Pedro

I love my bike, but it's main defect is on hot wether riding. I am slowly fixing it, I've put a small fairing on that alows air to the helmet, it's obviously worse on motorways but at significantly over 30ºC I was having trouble with no circulation to evaporate sweat inside the helmet, now I get a helmet full of bugs, which suits me better. It also means the view on top of the bike is better, which I really like. I´ve ordered one of those chinese net seat covers, as I have sweaty bollocks. I wear jeans for touring so once it starts getting sweaty a little bit of airflow helps. Now, this is my point. I would like to get rid of the heat that sometimes comes from the catalitic converter to my right foot. On certain combinations of ambient temperature above 30ºC, and sustained high revs at not very high speeds sometimes makes for quite a lot of heat there. Only way to solve it is fitting an exhaust manifold with no catalitic converter. Now, obviously this is not legal. We're bound to start having bike MOT in Portugal in a couple of years, but that isn't much of a worry anyway, but my conumdrum is actually having my bike making more air emissions than it is currently. I am aware this is a fallacy in itself, as if I'm that worried about it I could just not ride a motorcycle for leisure, but that's just not going to happen. Thoughts?

I get that, but I loved riding a Goldwing a few years ago. It's a great engine and weirdly fun to ride, in a guilty pleasure sort of way.

Get a proper summer jacket, makes all the difference in over 30° And a white or silver helmet with dark visor

I am all for using stuff hard and pushing limits of cars and bikes, but abusing just for the sake of it is something I’ve never liked doing. That’s bike that survived probably more than 30 years of use, and then some youtuber tries to kill it. To me, that just says he’s got no apreciation for things and as such doesn’t deserve to use them.

What kind of jacket do you wear, Pete?

Went for a nice walk with Costa, now for the rest of the day I’ll do nothing except clean the cars windows, buy some tshirts and shorts online, and a deck chair as well so I can get mauled by mosquitoes next time I’m back home and decide to sit outside at sunset

I think any vehicle deserves more respect than that

I have spent the day riding, and got pretty affected by polen clergies now at the end of the day, so am resting a little bit before going to dinner at a friend's house. On the weekend I think I will do very little, it's getting warmer and I don't like warm riding around here, plus my summer jacket is home, 300km away ? I think it'll be a weekend of playing with Costa and little else.

Good stuff @Tym, I am very curious as to american home made food, most Europeans think it’s shit but my theory is that good home cooked food is good anywhere

Mac and cheese is plain wrong! I assume you’re talking macaroni. Meatloaf, then, if forced to choose with a gun to my head

Am I seeing the original news post after our conversation?

I want to be able to do that, Pete, coment before someone makes a post. Or are you god? "No time to die" is also a great name describe the time you spend it an portuguese Triumph dealership waiting for an "expert"'s opinion on what's wrong with your bike and a justification on why they won't proceed with your warranty claim.

If I were to buy a Japanese bike today to have along with the GS, it would either be a Kawasaki GTR, a Yamaha T700, or a Kawasaki Z900. I mean the pretty Z900 with the nice paint and cushy seat, not the Z900 that looks like it was taken out of an apocalypse zombie movie.

Let's not start to post the undercacks picture again, it's taken a decade for the internet to forget it!

I've never been to wales, but "hard blokes" could have two meanings!

As the topic creator and idea giver, I think it's fair to say I'm not against a two or three night stay, but I'm sleeping in a hotel room regardless of weather season. I say this with warranted alarm, since I've been presented with pictures and video evidence of what you brits consider a "rally" and I do not wish to partake in winter sleeping in a muddy field with no access to toilets or complimentary breakfast, nor summer sleeping in a hot tent with no AC in the Andaluz summer. Adventuremotorcycles.net first meet must be a class act in which I drunkly stumble to my slumber in comfort. ?

That notoriously powerful UK sun puts most products to the test for sure.

Most of us have our favorite manufacturers of motorcycles, I tend to like BMWs with boxer engines, most Hondas, Harleys, Kawasakis, KTM and Husqvarna offroad bikes, some Ducatis, etc, I appreciate most non chinese brands. What I am curious is about what bike brands wouldn't you buy? Although I like Sofia's bike, I think I wouldn't buy a Triumph, I dislike their dealers here in Portugal, BOTH of them, and to be honest some details in their bikes just seem to rub me off the wrong way.

Nice trip, nice people and nice food. Monza is a crazy track as well, but would rather be in a car than on a bike there.

I forget very little, my memory works very peculiarly. I remember a conversation, the moment itself, the dogs, etc, but can't remember if it was 5 years ago or 15 years ago.

I remember him from my lesson in Spain a few years ago. Pete sat me down with Rottweilers keeping me in check, gave me a cup of tea with milk in it and proceeded to lecture me on why this guy was the greatest ever. Motocross tires for racing on ice against blokes with studded tires, guy was a legend.

Bruce, to lighten things up, you'll be moving into what is officially a Yacht ?

That must be hell on the kid, Bruce, it's a real shame he's going through that but I don't think that wouldn't happen in other countries.

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I don't get why would you get along with another brit just because they're from the same place as you. I'm sure that when you lived in the uk you weren't walking down the road saying hello and being best mates with everyone, so why would you do it there? Same thing with bikers, I don't get why some people think all bikers are friends and like each other. There are twats using all sorts of vehicles.