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A sunny autumn day, started kind of sad and having no will to make lunch at home, after some work I rode to my favourite place in the hills for a burger. On the way there, I took a dirt shortcut, only 3 or 4 kms but good fun, stopped for pictures just for you guys One of my favorite bits of road There will be a car rally tomorrow on that road in previous pictures, I don't know if that's the reason why but they fixed some of the bumps cause by tree roots pushing the road up, they put patches of tarmac "fixing it", they're smooth now which spoils my advantage over sports bikes , but those kind of fixes never last and it's bound to be a potholed mess after a winter or two. Lunch, on a deserted place that is filled with bikers and cyclists on sundays Being the season, I foraged for tonight's dessert It's a nice place to stop by Stopped by my local Dainese outlet for a coffee and went in to check winter pants, I have been riding in jeans for years but feel like having something waterproof and better for winter riding this year, ordered a special size as I'm shaped oddly, waiting to see what they come up with. On the way home I took a couple of dirt roads, only to find the really fast one approaching my town is closed for works, I home they're not surfacing it ... no pictures of that. Weather turned from a chill 15º to a most excellent 23º by then, returning from the hills, my choice for a t-shirt under the basic jacket proved right. Got home in a better mood than I left, and spent the following two or three hours pulling weeds out of my garden / wild field. Now finishing a beer and this report outside in freezing wind, ready to go inside cook some grub and have some red wine , such is the life in the southern Portuguese countryside.

managed to get out for an hour this evening, clear skies but only about 7 deg C so I got me thermal knickers on, liner in me jacket and rode up into the vinyards west of Chablis. in the ongoing series of finding oddities amongst the vines, I found motocross track!

That's nothing most would be 6'7 in the boot's hes wearing

Had some room to fill in the van eh

That's one hell of an effort, a bit hard to comprehend actually on our tiny island

Two fungi just hanging out! . That's what you do when you are a fungi....

When we first saw one at the bike show Tone wanted to stick his knob up the exhaust pipe

i wouldn't be riding the fucking thing... i'd beat fuck out of it with a hammer for a while then kill it with fire.

Too much bike for a ponce like you.

Obviously, why would I buy some fake shit?

My KLR does everything just fine.

I like my K1200S, in fact it’s the second one I’ve owned but I don’t think I’d buy another one, I’d probably go for the K1300S which is a much more sorted bike overall. Or a Kawasaki Z1000SX which I like the look of.

I'd buy this Beemer again......cos there's not a lot of choice these days if you want a big Thumper. It doesn't do anything brilliantly......it just pretty much adapts to whatever I need it to do. If I want to go on small trails.....it'll do it. If I needed it to commute around a city, it would do it. And if I needed to ride 1200 miles up to the Eurotunnel then it'll do that as well. So you can't ask much more than that really.

bought a CBF 1000 , picking it up Sunday

i'd have bucksters glide .

My son is coming back from uni for a weekend. The sudden purchasing of ingredients for recipes I know he loves and a strong desire to cry leads me to believe I may have missed him a lot more than Ive acknowledged So definitely lots of cooking and laughter for me and a bit of reloading the bikes for the ferry on Sunday Looks like itll be nice weather.. for ducks!

My mini Japanese Maple tree is the cutest little tree ever. I love the colour it goes in the fall.

Let me know and feel free to share your reasons, I would love to hear them. For me it is one easy yes and one not so easy yes. My Honda CB500F is exactly what you expect, a happy Honda that just does what it is meant to do, and it is super fun, so a big Yes for me on that one, I would buy one again. As for my Royal Enfield Himalayan, well, there have been times when I have wanted to leave it in the forest and just walk away. Logic would tell me to say No on this one, considering the build quality and all the work I have done to make a NEW bike run well. BUT, looking back at the skills, lessons, adventures and confidence gained with that bike, I would have to say Yes, I would buy one again, especially for the kind of riding I enjoy doing.

If your circumstances changed tomorrow and you could only have one bike what would you choose ? I would go for a 2021 Suzuki DR650 SE........ Unfortunately , you can't one here. So if one of you guys/gals on the other side of the pond could kindly ship one over I'd be eternally greatful

Already got mine.

As opposed to real shit

I've said this before i was talking to a guy on a new GS years ago and he asked how many bikes i had and at the time i had 5 he said i wish i had enough cash for 5 bikes i told him if he sold his GS he would as all 5 of my bikes cost less to buy, tax, MOT and insure than his GS cost to buy, you just got to be willing not to have the latest and greatest

no idea. Goldwing? do they still make pan europeans? the new tiger 900 rally? i'd have fun trying loads of them...

I would have a kawasaki h2 sx se

if i had the money and room , i would have kept nearly al the bikes i've had.

most of thats the twats head

I would not give up on my bike. But if I were to buy it again i would give the normal GS another couple of test rides before ruling it out.

I would buy the ninja again yeah its all I need from a bike apart from the comfort side of things though im sure with some conditioning I could increase the distance between rest stops from around the current 60 or so miles up to maybe 120 or 130, more of it depends on how fast I can ride at

That aspect is an optional extra on that model I believe!

Except get you home.

be selling the CBF, one of my dads old mates, giving up riding .

My Fazer 1000 has been faultless in all the yeas I have owned it so sure I would buy it again.

Shut up you annoying cunt.

So what you are saying is you would like to taste Pedro's nuts

My odo after the ride. I predicted about 4,000 miles and wasn't far off. I skipped the Texas portion of the ride as I was outta time and had to get back home, or I'd have been at about 4,500 miles. Can't wait to do it again...

Chessnuts and walnuts? Are they from your garden? I'm almost afraid to say such words here, but they look tasty!

Autumn colours in the kitchen

Mmmm ....fried cloaca. My favorite.

That’s most of us fucked then.

Invest you say, is this a dragons den type investment?

I think walnuts but I don't know the difference between them, sadly not from my garden but from the local grocery store. It's a very typical autumn fruit in Portugal, more so in the interior. I´ve been wanting to eat this since the ride last week to the mountains where I saw lots and lots of trees loaded with them.

I remember it well, quite a few of my school went there to help. I go there every year on this day or a few days either side to have my own minutes silence. I like Alan @Specs despise how the government took a large amount of money from the apperal fund. I've worked in the area alot and have seen the after math, I had customers in the area who had gone to the school themselves and had lost relatives (Brothers and sister etc) .

There's every possibility but I think its probably in the terms and conditions of sale that you do not under any circumstances touch the stalk with arrows on it

For 15k you’ll get one with indicators

The question is, are you going to go back and buy a burger ?