Pedro

What makes someone choose Bender as a nickname? Does it mean something else I’m unaware of?

No ride this month, Bob?

If everyone is cool with it, I’ll close submissions at 18:00. @Sir Fallsalot, no picture?

My final submission:

A sidecar will allow you to skid sideways to a stop on all traffic light, like Indiana Jones. Playing Indiana Jones makes them cool

How did that go, Phil, managed to get a nice picture to show all these children how it's done?

I had forgotten about that but now that you mention, a bus full of spaniards was just invading the castle as I left, I got on the bike to park it somewhere less illegal and go for a coffee while the fog cleared a little more, but gave up on that when I heard the clucking of spanish women.

It's a clean design, simple and functional but classy. Lights, fenders, mirrors, etc, don't try to be edgy and modern, and yet it's not raked out or ultra lowered, still looks like it can steer and have some suspension travel. I like it, which is the point of "favourite looking" bikes.

Dude can't resist a nice bandwagon

Waiting for your picture too, sulky.

Woke today to another very wet foggy morning, riding out of the hotel the fog was too thick to see much of anything so I went up to the castle doors to see if there was a nice view, and indeed there was, quite the view: On the picture above, if you look to the two dots in the sky over the bike's rear luggage rack, and zoom in, you'll see two hot air balloons. Can only imagine they would have to wait for the fog to dissipate before landing, but there must have been quite the view from up there. The fog wasn't going nowhere, so I rode off heading back home. Stopped for an espresso in Estremoz, about an hour later, and enjoyed a little bit of sunshine to warm up, but as soon as I got back on the road it got cold again, beats rain though. Took a little detour through a few kms of dirt road, to see a very moody Alentejo: Bit farther on, did a wrong turn and ended up on a slightly more muddy path that turned out to be a dead end, so stopped for a another look around. The bike threw up a little mud on that trail, but most of it was cleared from a shallow water crossing, by 13:00 I was back on the road, hungry and cold so did another little detour and stopped at a very VERY old school cafe / grocery store / bar, and had a snack. There's four little dogs working there, they are always up for a snack too and they could sniff something delicious I was seduced and they ended up having some of my sandwich filling Almost back home, waiting for the green light to cross the old bridge: And that's it, the bike is filthy and looking very epic, I'm not going to wash it today, and maybe not until tuesday or wednesday, but it's dry and garaged. This wasn't the trip I was looking for, but ended up appreciating a little spot of Portugal I might return more often to, can't go wrong with riding nice dirt roads, cool views, quiet nights, and good food and wine.

November BOTM hasn't happened yet.

This is going into tomorrow evening, guys, don’t miss out on submitting. There’s only two more this year, after that is 2024 and you know what that means.

Never ridden one, but I’ve got a soft spot for a Dyna Sport, I think it looks right.

I like this ride report as it happens thing, I have no instagram or facebook. The chips are done beautifully, the migas I can’t Explain what it is, but the meat is beautifully done and reminds me of something my grandmother used to make. Anyone who eats meat would love this. Having a nice bottle of wine too, I have to because it’s cold outside …

Maybe you should ask @busabeast how it’s done.

Classy bike outside the restaurant now

I liked this, not pretending to be adventurers, just a good frame of mind I think.

Nice one Fred. Do you over the fallen tree properly riding over it? I’m not going to complain about it being chilly here in the morning anymore.

Here: https://www.ombudsman.europa.eu/en/make-a-complaint#cHnykoiIYZwM They have a special office for internet whining

They're the rock in my shoe

Spanish?

I think women here tend to do more horseback riding in proper stables where they jump over stuff, or around the beach. The countryside in center and south Portugal has a lot of tradition for men to ride horses around though, comes from the culture with the bulls and cattle, so I think here there are mostly men riding around towns and fields than women, but I might be wrong. We do have a big thing with breeding Lusitanos, our very Portuguese horses, similar to the Spanish ones but more friendly and easier. I think around those kinds of places you do see women and girls riding around too, but those are maybe rich people buying horses, not really a countryside thing. Edit: I forgot that was in Andaluzia, so there IS a lot of bull culture there.