Pedro

Christmas days are supposed to be sunny, that's what needs to happen. We were both riding at the same time, Pete ?

I've used that in the past, but then I still saw the censored post and could resist to see what the twat was posting, and uncensored it to get even more mad that my curiosity got the better of me.

It's all a joke until he rubs a hole in the engine casing ...

Welcome, amazing snow pictures. Looks like you carved your way through ?

Sofia is one of my best friends! I've told her you're a bunch of reprobates and not like the nice people she met while working the UK, but here she is anyway... ?

Hello, and welcome! Nice choice of bikes, lets hear something more about that yamaha.

Those are some nice roads there, and I'm sure it must have felt great having a smoother faster bike on that longer day. I am not a fan of Triumph trail bikes (although I've never ridden one) but it looks great in that color. Nice choice.

Well, I for one will be waiting for a proper opinion once you're allowed to test it. Although I love my bike, it's a little on the heavy side for loose terrains ?

Is it you or was it tour wife that rode? I forgot.

So @boboneleg, why the T7 then? Because that isn't really a motorway cruiser.

There's a little ride I love going on near home, it's about 60 to 70km roundtrip, I can stop midway for coffee at a hilltop place or at a nice small restaurant with nice typical food. My house is in ribatejo, in a place that is too warm during summertime, and this provides welcome relief because on top of this hill you get cold winds from the seaside. It's also a place where I used to take small sunday morning trips with Maria, be it on the bike or the track car in the winter. I started going shortly after I started to deal with being all alone with nothing to do on weekends and it's now become my own ritual, I'm not going to be dramatic as to say it saved my life, but it surely made a lot of days bearable. It started to be a way of coping, and is now a ritual that I really enjoy. If you want to see where it is click here: Serra de Montejunto Parking for my favorite restaurant up there: It's a nice place to go, if you like old windmills in working condition: Some light off-roading, if that's your thing: Most of the time, I usually take the tarmac, though: My little shelter, resting cafe up there, sometimes you see some different machines there, like an Africa Twin all the way from Japan Or this tricked out, loud as hell, Yamaha DT50 with an 80cc kit: But most of the time I just chill by myself: When I feel like eating alone, there's this little place with a view: All in time to get back home for a glass of wine while watching the sunset from my front door: There you go, the little corner of Portugal I call home.

Welcome! That's a nice picture there.

I don't know what a shill is, I suppose you want to make me your inside man over there, but I don't really know anyone there, and haven't posted for years. I never really liked place, although I do enjoy all their pictures and americanness. My presence online has been non existent over the last 4 or years. Posted a couple of questions on UKGser but don't know anyone there either. Basically, you bunch of twats are my only online friends!

Hello dude!

23rd April 2006

In that regard, Pete's area of Spain is a lot more empty and vast than Portugal

I'm ashamed to say I've pondered buying a bike/car hot air drier ?

Hey @XTreme, remember this?

After all these muddy pictures, I went and dug up a few pictures from the old days, didn't find what I was looking for but found these from when I first started riding my XR, back in 2007 I loved riding sand back then, when I bought the bike it had a few cables badly routed and the steering was stuck. Since I fixed it, I started falling down in the stuff ?

Interesting bike, good stuff!

Good stuff, I suppose you have quite tall gearing on the XR to be good for touring? What kind of cruising speed can you manage with luggage like that? I might be spoiled, but my XRs brakes are awful for the road, are yours stock?

I can watch the videos perfectly

Love the XR with oldscool logo there, good stuff. I think I’d suck at trial but would love a good go. About all those water crosses you guys do, I’ve done a few in summertime and I get that, but in the UK with your dark cold weather, isn’t it really unpleasant to get soaken wet in your feet and legs?

I know, I was just conveying that The peninsula is not all like that.

I get that, but I can’t bring myself to wash the bike if I can’t ride it gently till warm to properly dry it off for the week. And a GS is probably the hardest bike to clean and dry off if not riding it in warm dry air. I’d rather not wash it, if I leave it half wet I will leave home for the workweek with a guilty conscience...