Pedro

Grass fed horse cock, if you please

My 1150, I loved that bike, the balance on rough roads and the feeling it would always stop on a dime with a passenger no matter what kind of road, I also liked you could do a week's traveling on back roads and never really go above 2500 rpm. It's what got me touring with Maria so really fond memories of it, but it never really rode right. It was a 2001 or 2003 bike, I don't remember, imported from Hong Kong a couple of years after. I must have bought it with a clocked odometer as I got it with just 50 something thousand and sold with it 75000km. The gear change was always hard to get right at the end of a long day, the engine was perfectly smooth after my mechanic synched the throttles and adjusted valves but pretty vibey on the motorway after a few thousand kms. It rode fine balance wise, but something about that engine and gearbox made it tiresome after a few hours on the road, the hotter the weather the worse it got. After I sold it, a bearing inside the gearbox fell apart completely and it had to be completely torn apart, and a few weeks later the diff also needed a proper rebuild even though the tolerances were set straight at my last service when replacing the bearing and seal. Here it is looking cool: And looking less cool:

I think it's boring to vote over the same pictures again, and it's interesting to see what each specific member considers their own favourite picture of their bike for the entire year.

I like that exception, particularly since a specific flouncer had some nice editing and picture taking skills #comebackmawsley #dontflounce I think that's nice, but also think Bike Of The Year should be more interesting, open to all members and to other pictures than the previous votes and be a bigger thing than the monthly voting.

We get MOTY and TOTY, since December is pretty harsh riding weather for a few or most of our members why not have December's Bike Of The Month be Bike Of The Year with a picture taken anytime this year? (including December obviously)

Without wanting to sound alarmist. I would say the smart thing to do is go see a brain guy to rule out nasty degenerative stuff. My dad started having ocasional light lapses in balance, and only after other symptoms appeared (occasional lack of grip strength in one hand) did he take it seriously. The trip in France stuff, might it also have been something simple enough your confidence affected by the first fall and hurt ribs?

Love all of that. What a location with the castle on the cliff.

To their defense, in a proper “adventure” there is no rush. And there’s also just newspapers in there, a Jeep Wrangler carries all the real stuff. It’s an internet trip!

Why isn't it cooler like here? Why do you choose to have such heat?

Great looking sky, so it's warm there is it?

Don’t be cocky assuming you’d be that toned You just don’t look healthy, that’s all

Or: Life on earth would be just fine with no humans

I looked it up and that's 56kg in a unit I understand. Seems to me if you really want to show off you should get some meat and muscle to go with your bones.

You say pillsbury and french, but when you say ham and cheese on top it sounds the bad kind of american.

Only in the US do seagulls get fed

No he can’t!!!

With a boxer engine, you don’t get oil starvation on one side when starting the bike after a while, while the other side might get oil into the combustion chamber.

Never gonna forgive you for not getting a nice one after that servo assisted trainwreck Instead you go and buy that thing that can’t climb a sidewalk with a passenger

They’re gone, look at your garage

That got a real life giggle out of me, instead of the usual inner smile.

No worries, Your wife wouldn’t go anywhere with you on that tiny bike you’ve got

It´ll be similar to this

Tonights dinner was amazing, while watching pictures on the TV of a place I like in the Algarve burning, I got on on an Algarve state of mind and put some canned horse mackerel fillets on a plate, onions, plenty of parsley, freshly ground black pepper, plenty of lemon zest, and olive oil, together with a cherry tomato, cucumber and oregano salad. Along with some toast to soak up the olive oil it was southern flavors out of the pantry, tasted great after the beach. Lunch, another southern portuguese salad Heart shaped sandwich because of love! It was tasty, with a mayonnaise based sauce, it had onions, garlic, plenty of salted capers on it, plus some cherry tomatoes and mozzarella.

Keep it up