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If you come to Tennessee, those are the guys that will turn around to come back and help you jack up your blown out tire, jump off your dead battery, and give you water while they "keep the wolves away".

From all the stories I've heard, I kinda feel lucky that I got to do the backpack/railpass/hostel thing in Europe in the 80s back when I was just a 20 year old jackalope. My college roommate and I traveled in the fall and hardly had any crowd problems that I can remember. The wall hadn't come down yet, so Berlin was a little creepy, and Geneva was tight because Ronnie Reagan was meeting Gorbachev, but most everything else was fairly relaxed. Even Neuschwanstein was a walk up thing, and there was enough room that I could have stashed some of my own stolen art there, had I been carrying any of my niece's finger paintings!

Gentlemen, i have followed your advice and my better judgement and gone with the Castrol Actevo, 20/50 semi-synth. That being said, i have 6.5 liters of Motorex Power Synt 10/60 that i'll very likely not ever have any use for. if anyone is interested, i'll sell the unopened 4 liter jug and the other 1.5 liters for $50 + postage. Postage will be exact, i'll box the containers up, take the box to the post office, get an exact price on postage and we can go from there. Thanks again for your help, the plus side to this is now i only have to stock one type of oil for the V11, V7R and the 1967 Royal Enfield Interceptor

I bought the last 2 copies of Guzziology Moto International had on the counter when I passed through in September 2018. Dave Richardson was already gone, and they were cleaning out the last jobs remaining in the shop.

It closed years ago doc. In fact so long ago I read Dave Richardson autobiography “my life in bikes” and author of Guzziology and the guy that ran the place for over 20 years about 4 years ago. If you are a true Guzzi fan and esp a US Guzzi fan it’s a must read. phil

Never do the Great Ocean Road on a weekend......Full stop! Cheers

Having been born and raised in the city of lights, I had access to a lot of cultural exhibitions from an early age. Either with family or with school, as part of our history lectures. I have also had the opportunity to travel Europe from the early 70's, and I elected Manhattan as my home away from home in the early 80's. Today, when I go back, it feels like being in an active ant-hill. Long lines at each and every sight; almost impossible to take a photo of anything without other people standing in the shot. Some locals have started to take matters into their hands. It has started in Greece, but it is quickly expanding. I read that Barcelona has anti-tourists brigades that hunt tourists with water guns. This is new! I was in Arizona a few weeks ago, and I did feel the same when attempting to visit the Antelope Canyon; I realized that I was myself part of the problem, but the experience was horrible. Each and every visitor fighting for a little bit of space to try to take in the beauty without having the atmosphere ruined by the other eager viewers. It brought back memories of visiting the Eiffel Tower in the 60s, on a Sunday, you would have maximum ten people ahead of you at the ticket booth, and almost no waiting time. I can make the same comparison with any popular place worldwide. Even the little local gems that used to only be known to the few have been given away by all those YouTubers avid of an audience. Trying to get out of the beaten path is more and more complicated. Last year, I booked my Parisian trip for November, hoping to escape the multitude. No chance. There will always be someone with time off at the same time as yours. I am now considering the places which are still not very well known because not really open to world tourism. Such as the Pyrenees away from the Atlantic or Mediterranean coasts. Houston has never been much of a tourist destination, but I can tell how Austin has become from 2007 to today. Difficult not to notice, should mass tourism be curbed somehow?

Unfortunately, I could not. And it was blocked by that table.

Only two....? Cheers and away we go to SA...

My girlfriend took a few days off just last week. Four nights away, and two trips down to the car to get all the stuff in.

Ps Bloody hell how did I ever manage with just a tank bag and throwovers back in the day or just a tank bag now with the boys on a long weekend....? Too late to tell her now that she's only got one bag..., I think discretion is the better part of valour here, lest we make contributions to the divorce lawyers benevolent fund (s)! Cheers

Going by the frame rail in front of the side-cover, I dare say it is a Tonti frame. But that could be any one of a large number of models. Could you see enough of the motor to see if it is a "round" motor or one of the newer ones with corners on the fins?

Went to Yellowstone this summer, along with a bunch of cool stuff along the U.S. and Canadian Rockies. Crowded everywhere; even in 105* heat, the line to enter the four corners site was hours long and of course on a bike I surely didn't wait. I heard a Park Ranger use the term "Revenge Vacation", referring to people who were making up lost time after sequestering themselves during Covid.

MI is gone..I think most people probably go to Optimum Performance....Aprilia/Piaggio

The newest Moto Guzzi I can find on that Moto International/Seattle, Washington, USA, website is 2013 . . . Maybe our PNW members can help with the current status of this iconic Moto Guzzi dealer . . . Is it is, or is it ain't?

Ha ha Yep, I did Europe in the early 80's too and no dramas with crowds...well saying that, to a Kiwi fresh outa NZ ( ChCh even ) everywhere was a crowd compared to home, but I don't think I could handle it these days... The only overseas travel we'll do now will be a trip back to NZ in the next few years as my wife's only seen Auckland. Cheers

And if you come to Oregon, diesel pickups still rule, and most folks who have them like to let you know it.

A lot of cut off roads, I'll go exploring where I can.

FleetwoodMac, Peter Green, brings me back to this years Rory Gallagher Festival in Ballyshannon, with a lot of less familiar bands playing music of Rory Gallagher of course but also a lot of Peter Green. Oh Well(1) and Shadow Play, made the crowd go bezirk (big pogo in front of the stage) to such an extend that the artists feared for their audience. Great time.

I'm not the guy saying FEMA was "interfering" when they're providing immediate disaster relief and find it totally beyond silly that anyone could collect "cloud seeds" after the biggest flooding in history -even if I believed that it would've been done in the first place which is what's really nuts. So far as your 2 questions, that's what I was thinking about you. You should reread what you wrote.

Sorry but just don't believe what I've read here.

LOL, So true. More like a breakup though, she's leaving me. More pics below:

Example of simple oil question: "Oil?" Example of simple answer: "Yep."