Pedro

If a BMW rattles, does it mean it's got personality too?

Johnny finds a roll of chicken wire, so he heads out ... Neighbor asks: hey Johnny, where are you going with that chicken wire? Johnny says: Going to catch some chicken Neighbour says, laughing: Johnny, you can't catch chicken with chicken wire!!! But sure enough, Johnny comes home after a few hours with 5 chicken strapped to his belt. Next day, Johnny heads out holding on to a roll of duct tape. Neighbour, sitting outside, shouts at him: hey Johnny, where are you going with that duct tape? Johnny says: well, to catch some ducks. Neighbour says: that's just silly, you can't catch ducks using duct tape, it's not even spelled the same! But sure enough, he watches Johnny coming back after a few hours with 6 ducks strapped to his belt. Next day, Johnny heads out holding on to a bouquet of pussy willow. Neighbour, sitting outside, shouts at Johnny: hey Johnny, wait a moment, I'm coming along Saw this on instagram, had to look up what pussy willow is

Fuck these guys, Pete you're being made fun of by three guys that together own a KLR, a Harley, and a Ducati that sounds like a box of nuts every time it's started, his biggest mileage on two wheels is done on a Transit. Let them fix the GS, ride it around for a couple of months and then sell it on, and keep your eye out for another. These bikes are either the best most reliable thing ever or a pain in the ass, more so if the mechanic isn't specialized in them.

he didn’t mean for you…

I never thought eggs gave you gas?

Broccoli with almost caramelized garlic, and free range eggs from down the street, great eggs: My version of what you call a plowman's lunch Some great olives, good tomatoes and amazing olive oil, and a southern portuguese salad turns into something great Sofia's lamb ragu, frozen and gifted to me. I used it on some fusilli instead of the pie it was meant to Simple and old school rustic, onion and tuna pasta, extra creamy from the jumping I'm perfecting with my italian pan

Cooking blood chorizo rice, I decided to entertain myself and take pictures. The secret to this dish is the chorizo, my garden´s rosemary, and the rice, which is a wild rice mix with normal long grain. Tomatoes, one big onion, and some mint. a third of the chorizo is shopped in big chunks, to release a lot of flavour, the other part is just pierced softly so that it can let juices out and cook properly inside. In this , I put a good coffee mug's worth of rice, which is properly washed and left to dry before starting. At the same time I start to put 3 mugs worth of water on a small pan, to have hot water once the time comes to add it, adding cold water isn't nice. Some very good olive oil, and you start cooking the onion, chopped in not too fine bits, this is a rustic dish. Add the rosemary from the start, the smell is great. Once the onions soften up and about to start getting golden, add all the chopped tomato and a couple of smashed garlic cloves. Add freshly ground black pepper to taste and salt to get the tomato to let it's juice out and cook. Little later, once the tomato is releasing it's juice you add the chorizo and the mint leaves. Take the rosemary out, it's done it's thing and it's not worth it to have it fall apart. Let the chorizo cook a while, once the tomato juices are thickening and the chorizo looks like it's starting to cook, add the rice and give it a good scramble. All of it should be perfectly mixed with the tomato. Let it be for a minute, and add one to two mugs of water from the pan, it varies according to the amount of liquid you already have from the tomato. Close the pan and leave it at medium heat, you want it bubbling all over but not violently on a rolling boil. You also want the bigger chorizo piece in the middle, you want that properly cooked. I like giving it a mix a couple of times to make sure everything is evenly cooked and that the rice gets to swim around instead of being stuck together. A minute or so before the rice is done this is what it should look like, if it looks drier add more hot water, at this time I put another piece of rosemary on, because I love it. And the finished thing looks more or less like this. This is on it's watery version with the rice all dente, it's fine to leave it to cook more but I like the watery rice thing. If you close the lid and leave it a couple of minutes like that before serving the rice will start absorbing a lot of that water and become more like a risotto, to which his own. Tasted great

Who knows, if you love something set it free.

I tried my best too, you could tell the big guy took the wrong pills that morning.

The Pegaso is actually very smooth and able from low revs, feels like a bigger engine than it is. The bike itself feels tiny, though. I wouldn't go for the Pegaso on a long trip if I had the big GS sitting next to it, though, one of them makes you feel like going away while the other feels like a very nice offroad toy.

Isn't that what I just said before?

You could see Bruce having his fun and on the other side of the ocean the other guy having a full meltdown.

On the other hand, 10º in the winter feels mild over there, while here it feels freezing. I remember being in 0 to 5º in Germany and thinking it felt a lot warmer than what it showed in the car.

Thing is, that’s not desert heat. 30° in the Sahara feels a lot more manageable than 30° in Germany or the UK, up north temperatures feels hotter than here and more south. Plus you brits aren’t really cut to endure proper heat, same as I don’t like riding bikes in under 10°c.

Nobody ever was as angry on this forum as that guy that day.

If you want to be more right than wrong predicting weather, just predict that tomorrow will be the same as today, you’ll be more than 75% right

There’s weather everywhere, dude

Right! thanks you two: this guys sounds like a mix of @ Lone Amigo and @Slowlycatchymonkey

Oh my god you brits and the weather!

Different name, but sounds like that

He was an encyclopaedia on bike knowledge but not as annoying and preaching as Slowly, those two together probably write what this bot posts!

Overweight guy, used to race when he was younger, wanted to buy a bike that weighs less than him, flounced when he went into a tantrum about you changing specs on his browser and Bruce wound him up his last words here were something like : fuck you Pete, I’m not insane Bruce knows who he is, @ Bruce?

This guy is like a mix of @Slowlycatchymonkey and that crazy guy that also flounced, used to race motorcycles against Steve McQueen and all that

Big in size or engine? To be honest, for most of the riding I do the GS is pretty perfect , but it could be a little smaller in handlebar reach and even more perfect.