someone here apart from me and Specs that has a water cooled GS isn’t there?

Just so you know, such things don’t happen with a BMW, in fact, my bike will have a new shaft drive fitted for free later in October, as will all bikes (at least here) after a free inspection or if they’re over some mileage which mine is. I was going to take it out and probably replace anyway at 100.000 or 120.000km, so was happy they thought of me.

Just saw that big dude yesterday on a video about a Hayabusa event in the UK! That’s a fake rude restaurant, there used to be a real one in Porto that had patrons coming all the way from Spain to see the guy loose his shit and tell people to eat what he put on the table or fuck off!

Way to go!

Understood, but I'll chose not to elaborate much on it.

True story, Pete is loud and rude and incessantly tries to embarrass you. Plus gives you tea with milk in it