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Final weekend pic, its fall to winter from here!

The thing is you didn't panic and no harm done to yourself. btw, your other half is cheating as he has much longer legs than you

Long way round!

I could show some photos of my brother and his wife but they ride Harley's so perhaps I won't bother

I found an Antifa type on my travails tonight. Dont worry, they dont call me Tym for nothing. On this like blacks on tar (cant say white on rice anymore ya know).

Stay Calm, Ride On! ? Yes, it is helpful having a tall guy around, he has the Seat Concepts seat for his Himalayan to make it taller.

This is the monument, which you can look at for about a minute before someone tries to mug or beg from you. Spin round for a view of the Thames and Greenwich peninsula with the Millenium Dome. https://goo.gl/maps/ge3uLwGrbVFXVJDf7

I'm working within walking distance of Blackwall Quay (as was) next week. The dock where the Jamestown settlers left from in 1606, now renamed Virginia Quay as a nod to them. It's a bit rough round there, no wonder old John Smith left on the first available boat out and hooked up with Pocahontas.

Next I dropped down over Ubley Drove where you get a great view of Blagdon Lake......... and then some more old lanes that I haven't ridden for about 5 years, it was good to ride these local lanes again..... Then I did the climb up Guy's Hill. This photo is taken from the top looking down (you have to ride back down it) but it doesn't do justice to the steepness of this lane. It's a great climb over rocks and tree routes but can be a real bitch when it's wet.......

Onto an old Drove Way on the Mendip Hills near Priddy........ This lane was well overgrown, this is what happens when you restrict the lanes from vehicular use, they get overgrown and then no one can use them

I love this old sign on the climb up from Croscombe, you know if you see that sign then the lane is going to be good...... and time for a coffee stop, I am saving a fortune during these Covid times by taking my own flask and sandwiches ? and

I warn you, do not see unless you have two minutes of your life to go to waste So yesterday I filmed my drive by at Serra de Montejunto, Today, after washing the bike I went for a cold beer at the river, using drying the bike as a fine excuse to go there, decided to amuse myself trying to get another drive by and catch the bike getting a little air in places where it usually leaves the ground, truck traffic didn't make it easy since all I thought was that the phone would get run over Here's the result, first go didn't film where the front wheel lofts, on the second one the phone fell because of the draft draft and missed the second drive past , all in all a great success in wasting some time But, bike was cleaned, black stuff now looks black again And refreshment was had in a nice location

So I was out of the door by 07.00 yesterday as I was going to ride some local lanes and some of them are a bit contentious so best to go when no one else is around First lane is about 15 mins from my house and is always good to wake you up as you ford a stream first then it's a climb up over babies-head size rocks, then it levels out and is easy going......... Then down through Ringspit which has a width restriction on it to try and stop the 4x4's from trashing it........ and then onto some of the 'naughty' lanes . I've ridden these for over 40 years and I'm not going to stop just because some twats in the gubberment say you can't anymore

Dan Walsh! What a fucking nutter he was! Is he still about?

He's got a holiday place on the Costa del Sol.......so his missus flies there and him and Buddy come on the bike. He spends about a week touring, then a few days with the wife.......and then rides back, while she flies back. I could never swing that one with my missus.

My sons don't drive either......I just don't get it, cos when we were young getting a licence was our first taste of independence and freedom.

We.ve been having riots for what, like for the last 100 days? Thats not news on your tellies Pedro?

Really..... I wouldn't wear those on a mountain biking let alone on a motorcycle....but that's just me.

Beauty of some trails, nice riding! ?

I don’t get what you’re on about, but I’m eager to know how it ended

3 day weekend here so whoo hoo thread aint dead yet StateSide™ A nice couple stayed at the B&B, they rode in on this thing, @Buckster take note: Shameless self promotion. Check this out, i have zip ties, fire retardent mag light, spare nuts, 45 colt Duckworth TN "Deringer™", all within reach! i love molle swag

Yesterday I went to Lisbon and Cabo da Roca, just took a few pictures. Lisbon, my bike in front of a wall of super heros. Went for a coffee there, exactly the place where I used to pick Maria up from work. Then made my way to Cabo da Roca, continental Europe's westernmost place. The roads here are quite famous amongst Lisbon bikers, and quite chaotic in the weekends. I love lighthouses, my absolutely favourite buildings. Great roads, only a little frustrating because of very slow moving tourist traffic in very twisty roads. Lunch was a little too fishy for your tastes, but in a very cool restaurant. I had been feeling like going there for ages and finally did.

Usual thing! An OAP wobbling about on a Parts Bin Special in the middle of nowhere surrounded by buildings that look like they've been bombed. What is unusual though is the tiny Chapel I found in Los Pollos de Celda! No idea why it's there because there's nothing else around there for miles. This sort of bewildering logic is normal for Spain!

That was in 2013 i was a lot harder then

Cool trails!

Risky with an open face though @Sir Fallsalot?

It was bound to happen, and in the end all is well and lessons have been learned. Bagheera has a few new scratches, but only on the protective gear I put on him, which is cool. I was nervous about falling on a rocky hill and how I would handle it. Sure, I sound a bit silly and the dismount is not the most graceful, yet slightly comical, I did managed to turn around on a steep hill and if I hadn't slowed down so much, I would have made it. As they say, momentum is your friend!

Plenty of brambles there! Rather you than me. Excellent RR. Great photos.

Now we've had a fair bit of rain recently so I was trying to decide whether or not to do the next lane. You have to ride in a stream for about 400yds and it can get deep but I decided to go for it. Unfortunately the photos are crap as the sun was coming though the bushes and one more narrow lane down over the hill to Stanton Prior before heading home..............

A lovely UCR (unclassified county road) looking down towards Shepton Mallet........ The next couple of lanes were a tad 'moist' after all the recent rain.......... Morning Girls , this lot made me chuckle...........

WTF? Is that the same guy out with his bird on the side again?

"Where's that confounded bridge?"

Sacrilege!

Found a nice place in a dark place, under the Gold Star bridge that crosses the Thames river in New London. An historic old mill from way back. Surrounded by bridges and ghetto .

After a small journey from home through the familiar and beautiful forests ? of the ? Sunshine Coast, we find ourselves at a lovely lookout. A great place to stop the bikes and look about. We spend some time enjoying the lake down below and the quietness all around us, when our Himalayans weren't thumping along the trails. ? It's a bit of a bumpy road to get there but it is well worth it.

I was out riding along the forest service roads the other day...on a lovely summer day, not knowing the close encounter with danger that was in my near future. Now riding an adventure bike in the backcountry or participating in any activity really, always has the potential for accidents to happen. On these forest service roads in ? British Columbia many interesting things await you around a corner, some perhaps travelling a little swiftly and at angles that can be alarming. ? A scary moment for all involved as the Grasshopper meets a monster on a lovely ? summer day.

It would have still had my neck with a full face and visor on

You cant be to careful with Pantifa™ types doing this to poor innocent dirtbikes!