Pedro

You can enter one bike you currently have.

With the conscience that some aren’t able to ride due to bad weather in December, and embracing the spirit of the season, here is the picture submission thread for Bike Of The Year. You can submit one picture of your current bike, in horizontal format, taken any time (including December) in 2023. For variety’s sake it would be cooler if you were to submit a fresh not previously submitted picture, but I’ll leave that to each one to decide. It’ll give you something to do later on today after over eating and sitting down On the 28th December during the afternoon or night I’ll close this and start a poll, then that vote will last until the 31st. Feel free to post more than one picture and discuss, I will only consider the last one for the vote. Merry Christmas to all of you!

I will watch it, interesting as I’ve got a friend who is a keen freediver.

No, 15 minutes to go as something came up. I’m half ready for a grim end, but even if that’s the case he’s still awesome

The Alpinist, in Netflix. It’s about Marc Andre, who free solo climbs demanding climbs on sight, just shows up and does it with no safety, helpers, completely alone with no communication, on a mix of rock, ice and snow. You can’t help but be in awe.

Who has he made flounce?

He’s a delicate flower, fast but the slightest breeze and he’ll fold.

I understand why

Is TOTY an accolade?

I see this as a marathon campaign, and to me he can’t sway it on a single move. Others have been making an effort all year long, that dedication and authenticity deserves a “reward”

I’ll vote now just in case I forget later, but might change if it tips the scale onto one of my two favourite candidates. It feels like rigging a foreign election

@Saul, I once saw two men being mugged out of their burgerking bag by one seagull, they put the bag on top of the car long enough to open doors and take jackets off and the bird descended upon them, scared them with squawking and wing flapping, and took the burgers away. I laughed fromthe comfort of my closed car while it happened

@skyridergets two gifts, chips for him and a nice blanket for the elusive Serow

Better still, Complete with dedicated driver like the happy guy in the picture, so she doesn’t have to deal with the inferior oily latins.

I guess Miguel Oliveira is now the would be champion that never was?

There’s another:

Decorated a cake today!

I rode in two Dacia taxis in Morocco, 1.5 diesels with huge milleage, they were holding on ok.

Think they might be preparing for the post xmas discounts?

So instead of Saturn Power they talked to their marketing people and came up with Benda

They’re reputedly great lovers though

The costs of maintaining one of those are horrendous, good wines, food, rum, bmw motorcycles and travelling, plus they’re not the biggest fans of hard work. Trust me, they’re expensive to keep.

Don’t know which chip it is. Nowhere near 10 hours battery though, not anymore. The temperature extremes it’s been through have probably something to do with that. It’s on its second battery as well. I love it and will have another after it’s gone.

Bloody cold outside, after taking the dogs out now with my whoolen socks, my whoolen blanket and my rum sitting down for a movie

You hurt my heart from far away, Clive. Fucks sake, change the chanel and watch Die Hard or some other Christmas thing.