Pedro

Hear ye hear ye, this is the vote for Bike Of The Month September. I suspect people aren't aware of the magnitude of this vote. Just check this out, below I present this months submissions: @alfalfa's adventurous BMW R1200GSA @boboneleg's Honda CRF250 Rally getting muddy in wet England @Earache's Yamaha XT1200Z Super Tenere , exploring the American vast outdoors @Grasshopper's Ride's Royal Enfiel Himalayan, resting in nature by a misty lake @Sofia's aggressive Triumph Speed Triple overlooking the portuguese vistas @Sir Fallsalot's Honda XR400R on an offroad night ride @Specs' BMW R1200GS under a starred sky @Pedro's BMW R1200GSA visiting Lisbon @Tym's very clean Tomos @XTreme's very clean Suzuki VStrom 650 exploring Spain

What's the model of that, @Tym?

@XTreme, there was no dark motorcycling

Met my good friend Paulo for a ride, today. Took almost no photos, and ended up spending almost more time catching up over lunch and coffee than actually riding, still had a nice ride over some good twisty roads more suited to my bike than to his, I think overall we must have done around 150km or something like that. Today was the first outumn weather day, with about 10ºC and fog high on the hills, made me appreciate lunch even more. Good stuff, catching up with friends, we had a lot to talk about. Paulo showing up: My lunch, not including the salad as to prevent you from seeing healthy stuff After lunch stop to see the views, including recent fire damage. There is no way that would catch fire unless under criminal hand, that really pisses me off. Heading back home and it was drizzling, made me appreciate a warm shower before going out to buy my mum some flowers for her birthday. Tonight, will be having a glass of red wine to match the weather and watching my favourite race, the Nurburgring 24H on it's youtube live transmission. Give it a look if you like proper driving on the world's greatest track, as good as cars on track can get:

Does it run on diesel?

That's hardly the best picture of the bike, but it does look sweet

Since tomorrow is Saturday, I'll postpone the vote start until sunday, so that people can get a chance for an extra ride with possibly a couple more entries. I'm just trying to get a video of @Tym riding that thing waving to his mother

Like this amazing example being ridden daily, look at the spark plug socket:

I'm not sure that classifies for BOTM, there, @Tym, you need to have it on a ride. On the other hand, those things make for great run arounds, I love seeing them in Morocco being ridden either around town or accross pretty long distances like it's nothing. They seem to last forever too, regardless of rust or missing parts.

Tomorrow I shall be taking a little ride around, going to do a 150 or so km loop around some twisties and mountain roads, nice and shortish back by mid afternoon kind of thing. Might be joined by a friend on his 800R, but still unsure. It's going to be the return of my winter jacket, as the temperatures are not really over 20ºC.

I love that, is it really yours?

Once you achieve that level of perfection, why change?

Oh how am I going to laugh at your rant the first time that 650 blows a lightbulb or something like that Looks very nice!

If going rallying, why not go for the full power 450R or X? Although, the 600 mile oil service is all a bit technical, my XR400 also asks for a 600 mile oil change. That's for the americans and their "in worst case scenario" point of view. I have no doubt that if you use it for trail riding with road connections you'll be nice and dandy with 3 or 4000km.

As long as you carry an Omega, it'll bring you home.

Get airplane grade stuff, @Tym, nothing's too good for the KLR

Proper car, or vehicle or whatever, and a really scary crash to have kids in.

They should at least send a bottle of champagne to whoever welded that rollcage.

Perusing my old pictures, I found this oldie from 2010: After which I tried to go artistic with my sand drawing:

That reminds me of Morocco, the light and the color of the dirt. I love it. The road looks is amazing too.

You live dangerously!

Come on, guys, let's not let it be a duel between my bike and @XTreme's try of a Strom next to some lettuce field! @yen_powell has a shiny new bike, @Earache has a few great pictures from his last ride with the scenery to back it up, I know for a fact @Sofia is holding back on a couple of great pictures of the Triumph, @Grasshopper's Ride surely has plenty of the Himalayan to fight and try to be the first bike to get a second BOTM win and also a consecutive one, @Sir Fallsalot has dirty bike gold, @Specs probably has one of the GS, and @Mawsley has a chance of having the first scooter, @boboneleg surely went out with the T7 or the CRF as well. A plethora of different bikes from all over the world, and I'm sure I'm forgetting someone

It’s the quality of the miles that matter, although Covid probably affected that.

I think they were never sold here. But we had street legal XR600R and the NX650, maybe Honda thought the L would be too much of an effort for a small gain.

I meant having only one vote, meaning no primary vote and then the second one like last month.