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A sunny day in the Portuguese countryside


Pedro

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A sunny autumn day, started kind of sad and having no will to make lunch at home, after some work I rode to my favourite place in the hills for a burger.

On the way there, I took a dirt shortcut, only 3 or 4 kms but good fun, stopped for pictures just for you guys

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One of my favorite bits of road

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There will be a car rally tomorrow on that road in previous pictures, I don't know if that's the reason why but they fixed some of the bumps cause by tree roots pushing the road up, they put patches of tarmac "fixing it", they're smooth now which spoils my advantage over sports bikes :classic_sad:, but those kind of fixes never last and it's bound to be a potholed mess after a winter or two.

Lunch, on a deserted place that is filled with bikers and cyclists on sundays

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Being the season, I foraged for tonight's dessert

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It's a nice place to stop by

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Stopped by my local Dainese outlet for a coffee and went in to check winter pants, I have been riding in jeans for years but feel like having something waterproof and better for winter riding this year, ordered a special size as I'm shaped oddly, waiting to see what they come up with.

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On the way home I took a couple of dirt roads, only to find the really fast one approaching my town is closed for works, I home they're not surfacing it ... no pictures of that. Weather turned from a chill 15º to a most excellent 23º by then, returning from the hills, my choice for a t-shirt under the basic jacket proved right.

Got home in a better mood than I left, and spent the following two or three hours pulling weeds out of my garden / wild field. Now finishing a beer and this report outside in freezing wind, ready to go inside cook some grub and have some red wine , such is the life in the southern Portuguese countryside.

 

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28 minutes ago, XTreme said:

Superb Pedro! And you're up to 88K kms now?

No, 80.800km, it’s a january or february 2016 bike, it’s been rolling around, sadly a lot more over the last 3 years without leaving little old Portugal.

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1 hour ago, boboneleg said:

That looks like a great day out Pedro :classic_cool:

All in I would say there's just a little more than one hour riding time, my kind of lunch, really :classic_cool:

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