Pedro

I admire the efforts you guys go to to keep lanes usable. I don’t think anything like that happens here except for fire prevention and that’s not really done by enthusiasts.

It's already almost over, the weekend, but there's still time Storm Eowyn is arriving at Northern Portugal just now, leaves and stuff are now starting to fly around and it's looking very Irish or Scottish outside. I was supposed to take yesterday's sunshine to wash my bike and take it to my mechanic's for a chinwag and some coffee, but didn't. Me and my dad have fallen out big time over the last month or two, but now he's been admitted at hospital for a lung infection and having late stage ALS means he's probably not getting out of hospital. As such the last few days served to patch things up to give him some peace, and yesterday was particularly emotional. That has affected my motorcycling, though. Today will be more of the same, but with weather warnings.

Nice effort, but we need an horizontal picture

You bike whore

Would you be able to start it in somewhere rocky or muddy by yourself with no battery? The lithium battery on my bike died overnight from being fine to being the same as having no battery at all. The Exide shop that I went to after had their full range in stock, but told me that they'd never advise someone on a lithium battery if you go places away from home and want to be sure your bike restarts after an overnight stay or even a long enough stop for lunch

Is there a kick start on it too?

I was thinking exactly of that when I wrote it

A close encounter to you?

You ruined @Clive’s excitement!

We have our top men on it

Me too

this is similar but huge, enough for 5 or 6 people to eat as a proper meal.

Chorizo and cabbage rice Sofia's Gravlax: @Sofia went very English in the kitchen this last Christmas, some sort of pie with turkey and mushrooms inside. Plus some weird cake that was fed spirits for 2 months before being eaten. I did the artwork! Portuguese "king cake", traditional Christmas cake here. It's store bought, though. I don´t get pies, the whole thing of eating bread in a plate is a mystery to me. However, as far as pies goes this one was as perfect as can be. It had some sort of beef stew inside. And back to normal, a proper beef stew: The traditional peas, with chorizo and poached eggs inside:

I'll start it off, the weather's gone ugly now so doubt I'll get a better one until the end of the month.

It's not horizontal, nor on a ride. You're killing me here!

Did you use a discount coupon?

Is it a surprise that every month ends?

To give all these bots something to look at, I've decided to open this a little earlier than normal. This is the picture submission for January Bike Of The Month. You get one entry, consisting of a horizontal picture of a bike you currently own, taken in January during a ride. You can post multiple pictures, I will consider the last one you post as final submission. By 29th January evening time, submissions will be closed and the poll started. For "anyone" that has a special picture taken on the last two days of December that they wish to submit, they're welcomed to it, although it is the lame move

Are you going somewhere Clive?

He had one, 3 years ago.

I hear she’s spamming Elon about a ferry over to Mars