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Only 2 minutes of an epic road with amazing vistas, the Douro River is just out of sight but is running at the bottom in the valley. Yet another excellent recommendation from @Pedro . Going very slowly to be able to appreciate the landscape. Its worth doing this road 2 or 3 times in the same day!! Hopefully this is not going to kill anyone with boredom...

here goes!

I've deleted my entry......now I have a new one!

The photos are great so far.... ? I'm waiting to see what I get into this weekend.

Following @Pedro on one of his favorite routes actually passing a place with his surname! A lot less boring video then just me bumbling along!! this was March 2019.

Take it away @Sofia Damn sexy bike... the landscape is nice too. ?

It's bike of the month, every bike gets a chance.

Point of parlimentary procedure! There is no such thing as "one bike" in Team Green Ownership ma'am, one is none... the only way to guarantee you;ll have at least one Kawasaki working.. Is to have more than one. .

I had a good time on that same road last week, nobody around except a few trucks exiting the vineyards just to make sure you´re on your toes.

I'm back.....holy fuck that was hot! No dark motorcycling today.......but I should have some good pics which are more in empathy with what people expect to see in Spain.

I dare someone to be brighter.

Personally I think it's the best thing you could do with that thing

How british is it to start a thread about the weather? I'm a quarter way to being fully pissed, being in the Algarve with company of two bikers from back home, up north...

OK guys and girls, here is the thread for submission of pictures for the August edition of Bike Of The Month. Submit until the 26th, on the 26th we'll lock this thread and start primaries, then lock that on the 28th, and have another vote from the 28th till the 31st to decide on the winner. This might seem too complicated, but we're talking about one of motorcycling's great achievements, it's to be expected. Fire away.

As long as we dont have a "wind in your hair" rule im in for the win!

Very nice Sofia, the road sort of reminds me of the N260 in the Spanish Pyrenees.

You're absolutely right Pete. I had this conversation with a mate of mine when I was made redundant about 10 years ago. He suggested that we start up a trail riding business leading peeps around Salisbury Plain etc. I knocked the idea on the head straight off as you would end up getting sued by some 'hooray-henry' who thought it might be a jolly good caper but fell off on the first bit of mud and blamed me. Plus what Fred said, it would just become a chore

Good 'road craft' by Pedro

Its to late, your voice is very beautiful btw, you should have been a rock star.

Spent all day cleaning up the mess from going off road, got a new scratch in my skidplate, haRUMph.

I disagree, that accent is you . Even if you'd been born there you'd still sound like 'taff from Llanelli '

I thought it was pretty odd.......why wasn't he swerving around in the lane and riding on the wrong side of the road?

I really love that bike Tym, never thought I'd be saying that about a Yamaha

Just bike Sofia!

PS nice vid and i liked the sing along parts

LooseNuts™ is waiting in the winds...lol

I posted a ride report, Pete

No pics or vids? You doing a @Buckster here Pedro? What you say @Tym

I think just the bike is the idea, but what do I know.... ?

Beautiful road, love those corners.....and no traffic, wow, nice place to ride. ?

Sorry,, i forget... is it silent for you? No sound at all? In reality there is music playing on my video, it is inside my helmet and from my playlist. What youtube does a lot is to silence it for copyright reasons which is totally fine by me, protects the artists Must remember to overlay it with their allowed sound tracks. Thanks for pointing it out to me. ?

Why don't you add a soundtrack.....great selection here: https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/

thank you for your kind words @XTreme. The road sure is superb, 40 odd kms of it!! There are a few more videos from these 2 days, I might put here another one from the other road through the vineyards. I just find them boring!!

Superb @Sofia! ?

must try it one day, skiing. Just hate snow, which makes it tricky!!

Not boring at all - I like it! Swooping along, it's like snow skiing on wheels.

Spain has some nice gravel thats for sure.

Careful what you wish for..... @BusBoy's dustbins are on the loose!

From these https://www.cmsnl.com/

Still waiting for parts so i can put my XR back together

That's not an OK use for a two people dinghy, @boboneleg

From today'....

So i still have time to get a decent bike?

Only got this one this month may change this weekend though

Yeh......but it sure as hell beats the other option......living in the UK! ?

If you did it for a living it would probably become a chore very quickly. i know it would for me, bikes are strictly for pleasure