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Trip to Scammonden to pick up Andys boat trailer wheels. Nice blap around the back roads there and then straight back on mway. Weather stayed threatening but didnt actually rain Bikes are hanging now. Thats my job tomorrow sorted.

Today the morning was bright and sunny, even though a little chilly at about 8 or 10° at breakfast. I had been to the Cabo da Roca a few times before but never on a Sunday, and felt like checking the place out, it’s a very pretty area and the roads leading up to it from Lisbon are twisty with great surface, so it’s one of two places the hordes of bikers from Lisbon flock to, I made my way from Ericeira to check it out, with a plan to explore a couple of places out of the busy “biker’s road”. It’s only a short 45 minute ride from Ericeira but I decided to make it last longer, from the praia da Adraga I spotted a couple of look out points on google maps and the dirt roads were good enough to show up on maps so I went to check it out. A couple of photo stops for you guys: Quite the drop, with an almost straight rock face to the water, which looked amazing today: As always, rocks look like nothing and inclines look flat once you step off the bike and take a picture. in the distance, you can see the lighthouse building in Cabo da Roca: Getting off the cliffs, which I’m not sure was exactly legal, there’s a couple of kms of nice dirtroads up to the cape: Quiet road but if you look up to where the tarmac road passes you’ll see plenty of bikes: The actual road on the cape is a very pretty place, and an amazing place to gather if you’re into crowds: Parked right next to the lighthouse since lighthouses are for some reason my favourite buildings, and walked down to the crowd of bikes: Now I’ll show you a few pictures of portuguese motorcycling, quite diverse and something for anyone, away from the common GS of which there were only a couple: A lightweight Silverdream for the lightweight freaks: Oldschool YZF is such a pretty sportsbike: NC30, classy: Easy rider himself, styling it up with his eight ball helmet: One of Portugal’s more liked current bikes, Honda is a cult brand here and the old 750 Africa Twins were loved, as soon as they released the 1000 it was an instant hit: Oldschool Speed Triple near some italian bling: Some spots it felt like going back 20 years: For @Buckster, complete with rolled up picnic blanket for complete cowboy styles, pretty bike though: For @Catteeclan: Young girl arriving in a clean pink DT50LC, oldschool cool: was going to take a picture of the class act that is a red 1200GS when someone rode past in a new Norden: Always some twat that insists on squeezing past rows of bikes in a car, there’s a car park 50 meters behind there, who still insists on taking a van? Uploads are now failing, and I’m doing this on my phone so will post just a couple more pics in a bit

Above there’s a video for the ambiance. someone let a Jack Russel sort of dog loose, and he was running around like an arrrow all over the place, managed to take a shot of him as he’s branding a monument It is a pretty place: Felt like eating something, but the local restaurant was pretty full, and didn’t feel like being in a closed space with lots of people, so rode off to meet Sofia for lunch. The road heading out, about to get on it on the white Thruxton is a brazilian lady wearing the tightest “look at my butt” pants ever, you can even see the roundness from here Traffic heading out was pretty silly and two bikes went down on the single corner with a little water running across the tarmac, so I decided to opt for the quiet and slower way out: Back on tarmac, and you can see why people like to scratch on these roads: Passed a couple of really pretty small towns, but didn’t stop for pictures, too much hassle with sunday lunch crowd arriving at scenic locations. 20 minutes later, and I stop on a cafe and order a pair of sandwiches for Sofia’s arrival: No more pictures as the traffic turned to sunday afternoon and that means annoying and slow, so went home.

I was out for an hour......bloody nippy!

Last time? You mean last time you sucked a cock?

Gingers are banned.

-2 at 10AM here!

Was the squid really ugly or was it missing a tentacle.

Sofia’s Moroccan preserved lemon and mint chicken and potatoes and spiced drumsticks: Portuguese sliced beef by the sea Sofia’s marmelade and tangerine cake, I love it Squid linguini, took these last two pictures thinking of you @boboneleg

So my fairy godmother of motorcycling is waving his/her wand, and has given me a choice: which bike to restore?? (omg!) The options are: Kawasaki s3 400 Suzuki GT750 Yamaha RD250 These bikes are all before my time, so I'm super keen to hear from anyone who has ridden and loved them. Tell me which one you would choose, and why? Please and thank you!!!

The Beta bum boys dirty day out went well today, cool weather to stop us burning up on the trails and plenty of mud to slop about in I hate slippery logs especially when the ground around them offers no grip seen too many of these today Waiting for a pull its a little stuck My mate testing the water And my turn, look at the shit video from my mates phone the tight git wont replace it Photo of the bike with strategically placed gloves for next months BOTM Just listen to my bike purr on the trail, got to say now the suspension is sorted i'm loving it

That's still relatively clean by the time we got home it was almost all one colour (brown)

It’s just now that people get snobby about motorcycles, not long ago you would be lucky to ride anything bigger than a 50cc two stroke.

You guys just dont know the secret to a good chick magnet facebook video

Yo @XTreme both the resident trolls are dud's lately, even with a good windup they strike out! Cant we do better then these two?

yes i used to have an nc30 in red and black , the tiger blade looks clean too

Superb Pedro, looks like a great day out. I reckon the Portuguese must be like the French where it doesn’t matter what you ride, everyone’s welcome no matter what they ride

Except her feckin annoying personality

Same attraction as any kind of biker meeting, I guess, looking at bikes and hanging out meeting with friends? Also the road leading to there is amazing for racing, and people often misbehave with street racing, so there’s that too, for some that’s the main attraction.

On Friday we had Spaghetti frutti di mare..........

that cake looks really good

Happy Sunday Hope youre getting a sunny Sunday looks promising here at the moment Might be a bit absent for a while, got a lot on. See your shortly. Play nicely or not. Most likely not

Aircon ain't gonna help me now! In fact it's only ever any use for about 2 months a year!

You have to be more specific Buck. I was gay last time isnt it Pete's turn?

come on guys, wake up, I know it's 3.30am over there but I need your input

Looks like i'm listening to Tom Petty tonight youtube is selecting for me and i ain't complaining

Nice to hear, you seem to really be getting along with it. I have to say, there’s nothing green in that mud, more like brown laning!

I don't think even @yen_powell has managed to get a bike in as bad a state as that!

I knew you wouldn't let me down with the sexual innuendos

That's some brutal shit!

I’ve had a couple of those, they are expensive to run and prone to breakdown.

You’re a fucking hero Dave , I didn’t get past 10

I made 19 secs then moved on.

Bloody marvellous, and look at that sunshine.

No offence Grace but I wouldn't want any on them , 20-25 mpg is not my bag nowadays . You're much younger than me though so crack on

Bozo the bike hooligan.

A nice start to the day here ......and maybe up to 8c by midday. Taking my wife for a short walk/limp in a bit.......

Tropical weather then eh pete

That's him for sure!

I've owned the first two! I already talked about the S3, and in terms of the GT750 it's now a cult bike so worth much more than the others. My second one threw me off at 110mph with a tankslapper in 1978 so my memories are painful ones. Besides that they're pretty quick, fairly thirsty, and ground clearance is a bit limited. Having said that, I'd still choose that one over the other two.

Yep, thats very apparent.

What Tym said!

You're offering to give Tym head Bob?

Great live performance

I have no idea how you got from the Buggles to Tom Petty apart from the fact that I reckon he's taking the piss in this video as well Bloody ace artist though, I'd be happy to listen to Tom Petty all day

No not that 180 but it's been 180 days since i last rode a bike so today I needed to put that right. @Slowlycatchymonkey said the weather was going to be fab but it bloody wasn't when I left home at 11.30 am , i couldn't see in front of my face and it didn't get any better for a while.............. Anyway, perhaps her forecast was right because as I got nearer to her manor the sun started to poke it's head through the fog. By time I got to Chew Valley lake it was lovely............ and the various birdies were enjoying it as well................... I rode up over the Mendip hills and down through the old rode into Wells where it was starting to get positively balmy. From there I rode on to Shepton Mallet where I stopped to have a gander at the old prison, I have actually been in there about 38 years ago but not as a guest of her majesty you understand............ From there I took the Frome road but stpped at Doulting to have a sandwich and a coffee from my flask . While I was there I got a phone call from my mate Big Tone and we agreed to meet up for a coffee at Farrington Farm. I stopped to say hello to this lot on the way in ............. and then we sat in a strange sort of hobbit house for our coffee, Tone is one big hobbit at 6' 4'' tall From there it was a short 18 miles back home . It was great to be out riding again and I may get to repeat the exercise again on Saturday