Pedro

Top of the tower at the Castle of Estremoz, Portugal:

Arraiolos Castle, Portugal

Faro, Portugal, centre of town:

Cape S.Vicente, Portugal, "Where the land ends"

Monchique, the ocean viewed from 900m high in the distance

My most sentimental place in Portugal, you had bad weather:

That was in Serra de Montejunto. Sintra should be about 70km south on the shore you see in the distance on that picture.

And to me a fast big scooter must be about as comfortable doing normal legallish motorway speeds as a nice touring motorcycle, no?

A few months ago I was at a bike shop here in Lisbon, belonging to a well known good racebike mechanic and builder, and noticed what I thought was strange. It was a big T-max with no fairing on, and you’re right, it does look quite motorcycle like. That one had a front fork and wheel+brake out of a Ducati, and the engine was being put together like a proper race engine, polished and friction treated everything… because apparently the current trend in Lisbon is streetracing with scooters, and that specific one was doing over 200kmh before the engine improvements.

Only one discerning person so far, appreciated the glint on my bike's rotor, and the subtle sunset light over the plains of the Ribatejo ...

Leave the man alone, he's riding 800 miles a day in less than 10ºc, it's misery!

I voted for the Harley, a few minutes ago, it was me

In Portugal a brit is bife (or bifa for a woman) I think it originates from beefeater, roast beef, or beef steak, which is what you were mostly order on holiday here. I don't think it's meant as an insult, though.

I looked it up, it's racial for all mediterraneans, and it might be from the common spanish name Diego like a couple of sources say, but wikipedia says this: The term may have originated following British or American encounters with Portuguese and Spanish sailors. "Diego" is the Portuguese nickname for any deckhand. After transforming into "dago" in English and becoming a common term for Spanish and Portuguese people, the slur expanded in usage to then refer to Italians and Italian immigrants, another Mediterranean and Latin ethnic group.

OK, but what does it really stand for?

I crossed paths with someone riding a bike similar to that one before, I find most people on scooters don't wave back to me Nice road to get to know a bike, I like the views

What's a dago, really? Is it all southern europeans?

Perfect looking dirt roads, love that!

I don’t know, might be the hardcore riding?

It works exactly that way, except you take shit pictures and people don’t really want to vote for a GS. Plus Michelle takes some amazing backdrop pictures too…

I meant that having a nice bike but not doing anything with it would just generate ugly pictures

Considering a motorcycle isn’t really going to do things worthy of an award by itself, location and getting it in a pretty picture is really the point, isn’t it?

Nothing like a couple of problems to make you appreciate when things happen normally