Pedro

It would be refreshing for you to ride a lighter more off-road capable bike, but maybe too small an engine for an only bike

After all is said and done, repeatedly, you’ll realise you need two bikes. The strom will keep it’s value so buy another bike and get rid of the one you end up not using after three months.

Rule number one when in a car with a cage is to wear a helmet, rule number two is that either both people wear helmets or nobody wears them.

I love those roads amongst the rocks and the drops. What a great place to visit on a bike, thank you!

I value a tasty dinner and some nice wine after a ride, more so if it's after 12 hours like you just did, but getting on the bike to go eat kinds of ruins things for me too. Loved those twisty roads you did in the morning, and the dirtroads looked very nice too. Amazing views, and as always a top notch report. There is a hinge on that inside toilet, so they probably had a cover, very fancy!

That's a very commendable and oldschool way of thinking, hang in there.

Hang in there Bob, you're a legend!

They probably can’t cope too well with emission regulations of today, I think. To be honest, I would go for a twin everyday unless it was a dirt specific bike.

If you want great roads on wine country and a nice bottle at the end of the day the Douro in unbeatable, in my opinion.

But to be honest, that’s how a lot of portuguese group rides are planned

Fine spanish wines, something I’m not familiar with. This is not an admission of me organising anything in Spain

I would trust that as much as a xt660r, which would also be a cool bike for you as you know, having had at least one.

it’s all been you?

I have come to terms with that, but figured that medicine improves my chances with every year that passes

I’ve got a shit left knee that has some sort of fluid leaking, occasionally it causes some acute pain. Right one gives me a signal sometimes but after the diagnosis on the left it’s better to not look at the right one too closely or I might get worried.

That is a priceless Steinway! “Not anymore” gets a giggle out of me everytime

Does that doctor know what you do?

Not near the coast, only on the highest peaks. Here you get salt on the sea breeze ...

Pikeys and drug addicts hook up transit vans to burried phone lines and yank them out, same with factories’ electrical installations over the weekend.