Pedro

One of my laps, on a weekend with traffic following my mate Uwe on his 318is, my car also a 318 with 140hp, his slightly more horsepower but mine heavier, better suspension and a passenger. My brother filming with his hand held phone, quality camera work Get's busier from 5:30 on: One of my favourite clips, this nice man driving a 200hp Clio RS on a nice clear lap, I pass him at around the 1:00 at the Hatzenbach, love to see my car from the outside: Or, a short clip in the wet: Nor do I plan to! They ARE bumpy, there's a reason German cars are always so stable at high speed, Germany's concrete slabs with cuts between them do not make for a nice motorway surface. If you plan on going for a proper top speed run just keep your eyes open an go for it, an autobahn just because of the name is nonsense, man up and face the fine, or run.... Give me the Portuguese A2 or any of the big French motorways and you can properly stretch the legs of anything on them. Bugatti's Andy Wallace drove on the Portuguese A13 on my suggestion, and they weren't displeased, they wouldn't have managed the same result anywhere on a public road in Germany! There is no words that describe what that place is to me on this thread, I can close my eyes and see every corner like it's a high deff slide show, do a whole lap in my mind and remembering the bumps that have since then been fixed, the smell of the end of the last lap of the day cooling off with the windows open. The intensity of a mid afternoon fast lap, or drifting on a cold october morning. If I am at the Nurburgring on my car, I never want to leave. If I talk to the "wrong" friend there I come back home intent on buying a leather suit and an 600cc sports bike, I might take the GS there and see what it's like on a big fat traillie, eventually... Unless it's a very slow day, no there is not.

Wtf? do you live in the future?

Ok, just let me know after. will you be riding the Himalayan?

I really dislike german motorways, french and some portuguese ones are way better, but they do charge tolls, and quite a lot. Damn this, now I started thinking about it and will look up some videos of the Nordschleife after dinner. This is not cool, it’s a slippery slope! Cocaine is a cheaper habit!

A true hydraulic lift ?

Nature is your lift, I love it

Oh, and German motorways are shit compared to ones in France and most countries, bumpy as hell.

Visiting the Ring as a tourist, to tour around the area without going for the track proper isn’t of any interest for me. Don’t get me wrong, the roads and the forest are pretty, but not as smooth as you are all taking in my opinion. It’s all about the track for me, I would rather go elsewhere with nicer weather and food instead if not missing the track so much. I will make my way there on the bike because a couple of laps on a motorcycle should be done for sure, even if slower than before, that and to visit friends and the place itself, it’s my second home and a big part of my life once. Just being there might bring it all back, though, and make me pick it back up, which is something I don’t want yet. If you go and don’t ride or drive the track, it’s a pointless trip as far as I see it. Cars passing you with well over 60% speed difference is pretty dangerous but then again, it is what it is. Rent a car and do it that way, safer and maybe more fun.

They have been announcing those tests for Portugal for years now, it’s been coming “next year” for 3 or 4 now. Suposedly it’s 2022...

OK, more like a "lock stock" and less like a science show

That means something good, here. Like a potent alcoholic beverage or a very spicy food that "will make a man out of you", same way as "putting hair on your chest", if you are a man that is

That's like a mix of a science TV show for kids and a Lock Stock movie!

I thought it would be less of a difference between propellers, like one tooth on the sprocket kind of thing, not like cruising the motorway in third or sixth ?

https://www.adventuremotorcycles.net/forum/search/?q=Morocco&quick=1&type=forums_topic&nodes=12&search_in=titles All 4 of them on the link above.

WOW, will the savings in fuel costs pay for the propellers in 2 or 3 years?

I had no idea you had to change propellers, @Bruce, is it the propeller itself or related to the shaft or diff?

TKC70, very nice and smooth for the road and rain, and can handle some light offroad if it’s not mud or sand

We also say "a few cards short of a full deck"

Perfecting my eggplant lasagna: No cooking, just a healthy lunch with some cheese for taste: Sofia's rib, spinach and dahl: Again, Sofia's amazing oven roasted aubergine and pepper dip, some cured ham, cherry tomatoes, and goat's cheese for lunch. An entree of cured black pig, some bread and local wine, simple flavours in my untamable garden My spicy onions and canned sardines dish with leftover dahl, a nice mix: Spaghetti and portobello mushrooms: Costa, watching me have some olives and white wine. Not looking too pleased but he had just finished his own dinner.

"... depois não te queixes que o arroz tem formigas" word by word translated to "then don't complain there are ants in your rice". You use it a situation where someone is talking like they are acting or going to act careless, and you reply that "ok, you can do that but then don't come back complaining about current circumstances"

Pick a Michelin map, and most roads with green highlights or viewpoint signs will be good in most countries. Morocco is no exception. The comfort of Morocco is that until you are in the shit, you still have amenities. Booking.com and google work as well as in Europe, I've booked places in villages you would think had no internet, just stop your bike mid afternoon or a couple of hours before you feel like stopping, and turn your mobile on and you're set. Well...I see no ride report of that, did you not have a camera? Are you one of those? Even with no camera you can still write it up... I would go either in April / May, or September / October. Mid winter or after October you will have snow storms in the mountains, and rain in places you do not want to find rain when riding. Mid summer will be too hot (REALLY hot, way over 40º), even in September you will be too hot for a british person in the desert, but it's the Sahara, if you show up there and it's not hot you'll complain. Next trip might last a week longer than previous ones did, there is no work commitments but mine this time. I will do a couple of offroad roads I didn't want to do before with a passenger, and maybe go further south having a taste of the desert and the smell. Africa smells are addictive, you'll see when you step out of the ferry for the first time! Get to it, reports are posted, Pete is paying a fortune in webspace ...

Looks very nice, orange groves are always so green. That dog didn't enjoy the drone one bit!

Of course, take a look at the other reports, there is mechanical failure in 2015 and a new bike in 2016 and 2017