Pedro

They are sweet cars to drive, I think they have just the right size and proportions for a midsize car. Glad she likes them. My brother's E30 still looks like an E30 too, even though it scares me with big semi slicks and 320hp. It's not aerodynamic enough for the speeds it does.

An XK is big time cooler than any Corvette. Was it slower than the V8s?

Supposedly, they do ...

I've only had nice cars, I'm almost sorry for it but did make myself look like a twat in a couple of them, though First was my 1986 320i, it had aircon and ABS, and open top, I loved it. It looked amazing with sparkling chrome but I did look like a twat when I threw it backwards into a grass field and then had to beg a farmer to drag it out in the rain. Same as the one below but BRG. It was an attractive car. Then came a Golf TDI, it was pretty great and I loved it, made me look like a twat by going through a corn field in it. No damage but corn bits fell off for a week. Did my first laps of the Nurburgring on it and drove it from Portugal to the Nordkap, that's a proper road trip. My car parked next to a cabin in Norway: Then another Golf TDI, never looked like a twat in that one except by being myself. No pictures of it. By then, I was doing big miles for work, and got my favourite car for driving around the roads on, my 320D touring, I liked that one a lot, with fancy alcantara interior. It was quite fast once mapped. Never crashed it either, drove it from 70 to 320.000km. Here it is in a frosty Germany with my brother in it: Sadly, I sold the 320d before it needed big work and took a great deal on my dad's previous car, a 3 liter diesel. It's been reliable, quite fast but handles like a boat. I look like a twat every time I drive it, but it's comfy. I crashed it twice by my own fault over the last couple of years. Both times approaching the week when Maria passed. One time I was crying and didn't notice an incoming car, the other I fell asleep on the motorway. It's a nice car, though, here it is looking rather poorly: Then there's Maria's car, which is mine for as long as her parents wish it to be, it goes back to them at their will, I'm quite attached to the thing: And, lastly, my 318ti, which I bought to prep and use on the Nurburgring. It's done quite a big number of laps, and was one of the fastest small engined cars around the place when I used to basically live there when not working in Portugal. It's underpowered but quite the weapon back then when the track used to be very technical. I've looked like a twat in it a couple of times, but never more than when I was drifting in the rain and beached it halfway through the Karoussell, it was quite embarrassing and a good laugh specially as the guy I had passed earlier in the lap came past laughing so hard he was probably crying, and clapped

Lovely roads, and a pretty bike too. I had one with the same paint scheme and love the look of them.

I like that!

This was the end result: Can't say it's easy to edit something that is smooth to watch, with an intro, and most of all something not boring to watch. It is a learning curve and it takes me ages to do anything worthwhile watching, but if you are alone and bored and need to kill a few hours it's not the worse pass time. Wine helps, too.

For offroad on softish sand roads, would you say the T700 is a better bike?

Ignorance is bliss!

Christmas ride 2019, deep in Alentejo, it was nippy in the morning Algarve:

How did you like that bike handling wise? Would you go for one if planning a big trip?

That is just a lack of consideration towards you and your friend, on Switzerland's part.

Morocco, 2014 Morocco 2016: Portugal, Alentejo 2020 2020, also Alentejo

seem to me you must be immune to cold, or maybe even enjoy it.

Forget about the header, @XTreme, this is what you want.

This is my submission, at 3/4 front: however... rear: 3/4 rear: top: Front: side:

Good thing about this current work crisis is I have been talking less and less with Spaniards.

Those would work for me, but better ask the welshman. I dig action pictures, but they might clash with the others. As usual, I’ll only consider the last picture each member submits.

Guys, each one can submit one only, of one motorcycle you own. Just motorcycles! No multiple bikes, no bicycles, no boats (were old fashioned), no buses, no sewing machines, no washing machines I don't know how most people will cope, picture has to be just right, not too big, not too small, with the bike on a three quarters angle, and make it a pretty one because it'll be on the site forever and ever. On the plus side, you can submit a picture not taken this month. Also, make it a nice background, which probably means @XTreme will have to work hard to find one of his bike not in front of a ruined building site. Do take the chance you're probably either locked in by winter or covid to peruse your pictures looking for the ideal one. We'll have this closed on the 18th January, which will give everyone plenty of time. If we have plenty of nice pictures, we'll make it a vote and choose the better ones. PS: trollers, try and not turn this into 20 pages of talking about gobbling each other's cocks, I'll have to read it all ... PSS: to new members, welcome to Adventuremotorcycles.net, every month we have a vote and during December we have three. Older people like that because it reminds them of bingo.

the knees?

If it's got nothing to do with BOTM why are you waiting for me to start a thread then? Just allow submissions and that's it. BOTM, "forget about it" meaning it's over and replaced with the permanent header?

Yes, but can't say it's clear what you want. Everyone submits a picture and we have the same vote except now there are around 6 winners that get into the sidebar? Doesn't make sense to me from a BOTM perspective, might as well just submit the pictures and you keep refreshing them as you think it's time to do so.

I don’t know you at all, but I can tell you that that doesn’t happen in Rome

I like the Heidenau k60 on my bike, for light offroad and big trips as they are so long lasting and almost puncture proof. They are not nice for wet tarmac and are very noisy at speed on the road.