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cant go then , im getting married that day.... sorry @Sofia

Since @Six30 is all mouth and no trousers, all bark and no bite, all talk and no action, here is the Bike Of The Month picture submission thread for April. You can submit several pictures, I will use the last one you post. It needs to be a horizontal picture, of a bike you currently own, and taken on a ride in April. By end of afternoon on the 28th, I’ll stop submissions and start the vote thread.

@Six30

It says on the top of the page

Whooo look!, I had a mad idea. Sanity has returned now.

Saw this thing when I went into the bank today. Badged Piaggio but I was surprised how much rust there was on fasteners and on the discs. Pretty newish bike that I imagine wasn’t cheap.

I'll definitely do my best not to flip it off the line

Can I have the wine gum please

After saying goodbye to the cyclists, I head out to a very pretty part of Serra da Estrela, often ignored by biker tourists. The weather is great and the roads are empty. Stop by a castle and have s look around searching for an espresso, with no luck. It’s a very pretty well fixed up village though. take an unnecessary dirtroad detour, with what turned out to be a nice road just next to it Got up to the peak with very little traffic and didn’t even stop. It snowed last weekend, plus a national holiday on Friday so lots of people up there, I carried on. Going down the mountain I didn’t feel like stopping at all now, it had been a long time off the bike and I was loving it. Carried on south and into the Alentejo always on small roads. Temperatures got high, at over 25, and Spring is springing. From boulders and rock mountains to rolling hills feels like heading South for sure. Found a deal on a room and stopped for the day after a good day on the bike. In time to freshen up and watch the sunset while searching for dinner. Braised pork cheeks with oven cooked rice, it was fantastic.

Well, Bob, during the course of dinner and breakfast, which I also had with them, I learned a few interesting things: - They don't mind peeing during a race. If it's winter and really cold they welcome it as it warms up their legs. They disregarded my suggestion that if everyone stops for a flat 3 minutes to pee then civilization wins and nobody looses time. - They think they're faster going down a mountain than a motorcycle. I told them they only think that because the motorcyclists are carrying a cameraman standing up and wait for them everywhere except for 5 seconds during some apexes, I almost got one of them to propose a grudge match - They don't eat bread with dinner, ever, but do eat proper food with the apetite of young lions. - If an athlete wishes to have a glass of wine or one beer at dinner, he can, if it's nice red wine. If he really doesn't take a lot of pleasure out of it, all they ever drink is water. This does not apply for coaches - For celebration with alcohol, bubbly is good for them, apparently does something for their gut? - Breakfast on race day consists of a big breakfast of oats and yogurt and stuff like that, but then they also have lunch at the same time, which today consisted of pasta and eggs. Then they don't eat until 6PM after the race except very soft energy boosters in a pinch. - A few of these kids, all aged from 18 to 20, do practice runs of pushing by themselves for over 100km, and enjoy it!!! - Between today and sunday, they will have raced for over 1000km. - Turns out cycling is much more of an individual sport than I thought. They each play a part for the strategy of the team, but are judged merely on their individual abilities.

As title suggests, me and a mate from the forum that can't be named are going to the pod for a RWYB day if anyone else is interested in joining then do, it's 66 quid for the day so it's not particularly expensive.... Dare I say even scooters would/might be welcome

That will be an STD you may want to get that checked out LOL

The Marmite wagon failed its MOT today. Needs front discs which i have ordered and will be in tomorrow, Took the one off tonight to take with me tomorrow to make sure the new ones are the same. Pissed off because i haven't long put pads on the front. The outside of the disc is like new but the inside where i couldn't see is rusted and pitted, probably would have been ok if i had given it to my mate to skim LOL

Dave the dago midget bummer

Pity you are banned this month.

I’m entering 2 , so two vote options … sort it @Pedro

did Tom Jones sing Hunk of Burning love as well ?

Twat

Fantastic photos again @Pedro , some will be disappointed that you couldn't find any bins or car parks though

Feckin painting again ....

Sat here bored, so no other choice but to cut the grass.

hopefully you do better than last years attempt ...

Just what we thought, all talk. Just for that you are banned this month, shame as you had a good picture.

I will have to post it to you.

Washing my hair that day.

Do it @Clive, show busapussy how it’s done.

Out of petrol till my next pension arrives..

Last time I went there my (Near) namesake was racing, jeez that must have been in the very early 1970,s....

Nope...just an update on what my boy's been doing for the last 5 years....he KNOWS what info to tell me & when....had that "Need To Know" basis since he was in Iraq.

I've only been out on a bike once this month WTF is wrong with me

Hmmmmmmm , not quite , It was Bristol As part of my job I did tests on Cuban cigars to see how they were manufacturing them . From what I can remember , Habanos, Montecristo, Cohiba and then ITL bought out Davidoff so I worked with some of their employees.

All mouth and no trousers ? did they sing that ?

you got no say in the matter

If it had been the slightly later model, then a possibility, but it is a early model with Ducati Veglia electrics, they all go POP and replacements are nearly the same price as the bike..

What's his name?

George Clooneys toilet brush maybe.

you'd like to look that cool.... George Clooney on a fucking Triumph

i think i will go with the one with the train ... as soon as i see it it reminded me of Pete, i had to spin round and get the picture

Hey @boboneleg, did you know both Tom Jones and Elvis sang a song about @Six30?

thats you when you see another midget Mexican ...

I found bins, but chose to take pictures elsewhere

I knew most of that stuff and I can vouch that they're faster down a twisty mountain road than most bikers. They are without doubt the toughest of the tough .

Sure , I was relating it to the price when I worked in the cigar factory .