By Aaa95 on Saturday, June 21, 2003 - 06:43 pm:

This morning at 10:45 AM a few guys from the Dutch FJR Club (Mettes Van Der Giessen and his wife Maritza, Vic Sadowski and I) met Pierre Sousa Lima with his wife and friends when they were entering the country from Belgium where they stayed last night and were on their way to Norway.
We shaked hands, took some pictures and talked a while when drinking a cup of coffee.
They are very nice people.
At 11:45 they headed to Germany to continue their journey.



Mettes, Vic and Maritza while waiting



The arrival


Vic and Pierre with his wife and friends



Byebye and see you later 

By Rad on Saturday, June 21, 2003 - 07:02 pm:

Thanks for the pics Aaa95. They are great. Looks like Pierre is traveling with two ST1300's. It was good that you could briefly visit and I wish Pierre, his wife and friends a safe journey.

RAD 

By Mike on Saturday, June 21, 2003 - 10:29 pm:

Great photos Toon, mywife was looking over my shoulder looking at your pictures and she commented how we bike riders all look the same the world over. The planet is definitely shrinking! Maybe oneday we'll all be able to meet up in the middle somewhere. (plus heaps of translators of course). 

By Amain on Sunday, June 22, 2003 - 04:49 am:

Strangers meeting as friends. Possibly the FJR's greatest feature, yet never mentioned in the brochures. I don't think Yamaha even knows what they've done.

Proud to be a Hoon  

By Aaa95 on Sunday, June 22, 2003 - 05:53 am:

Why shouldn't somebody organize something in 2006 when the FJR is 5 years on the market?  

By David1300 on Sunday, June 22, 2003 - 12:01 pm:

Toon, thanks for the great piccies. 2006 sounds like a great idea Great to see the 'brotherhood' of FJR riders. 

By Aaa95 on Sunday, June 22, 2003 - 04:45 pm:

I added some more pictures of Mettes.


Me, Maritza and Vic while waiting


Maritza



The arrival of Pierre and his friends



Me and Pierre looking at our bikes


From left to right Pierre, me, Pierre's wife (hard to see),
Vic, Friend of Pierre and his wife 

By Aaa95 on Sunday, June 22, 2003 - 05:08 pm:

I added some more pictures of Mettes.


Me, Maritza and Vic while waiting


Maritza



The arrival of Pierre and his friends



Me and Pierre looking at our bikes


From left to right Pierre, me, Pierre's wife (hard to see),
Vic, Friend of Pierre and his wife 

By Aaa95 on Sunday, June 22, 2003 - 05:13 pm:

I added some more pictures of Mettes.


Me, Maritza and Vic while waiting


Maritza



The arrival of Pierre and his friends



Me and Pierre looking at our bikes


From left to right Pierre, me, Pierre's wife (hard to see),
Vic, Friend of Pierre and his wife 

By Kidrock on Sunday, June 22, 2003 - 06:14 pm:

Pierre:

I am so jealous of what the weather must be like over there right now.. There's NO WAY I could ride down here in Louisiana today with anything like what ya'll have on. I'm down to a mesh Teknic jacket and NO t-shirt even. It's 95 degrees with 90% humidity today..!! Please do some serious riding for me, wish I was there because it looks so great.. 

By Omen on Monday, July 07, 2003 - 08:04 pm:

I had the pleasure of being their guide on their first day in Norway. A 500 km ride with lots of curvy roads, mountains and fjords. Very nice people.

Omen 

By Pierre_Lima on Friday, July 18, 2003 - 07:35 pm:

Dear Toon,

Thanks a lot for the great pictures that I already saved to my trip’s photo CD Album.

Here are four other pictures taken by my friend Carlos and my brother in law Manuel:









As I told you before I and my friends had also a great pleasure to meet you personally as well as your very kind friends.

Beside you and your friends, during our unforgettable trip to Norway we were fortunate to meet many other FJR great m8’s like Vera and Francis and their friends in Belgium, as well as Ommund, Julia and Hakon in Norway (those two last ones own a 1986 Goldwing). If the World is already small, Internet and the FJR’s make it even smaller !

Back in Portugal and the day after arriving from my 10.859 km Norway trip, I integrated "Portugal's 1st FJR Owners Meeting" (+900 kms) and, beside many other FJR (and non FJR) friends, I had the pleasure to meet Migmagal personally:


Migmagal reporting me his recent trip to England


The 6 portuguese FJR at "Serra da Estrela"

Once again I want to present my apologize to Toon and his friends for being late at our meeting, this because after the fabulous dinner and birthday party we had at Boothotel La Peniche the night before, it wasn’t easy to wake up early ...


The great dinner


Manuel's fabulous birthday cake


The cake's wonderful details

I also want to thank Hans for including a link to my site at the FJROwners web site front page. It was a great help for this FJR riders "brotherhood".

The 2006 meeting seems to be a great idea. Please count on me for sure !

All the best from this small mid Atlantic paradise (... comparing it with Norway)
--
Pierre Lima
Web: http://pierre.inazores.com
Azores - Portugal 

By Migmagal on Friday, July 18, 2003 - 08:45 pm:

Pierre, não devia ter publicado esta fotografia.
O João Penedo apanhou-o num momento embaraçoso.
Será que reparou?

Espero que tenham feito boa viagem de volta a casa.
E as motos já chegaram a bom porto?

Um grande abraço.

Miguel 

By Pierre_Lima on Friday, July 18, 2003 - 09:20 pm:

Hello Miguel,

We had a great trip back to the Azores after our FJR1300PT speedy weekend

The bikes are sailing already and shall arrive Sao Miguel island on next Monday.

Outro grande abraço,
--
Pierre Lima
Web: http://pierre.inazores.com
Azores - Portugal