Pedro

So you paint the wall so your wife lets you go on the bike to see your friends?

This is the time, October 2023's most prestigious motorcycling accolade is about to grace one of our members, you choose who and what bike wins our Bike Of The Month October. Please vote according to what you feel like, be it best scenery, best bike, best trip, best scenery, best picture, person you least hate, it doesn't really matter as long as you do vote and don't forget to switch before it's final. I'm setting the poll to close on the 31st at 21:00. Here are our choices for this month: @boboneleg's Yamaha WR250X, chilling by the canal on a moody day: @Marcel's sleek Indian Challenger Limited, out in Canada's changing Autumn colours @MooN's Triumph Tiger 800XC, out on a romantic french vineyard dirt road: @Pedro's BMW R1200GS Adventure, overlooking a lighthouse on Portugal's Atlantic shore: @Saul's brand new Honda CB750 Hornet, here enjoying a cool morning in Mevagissey, Cornwall. @Six30's fast and shiny BMW S1000R stopped for a break on bucolic Wrotham. @Tango's Triumph Street Scrambler 900 out on historic France. You can almost see ghosts of musketeers past galloping along the road. @XTreme's ultra clean Honda CB500X styling high in the Andalusian mountains

Feel free to unstick this, @XTreme

You should have photoshopped that top case out of it instead.

Have you got an usb plug on the dash, Pete? It's a good idea to have it plugged on to have the phone's battery not draining from navigation use, also on some phones they will have a brighter screen when on charge, that or carry a small power bank if something happens to charge it off the bike. You're right, having it pointing up like on the pictures will make the sun glare affect it too much, and also once warmer weather comes it'll cook the phone. It's worrisome water levels aren't up after all the rain over the last couple of weeks, or hasn't it reached your area? Bike is looking clean!

@Slowlycatchymonkey, are you still browsing through your trip´s pictures to choose the better one? @Buckster, those weekends to England and not one picture either? Did you two go to the same school?

You are welcome to come over anytime, Bob. Warm home cooked meal and booze. ps: bring your bike washing talents.

How far do you live from work Rich? Will riding the bike there make for a more fun day or just a chore in winter?

Lupin. Third season is out, I enjoyed the first two. Very nice if you watch with subtitles as I can't follow it properly in French.

Great scenery. What’s the elevation there?

Just for you Pete, I’ll make it 16:00

If it’s ok with all of you, I’ll close this tomorrow after lunch at 14:00 or 15:00.

Love that road, but you're welcome to adjust it if you want. As long as it's this month and horizontal I don't care what you do with it. I don't get how your bike doesn't get dusty on that, if it was mine on that dirt road it would look like it had just finished a Dakar stage

Rain storms here. Just home from dinner withe friends that I’ve known for years but are now living in Germany. won’t be on the bike on the weekend or the coming week, it’s nice and cozy in the garage and I’m not happy to go out in a monsoon.

Better try and take a picture before that, then.

Very exciting to watch all the submissions arriving over these last few days!

Suspension is probably shit but i’ll have a ride on one of these when I can. Right engine and transmission, right wheels, Italian flare, but suspension might be a dud.

They wouldn’t go near the Himalayan

Still starting, just watched the bus scene. Reminds me of The Punisher, really liked that too, the TV series, not the film.

She’s looking in appreciation as clearly it’s a man’s hand fixing the puncture.

I was looking back and forward on the thread wondering what people were commenting about! BOTM, there’s a thread waiting for them now, don’t leave me hanging!

Bob Odenkirk is starring a new show on Netflix, that's all I need to know. It's called "Nobody".