9 years, seriously?

 Sooo.... 9 odd years seem to be enough time between posts. Wouldn't want to flood the readers with 'content' and according to the 'influencers' (how did this become a thing anyway; probably due to participation trophies) you should always leave people wanting more. A crap ton of stuff has happened in the last few years and none of it was really important. 

Things that once seemed worthy of attention and worry is now long forgotten and ultimately meaningless. Meh, that's the way life unfolds I guess. The girl you gawked at as a young man now wears an extra support brasier to combat gravity and she is still, frustratingly so, out of your league 😢. 

Anyway, the daft Labrador is a memory long gone which made way for some time without a scooter which ultimately led to my wife telling me to please buy another bike because I was allegedly irritable, unreasonable, inattentive and some other stuff I can't remember 🙂. Cue stage left and enter the 2015 BMW GS1200LC.

The change was pleasant enough and after adding some off-road protection along with the obligatory Acropocavich slip-on (this is the correct Eastern European pronunciation 👍), the Mud Slug was ready to go and conquer what the Labrador could not achieve.

I'll leave the part where the main bearings stuck onto the crankshaft and a few other issues for another day's lament. Subsequent to this catastrophe the bike was in neat piles again at the local BMW dealer and I decided to wrap it whilst I had the separate body parts at hand.

I eventually went for a scheme along the lines of the BWM M colours and it came out pretty descent. It does seem to give some protection in terms of scratches and the inevitable tumble down some dodgy mine dump that is apparently radioactive if the sign boards are to be believed 😐. It has held up well over time and the fade seems acceptable considering the UV exposure we get here in the good old RSA. 

To bring this post to an abrupt end, that was enough of an update for now, see you in another 9 years.. probably.