When you're riding, it's life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting.

So is there an Arabic "lingua franca" -- one variant that all Arabic speakers can understand, like Mandarin, or California English?:naughty::naughty:

(You can tell it's cold in China, if we are talking about variants of languages most of us don't speak rather than about our latest oil change...)

That said...

I did saddle up and take a short ride today -- my first since my mid-August mishap with young Slabo in Kunming. It was bloody cold, maybe 3C, here in Shanghai, but the sun was out, the streets were dry and my Jialing sprang to life like a trooper. What a treat!

cheers

It's been bugging me all day!!!! You know that clip about the 5 old geezers who go on that road trip? Well I recognised the background music and was racking my brain... Finally I remembered that it's actually a Japanese song whose music video is animated by Miyazaki!!! Check it out:

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMjMzMDIwMDQ=.html