Pedro

That's some big sky, good stuff!

That's some scenery, I know the road has been posted before but you can always repeat it. That waving rolling tarmac is road porn.

For cars, we have an equivalent, for bikes not yet.

How fast do trucks drive there? Trucks, I mean big cargo trailers, not pickups

I am sure you are a real Evel Knievel of the modern world when you start your engine, I'll be sure to warn everyone in the Eifel to be aware that you are coming. They'll all try and make way.

A difficult track is exactly what one needs to calm down on the road. That kind of emotion gives you nothing if you want to go fast, there will be a hundred people driving faster than you with less "need for speed" and bring you down a notch. Spend a decade on the Nurburgring and you'll still be chasing that edge

On track, knowledge and control is fast, "problem with speed" is slow, you can have all the problem you want but it's not going to get you going any faster.

One can be noisy, but one cannot be noisy and complain to startle the gazelles

No chance for the other bikes in the next few months? If you start eating and feeling stronger, that's got to be good?

Maybe you talk too loud?

Some assorted pictures:

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.