Pedro

It’s a thread to submit one picture of one bike of yours, taken on a ride this month, to then enter a vote for bike of the month. Maybe post one again of the picture you would like to submit, taken this month.

Not really similar as Madeira got populated by Portugal, they weren’t a nation before, but currently they have their own government and parliament and work together with the same political parties and budget restraints as mainland Portugal.

We’ve got a similar situation in Portugal with Madeira .

Never got that myself, in Portuguese and probably french and other languages, Wales’ is País de Gales, meaning Wales Country giving it some sort of independence.

What the hell are you listening to?

End of February is upon us, shortest month but does that mean weaker submissions? Submit your pictures in this thread, your bike, picture taken this month on a ride, and horizontal framing. On the 28th, after dinner, I’ll close this thread and start the vote. You can submit as many pictures as you want on this thread, I’ll consider only the latest one. Being a shorter month we’ll have a one day vote.

What a nice garage, put a wine cooler in there, add a nice GS, and I’d never leave.

Think that bike was 99 or 2000 when they did those colours.

Sleep like shit yesterday. Went to pick up my brother at the airport and had a disagreement with an abusive cop who says he’ll fine me for parking but didn’t ask my details and ran away when I asked for his name. Left me agitated, the twat. Have filed a complaint at the station just now so feeling a little better about it.

Whoever it was, they’re apparently good people.

Just now, before a squall came in

I wonder why a 25000 sportsbike doesn’t sell as much as the top sportsbikes did when they were 12000.

Sad times.

Happy birthday Peter!

I love geckos, they get in my garage and after a week there's no more spider webs or any bugs. Also, when I was in Brasil 20 years ago I slept in a tiny inn with no aircon. With the window open I would get eaten alive by mosquitos until one night a gecko got in and I spent the remaining nights sleeping peacefully with the window open.

stylish dog walking around in a monsoon earlier this morning

I'm not one to put my bike through punishment for the sake of it, so won't be riding around doing loops to end up at the same place. The only bit I am really interested in doing is going from Limone to Monesi, seems to be the most scenic and spectacular, and sort of fits my trip to Milan, plus it's not a big distance. I watched a few videos of it and am pretty confident I'll be ok, unless it's raining a lot and it gets muddy, if it gets muddy I´ll turn back. As soon as they open for the season I'll book a day and pay the ticket, just to make sure. Not really annoyed they charge for it, it's really the only way to keep traffic to acceptable levels and have money to maintain it properly. I've seen what happens to some roads and paths when they go through harsh winters and aren't maintained.

My plan is for the GS to deal with motorway to Southern France, Alpine risky dirtroads, Milanese eclectic and fashionable streets, then Northern Italian countryside vistas, all in its stride at over 120.000km

Would get my interest with a 19 inch wheel

Spent the last couple of days prebooking a few rooms as I’ve learned my lesson last year in England. This is not Kansas anymore, so I’m fixing some prices down, it does take a lot of the romance away from the trip and I’d rather just look at the booking app at 16:00, like in Morocco, but that sort of spontaneously costs you in touristy Europe, so I’m planning stuff and booking shit down. I’m turning into fucking @Motobiker!!! Now over the next few days I’ll look into the ride from home over to South France and to the Alps, then back even if I don’t know wether to take the ferry back to Barcelona with them or not.

I searched for the thread where @XTremeasked what we’d be doing in 2024. Turns out I’ll be joining @Sofiaand our friend Barbara to a short trip to the North of Italy. They will be taking a ferry from Barcelona to Genoa and meeting me in Milan, while I’ll be riding from home through the south of France and over the Mediterranean Alps to Italy. I’m planning to take the short High Via del Sale road heading into Italy before heading to Milan, then a couple of nights there catching up with my friend Luca and showing the girls around, to then go to Moto Guzzi for a visit and over the “hills” to Lake Garda for a couple of days and another mountain pass when I get an afternoon by myself. Turning out to be an interesting trip on paper, if my business partners have the decency to keep to themselves in September. So this is the big trip in 2024, accompanying two women to Italy!

What the fuck is happening there?

I don’t know, Clive, you must be missing the mines by now.

You’re like @skyrider nowadays with your three word sentences. Post a ride report with 3 pictures to back it up.