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My place is at one of Portugal's hottest places. Today we got a sudden wind from North Africa blowing a warm dust storm from the Sahara, it went from a warm 23º yesterday to a 32º today. Washed the bike and took it for a short ride to dry it right after lunch while it was heating up:

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Today in Somerset..........

From Tuesdays evening ride

So it was my chance to get out today for my first trail ride since early November. Socially distanced of course, only three of us and all firmly in the 'old fart ' category Tim hasn't been on a trail ride for over 10 years , so he turns up on a 2 year old KTM 350 and then in conversation throws in that he was the winner in the over 60's enduro category last year , so we now have a ringer ? Anyway, we set off doing the lanes on and around the A37 in Somerset, most were quite dry for this time of the year.......... We passed the time of day with several horse riders that were out, one young lady exclaimed 'there's a lot of you out today' , I suppose some of the horse riders have still been out during lockdown and I don't blame them as they are only riding locally and now they're surprised to see bikes out on the lanes again. Some 'nature' here for Michelle, if you look closely you can see primroses growing on the bank of this sunken lane............... I do like a ford crossing and my mate Tone takes a damned fine photo............. Time for a break after the ford, out with the sandwiches, flasks of coffee and a good old chinwag.............. So on one of the last lanes of the day we come to a ford (of sorts) and have a look at it from the safety of the bridge. Now in the past we've ridden through it with no problem whatsoever , it was hard to gauge the depth as the water was murky but I decided to go for it. The water turned out to be no problem at all but the surface underneath was pure silt. I stalled and when i put my leg down it sunk into about a foot of water and then a foot of silt. Thank god , big Tone waded in and steadied the bike while I got off and then it took all three of us to pull it back out. As we rode the rest of the lane I could harly ride as the weight of the water in my boot was pulling my leg off so I had to make a stop to sort things out Anyway , no fish or any other aquatic life were harmed while I made my feck up. I returned home to my garage and spent the next hour on 'leg maintenance'

A new low could be coming....My brother just told me the Tomos is "mine" now. Everyone is feeling sorry for...TYMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMYYYYY! Ok, Tymmy loves toys give me toys...lol ?

From Wednesdays evening ride

oh strewth

That was a great report Bob, some great pics. ? Looks like a super fun ride. Nice to know you thought of me when you spotted the flowers, made my day. ??

And on the greatest day of the year, i couldnt be more proud, only took 220 months to secure success... ?

Anyway , no fish or any other aquatic life were harmed while I made my feck up. I returned home to my garage and spent the next hour on 'leg maintenance'

I'm offended by the fact I can't get menstrual being a bloke, although I could slit my throat. You're not wrong with that opening statement though, worlds gone fucking stupid.

We were to start camping on Day 4, but given the delayed starts every day, we didnt make it to our camping spot, stopping in Bahia de Los Angeles, instead. The most fun we have on a trip is bagging on the one with the most luggage. Bruce is right above, speed is your friend in sand. However, you will have to overcome your sphincter, which is constantly telling you to slow down! The red bike wasnt damaged much, cause sand is soft ? The valve cover work shown previously was due to some other tip over earlier in the trip. We had several great riders on this trip, with Matt (KTM rider) and Dennis probably being the top dogs. In the videos posted you an hear Dennis saying he went down 3 times. Matt never did go down. Bastard.

Just keep the camera rolling Pedro.....you'll be fine!

Day 4 continued: (sorry for the delay, but the sand section from this day was pretty entertaining, afterwards, and i've been trying to collect pics from the others who attempted it. in the meantime .....) So, while the saner riders of the group were busy finding that nights accommodations, the true AGALOS guys were taking a "shortcut" to the highway into Bahia de Los Angeles, located on the east coast of Baja. Small fishing village, as well as a ferry terminus. Being a shortcut, they showed up in stages, with the last to arrive only an hour or two later than the pavement peeps. some iPhone videos: First to arrive were the Louisiana boys on the small bikes. I'm guessing they only have swamps in Louisiana, and not much sand! Second up were Fernando and Chris. They had made it a few miles deeper into the shortcut before bailing back to the main road. Fernando was sporting a bandaid under his eye, and had decorated his jacket with red stuff that appeared to look just like blood. All due to getting up close and personal to a cactus! I guess you could call this truly a face plant? He was escorted out of the mess by Chris. The last 4 to show looked a little wiped out, but were still laughing. They had busted all the way thru the sand, but it wasnt easy. Especially for Gary: (Facebook banned this pic for being too graphic! ? They must have thought that was Gary's brain between his gloves. It was a cow pattie, much smarter than Gary) Our favorite prick .........and his cactus: Sand shit show!! Gary's little helper

Dunno about that. Pharmaceutical companies are possibly the worse criminals out there. I find it hard to believe a word they say. A lot of people aren’t aware that they have licensed and pushed drugs for decades they know dont work and in the worse case scenarios cause great harm. They regularly create deliberate shortages to increase their profits including on drugs where shortages have led to peoples deaths. Then theres the astounding fact they can do as many studies and trials as they like and only have to publish the ones that show a new drug in a promising light. So if for example 10 trials were run on a new drug and 9 showed the drug didnt work or had terrible side effects they dont have to reveal that data when they apply for a licence. Its hard to believe they do this but they want the return on the money they’ve spent on development and research. If it all sounds like a bit conspiracy theory madness then have a look at America’s prescribed opiate addiction problem (big pharma targeting and lying to Dr’s) or Rofecoxib, Humira, Enbrel. Thousand and thousands of deaths. With the Rofecoxib the researcher who blew the whistle was told she will never work again in that arena.. and she hasn’t, instantly unemployable. So basically I’m fractionally more trusting of the vaccine study results of Oxford University than I am of the other big pharma companies who are allegedly behind pushing the idea that Oxford Astrazenica isn’t safe even though they’ve had more yellow cards (reports of adverse reactions) than Astrazenica. Age old problem of profit before people. I’ll wait to see the final outcome before putting my money on any one of them.

oh that hurt

Aw dang such a shame I missed that ? I was waiting for the riffraff to tire and bugger off before seeing what the remaining dregs were like. Turned out they were my kind of dregs ?

I’m offended by you worthless time wasting tosspots on a daily basis.

A KLR as BOTM.......the only way is up after this!

You are old you fucking bellend!

And it's all over.....Tym's KLR is the winner!

I totally agree with you Pete, most of the world doesn't seem to be happy unless they're offended by something or other. SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU BLEATING BASTARDS !! It's nowehre near as good as a @Buckster putdown , but ffs ?

Even the southern route is out? May is a good month, normally, its before school gets out and the parks and roads get crowded.

Cunts.

luckily, our only traffic jams are self-imposed. We tend to go away from crowds. However, the proliferation of side by sides out here in the west is making it harder and harder to get away.

Poll closes in an hour!

Funny thing is that we were relieved, but felt less manly ?

But what is this tossers real name? Patel perhaps?

Nothing new there, at least he has an excuse for being ignored this time though.

WOW, beautiful photo ?

I've seen Albania. Sitting in a bar in Corfu, it's so close across the water you can see the cars driving on the road at night.

I just bought the box set on DVD. It was after Pete told his being dressed up as a girl story. I have got as far as the I'm a Failure episode which is towards the end of the 1st series.

no but there is still probably time yet and as you know i have a tendency to go with the flow

Well done Tim , your prize is one of the spots from Bruce's arse ?

Fucking brilliant Bob.......you don't get this shit on ButtRider! @Mawsley......you fucking wannabe.....this is how it's done!

I need to figure out how to embed the videos again. but, in the meantime a quick video summary my brother put together... (Paste in the link you get from the SHARE button)

Lol gee I hope not :) good stuff Giroux keep it coming.

Temps werent too bad, but it was really cool at night and first thing in the a.m.

I sure missed a great trip. Good RR Giroux!

Pete moves into town and they have to spay wash it to keep it clean enough for his liking. ?

? My admiration of Frank Spencer was already a bit of a give away... then again I’m not the one who bought the box set...

Albania

Nope just classics and “modern classics” Seems they dropped saying out right other bikes aren’t welcome which is a good thing me thinks, snobbery in biking is too much for me!

Look out for the ginger twat rally.

Day 4 With Fernando now on board, the BNB group headed south to Gonzaga Bay to meet up with the Alfonsina's boys. Turns out they had a little fun with Gary's bike. Little on the road valve job, in the most cleanest of clean room conditions.... Some pics from the ride down - me and Chris At Alfonsilas, with the bikes packed, it was now time to pick the day's route (of course, that could have been done earlier so we would have more riding time. But....) The loose plan was to head south along the coast and find a little village to camp for the first time of the trip. Things changed. We HAD to go past Coco's Corner, a mainstay for the Baja 1000. Coco's Corner is one of the most infamous crossroads in Northern Baja (stolen from the interwebby). Coco lives in a little hut and sells beer and cokes to passersby. The hut is papered with panties from fans who have stopped in. (chicks are cool!) When we went by in 2016, the road past Coco's was the only way south and back to pavement. Since that time, the government has finished the paved highway, but has unfortunately cut Coco off from all the travel. There is a sign on the hwy calling it out, but fewer people seem to go by now. Fortunately, friends and volunteers are building him a new place closer to the pavement, keeping the tradition going. (someone in the group has a great group shot of us all with Coco that i will track down and add. In his 90s now, he has been in a wheelchair for years having had his legs removed below the knees due to diabetes) There was talk of dirt from Cocos to Bahia de Los Angeles, but Coco scared us off with talk of 13 miles of sand! Instead, we headed south out of Cocos, rather than return immediately to the pavement. There was a point further south on Hwy 1, where the dirt route came close to pavement. Our thought was to possibly head off there, cutting the corner down to Bahia. The area: Google Maps hasnt updated theirs in some time, so this shows the hwy still running by Coco's Bing Maps is a little more updated: (I've circled Coco's Corner. As you can see, they have left the poor guy way off the new highway. A blow up of his abode: We made it back to pavement on Hwy 5, then on to Hwy 1. Heading south, we reached the point where the original dirt track was close to pavement and half the group decided to chance it. Others figured a nice pavement ride down to the coast would be smarter and easier. Guess which choice was the best? Some pics from the pavement pussies, i mean smart guys