Pedro

If it's cold or average, I enjoy a nice red wine, something nice from the Douro or a nice Syrah from southern Portugal if I can.

If it's warm or summery mood, a nice crisp dry white wine, something that allows you to eat olives or cheese and doesn't mess with them flavors, and goes along with dinner and after dinner as well. Nothing like a nice white wine, but then again there is nothing like a nice white wine hangover either.

As a spirit, a nice flavorful añejo rum with ice (and a quarter slice of pineapple, thank you, I don't care what you think)

Or, if I'm already drunk and it's a warm night in the Algarve with good company, I'll start drinking Mojitos or Elixir de Cuba Legendarios like it's nobody's business. It'll end in disgrace and oversleeping, but then again it's summertime and nothing a liter of water for breakfast won't cure.

 

What's your drink of choice?

SantaFeRider rode BMWs and MotoGuzzi's? I think he passed?

Beta was big here about 3 or 4 years ago, when they were selling capable enough bikes about 2 or 4 grand cheaper than anyone else. KTM rules northern Portugal along with Yamaha or Honda, depending on which dealership rules each nearest town, but somehow Beta managed to break through that. Must be tough bikes, otherwise these guys wouldn't go after them considering the rocky murderous terrain they ride on.

Surely it's capable enough, what tires are on it?

So, if you were to buy another bike today, to complement what you currently ride or just because you like it, what would it be?

I have gone through this, and am a little embrarassed to say it would be another BMW, either an HP2 Enduro or a newer R1200GS HP (non adventure), to be fitted with knobby tires and used with less care for it's well being. 

Good stuff, France at it's best if you had a picture of a baguette and pate or a butter and ham sandwich as well. 

How are you enjoying the Triumph on these day trips?

Well, I started looking and maybe went a little too far back 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Great idea for a thread! I'll look around my pictures.

Joy wears a summer dress with yellow flowers, long wavy blond hair, California Girl, I think I've dreamt about her ...

It's like Justing Bieber,  Michael Jackson,

or Vanilla Ice 

3 minutes ago, XTreme said:

He won MOTY and TOTY in the same year (never done before) then went completely fucking insane.

That kind of success carries the kind of pressure that can break anyone, Pete.

1 hour ago, Tym said:

Must take forever just to see it all. 

It would, so they made everything tiny ....

Silly question, perhaps, but doesn't that hurt your when you sit down? Or do you just take then off for sitting down at a cafe or something like that?

Welcome, young Grasshopper!

1 hour ago, XTreme said:

In the same way as if I spoke to a man why would he think I'm grooming him?

Maybe stop looking at their crotches, eyes are up here!

I didn't say there is no sexual stereotyping or harassment, or even violence against women. I live in Portugal, probably worse but surely no better than France. Granted, they might not even be taken seriously when walking into a motorcycle dealership, sure.

BUT, nothing stops or makes it more difficult for a woman to learn to ride, buy a bike and go on leisure rides like most men. 

31 minutes ago, MooN said:

Girls, holding their own and making their way in a male dominated milieu on equal terms on is admirable

for exactly the same reason I admire a blind person travelling alone, a physically disabled person carrying on as normal and doing stuff society doesn't expect. 

To me that doesn't make sense, a girl is a person that decides to ride a bike or drive a car then I just hope she enjoys whatever. In my eyes, a woman in europe can pretty much do what she wants, that barrier has fallen as far as I can tell.

Can't compare that challenge of what is basically someone just doing something for fun with no real obstacles getting in her way to the one that is presented to a disabled person just moving around the world. 

Now, get a blind girl riding a bike to a gathering and you've got something ...

I was at 106 this time last year in June and feeling properly fat and ruined, got to 86 or 87 two months ago and was going great, now I don't want to look 

First time I was on a bike as an adult was at 16 or 17, on the back of a DT125 ridden by my girlfriend. So I'm plenty modern 

You don't admire a man riding a bike, so the only reason you admire a woman doing the same is because there is this thing about a woman doing something you like doing that does something for you. That's ok, I think.

1 hour ago, MooN said:

There was nothing mysogenistic about any of it so why had no one said anything to the girls? or to the group as a whole? 

Women don't stop being women because they're on a bike. I find sexy as hell to see a woman confidently riding a bike, that didn't change. So same as you would do in any other social encounters, you play it cool and don't go saying "It's great that you galls are on bikes, good for you and for the humanity" because that would just make you sound like a self entitled dork to everyone, but to the ladies in particular. You play it cool so that they perceive you as if you didn't even notice them, because you want to get laid or at least not be ruled out of the game early on.

So basically, it's sex drive and basic attraction that makes us act politically correct 

If I were to do it, I'd just buy a replacement Akrapovic header and replace it whole. 

It's no wonder you can't pick your bike up, Tym.

I think it must be a father's momentous occasion to present a kid with something like this.  

Holy shit. I took my license in an orange TW225 god knows how many years ago, it's exactly the same except in a weirder color today!

 

God knows how long ago I took my license test, but god has already forgotten how long most of you guys have taken yours'!  

FFS, it would just roast my bare right foot. 

 

PS: Is it me, or did this waving little guy use to give you the finger after the wave?