Pedro

Funny enough, when I used to ride a bicycle I would love downhills, on the motorcycle I prefer corners uphill too ...

I tested a properly nice one a year or two ago, a real big wheels and suspension mountain bike, wearing jeans and going 25kmh on a slight uphilll, if you've never ridden a normal non assisted bicycle it'll fool you into thinking that's a normal pace. It's like you're spiderman waking up the next morning after being bit by the spider

Pretty sure there's over 10 letters in that name, and only one is a syllable

Maybe the 300 is not that fast?

Actually, although having had roasted baby lamb lots of times, when they're that small and haven't had proper pasture there is no flavor to the meat, it's also got very little texture so not my kind of thing. It's considered a delicacy all over Spain and northern Portugal, though, but the meat does improve a lot after some growth in my opinion. I prefer to eat nice meat that had a chance to live instead of factory farmed. The brains and head (except fish) aren't really a Portuguese thing, though, I've got nothing against eating brain but never have.

Is that what they call a horny female over there?

I like that, lovely roads and views!

This one, by far, makes the bike's lines flow like it's moving.

It was so clean and polished! The owner took a cloth out of his top case after parking just to make sure no bits were in need of attention, it's an object of love for sure. I wouldn't mind if he went to work on my bike too, to be honest

Mine, on a perfect dirt road in Alentejo

Something must be lost in translation here, you had blue steak?

Not many pictures, plus it was just the usual short ride for lunch at my favourite hill top cafe. It's just half an hour each way but I really like it as it's all tiny roads since i leave the house, and it's right on my backyard. Getting to the hills via some nice roads through farm lands, still quite the ugly sky today There was a a Subaru meeting of sorts going there, I usually don't notice cars much but this had quite the presence, and never having been sold in mainland Europe, two door Imprezas are very rare, don't know if it was a replica made from a normal saloon but they both had the steering on the left so at least a conversion. Looked fast and this is certainly the kind of area to drive one, shame that being a sunday cyclists were popping out of everywhere. I wasn't alone on two wheels, and plenty more decided to grab lunch here today, a lot of variety concerning bikes Big top cases everywhere, they're very practical! A really clean ZZR600, you don't see them everyday anymore As I was finishing my burger, what looked like an ewok came over from his table to ask for a taste, too late little budy! Then stopped by the Dainese outlet to pay for my new jeans, buy a case of wine, and have a dessert expresso, and home. Although the skies look weird and grey, it's 21 or 22º now in the afternoon as I'm posting this from my garden, freaky weather but nice for a lazy sunday ride.

It's like People magazine person of the year award, by your logic once you win then that same person will be winner forever? To me it's a mix of what the bike is doing in the picture and has done in the month, the bike itself, the scenery, and the picture itself too. You do you, though, and post a low resolution picture of the bike parked between a gas station lavatory door and a dumpster on your way to buy the wife tampons, we're all alike in the eyes of the lord

Yes, you’ll find similar in some hills all over the french pyrenees, all over northern spain, and in several areas of Portugal. I think there might be similar in the italian alps too.

A hamburguer, a meat patty sandwich, but, with enough garlic or cilantro I’ll go for anything

English police are so different to the rest of the world!

Off for a burguer for lunch, and home early to lounge for the afternoon and evening. This is turning out to be a nice weekend.

Nice scenery too!

I think you only see the pictures… They’re very common to that area and where there is a lot of schist. In the center and north of Portugal winters are quite harsh in the hills, so that southern traditional white house with the painted ribbon on the bottom is not found there.

I rode home today, but instead of taking the 2,5 hour motorway ride I did about 100km on the motorway and then diverted onto small roads. Getting off at Coimbra I made way inland and onto the real center of Portugal, riding through Coimbra I noticed a CRF300L on display at the local Honda dealership's window but decided not to take a picture because I was both on a non stop fast lane and also didn't want to be responsible for sending @Mawsley on a killing spree amongst british Honda dealerships The sky was very weirdly grey today and all my pictures look like crap, but still here they go: Castle of Lousã, I've never been through here before but have been close by. The previous night I went on a google maps search and noticed a bit of road that looked like my kind of thing, so went for it, this was my first stop, first looking from the castle onto a small chapel: And the small castle itself, here you can also see the difference that picture framing can make, here my bike is all alone by a castle: Here is the same parking spot 10 seconds later, showing that it was a saturday and people were out and about. You can also see that Portugal has a thing for trailies as the touring bike of choice: Moving away and onto the bit of road I was keen on checking out, a last view of the castle amongst a landscape that almost swallows all things, it's steep terrain: Here's a picture I stopped to take and try to illustrate why trails are so popular here, twisty roads but look at the surface: Couldn't help myself and followed a sign pointing out of the tarmac road onto a forrest track, pretty well maintained even though it had rained the day before, with a nice view spoiled by the ugly sky. Back on tarmac: A few kms later stopped to have a look around what we call a schist village, schist is the common rock around this region and used to be used to build houses, old derelict schist villages have been fixed up and over the last 20 years made up to be tourist atractions, here I stop by one with a small house for overnight rental right by a typical restaurant. Being a saturday it was a little busy but I looked it up on google maps and was most impressed. Took the pictures as a location stamp to help me plan an overnight visit, this is an area with harsh climate and showing up in the evening, to have a warm shower and a hearty meal and then sleep in a stone house seem appealing: Back on the road and over the hills I get away from quaint villages and onto harsher terrain. I take a small detour in the form of a wind farm gravel road access to find some privacy for a moment, nice location: After 13:30 I stop for fuel (50€ worth of fuel and not even on reserve!) on a nice inland town and ask the bored but very friendly fuel station guy where to go for something to eat and he recommends a small cafe 50 meters away. Café "Chicote", meaning "whip", where a very friendly older lady apologized that they had finished their lunch menu, but could maybe offer a pork sandwich, I gladly went for it: Back on the road, and riding through the heart of the Zener region, Portugal's third most important river and a location often gladly overlooked by car and bike enthusiasts: Went away from the deep river sculptured gorges and through small villages, using narrow and slow winding roads, my kind of roads: After that the sky started to turn menacing, I wanted to get home earlyish, so made way not stopping for pictures. Took this one from the bike, as the sun ws going lower and the landscape was changing onto farmland approaching home: Got home in time for a chat with a neighbor, and a few housekeeping chores before a snack and some wine for winding down after a nice day on the bike: Was in need of some comfort food so roasted some codfish with potatoes: Really enjoyed the alternative to a fast but uninteresting motorway ride, saved money on tolls and fuel, and got a lot more riding time in exchange, good stuff! Sorry for the shity pictures today, my iPhone doesn't care for light like today

Had a nice ride today, weather was really overcast and grey so pictures didn't turn out great. Codfish is in the oven now, I'm starving.

Properly laughing here!

Ditch her, when she goes to the ladies room on a service station somewhere in Germany ... Just turn the Citroen's go dial to 11 and blast off

Thank you, that's just hilarious! One of those laughing yellow guys on the bottom of the post wasn't enough, I loved that!