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I see a bloke in the paper has formed a limited company and put all his extended family down as employees. He says he is going to have a non paid work related meeting on Christmas day where food will be provided so he can have more than 6 people there legally.

In the UK have found that I always average 50mph and the longer the distance the more likely it is spot on. I may ride faster but the various stops or traffic problems always bring it down to 50. Going in to work is different, I usually do the 50 mile trip in 45 minutes going in (average 66mph??), that's because it is a relatively uncluttered ride with no embuggerances. Coming home it usually takes an hour because of filtering through 5 or 6 miles of traffic before hitting the motorway, so back to the 50mph average again.

Today I rode from my home in the countryside to Ericeira in the seaside. It was a bright sunny day, and felt amazing after the last few days’ storm. A short detour exploring an offroad track, I’ll go back with no luggage as it’s a little bit steep. In light of recent BOTM flops I decided to go for a photo shoot. Onwards, always taking the small roads on the map is a good policy for finding cool spots of road. Lisbon’s wine country is looking great will autumn colours. And then, near Ericeira looking at some big waves.

I’m going to buy some pills tomorrow, this is too much stress! I’ll figure this up tomorrow evening if the vote indeed comes out as a tie....

Well there has to be some upside to the long commute.

European law would not allow seizure or fine on the sole grounds of the data protection act, filming in a PUBLIC place is the key, unless you are filming children ( and an official complaint is made to the police) or can be deemed to be filming for commercial purposes in which case you'd need permission from local authorities.

to and from work is allowed. work is allowed. food shopping is allowed. only essential goods shops are open ( and professional suppliers so we can all still work) anything not work is not allowed. Any ( including work) travel must be justified with a signed permit. crossing any border within the EU must be justified and acco;panied by a negative Covid test report less than 72 hrs old. This comes into force midnight tonight. There was ( at 18h00) 600km of traffic jam outbound from Paris give them a little more time and there'll be jackbooted militia in the streets shouting " PAPIERS BITTE!"... " AUSWEISS!, SCHNELL!"

I think you all know what to expect by now!

Fucking ocean haters!

I can, but that wouldn’t even get the GS warm enough to open the radiators. I’ll be visiting Sofia in Ericeira and enjoying a couple of bottles of wine instead, with the bike parked for the period.

This is a trip i tracked a few years ago all paved roads which included motorways as well as A and B roads, most of the time i stuck around the legal speed limits with stops for food, fuel and toilet, so i think the riding gods are either working their average out wrong or are full of shit. It takes 5 hours to do 400km on a motorway at motorway speeds throw some dirt in and you wont be doing 70mph for long periods unless their the gravel type roads you see out in Oz, or is that just me being a sceptical dick LOL

In my case, if the Law viewed the total footage of the vids I've taken they'd think I was remaking The Omega Man! Wrecked buildings, empty roads, and just the occasional sub-human staggering about!

Word is he has to ride to Slovenia and kiss the toes of The Mistress Koper, patron saint of Tomos mopeds...

Snap but i think my legs are better LOL

You know what they say, you can take the man out of Swansea but you cant take Swansea out of the man

I wouldn't raise your hopes......30 years and they still can't sort out a doohickey!

The irony here is that if I turned up at the Severn Bridge right now......and unleashed my melodic accent.....I still wouldn't be let in!

No doubt you were checking that vid for part worn Deathwings Dave? You're out of luck this time my man!

Your language is fuckin shockin.

Remember Pete.....In the life of a man, there is a time to ride.....and there is a time to wax your bike...... GAME ON! Unfortunately I never have the time for the second one.

General Lockdown in France from tomorrow midnight to !st december. And there was me hoping to get some riding in between now and mid nov when I have the knee op. Stoopid thing is they'll slow the spread down just sufficiantly to allow everyone out for Chrismas... which will then recontaminate the entire country and oblige another lockdown in janruary. Fuck 'em, i'm gomg riding tomorrow then, I'll be home around 23H58...

I just copied this from facebutt any truth in this @XTreme

Last year's trip from Colorado to Tennessee - average over 4,000 miles was just over 61 mph. I'd guess 10% dirt roads on this ride. Top speed is obviously off from lack of gps signal,, tec.

yeah, but I'm talking an average apeed over a number oh hours Pete, on the decent roads I'm usually riding around 100 - 110kph but over 3 or 4 hours your average would be a lot lower.

If the dirt roads around here are smooth enough - and most are - I do around 60 mph on them. Slower on rough or more technical dirt roads. Two lane paved I usually do around 80 mph, highways a bit more. But we have greater distances to cover to get anywhere as well. Can't go too slow or you'll never get there!

Oh god......we're not heading for another tie are we? And this time it's three way? What you gonna do with this shit @Pedro?

I think this is where @Tym brings in his "Unstable T - The Tony Danza Years" photo!

At the moment there's a discussion going on in that thread about the legality of the whole thing. I'll see if I can find more info!

I'd settle for a nice paved ride right now not only are we locked down its also been peeing down all week and by the looks of it we got it for the weekend as well

It's a fucking curse innit like!

you know my weaknesses ?

Hub motors, central power unit, no driveline, vroom....

Take a number, non free men! LOL

As from midnight each town is locked down......and you can't enter another town. There doesn't appear to be any restrictions on moving round within the town region......so my understanding is I can still ride the bike without an issue in the immediate area. I'm trying to get clarification on this.....but like everything in Spain it's pretty confused.

A full month? I think that goes to prove what I think is wrong with all our governments. They try to control people and the disease when it's not and allow it to spread when it's the most profitable, be it summer holidays with tourism or Christmas with shopping and food industry. Instead of maintaining the thing under "average" control and countries closed they manage it to let it spread when it satisfies economic lobbies. Managing life vs sales? Fuck them. Is this too politic?

because he's 'leggist' , that's Bucky not Moon

Wow, that's cool to know. Thanks ??

I get a lot of concerned people on FB telling me to be careful. I just tell them that I lived in Swansea for 40 years.......I've walked into many hellholes that were guaranteed to be full of pretty fucking awful people......so how can it be any worse than that?

.....or a Tony Danza!

Omega Man was the cult classic though Clive. I remember going to see that in the Carlton Cinema Swansea in 1972 with the bird I was with at the time. Didn't know then that she was a stalker (that phrase didn't exist then) and a complete fucking psycho. I had my suspicions though later in the year when she slashed my throat with a knife.

We will be locked in as well, starting tonight until tuesday.

They'll put the kybosh on bikes here by the look of it! FFS!