Today I sent out the inscription for the 13th Portugal de Lés a Lés, which translated into English means something like Portugal from Breadth to Width. It's a touristic motorcycle rally that goes through the back roads and lost villages of portugal from North to South. It's not an enduro race as it's for any type of motorcycle and it's normal to see Vespa's, scooters, vintage bikes up to a Honda Blackbird CBR1100XX. The organization has a couple of surprises along the route, like passing a small stream, or going up a gravel route, nothing that any bike can't cope but a lot of fun. The rally is 1000kms long, and joining that with coming back and forth I'll be doing some 3200kms in only one week.
I'll be going on the '09 BMW F800GS and will be accompanied by my father on our old Honda Transalp from '94. Our biggest concern is if the old bike will make it till the end. It's never let us down before, but a 17 year old bike with +150000 kms isn't at it's prime!
The map of the complete route is
Expect some preparation posts coming up!