Pedro

For the record, here, the BMW dealership where I bought my bike would charge me only 20 to 30€ more to sell and fit the same pair of 300€ Heidenaus my tire shop did. That’s with new valves and balancing. I have used another BMW dealership out of convenience, and the same difference applies, I know some people cry for every euro but to me that’s very reasonable.

Should he take it to a barber? I take mine to my mechanic or to a tire shop I’ve used for ages, they do bikes, cars, vans and trucks, alignment there works for anything from a 3 ton Iveco to an F3 racecar 140 km does seem like a lot to me, I do 30

My favourite when I used to drive an illegal car, was to go for a blast when FCPorto was playing the Champions, or any FCPorto vs. SLBenfica match, or a Portugal vs. anyone in the quarters forward. Yours is going to be golden to stretch the legs on that Suzuki, tells the rozzers you were late to watch the funeral on the tele if a fine ever arrives in the mail. Portugal just announced 3 days mourning to the Queen, too, a sentiment rather than people not working, but a nice gesture I think.

True story, every forklift driver gets addicted to this and race around the warehouse when not carrying something. Then they get on their diesel Corsa to go home with a broken heart. I should really buy another bike while they’re still proper, though!

Was pretty great, basically you get a salted codfish piece, half grill it, tear it apart a bit and put it inside a clay pot with a lot of garlic and olive oil over the coals, closed for a while, and serve it with plain potatoes. Thinly cut raw onion slices are an option, I go for them always.

Watching my brother grill some codfish

No, I meant how far away to go to have them replaced, like distance from home to your usual tire shop.

How many km do you ride to have your tires replaced, usually?

Loosing pressure overnight between end of day and morning might just be the difference in ambient temperature cooling the tire enough that air inside doesn’t expand as much as when you measured it after a day of warmth. Did you check if they would go back up at the end of the day? Check them the day after at the time and ambient temperature you’ll ride. Cold temperatures in tires means ambient temperatures before you ride.

We’re getting scattered strong showers all over, but some areas are so dry or burned that water needs a long time to start hidrating the ground, otherwise it flows right over and just causes floods. Considering last month’s fires some rivers will be contaminated with ash saturated waters now. This is all according to plan though, rains through this week and maybe a bit of next one, and then a second summer comes to provide me with a sunny trip.

56, I'll be 56 Whose twisted mind came up with this thread?

I like that, it's like a food based music videoclip I purposely took that picture for you and a couple other forum members

Or, it can be like this

No, it’s fucking freezing … to me. Here at home it does go below zero a few nights per year. If it’s dry it’s great motorcycling weather, though, this was on Christmas day:

It is, but at the end of the morning it starts to get a little warm. Max today is 32 or 33, but it feels maybe warmer, this is one of Portugal's warmest areas, though.

Rode up to my favourite cafe, just now posting while enjoying the coffee. Will not lunch as there’s a birthday party here and fucking lisbonners are turning this into a metropolis Rode a little dirt road for a bit, and stopped to let a tractor get away since I couldn’t pass it and there was nowhere for him to let me squeeze by

Probably Norway, Portugal has a long history of sailing up north and catching codfish, then preserving it in salt. It's our most typical food, salted codfish cooked in 1000 different ways.

Today's lunch, roe salad and codfish cakes. They are made from codfish and potatoes, not really cakes but that's how it's translated. If you ever come by Portugal and see these around a cafe just point and ask for them. Typical, inexpensive and very good. You can give the roe a pass though, can't see most brits liking that even though it's great.

Warning, couple of meals in this post are about to offend certain sensitive personalities that are more of the cheeseburger persuasion. Quick 20 minute fresh cherry tomato pasta: Canned horse mackerel sandwich Leftover grilled camembert and tomato bruschetta Hotdogs, with caramelized onion relish Mum's leftover squid from the previous day, turned into pasta the day after Proper summer meal, the amazingly sweet pineapple was the star Grilled courgette sandwich, with canned fish. It's a great sandwich, with olives and capers. Pantry sandwich, whatever's at home and opened goes in Basil and mint pesto, it was pretty much perfect Perfecting my Broccoli pasta, it's getting there and probably my favourite thing to cook right now. Although it's a paella pan, let's not offend anyone and just call it rice Vegetarian dinner: grilled aubergines, sautéed mushrooms with garlic, and salad. A simple onion omelette Lea the Terrier, very interested in this pasta sauce as soon as the anchovies started falling apart. No pictures of the end result. Octopus "à Lagareiro", baked with olive oil and potatoes. I obviously didn't cook it, a very nice restaurant did. "Lagareiro" is the man that operates the traditional olive oil press, most "Lagareiro" dishes are oven baked with garlic and potatoes, and a healthy dose of extra virgin high quality olive oil. The pesto was this place's touch and it worked. Giulia is an italian lady I know, she runs a restaurant in Germany and most dishes always feature peas thrown in one way or the other. I remembered her for some reason and peas went into the pasta, the result was pretty great. Comfort food, peas with quality chorizo from the Alentejo black pigs. I put a few different spices like turmeric, a lot of cumin, smoked paprika, some herbs, the home grown egg gifted by my neighbour finished it off perfectly and was a touch of love.

Rode a pretty sandy road today, on my was to lunch, soft sand but not deep at all with a hard compacted ground below so quite easy.

Being a Portuguese, my opinion on this is obviously different to most of yours. I think she was a great lady, a worldwide symbol, and it's a shame she passed. Most countries would have been lucky to have a Queen such as her, or a King such as her father, in my opinion it's sad that she passed and sad that she's no longer your Queen.

Like politics really, a true TOTY doesn’t fight for it, it comes naturally! You can even say the true great TOTY, like a true great political leader, is often that one that doesn’t even want the position … or thinks is worthy of it …

Going parallel twin is such a pussy move by them, after such a long time with no changes and they're just going with the flow!