Pedro

I used to have Alpinestars leather summer gloves as well, they were great. My fingers are a little too long for my palm size, so the fitting of gloves is usually too short, which makes for numbness after a while even if they don't feel that tight. Meaning what I like might not be what anyone else likes. I have been using Dainese light textile gloves, they were the only thing I liked in the summer here in Portugal, https://www.fc-moto.de/epages/fcm.sf/pt_PT/?ObjectID=201945782&ViewAction=ViewProduct and along with some inner silk gloves they are great for mild winter, not a lot of protection though, if any. They are for the ride, not for the slide. They do fade and break apart quickly, I think after 10 to 15000km I felt like a new pair, which wasn't bad because they're cheap. Dainese changed the model so they aren't as summery as before. Looking for more protection I switched to some leather ones and tried the Rev'it Sand 3 ones, and although I really liked the leather and the way they felt around the fingers, a couple of stitches around the base of the thumb were too tight on one hand, and hurt after a while. https://www.fc-moto.de/epages/fcm.sf/pt_PT/?ObjectPath=/Shops/10207048/Products/Revit-Sand-3-Gloves/SubProducts/Revit-Sand-3-Gloves-0005 Try them, but see if you can try them on before buying, I think there is some variation on their quality control. I liked that they have outside seams on the palm side of the fingers. All gloves should be like that. Tried some BMW Rally gloves on a dealer, and bought those, they're really good and comfy, with a soft leather palm and outside facing stitches as well. Might not be a brand you like to wear but they do come in full black, which makes them discrete and not "90s BMW styling". Buying a size that is a little snug in width around the fingers is ideal as they will give after a few rides. I did find there was a small difference in fitment between the black 2020 model and the colored ones they already made the previous year, the other ones fit me better. I did the mistake of soaking them in cold water last year, riding in 41º heat, and my hands turned blue from the ink they lost, now the leather is looking a little faded but that's something I can cope with. https://www.bahnstormer.co.uk/product/rallye-gloves/

I have also realized that, but it wasn't late enough for melancholy

McGrath, one of the best ever supercrossers, retired, on his KX500 just racing like you do The holeshot is amazing , and just standing up with that beast at WOT putting down what, 60 or 70hp?

Two out of three ain't bad.

Everyone has called you a twat, you and @Swagman and @Richzx6r,it's a bandwagon people jump on. Sorry!

You'll drink that on your birthday?

I haven´t met him, no. But I have faith in humanity. You travel a little and your horizons broaden, and you believe the best in people...

I think it might, he might come across as someone with an exotic past

After a nice woven cooked seabass and a chilled bottle of nice upper Douro white wine. My conclusion is that you are both neanderthals. Is this a drinkypoo? I better hope not! @Bruce has an opinion on drinkypoos

That's a sorry part of the country you live in, you guys over there would be terrified someone with a sense of enjoying the good things in life would show up... all the women would realize they are living a lie

It's these first days of longer light, I think the light is always very cool if you have a clear sky

A chinese bike on the banner might be too much, though.

Love the blue MV Is the red and grey bike a Bultaco? Really pretty! Ugly chain cover though, but gotta keep those dress pants clean

You lot are showing your righteousness, it's showing a "for sale" add of a dude that is posting a picture of the bike being sold showing it's absolute max speed instead of lying and saying it was pampered. It's funny!

That has lightened a flame, as soon as I'm back home I'll take the XR out

I meant between something like 240 and 300. Sometimes, I do play a little with the GS going "fast", and would enjoy a proper fast bike for those night motorway rides when I imagine there are no cops around. But it's one thing to max out a bike that goes a little over 200, and another to hold onto something that is 50% faster.

I think that over a certain speed it just becomes a theoretical exercise, the end result is more or less the same?

No, I´ll do two things, which is take off the GS's center stand, to have it freshly powder coated, and clean under the seat and inside the eco box. That's a weekend

I will be doing nothing, which is starting to hurt me no end.

He's probably got a little piece of black tape over the plate I love that those two pictures are being used to sell the bike, when usually it's "never ridden hard" and "previous owner was an older gentleman"

That is on the local motorway going past Porto and V.N.Gaia, when I say that this motorway sounds like a GP on weekends that is why

browse the pictures on this portuguese add for a mapped BMW S1000RR https://www.olx.pt/anuncio/bmw-s1000rr-2014-09-desbloqueada-IDG0TDY.html#ff07452c67

I for one, like to gather with a few friends, but dislike organized groups.

I think the brits have a very particular way of hanging out in groups, not more or less but quite different to other european nationalities that I know of. I don't think it's anything to do with having wide open spaces or not, it's just a different group mentality. This opinion is not particularly restricted to motorcycles, but car enthusiasts, football fans, music band fans, etc, the group's enjoyment of being part of a group seems to be different over there.