Pedro

Tell that to Emilio Scotto

the Honda dealer where I once bought my Transalp told me they got a few bikes with problems coming from Honda's assembling plant in Italy, most notably was a small utilitarian bike, CBF125?, they got one with absolutely no stickers, and another with no piston and conrod, took them a while to understand why it would not start but would crank like fuck ?

That's where I think we digress, you say it an image, I say people buy a feeling. It's worth it to feel like and adventurer, a racer, a badass biker, etc, even if you're just getting that feeling while going about your mundane life.

I like that!

The GSs with dustbins that don't go anywhere serve a purpose, their owners look at their bikes and feel like they can go on an adventure, and basically that's why most people buy bikes. Most CBRs and GSXRs don't go on track either, it doesn't make them useless, their riders feel like Marc Marquez when they start them to go have a coffee with their friends.

On the other hand, you can go around the world and not find or have an adventure, and have an adventure when you´re commuting home from work or on the train. Traveling doesn't mean adventure, it just means traveling. The "adventure" part of the segment's name is just marketing. Big trail or trail mustn't have been a manly enough name for the american market, it worked well enough in Europe for decades.

My two previous bikes

Jesus! Are you a dealership? I've never ridden one, but the TL looked so cool when it came out, and I think it never lost it's appeal over the years.

That looks so british ?

I, for one, would like to test ride a big v-twin.

Just goes to show, even the drug business is suffering ... Welcome, I don't know what a Tigger Alpine is though.

Loved it

That's what every teenager of my day dreamed of having, the DT50 LC, most sold 50cc motorcycle in Portugal for ages: It's tiny in real life.

Good area to ride in. On the second half of that video, that's the kind of terrain where low horsepower dirt bikes are so much easier to ride, old school sitting down type bikes are made for that!

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.