Pedro

One of the tv series I have never skipped the entry theme music to. Cool stuff!

They wouldn’t have dared, it was a shit engine assembled poorly in the early days of chinese plants, it wouldn’t last one race stint. Motocross at high levels is brutal on engines, and 250 even more and every horsepower counts, that’s why I think Triumph rocks to even go for it.

BMW never sold it for Motocross though, did they? What I meant is that taking on Honda and Yamaha and KTM and Husqvarna on what is a 250 race bike coming from an unknown brand needs, it needs the engine to be faster and better than the others from stock or else there's no point. The engine on those BMW 450, as well as the X650 challenge bike were not good at all, were they? All I ever hear about them were serious design and manufacturing flaws. Plus, the 250 motocross class is what, the most demanding class for engines?

It must, only way to enter that class is with a top engine, otherwise it's dead in the water.

talking about bad shafts is bad juju

Here they use them to check if Asian wasps are around, as they're quite dangerous.

It's probably a wasp trap.

Sorry @Sir Fallsalot, it’s a cool picture but should have put it on before. I go on and on that you can always replace them later if you get a better one. Not to worry though, there’s always December / Bike Of The Year and you’ll be able to submit any picture you want from 2023.

@XTreme, please unstick this, but don´t lock it. I seem to have some difficulty as a couple of the pictures seem to be a little small, don't know if I'm doing something wrong, anyway. The vote thread has been created.

Seems a lot of our members might be a little intimidated by the magnitude of submitting their bike for Motorcycle Riders Bike Of The Month contest, it is a world renowned title after all and that responsibility weighs heavy on some. Let's hope December brings a little better conditions along with a more favorable schedule for most. Votes will be less dispersed than usual which will make for a more exciting vote. The poll is set to end at 21:00 on the 30th November, and you'll be able to change your vote until then, as well as look at who voted for whom. Here are our five entries: @Pedro's BMW R1200GS Adventure exploring dirtroads in Alentejo: @Saul's Honda CB750 Hornet, posing by Tintagel's old post office: @Six30's BMW S1000R, red and clean, he is cool and confident enough to not even look for a special location, just stop somewhere and go: @Tango's Triumph Street Scrambler 900 out amongst Autumn colours on a romantic French canyon road: @XTreme's Honda CB500X, exploring Andaluzia's aqueduct network:

What makes someone choose Bender as a nickname? Does it mean something else I’m unaware of?

No ride this month, Bob?

If everyone is cool with it, I’ll close submissions at 18:00. @Sir Fallsalot, no picture?

My final submission:

A sidecar will allow you to skid sideways to a stop on all traffic light, like Indiana Jones. Playing Indiana Jones makes them cool

How did that go, Phil, managed to get a nice picture to show all these children how it's done?

I had forgotten about that but now that you mention, a bus full of spaniards was just invading the castle as I left, I got on the bike to park it somewhere less illegal and go for a coffee while the fog cleared a little more, but gave up on that when I heard the clucking of spanish women.

It's a clean design, simple and functional but classy. Lights, fenders, mirrors, etc, don't try to be edgy and modern, and yet it's not raked out or ultra lowered, still looks like it can steer and have some suspension travel. I like it, which is the point of "favourite looking" bikes.

Dude can't resist a nice bandwagon

Waiting for your picture too, sulky.

Woke today to another very wet foggy morning, riding out of the hotel the fog was too thick to see much of anything so I went up to the castle doors to see if there was a nice view, and indeed there was, quite the view: On the picture above, if you look to the two dots in the sky over the bike's rear luggage rack, and zoom in, you'll see two hot air balloons. Can only imagine they would have to wait for the fog to dissipate before landing, but there must have been quite the view from up there. The fog wasn't going nowhere, so I rode off heading back home. Stopped for an espresso in Estremoz, about an hour later, and enjoyed a little bit of sunshine to warm up, but as soon as I got back on the road it got cold again, beats rain though. Took a little detour through a few kms of dirt road, to see a very moody Alentejo: Bit farther on, did a wrong turn and ended up on a slightly more muddy path that turned out to be a dead end, so stopped for a another look around. The bike threw up a little mud on that trail, but most of it was cleared from a shallow water crossing, by 13:00 I was back on the road, hungry and cold so did another little detour and stopped at a very VERY old school cafe / grocery store / bar, and had a snack. There's four little dogs working there, they are always up for a snack too and they could sniff something delicious I was seduced and they ended up having some of my sandwich filling Almost back home, waiting for the green light to cross the old bridge: And that's it, the bike is filthy and looking very epic, I'm not going to wash it today, and maybe not until tuesday or wednesday, but it's dry and garaged. This wasn't the trip I was looking for, but ended up appreciating a little spot of Portugal I might return more often to, can't go wrong with riding nice dirt roads, cool views, quiet nights, and good food and wine.

From what I've seen, that's the normal biker rally or group ride in Portugal, except the guns

November BOTM hasn't happened yet.