Pedro

It’s a pretty town for sure

Starting ok

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:

Fresh pollen in the air usually ruins my rides, don’t envy that one bit. Looking good, though!

Good stuff, Fred, love those easy dirt roads.

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.

Seems like you guys like your Yamaha fours! We get a very similar style of food truck here, the most common serving hotdogs and burgers but open mostly at night, but during the day we get this bigger trucks carrying their own brick ovens and serving chorizo bread, which is awesome in the winter.

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 quite enjoyed the article, except claiming to "cross" the Sahara, and thinking Morocco is in the Middle East.

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!