Pedro

Left Faro not having a clue where I would go next, half an hour into the ride I stopped for a while, having to make a couple of calls and send some emails, my office for my morning stuff, right after the twistiest nicest part of the N2 in southern Portugal. All you need is decent coverage and a laptop that doesn't crap out from all the vibration on the bike, my choice would have been for a cafe as I was a little needy of a coffee, but all my options so far had a few people around and I am trying to stay out of people's way. Can't really stand sitting in a cafe wearing a mask so I don't. I felt like riding back to the Alentejo, but temperatures are supposed to go into unpleasant levels, and I had just come from there, so instead headed west into the Atlantic, but via mountains and hills, a Algarve most tourists never see. I rode a mix of nice smooth roads you would be happy to take a fast sports bike on, mountain roads less smooth and more twisty, good gravel roads, and less good gravel roads Onto dirt: Someone must have been shot to death here, place looked grim with a british plated transit van half disassembled, I didn't stick around. The nice dirt road turned into a sort of dirt highway you could drive two TIR trailers side by side, some corrugations also made it unpleasant, didn't take pictures of that ugliness, and it was proper hot there too so didn't feel like stopping allowing my own dust to catch up. Then some nice enough roads through orange orchards, also no pictures, but then a nice dirt road near the Funcho dam. By 14:30 I was a bit hungry, climbed the Monchique serra, which I've posted about before, and had a cheese and tomato sandwich there Then, because the guy took forever to put a few slices of tomato and cheese inside some bread, and I didn't know where to go next, I took forever to leave. Decided on going to spend the night in a hotel I have wanted to stay in ever since the first time I visited Sagres as it overlooks the Sagres point from a similarly tall (50 meters) cliff. It's expensive but what the hell. Made quite good progress and enjoyed the bumpy roads coming here, brief stop by the Cape Saint Vincent lighthouse, my favourite building in Portugal: Didn´t hang around much as I really felt like a swim, plus I'll stop by a little tomorrow before going: The room is a disappointment, but the view as I'm posting this right now: Going for a walk on a cliffside, and dinner in a bit...

Lost in the dirtroads of the Algarve, this looks like a mexican cartel village

Those tiny hot rods with huge power, big tires and shitty handling must be terrifying to drive, let alone launch it

Aliens?

Congratulations BMW, you made a right turd of it! And no hints from other brands either, cough cough, Scarabeo 500 rear end?

Not really the legal stance here either, but nobody to enforce it.

Just because! Them’s the rules! No rules for bikes! where the hell are you from? That’s just how it is! Rules are for cages!

I would 100% pay for that car parking for a season however? On a bike? Parking is free!

Portugal, @MooN, make it 2 x 4 day trips

Ehy are Sportsters so slammed to the ground now? They used to be so much cooler with higher leaning clearance and suspension travel! a 120hp engine on a Sportster though?

I like them white like that, cool bikes!

He meant it in a naughty way, not bikes …

Spaghetti al Pesto, with a few mint leaves thrown in there, and walnuts instead of pine nuts, you use what you have Fresh cherry tomato sauce, wish I had nice pecorino for this, only had generic supermarket parmigiano A nice skillet sauted steak, with parsley tomato salad and mum’s white rice Roadside pork sandwich, just the best meal in the middle of a full day’s motorcycling in Portugal Cheese and ham toast, in the best bread available in Portugal, the typical Alentejo loaf Take away, proper perfectly cooked Portuguese style grilled chicken, with optional garlic sauce, amazing homemade fries, and fresh salad, along with some nice chilled Alentejo wine, best take away meal ever! Today’s dinner, coal grilled beef chop, along with grilled cheesy onions, and tomato and herbs, it was nice!

You need a parking spot for a bike too?

I am equally surprised, I assumed everyone did

As far as chinese bikes go, it’s the best looking I’ve seen. They are Ducati fans, those chinese

I wouldn’t tell anyone I would never want their bikes even for free, so I won’t, but there are more of those than the ones I would want.

The name is making it harder, had he went with Bollocks Said Fred he would surely get less credibility.

Love the Mustang, but the baby blue 3 door station wagon, that melts my heart!

The wood floors could colapse and I'd be inside a building in 35º heat... boarded windows and doors!

I might actually be riding past there in a few days, but the only way into the station was a half broken boarded window, and I'm not crawling into a risky building through a window. Tell you what though, it's a nice enough place and must come with a little land around it, enough for a little vineyard maybe, but it's isolated and hot in summer, proper hot.

it doesn't work for boobs!

The T7 is almost the perfect bike on paper, just 20 more hp and it would be it. I should go and see about test riding one.