Bloody hell mine would be two pages maximum without someone taking the piss and going off on different tangents.
It’s not a mini-cruise. It’s a fucking ferry - An X-rated ADVenture….
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Never had a Pan. Have you sold your 1600 ?Like your heavy Pan European (which you didn’t manage to sell) my 1600 has a reverse gear. The earlier models didn’t, so the lift and push method came in very handy, all be it does require quite a bit more confidence than you would need with something a bit easier (and lighter) like a GS or GSA or a sports bike.
I use the same method to reverse my Himalayan into my garage, where I don’t have enough room to walk beside it, to push the bike backwards conventionally.
PS One trick I have never learned, though a friend of mine is good at it, is to stand behind the bike, holding it upright. Then extend your left leg to push the centre stand down to touch the ground. Then pull the bike backwards, to lift it onto the stand. Neat, when done properly; untidy, when not.
But we digress.
Taking the piss is always fine . Just gets a bit boring when some pompous prick tells you your meal isn’t as good as the one he had even if he doesn’t know what you’ve orderedBloody hell mine would be two pages maximum without someone taking the piss and going off on different tangents.
Loving the reports and the views, meals look delicioussssssss. 
Arsey's trip is giving me inspiration, pretty sure it will too others as well, showing how to advance further on their bikes into Europe, and all that we are surely missing.
Arsey's trip is giving me inspiration, pretty sure it will too others as well, showing how to advance further on their bikes into Europe, and all that we are surely missing.
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Oh I’m sure it’s not too late to catch a flight to Gap or Grenoble to thank him properly?!
Read the next line………Oh I’m sure it’s not too late to catch a flight to Gap or Grenoble to thank him properly?!
Bloody hell mine would be two pages maximum without someone taking the piss and going off on different tangents.
Yea, but Doc, yours end up in raucous behavior with pretty ladies and too much fekkin booze...they are not real trip reports but piss up abroad reports for old farts....me included....and belong in the pub really...
Indeed... maybe our Top Mod can shift this and create another thread...as he likes to do . ´´How to move your heavy bike around´´.....thread so all can benefit from tips.....and no I´m not being sarcastic...leave that to others to jump on.Without sounding tedious or pompous too, which I would never wish too, moving bikes as Wapping suggests is how most bikes are moved around in a tight showroom.
There you learn quickly, while moving brand new expensive machines around.
Even the art of spinning a bike 360 degs around on it's side stand.
Larger bikes going up a slight gradient, sit on drive in, sit on reverse out, works best.
Of course if plenty room spin bike fully around on its centre stand.
I do this on hard surfaced carpark spaces. Lean on rear of bike slightly lifting front wheel enough to start your spin.
Loving the reports and the views, meals look delicioussssssss.
My Bad, I do ramble on, point taken. (moved that part to my own mind again, sorry!)
I was enjoying reading all the lines, even the nasty typical comments did not deter me from all the reading.
I was enjoying reading all the lines, even the nasty typical comments did not deter me from all the reading.
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I use these .....
I will rattle on some more, if I take all of them
I tried to change the line of the prescription from ´´ Take 1 Capsule by mouth....´to ´´Take 1 capsule up Arse..... But Gemini wont let me....
Well, you’ve definitely exceeded your weekly sugar allowance on one thread ffs!!However, there’s always someone who will claim to be ‘elevenacious’
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