Pedro

Get a sidestand extension under the sidestand foot, Pete, job done.

Tomorrow I shall take a short ride to Ericeira, probably the last one while the weather's amazing, and will enjoy that cool vibe for a day or two. On the way there I will stop by my favourite hilltop cafe where I will attempt to style and profile if the place is Covid friendly and not crowded. If it is crowded, I will sulk and carry on to stop somewhere less cool to have coffee.

Got any pictures? Because otherwise ...

How far do you ride for fuel? Regardless of weather I never start any vehicle specifically to go for fuel, but then again I live one km away from a fuel station.

Get rid of that box, Pete, and just carry a small bag if you want to carry a sandwich or some water. A big box like that ruins the lightness of a small bike like that 650, it just doesn't look cool

Givi stuff is simple, reasonably priced, and just works.

There are no spacers between that base plate and the bike's base plate, though, or are there?

I think there is another top box base plate (BMW original or givi?) to which they permanently screwed the 4 spacers holding the Shad base plate on, I just hope they didn't glue it onto the base plate. That's proper pikey, if that's what they did

Hand it over to you local car paint shop, it'll match your bike for 50€. Kind regards, Pedro

Lyn (male)! Great to hear from you!!

Nice one, Pete, glad you like the new bike! Bet you're looking forward for some smaller roads now.

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SOber? WTF @boboneleg, is covid not enough?

There are false positives but obviously you always have to treat them like a sure thing. A second test settles it. Hope all goes for her!

Rode to Ericeira in the morning, a few showers on the motorway but didn’t even get my legs really wet Watching some surfing now, will enjoy the weekend here then spend some quality time by myself at home next week.

Oh, those knobs!

knobs on? at breakfast?

He's probably just trying to not fall backwards while waiting for the buzz to go.

He's just standing there The law? What do you think this is? Rio Bravo?

Nobody stopped to ask him because usually he is a very aggressive drunk

I really enjoyed going through all the thousands of pictures to post these reports, although I would rather I had thousands more to just keep going. Maybe editing a video or two in a few weeks or days would be a good idea, maybe once I learn how to do it, although to be honest video with voices is something pretty hard for me to do without falling apart. I have to do it properly alone, though, can't have my dog lifting his ears everytime Maria speaks in a Video as it breaks my heart. Assuming the Covid situation is handled next year, I will visit Morocco by myself in 2021. It'll be extra hard because on top of going without her, it was in Tangier that I lost Maria in 2018. But, if it's the same as posting these reports, it'll be tough but at the same time feel familiar. We'll see.

So, staying at my parents' home, yesterday I get home and there's this guy standing in the street, check this out:

And yet you cast the first stone ... Anyway, I think the ass poking stuff is reserved for later on. They have dogs sniffing cars as they wait in line to get out, although Rui did forget some hashish in his panniers and nobody told him anything. Then again, he was Portuguese!

Well, it wasn't my choice