Pedro

Indeed, lots of knowledge on XRs there.

In Portugal, bifes meaning steaks, or camones from you saying “come on”, sometimes lagostas meaning lobsters after you get your typical “laying drunk on the beach sun tan”, or just the equivalent to “fucking tourists”.

And they did lovely on this:

Ended up changing my tires to a set of TKC70 before going on a 2000km ride around Portugal’s back roads. It was the right choice as they instantly felt good. New:

I’ll have you know it’s regularly cleaned, after every use!

Restaurants close at 10:00pm, but loads are still closed because it’s not profitable to open. Some hotels are also closed, but we’re coping Rode for 40 or 50km today, before stopping...

Staying at a wine farm today:

Right, it was a TW indeed, I confuse them

I learned to ride and passed my exam on a 225cc one.

Sofia’s entry, posted live from location

Today, at Portugal’s highest peak, near 2000m

The concept of trailbraking is letting go off brakes as you are entering a corner. You not “hitting the brakes” leaning over or starting to brake when starting to lean...!

That is too funny, might even be trendsetting!

Good effort on carrying the little bags with small volume this time. Like packing a donkey, I like it. Carrying an umbrella?

I wouldn’t worry about it, you’re pumping air from the same region. Now if you were to do it on the road quite away from home, then do go for a coffee and give air to get used to each other.

A rain storm (or as you brits call it, a normal Friday) seems to have settled in today, tomorrow I'll brave it to go have my new tires put on the bike. Then nothing much planned.

I didn’t enjoy one bit any of the times a hard part of a bike has grounded against hard tarmac. The fear it’ll unload any wheel is real! On my bike I can do whatever I want on tarmac and it’ll never scrape unless it’s indeed a crash, I wouldn’t like if scraping was a weekly thing. And @XTreme, troll a little less!

And it is pretty awesome. I do have an honest question about the Harley, does it not scare you it has such little leaning clearance?

Soaking your chain in boiling atf, that’s the latest tech ...

"Abril, águas mil" It rhymes in Portuguese, means "April, thousand waters" Looking outside, I can see how it came to be

I always thought that was for someone who was really happy or looking forward to something, like about an event about to happen or some good fortune

Heard it on a country song to describe a hot girl: "hotter than a 2 dollar pistol"

"De Espanha, nem bons ventos nem bons casamentos!" Translates into: "From Spain, no good winds nor good marriages", you use it to say there are no good things coming from Spain. First part, Portugal gets it's mild climate from the ocean, inland areas that get weather arriving from Spain usually get too hot weather or too cold because they get their weather from there. The marriages part comes from history, in which a few marriages between the crowns of Portugal and Spain have always seemed to conspire to threaten Portugal's independence.

Apparently I know as much as you do about your riding, from what I remember you do exactly what you are saying, but I thought you were trying to embarass me by suddenly accelerating into a corner, it’s like riding behind someone with motorcycling tourette’s

The way I treat it is like with a car, you have a total envelope of available force to apply, or grip, and you can distribute it between applying it from the front or rear by braking or accelerating, or from side to side with cornering but not both at 100% at the same time. In this way, trailbraking is letting go of as much brake as you progressively need in order to pass that force over to the cornering side. I understand this might be explained in the best way but it makes sense in my mind ...