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Specs wins by a country mile

Now I'm melting. Hopefully storm soon. This is how it's done. Bike in gear on side stand.

After @Pedro showed me where to eat a nice snack in the middle of a 500 kms ridding day, I went back for more! I dont take almost any pictures ever! But here are some! Sao Pedro do Sul, where we had lunch last week and the others are from a gorgeous place really North next to the border with Spain, also recommended by @Pedroand he was not wrong when he said it is breath taking! Plus a view point with my own name, the egocentric in me says, whats not to like!! The only thing missing was @Pedro himself that this time was otherwise engaged and didn't join me for the ride! there are a lot of videos, however will not bore you with them

By request here's a vid of me getting on and off a Bike......may be some help to others who are old and fucked! It's impossible to describe in words what I do......in the same way as it's impossible to describe how I ride or what I do when I ride. It's just done automatically. Hence the vid! Turn the sound up though cos I'm some distance from the camera! I'm not telling you it's going to solve all or any of your issues......it depends very much how restricted you are in your movements. In my case I've got stretched MCL's in both knees.....so sideways knee movement is out of the question for me. Been that way for 30 years so I'm used to it. So here we go......bear in mind I'm 66 and not as nimble as I was! But this still works for me!

there is no contest, @Tym

Name another Adventure riding website that has a whole thread on going nowhere i dare you!

We'll see tomorrow, now I´m half drunk and my dog is not ready to see me getting on and off the bike several times, he thinks I'm leaving every time

"The Rossi" way! Well @XTreme , when you started this thread you were not expecting to discover the God of dismounts, where you?! Waiting with ever growing excitement for this video tomorrow.... ?

I never really considered buying a bike based on possibility of some oral sex, but it is a valid point!! wonder if a 1050 Speed Triple would get someone excited enough.... Maybe more then a Storm AND it always got me home!

You dont seem that old to me... and for sure not fucked! Maybe you need to find a model so we can see better!!!

Well, how about flash back to my 21 gun salute for Americas birthday. Ammo fired, 7.62 x 39 and .380 acp. weapons, Ruger Mini 30 and Rugers LCP with stainless steel slides.

In for the win, and you guys are cheating not wearing your riding kit. On the plus side, not suggesting y;all are on the plus side butt it appears the lockdown made for some impressive buddha bellies...

Being from Penlan she probably owned two or three growing up LOL

The wife is very interested in guns! Not sure whether it's a good idea for a Penlan girl to be brandishing them about really.

She has to watch this vid first....

This situation has been exacerbated in recent years as the motorcycling demographic has got older.......while bikes have got so much taller. Back in the 70's nobody ever said they had trouble getting on their bike.........the trouble they had then was staying on their bike.

The first thing that came into my head when i read that lol

This is cutting edge chit here, advrider never taught to this level of motorcycling actualization! A -whole thread on how we managed to still get on these damn things at our age. Getting out me video cam!

What with you on the sidestand and @Specs doing his Monty Python "Ministry of Funny Walks".......I think the pair of you need to stay in Wales. You can't cross the border and do that stupid shit in front of the Hanoverians.....we'll never hear the end of it!

Your neighbours must be looking out the windows and pissing themselves Alan! I'm sure @boboneleg is going to come along with an unscrew his leg vid soon!

I think he does it to piss me off because i cant do it LOL

To be honest Pete I've never been flexible and could never get on a bike like you do even as a young lad. I always use the side stand got no choice, I load the peg and step over don't pull on the bars and add weight to the side stand, famous last words I've not broken or bent a side stand yet

Can you show me again i didn't quite catch that?

In my opinion the quality of the gene pool died while fighting all those wars, the best went to fight, the best died...we repopulated with? Fuckmine types.

Pedro, he is welsh and ginger so he is an opportunist.

This was in Sevilla yesterday......we've had nothing here! I wonder what the holidaymakers there made of this.......watch what happens at 0:20. ?

? ? True! Thank God for learning how to do it on horses!!

Thank you!!

Thaks to you we have a vid of @Pedro getting off now, ummm....

??? maybe one day I can be this good!

It is amazing!! to me, of course, you might think differently.

"That" video? Link link! We want a link!!!!!!

Really??? Now is the perfect moment for that video, my favourite! ?

That's pretty much how i do it Tym except from the other side, there's no chance the bike would stay upright if i tried that from the right

The area of Swansea where when they get turned down for a council house transfer they burn their current one down! Always used to put my Xmas shopping list into a guy from Penlan! He'd always come up with the items!

Well, waving firearms around violates a few of Jeff Coopers rules to live by so here is a safe version of the suggested firearms tomfoolary, how about a single action revolver that fires 45acp ammo, weird eh?

Just told the wife......she wants guns waving!

You want me to waste ammo? pffft, ammo chit is worth more than gold nowdays...

Wore me out watching that Al LOL

that's t'other sid eof the rive to where I was, but I clearly need to look into that GR. thay'r not all accessible by bike, the GR 13 I think goes through vermenton but you'd be a bloody clever rider to take a bike trough it, most walkers give up and switch to the road

My favourite is Dust to Glory followed by On Any Sunday and The World's Fastest Indian, but Little Fauss and Big Halsy is lacking in this list.

I'm an asocial git at the best of times and and rarely so happy as when I'm alone. I do though, enjoy fom time to time riding in company, if the company is good. there is a small group of riders here ( we're no longer an official club) who I am sufficiantly comfortable with to simply be. I avoid big groups like the plague, just not my thing.

I never cease to be horrified at the state of my generation of Brit that I see there.........as those are the only times I'm ever exposed to them. I don't just mean physically in a state.....but mentally. They're never happy, never grateful for what they've got, and are permanently fucking moaning. All while dressed like Kenneth Williams in "Carry on Camping". Totally out of their depth here.......most can't even take a shit without having a translator with them. When you consider that it was Britain that virtually conquered and colonised the world in the past.......you have to wonder WTF has happened to the gene pool?

I watched that On Any Sunday. It was good, don't get me wrong, especially the stuff about Steve Mcwossitsname, but I swear the film lasted about a week. My fave bike film was Stone, the Australian film with lots of big Kawasakis and the beheading in the opening titles.

That collapsing wall may have been lacking in drain holes at the bottom. I went to Seville once, waited most of the day for tyre shop staff to come back from their lunch time snoozette so my mate Charlie could get a new rear tyre. Charlie's knobs had detached on the motorway not long before you see. This is because he was too tight to put a new tyre on before we set off, just used an old one with what he thought was a decent amount of tread on it. I have vague memories of riding around a large bull ring hoping I was using the right bit of a one way road and wondering where the marmalade factory was.

You've heard me mentioning Albox many times over the years......it's Tea Bag Central! It's a fairly big town by Spanish standards and looks very nice, but is let down by the fact that it's attracted loads of Brits and Moros! I feel sorry for the Spanish being saddled with that dross! Anyway.....the main street where most of the shops are built is on a slight incline......here's me there in 2014..... Well see that street? There's not one drain on it! Why's that? This is Spain.........and common sense is pretty thin on the ground here! It don't rain there often (normally it's very hot and humid).......but when it does it's usually very, very heavy! And apparently that street looks like a fucking Tsunami!

No Crusty Demons of Dirt? Blasphemy !

Saw one of the 750 today, with a couple on top and metal side panniers. Silliest scene I've seen on the street in a long time.

I've had four Transalps, easiest bike ever to ride, absolutely love them.