Pedro

After dinner yesterday, I stayed up until 3AM drinking wine with my neighbor. I am finally having a good relationship with them after a lot of years of somehow never really caring much about each other, it´s nice. Today I woke up late, and went on a casual's ride to a cafe, not exactly @boboneleg's flood risks and camping under a storm, I rode 30km or 40km roundtrip, but what can I say ... it's blue skies but ... pretty windy??

It’s also less about the trip and more about the whole organising a stunt.

I like Ewan McGregor, he has fun the way he wants without justifying himself and that’s cool. I also like the idea of riding south america, and watched the first three or four episodes, but got bored after all the drama of risking being stopped from a flat battery. That and having a company actually install charging points along their route is a step too far in travel assistance

Or die because of it! I might even not be able to ride to Morocco through Spain... selfish fuckers!

That’s why passengers used to sit sideways on motorcycles

No I don’t. I had a proper muddy bike on that picture taken before lunch, but now I have a washed and dried motorcycle

Portugal dealt with the British strain, the brasilian strain, and the south african strain, because of international travels during Christmas. We have learned nothing!

Thanks Pete, it’s a beautiful area in springtime

Got out of the main road heading home today and found this sweet dirtroad. Only stopped for a wee, but will return later and see where it leeds

For when you have a pleasant ride but just don’t feel like stopping often for pictures, or are just plain lazy to post a proper report, post your one stop ride report below:

I’ll be going to my home, and washing my bike sometime over the weekend!

Weather is back to normal, then, bless the world!

Toni Bou riding an Africa Twin Check out the downhill on the front wheel at 0:44

Ride safe and keep us posted!

We’re two pages into this ride report and that’s just for the packing ... edit: three pages!

Well, sports bikes are alive and well here, plenty of older and new ones around, you see them mostly on sunday mornings, which is fine. Sunday mornings is also the traditional time to go to church, so there might be something there

Sofia’s beef ragu, a mix of Italian with southern Portugal flavours, absolutely fucking amazing

I can, it’s the mute end of the words accent...

Hope he can, you must be so looking forward to not having pain on a lost limb!

On the open road, I think you’ll miss the heavier bike. Just factor that some of those 3000 quid savings will go into a suspension tune to suit it to your weight. I don’t know how much you weight but they are surely tuned for an aggressive 75kg rider. You might not be so aggressive, which will help, but still need stiffer front springs and maybe rear.