Where did you ride today?
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Michael
Crossed from France to England yesterday via the Channel Tunnel. Not very many people were on the train.
Quite a simple process - ride the moto into the train, put it on the side-stand (no need to tie it down), wait 30 minutes while the train goes under the English Channel, get back on the moto, and ride it off the train.
More expensive than I thought it would be, though - €75 for a one-way trip (about USD $85), and that was with an advance booking. If I had just shown up and bought a ticket, the full price would have been €150 ($170).
Michael
Channel Tunnel Train
Quite a simple process - ride the moto into the train, put it on the side-stand (no need to tie it down), wait 30 minutes while the train goes under the English Channel, get back on the moto, and ride it off the train.
More expensive than I thought it would be, though - €75 for a one-way trip (about USD $85), and that was with an advance booking. If I had just shown up and bought a ticket, the full price would have been €150 ($170).
Michael
Channel Tunnel Train
Went for a 40 mile observed ride towards the IAM test. Hope to pass this in the next few weeks!
rode downtown to a cage and bike show, got third place in the custom bike catagory
Took a quick local ride up to Mt. Helix County Park in La Mesa, CA. Great view west to the city of San Diego (obscured in clouds) and out to rural, rugged East County.
Been riding all over the place, here are a couple of pictures. Went bye Uncle Larry's house and rang the doorbell several times and sent him a text that I was at his front door. He sent me a text when I was about 40 miles away.
I felt inspired by the Iron Butt Rally and the participants and decided to complete a Saddlesore 1000. I got up early and rode to Sault Ste. Marie from the Cincinnati area, ate lunch, and then rode home. About 1100 miles in 16 hours.
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Eric
Congrats! After doing that, are you even more in awe of the IBR participants??
Absolutely! I could not imagine riding another few hundred miles tonight and then an additional 1000+ tomorrow. Nothing but respect from me for those guys and gals.
I took off at 12:30 Tuesday afternoon from Victoria Texas. I finished my ride last night at 8:12 PM at the same location I started. It was an Iron Butt called “RAT”, Round All Texas.
3175 miles in 80 hours. I was on the bike or taking photos of required 18 stops for 73 of those hours. For reasons beyond my understanding, when you click the link, only very few plots show. You need to click the box that says RAT, then choose “adjustments “, then “update “.
3175 miles in 80 hours. I was on the bike or taking photos of required 18 stops for 73 of those hours. For reasons beyond my understanding, when you click the link, only very few plots show. You need to click the box that says RAT, then choose “adjustments “, then “update “.
Congrats on your RAT ride.I took off at 12:30 Tuesday afternoon from Victoria Texas. I finished my ride last night at 8:12 PM at the same location I started. It was an Iron Butt called “RAT”, Round All Texas.
3175 miles in 80 hours. I was on the bike or taking photos of required 18 stops for 73 of those hours. For reasons beyond my understanding, when you click the link, only very few plots show. You need to click the box that says RAT, then choose “adjustments “, then “update “.
Yesterday, I went on the "Longest Day Ride - 2019" with the Concours Owners Group. We met at Denny's in Arlington for breakfast and headed out for a trip that would take us over the North Cascades Highway, south on Hwy 97 to Wenatchee, through some delightful back roads in the area, and then back over Stevens Pass. That was the plan.
It didn't happen that way. Breakfast at Denny's happened. We headed over to the North Cascades Highway...and then it all blew up on us.
Here's the group just after passing through Newhalem.
Up at the Observation Point above the lakes. Did we go over and look at the view? Nah...we were more interested in telling tales of what we didn't do, but want everyone to think we did.
Obligatory BMW photo...
Just before "the Rock"
And then Grant ahead of me hits a rock the size of an Easter ham.
Here's a still shot captured from that video.
That was a lot of force to hit that wheel, compress the tire and bend that rim.
A couple of the riders in the party went into Winthrop to the Ace Hardware there. We made some progress getting the rim back to the point where it would hold air using a huge C clamp, 5 lb hammer and some wood. It still wasn't pretty when finished, but at least it held air.
We couldn't have asked for a prettier place to wait...
On the way back. Did a little thing like a bent rim and a tire that might be leaking slow Grant slow down? Nah...
The Motley crew after dinner.
Interesting cloud formation and colors...
The video and still picture was taken by a HaloCam M1. The still snapshots with the side of my helmet were taken by a Sena 10C Pro. And the other couple pictures were taken with a Samsung Note 9.
Chris
It didn't happen that way. Breakfast at Denny's happened. We headed over to the North Cascades Highway...and then it all blew up on us.
Here's the group just after passing through Newhalem.
Up at the Observation Point above the lakes. Did we go over and look at the view? Nah...we were more interested in telling tales of what we didn't do, but want everyone to think we did.
Obligatory BMW photo...
Just before "the Rock"
And then Grant ahead of me hits a rock the size of an Easter ham.
Here's a still shot captured from that video.
That was a lot of force to hit that wheel, compress the tire and bend that rim.
A couple of the riders in the party went into Winthrop to the Ace Hardware there. We made some progress getting the rim back to the point where it would hold air using a huge C clamp, 5 lb hammer and some wood. It still wasn't pretty when finished, but at least it held air.
We couldn't have asked for a prettier place to wait...
On the way back. Did a little thing like a bent rim and a tire that might be leaking slow Grant slow down? Nah...
The Motley crew after dinner.
Interesting cloud formation and colors...
The video and still picture was taken by a HaloCam M1. The still snapshots with the side of my helmet were taken by a Sena 10C Pro. And the other couple pictures were taken with a Samsung Note 9.
Chris
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Great scenery and roads to ride. Thanks for sharing the pix...
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Wow. Beautiful country. Y’all had a good day... that Easter ham could’ve ruined a life or two. Right livin’, I guess.
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Michael
I rode into the heart of Yorkshire, England today, and had lunch with John Heath (@jfheath), our forum's current Member of the Year. Later in the day, I rode halfway across England to Colchester, where I will be meeting up with Roger Heap (@Roger.) tomorrow. I was lucky today - severe thunderstorms were forecast for all over the UK, but I rode 200 miles and not a drop of rain!
This evening I'm staying in a hotel that is 650 years old - Cromwell held a session of Parliament in this hotel a zillion years back during some kind of political uprising in the UK. Remarkable building, extraordinarily well preserved, but not a flat floor or a right-angle corner in the whole place!
The past 10 days have been quite cool in Great Britain - temperatures only reached 15°C (60°F) during the first week I was here. Tomorrow night, I sail from England to Netherlands, where the temperatures are forecast to be around 35°C (95°F) for the rest of the week. Quite a remarkable range of extremes.
Michael
This evening I'm staying in a hotel that is 650 years old - Cromwell held a session of Parliament in this hotel a zillion years back during some kind of political uprising in the UK. Remarkable building, extraordinarily well preserved, but not a flat floor or a right-angle corner in the whole place!
The past 10 days have been quite cool in Great Britain - temperatures only reached 15°C (60°F) during the first week I was here. Tomorrow night, I sail from England to Netherlands, where the temperatures are forecast to be around 35°C (95°F) for the rest of the week. Quite a remarkable range of extremes.
Michael
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Tooling around in no particular direction, I came across this in Ashtabula County.
No signs with history, just a bridge over a scenic river. Interesting construction, side structure is wood pegged together.
No signs with history, just a bridge over a scenic river. Interesting construction, side structure is wood pegged together.