Pedro

Welcome! That's a nice picture there.

I don't know what a shill is, I suppose you want to make me your inside man over there, but I don't really know anyone there, and haven't posted for years. I never really liked place, although I do enjoy all their pictures and americanness. My presence online has been non existent over the last 4 or years. Posted a couple of questions on UKGser but don't know anyone there either. Basically, you bunch of twats are my only online friends!

Hello dude!

23rd April 2006

In that regard, Pete's area of Spain is a lot more empty and vast than Portugal

I'm ashamed to say I've pondered buying a bike/car hot air drier ?

Hey @XTreme, remember this?

After all these muddy pictures, I went and dug up a few pictures from the old days, didn't find what I was looking for but found these from when I first started riding my XR, back in 2007 I loved riding sand back then, when I bought the bike it had a few cables badly routed and the steering was stuck. Since I fixed it, I started falling down in the stuff ?

Interesting bike, good stuff!

Good stuff, I suppose you have quite tall gearing on the XR to be good for touring? What kind of cruising speed can you manage with luggage like that? I might be spoiled, but my XRs brakes are awful for the road, are yours stock?

I can watch the videos perfectly

Love the XR with oldscool logo there, good stuff. I think I’d suck at trial but would love a good go. About all those water crosses you guys do, I’ve done a few in summertime and I get that, but in the UK with your dark cold weather, isn’t it really unpleasant to get soaken wet in your feet and legs?

I know, I was just conveying that The peninsula is not all like that.

I get that, but I can’t bring myself to wash the bike if I can’t ride it gently till warm to properly dry it off for the week. And a GS is probably the hardest bike to clean and dry off if not riding it in warm dry air. I’d rather not wash it, if I leave it half wet I will leave home for the workweek with a guilty conscience...

It’s not the norm form me, because after a week up north i start missing it.

I disliked that part too, i hate washing the bike unless it’s summer

Love the picture of the guys doing road repairs, lol

Come on Pete, it’s only spinach

Bloody hell, it's not worth going through that unless you're escaping war in search of a better life.

Thought of this report after Bob's weekend camping in a muddy field one. December 2019, although the weather is shit, I've just spent a week jonesing for riding my bike, so although the weather promises to be shity, I go out maintaining my ritual of going out for lunch on the bike on saturdays when I'm home. I usually ride in jeans, but needed to test the suit pants to see how they still fit so the bad weather gave me the perfect reason to. No pictures on the road, cause it was wet and I didn't feel like taking gloves off in the rain. I know it doesn't compare to Bob's weekend camping in a muddy field, but I have standards to have a good time. Above is my usual sport for going for coffee on the bike, I'm all alone today, below is how it usually looks: After that, went to lunch on my favorite hilltop restaurant, had some nice typical scrambled eggs (too difficult to explain what's special about them) while the weather turned to shit outside. Made my way back closer to home, and stopped by my other favorite place: Stopped by the supermarket for some dinner supplies, as I had friends for dinner that evening, but when I got home I came across this filthy bike from wet country roads, this is farm country so there's lots of muck on the road: Pants straight to the washer! Time to get a fire on, and cook a nice simple dinner, a puttanesca with added spinach for health Bike was washed the week after, as it pestered my thoughts daily

I have a nice comfy dry car for going places under those conditions. Comfort isn't a bad thing, otherwise we'd all be riding in shitty suspensionless chinese bikes. I do enjoy a passing rain storm while on a trip, but I wouldn't go on a trip in mid december when I would find is nasty weather.

That's some serious Blair Witch stuff going outside that tent, congrats for you guys enjoying camping in a muddy field in the middle of a storm!

@XTreme, I'm amazed you're taking your bike off tarmac

I'm curious about the T7, Bob, as a touring bike with knobbies on. I think it would complement the GS perfectly as a touring bike that you can take proper liberties with when using it off-road, post your opinions on it later on.

My lovely 2003 XR400, out enjoying Ribatejo's summer, And the GS: Ericeira: Algarve, near Santa Clara Dam: near Faro: Mertola: