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Forest on one side, blue sky on the other, works for me. ?

Well, it was taken today

You could be 6' if you didn't mind the right leg being shorter ?

Guy up the street from me left his garage door open last night and had a visitor open up his garage refrigerator for a snack. His bikes were okay though

.......but we've made it onto Page 1 of Google! There's only 6 sites above us now cos some have two listings........obviously the likes of AdvRider and ThumperTalk are in that bunch. But they've been around for 20 years.....not 10 weeks. So we're doing OK! Just need to get more new members in so put the word about wherever you can. Obviously the more movement we can get on here the less likelihood of us running into pics of @Pedro's disgusting food!

5' 8'' . With one 31'' inside leg, the other one's a bit shorter ?

I would like to thank everyone that made this possible, it was a team effort and it's your award as much as mine. God bless America!

I know, butt, dark humour is the best way to cope with this cruel world that we live on.

My cat used to do that, now she;s dead.

Pedro's got it for June! @Pedro.........give me a full size image of your bike to go in the header! But it has to be taken from a distance so I can crop the height to fit it into the space available!

Up at the crack of 8:30 this morning and started packing the bike for a ride to Garden City, Kansas. There was a nip in the air though (ignore the date and time - I dunno hopw to set those). Stopped on the way outta town and looked back at Interstate 70....

Finally pull into Lamar, CO for some fuel. Saw what had to be the biggest steam train ever . I'm 6'1" tall and the wheels were as tall as me....

Only thing other than dry grass for miles is some windmill generators in the distance. Good place for them as the wind was a steady 40 mph all day today....

Hour or so later and I pull off the highway onto some dirt. Was gonna check out the trees, lakes and mountains - but there aren't any! Welcome to the eastern 1/3 of Colorado - whole lotta nuthin'....

Couple of hours later and I'm at my first truck stop of the day getting fuel. Starting to warm up as well....

It's a nice castle, but I think it is closed to the public and just used for weddings now. Kentwell Hall in Long Melford on the other hand is a large Elizabethan manor house, got a proper moat, hedges you can walk inside, underground ice house, a farm, huge grounds and a very old camera obscura that you can just go in and have a go yourself (if you know what one of those is). And on certain weekends you can watch people dressed up as twats and acting historical parts for your amusement. The first time I went into the kitchen, a large breasted woman shouted 'passage' at me and pushed past me with a bowl of boiling water. This she then poured down the Elizabethan indoor toilet which apparently was a thing to have in the kitchen as you could chuck the cooking waste down it as well, it all plops into the moat outside the window. The next time I went, there was a bloke using a long bow at some targets. An old couple hove into view standing next to the target and started taking pictures of him just as he was about to let loose. My dad lived in a castle for a few months when he was an apprentice electrician, Allington Castle in Kent. They were doing a rewire for the nuns (Our Lady of Mount Carmel) who had just moved in. He took us there when we were kids and they let me climb into the secret passage/priest hole after pulling a panel out of a seat. It's a private residence now belonging to the bloke who started the MORI opinion poll, so you can't visit it anymore.

You're telling an American to ignore a castle?

Pop up the road to Lavenham whilst you are in the area https://goo.gl/maps/Dzb9WeNAmgM4t1MQ7 then take a slow wander round the streets. Same for Castle Hedingham, ignore the castle, wander the streets of the village on foot, then pop next door to the steam railway which you will probably hear tooting every 10 minutes. Oh and Kersey https://goo.gl/maps/qiQhN1E18g2SAUMK7 . People think Essex is full of yobs and electric pylons, but that is the south. North Essex is rammed with medieval timber framed cottages, not just the villages, but every tiny lane you go down you will find tucked away gems. They can cost a million quid plus to buy some of the bigguns, I reckon there's a hundred thousand millionaires tucked away in the countryside there because no one else can afford the house prices.

You need to do better, fancy highlighting him with a stake and a piece of rope

Refresh the page and you'll see it now! Fame at last Pedro!

just leave the honey jar in plain sight and make it easy on the poor guys

@XTreme

Frequently. When we get home at night from dinner or whatever, the wife doesn't waste a lot of time between the car and the front door. I won't call her a chickenshit to her face though.

Can't leave McDonald's wrapppers in your car or anything with a smell or these guys will rip the doors off to get in. Bastids!

That tickled me. But not the fact the cats gone.

And it is a cockpit, so...

The battle for last place was epic!

Yes, very similar in texture to codfish livers, which I think you guys in the UK know about It's cooked with sliced garlic and white wine.

It'd be a lot of stops for me regardless! ?

@Sir Fallsalot I think that may have been the day after I went for a ride. Didn't dare leave the shelter of my house!

Great trip @Pedro, thanks for sharing. Would really like to try some of that food although not sure how I'd get on with the garlic. Perhaps with the olive oil it would be ok, but it usually keeps me up all night as if I was on bloody speed or something. The heat unfortunately would be all too much for me. I ventured for a little jaunt last week for some 'advanced training' and managed about 300 miles in temperatures around 30 degrees, and that was way too warm for me. I was in bed by 2130!

That looks suspiciously like one of my photos at the moon Rally. Hi Phil!

Oh I know....it's all good. I'm Canadian, so I'm sarcastic 95% of the time. ? They look like fun, but the height for me is a bit much, there's my excuse.... lol

He does great vids.......and he can really ride as well. The sprocket thing amazed me.......looks like Yamaha really did a lot of R&D on this thing! That is a very conclusive thumbs up!

It was said in jest, I'm enjoying mine more and more everytime I ride it.

My dinner was composed mainly of cuttlefish eggs, just to let you guys know.

There's an old Knights' Templar property about 2 or 3 minutes from me. They do a very good event and it's free to get in when no events are on if you just fancy a picnic or a wander round the herb garden. The timber framed barns are feckin huge inside, and they still have the original builder's bills, one is 800 years old this year. Have a look at the pictures at the bottom of the linked site, shame there are no people in the pictures for scale, makes the buildings look smaller than they are. https://www.explore-essex.com/places-to-go/find-whats-near-me/cressing-temple-barns

Nowadays, being good and gentle to others. Used to be going off on killing sprees accross the middle east

So last two to three days: Leaving Alcoutim we only have a very short ride to get to the sea, but instead I decide to cross the Algarve via inland hills to Sagres, check google maps where it is, as it's a special place for most Portuguese. First, we had a lot of nice mountain roads, I love riding on the hills in the Algarve We try to stop for fuel, get to the station and there is a sign saying "back by 10:00", it was 10 already so we went for an expresso at the local little cafe, run by a cool but loud old lady. Took the chance to buy a ham sandwich to have for lunch later. 15 minutes later, finishing our coffee and getting our sandwiches the fuel station guy comes to let us know he's going back to work, rural Portugal! And thus, we make our way to Monchique, getting used to nice roads now, Sofia was not happy to have roadworks and a detour via 4 or 5km of dusty track, made a mess out of her Triumph, here looking like a rally bike. Climbing high to get to Monchique, Algarve's highest point, we stop for lunch. I'm sure there is nothing wrong with a butter and ham sandwich, even to people with such weird tastes like you guys. Proceeded up the hill and had another expresso at what is arguably one of the best cafe vistas in Portugal. Didn't feel like riding away from the cool weather, plus I knew a great restaurant to go for dinner here, so booked into an old mountain hotel, quite rundown but friendly, and with a great swimming pool. Had a dip, and soaked up before going to dinner, getting the previous days' extreme heat out of my memory. My favourite thing after a ride in summertime, a cool glass of white wine at the end of the day Dinner was a great cress and orange salad, and some kind of pork cut I can't explain, deliciously cooked with fresh coriander, and mint rice. I had a blast, and drank WAY too much, so by the time I got to bed lights went out quite easily. We had such a great dinner, and enjoyed the mountain so much that it was decided to visit Sagres and come back for another night. Sofia took great joy in this as the Triumph isn't at all elegant with the big bag in the rear. Making our way past Odiaxere dam: Now the thing with Sagres is that it is the southwestern most point in Portugal, and Europe as well, this is where we used to have the school that trained master navigators and pilots that would venture around the world on boats, you need only to have a little bit of romance in your heart to feel a sense of adventure coming to this place. To help you, listen to this while you see the pictures, words won't mean anything to you, but this is probably the most portuguese of songs, about sailors missing home when out on sea. It's all about feeling, and that I'm pretty sure you can get from this: Entrance to the Sagres fortification, the tip of Portugal is behind it: Next visit was only 2 or 3km away, and probably my favourite building, it's the lighthouse at Cape Saint Vincent, pretty amazing place. Going back to Monchique, I decided to show Sofia a spot with some great ocean views, takes a little dust to get there though: And again, another cafe picture since that all I do, back in Monchique: Riding back to the hotel, I take a little offroad detour to take a picture of my bike higher than windmills, as it's not that common you can do that: Back in the pool. Let me tell you, a swimming pool or a dip in the ocean is something amazing after a bike ride in the summertime. Dinner that night was octopus and sweet potatoes, slowly fried in garlic and olive oil Day after, Sofia and I parted ways, she goes back home to work and I'll stay in the Algarve a few more days, in Faro to get some sun and salt water on my skin. Thing is, before going to Faro I needed to visit Sagres again. Sagres was my first trip with Maria when I first got the 1150GS, we came to the Algarve for my birthday, and rode down the coast in June. That was the first time I visited this bit of Portugal, and have loved coming here since then as you really get a feeling of adventure and history. However, the feeling I get when coming here is a huge amount of loss and grief, along with a good remembering of those days. So, I needed to come here alone, and I did. I had a good cry sitting there by myself, and I think I needed it as it cleared my mind a little bit. Going away with Maria for a week on my birthday was the highlight of my year, and now these dates are specially painful. A copule of hours later, rode along the Algarve's south coast to Faro, to meet up with my dad. Quick ride to the beach for 2020 first ocean dip, and then dinner on a very warm evening. Dinner was little clams, we call them "conquilhas" but I don't know the word in English for them. Cooked in a little white wine and coriander, with plenty of garlic, taste of the Algarve this is. Then, just to revolt you guys, fish eggs salad. Delicious and fresh. And this morning, back to the beach: So, this is it, the end of my ride around Portugal report. I got to see a lot of new things over the last week, and am a little in love with riding in my own country and my bike, also it's always good for me to be on the bike and on the move in days like these, hope you enjoyed it too.

Taken today!

Oh ps this thread is probably for "unmarried types" because it seems if you are married you dont have to care what you look like anymore...

So time to head for home mainly on tarmac but with a couple of old lanes on the way...... and finally Pete's favourite bit, where I show him whatthe days riding has done to my bike ...........