Pedro

Loved it

That's what every teenager of my day dreamed of having, the DT50 LC, most sold 50cc motorcycle in Portugal for ages: It's tiny in real life.

Good area to ride in. On the second half of that video, that's the kind of terrain where low horsepower dirt bikes are so much easier to ride, old school sitting down type bikes are made for that!

Christmas days are supposed to be sunny, that's what needs to happen. We were both riding at the same time, Pete ?

Welcome, amazing snow pictures. Looks like you carved your way through ?

Sofia is one of my best friends! I've told her you're a bunch of reprobates and not like the nice people she met while working the UK, but here she is anyway... ?

Hello, and welcome! Nice choice of bikes, lets hear something more about that yamaha.

Those are some nice roads there, and I'm sure it must have felt great having a smoother faster bike on that longer day. I am not a fan of Triumph trail bikes (although I've never ridden one) but it looks great in that color. Nice choice.

Is it you or was it tour wife that rode? I forgot.

There's a little ride I love going on near home, it's about 60 to 70km roundtrip, I can stop midway for coffee at a hilltop place or at a nice small restaurant with nice typical food. My house is in ribatejo, in a place that is too warm during summertime, and this provides welcome relief because on top of this hill you get cold winds from the seaside. It's also a place where I used to take small sunday morning trips with Maria, be it on the bike or the track car in the winter. I started going shortly after I started to deal with being all alone with nothing to do on weekends and it's now become my own ritual, I'm not going to be dramatic as to say it saved my life, but it surely made a lot of days bearable. It started to be a way of coping, and is now a ritual that I really enjoy. If you want to see where it is click here: Serra de Montejunto Parking for my favorite restaurant up there: It's a nice place to go, if you like old windmills in working condition: Some light off-roading, if that's your thing: Most of the time, I usually take the tarmac, though: My little shelter, resting cafe up there, sometimes you see some different machines there, like an Africa Twin all the way from Japan Or this tricked out, loud as hell, Yamaha DT50 with an 80cc kit: But most of the time I just chill by myself: When I feel like eating alone, there's this little place with a view: All in time to get back home for a glass of wine while watching the sunset from my front door: There you go, the little corner of Portugal I call home.

Welcome! That's a nice picture there.

I don't know what a shill is, I suppose you want to make me your inside man over there, but I don't really know anyone there, and haven't posted for years. I never really liked place, although I do enjoy all their pictures and americanness. My presence online has been non existent over the last 4 or years. Posted a couple of questions on UKGser but don't know anyone there either. Basically, you bunch of twats are my only online friends!

Hello dude!

In that regard, Pete's area of Spain is a lot more empty and vast than Portugal

I'm ashamed to say I've pondered buying a bike/car hot air drier ?

Interesting bike, good stuff!

Good stuff, I suppose you have quite tall gearing on the XR to be good for touring? What kind of cruising speed can you manage with luggage like that? I might be spoiled, but my XRs brakes are awful for the road, are yours stock?

I know, I was just conveying that The peninsula is not all like that.

I get that, but I can’t bring myself to wash the bike if I can’t ride it gently till warm to properly dry it off for the week. And a GS is probably the hardest bike to clean and dry off if not riding it in warm dry air. I’d rather not wash it, if I leave it half wet I will leave home for the workweek with a guilty conscience...

It’s not the norm form me, because after a week up north i start missing it.

I disliked that part too, i hate washing the bike unless it’s summer

Love the picture of the guys doing road repairs, lol

Come on Pete, it’s only spinach

Bloody hell, it's not worth going through that unless you're escaping war in search of a better life.

Thought of this report after Bob's weekend camping in a muddy field one. December 2019, although the weather is shit, I've just spent a week jonesing for riding my bike, so although the weather promises to be shity, I go out maintaining my ritual of going out for lunch on the bike on saturdays when I'm home. I usually ride in jeans, but needed to test the suit pants to see how they still fit so the bad weather gave me the perfect reason to. No pictures on the road, cause it was wet and I didn't feel like taking gloves off in the rain. I know it doesn't compare to Bob's weekend camping in a muddy field, but I have standards to have a good time. Above is my usual sport for going for coffee on the bike, I'm all alone today, below is how it usually looks: After that, went to lunch on my favorite hilltop restaurant, had some nice typical scrambled eggs (too difficult to explain what's special about them) while the weather turned to shit outside. Made my way back closer to home, and stopped by my other favorite place: Stopped by the supermarket for some dinner supplies, as I had friends for dinner that evening, but when I got home I came across this filthy bike from wet country roads, this is farm country so there's lots of muck on the road: Pants straight to the washer! Time to get a fire on, and cook a nice simple dinner, a puttanesca with added spinach for health Bike was washed the week after, as it pestered my thoughts daily