Pedro

Great stuff, Bob. Bike looks great on those trails, sure enough it'll feel like a pig when going through the kind of mud you're used to taking lighter bikes on proper knobbies on. I have great admiration for guys who can use a big bike to do stuff like the trial's riding type stuff shown above, that shows real skill. I loose all confidence when on the GS and the nice hard dirt turns to sandy trails. Soft ground just makes me wimp out, I'd like to say it comes from not wanting to damage the bike but in fact it comes from not knowing what to do with it on soft terrain, may take a class one of these days when stuff opens up again.

Of course not Pete, nobody ever gets injured doing stuff in snow

Good stuff, Moon. Bet those are great roads if you find with little traffic, but they're getting a little too strict with the speed limits now, aren't they?

In the future, I'll just send my bike to get groceries by itself

mid to end of next week I'm taking a ride through inner Portugal, finishing with a dip in the ocean. Not to spit in your porridge, just putting things into context. In average, we're average

Harley does the bikes they do because they want to, not because they can't do faster lighter bikes. They are a major player. BMW has got the self riding bike that goes around tracks by itself, and Honda has the same thing. But Harley somehow is the first to have something to be put in real use in a way that is probably more appreciated by their customers, which is quite smart. To boot it, Harley has come up with a simpler way to adapt it to any one of their bikes without major electronics to steering and stuff like that, way clever. Of course, if it does fall down nobody will be able to pick the top heavy beast ...

This is great stuff, if it makes a bike balance while going slow it will eventually be able to help it handle better when going fast.

I like it, and love the horn at the end.

Big skies, that's what makes or breaks a landscape for me. Obviously old people homes are going to be the last things open to visits, Pete, see if you can hold on for a couple more months

You just have to ride it in the evenings, simples!

I didn´t have green hair, but you get the idea:

Took too much anti histaminic yesterday, drank some wine for dinner, slept for 10 hours. Woke up at around 11, went for a short ride, had a spot of lunch with a nice view: It's quite cool today, got below 20º up in the hills, hardcore stuff . This year's weather is fucking insane.

Shit? It had mud splattered all over the back of it from riding the XR a couple of weeks ago. That won't do for riding the GS to the Algarve later this month.

I actually look better now, bald, than I did before. I had longish hair when it started to fall, so I ended up looking like a mix of a fat Einstein and Krusty the clown.

Next time I want to fit some 70/30 or 50/50 I might go for MotoZ, these look to be a little bit less roady than my TKC70, being Dunlops they will probably smooth and safe on road

Yes, they'd be getting to Cape Town next week

I'm not bothered to assume I am the casual ...

I never ride with anyone else, and don't think I'm that above average to judge anyway. There have been a few encounters with motorcycle club patch wearing dudes, but that has been after lunch and probably alcohol induced ... not much of an excuse for them

That's true, what is really the point of investing in armor after 60? All that money for a couple more years? Shit, the bruise alone of a stopped bullet is likely to make you want to go

... The devil you know, @Tym

I came to my place for the weekend today, nice cool 23 or 24 for most of the trip, got home, got Maria's car warmed up and went for fruit on it, fixed the toilet, washed my summer jacket, nice day today. Just had dinner, a little bit of goat's cheese, a simple pea sort of curry dish, and too much white wine, got a buzz going and feeling fine. Tomorrow, I'll ride to the hills, and maybe even go to lunch on my favourite restaurant. This area is Portugal's Covid hotspot, so won't go near town.

Well, we’re in 2020, your “friend” can be whichever gender you want

I had a girlfriend like that once and we made up a story to tell people

Agreed, although I don't even care if people ride bikes or not. It's the passion, can be cars, boats, running, cycling, chess playing, if you don't have something that touches you you're not an interesting person. And bikes aren't even a passion for me, just something that makes me feel good.