Pedro

A chinese bike on the banner might be too much, though.

Love the blue MV Is the red and grey bike a Bultaco? Really pretty! Ugly chain cover though, but gotta keep those dress pants clean

You lot are showing your righteousness, it's showing a "for sale" add of a dude that is posting a picture of the bike being sold showing it's absolute max speed instead of lying and saying it was pampered. It's funny!

That has lightened a flame, as soon as I'm back home I'll take the XR out

I meant between something like 240 and 300. Sometimes, I do play a little with the GS going "fast", and would enjoy a proper fast bike for those night motorway rides when I imagine there are no cops around. But it's one thing to max out a bike that goes a little over 200, and another to hold onto something that is 50% faster.

I think that over a certain speed it just becomes a theoretical exercise, the end result is more or less the same?

No, I´ll do two things, which is take off the GS's center stand, to have it freshly powder coated, and clean under the seat and inside the eco box. That's a weekend

I will be doing nothing, which is starting to hurt me no end.

He's probably got a little piece of black tape over the plate I love that those two pictures are being used to sell the bike, when usually it's "never ridden hard" and "previous owner was an older gentleman"

That is on the local motorway going past Porto and V.N.Gaia, when I say that this motorway sounds like a GP on weekends that is why

browse the pictures on this portuguese add for a mapped BMW S1000RR https://www.olx.pt/anuncio/bmw-s1000rr-2014-09-desbloqueada-IDG0TDY.html#ff07452c67

I for one, like to gather with a few friends, but dislike organized groups.

I think the brits have a very particular way of hanging out in groups, not more or less but quite different to other european nationalities that I know of. I don't think it's anything to do with having wide open spaces or not, it's just a different group mentality. This opinion is not particularly restricted to motorcycles, but car enthusiasts, football fans, music band fans, etc, the group's enjoyment of being part of a group seems to be different over there.

@XTreme, the little man needs a member account here. Set him up!

Pete's grandson understands the importance of brakes, look at the tip of his left boot.

That's just mean. I do my best to present you island types with a view of what other places are like and this is what I get; @XTreme's throwing up gifs, and now a true world traveller's snarky jokes...

I wish Portugal's president would loose his voice. It would be worse to him than catching covid, fucker´s been campaigning for 10 years and hasn't stopped since he's been elected for the first time 4 years ago. I can talk politics as I'm the only portuguese regularly here I just heard we are extending our lockdown for the next two weeks, that's basically because everything involving a state of emergency works in two weeks intervals here, some constitutional stuff. Then he made it clear it would probably last until the end of March... ... I am loosing my mind

I am in the same boat as Fred, @boboneleg I want a ride to work report. I just don't want it to come from a bot.

FFS, don't start posting pictures with that!

What a cool little dude.

Wouldn't it be nicer if we still had two sections, with one of them limited to real member posts? I know it would be a less volume but it wouldn't wash out our own stuff with bot posts, which ends up being a little uninteresting.

I think it proves your "they are fairly clever" theory to be wrong. They are indeed stupid, but maybe appearing to know something about a specific realm of knowledge makes them look less so.

Speaking all the way from Portugal, I have a couple of posh friends from back in school. Their families are wealthy from business, maybe from two to more generations going back. They drove discrete nice fast cars , wore expensive watches but not something you would know was expensive from 10 meters away, and were well mannered to everyone, never being loud or noticeable in a gathering. They were both very cool people to spend time with, and I liked they were my friends as they're good people. They also rode motocross or raced karts as teenagers, so there's that Now this is my experience from Porto, which is Portugal's second biggest town, located north with a history of industry and old money. Other people's experience in Lisbon varies wildly, Lisbon is a town where old money usually comes from trade and services, and I think that makes a difference. I've met a couple of people over the last couple of years that talked a big talk while boasting of owning cars and stuff, but apparently were more bankrupt than anything else.

What you mean by "posh"? Rich? Good families? We're from a different generation and place, I see nothing weird about a rich guy enjoying a motorcycle.

Pretty cool stuff, but throw in altitude sickness and it probably becomes really tough.