My little ride around, home

[Pedro]

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.

 

[XTreme]

Superb Pedro!

[Specs]

Brilliant! 

[Tym]

Cool stuff i love that little two stroke thing, wow!

[Pedro]

5 hours ago, Tym said:

Cool stuff i love that little two stroke thing, wow!

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.

[Tym]

We need to bring smokers back! I run syn oil in my boat motors, its biodegradeable! ffs!

[Sir Fallsalot]

9 hours ago, Pedro said:

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.

My mate had one many years ago. A group of us were out riding and stopped for a chat, after a while my mate with the DT50 said there's something wrong with my bike have a go see what you think, he said you will have to give it some welly to pull off as there's not much go in it so never ridden a 50 before i gave it a handful and dumped the clutch unknown to me he had bump started it backwards and when i dumped the clutch it nearly turned me into a eunuch we were all laughing about it for days