Where did you ride today?

Rode thro my hometown of Boissevain, MB today. Spent the first 18 years of my life here. Haven’t been thro here in a long time. Some of the fall colours are gone, some are in full color, some still green. Have to look closely but yes that’s my ST in the shade there 01488E24-FA82-49B1-A7DB-8AEA30126C88.jpeg
 
Was in Brandon, MB for a couple days prior to the above post, took a few pics of the colours there too. Am on the way to Yuma so I might post a few more along the way7E9FB1EE-0CA1-48DD-8354-F61CE7012D1C.jpeg
 

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W0QNX said:
I see the "What did you do to your ST today?" thread is up to 365 pages. Maybe it's time we have an ongoing "Where did you ride today?" thread. It might be nice to hear where and how long other ride when you get a chance to ride.

You ride to work? You go for a short day ride? You just back from a long ride?

We may as well start a thread an tell each other how great any ride we had was when we ride.

I just did a short get out and about 20 mile ride. I rode down Pensacola's Scenic Highway which meanders down the western edge of Escambia bay Florida. Looped back through town and back to the house. The old ST1300 is running fine and the weather was blue skies and near 85 degrees. Great day for a ride.
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My wife, brother in-law and I rode from Franklin NC to Deals Gap and rode the tail of the Dragon. It has been a least twenty years since I was here on my 1985 FJ1100(that I still have) and i was with my same brother in-law but my wife had never been there before. She surprised me by saying she loved it and would go there and ride it again with me. I must say, I feel very lucky that she enjoyed herself. I do not know if I could sit on the back of a motorcycle and let someone
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The weather was great, just cool enough that a leather jacket was comfortable. The Motorcycle resort and camp ground have changed a lot in twenty years and the place was busy even on a Thursday.
 
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Rode in north San Diego County this morning. Went through Valley Center up to State Route 76. Took it East along the base of Palomar Mountain out to the Lake Henshaw area. Gorgeous views of the lake. Stopped by the recently opened biker dive, The Hideout Saloon. Harleys everywhere and $13 hamburgers. I got a drink of water and had a nice chat with a fellow riding a 20 year old Harley Deuce. Hit the trail south through Santa Ysabel and Ramona to get back home.20190921_101346_HDR.jpg

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I slept soo rough Thursday night / Friday morning, my foot was soo sore I ended up back at medical. they really didn't do much other than give me a compression sock. later Friday the compression sock made my foot swell, I was truly run down and after leaving JW's I went home and fell asleep. I remember talking to Peewee ( my sister ) and later peeling that compression sock off. this morning it was as if nothing ever happened so I went for my first short ride and got murals at Maplewood and grandriver and heavy equiptment on 7 mile east of beech, not bad for my first ride in over two months20190921_164352.jpg20190921_170745.jpg20190921_170900.jpg20190921_171028.jpg
 
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I rode around the block by my house. It was probably less than a mile, but it was pretty dang awesome. Considering the docs didn't expect me to stand in less than 6 months originally, I'll take it. It will be 5 months since the crash this coming Saturday.
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That's great news! Glad you are getting back on the bikes so quickly.
 
First day of autumn, 80° this morning as I rode the mighty STrom to drop an ADV tag.
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Always like to find these signs and look around a bit for whatever might be remaining. Such as this old oven.....doubt it ever cooled down for those 8 years.
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For the last 15 years I've driven Rt1 in Delaware right past Dover AFB and never thought twice. I remember seeing signs for some kind of museum. When searching for a "ride to" place, I found the Air Mobility Command Museum on Google maps. Yesterday the bride and I took the scenic tour of Rt 9 south from the Delaware Memorial bridge. What I can recommend to anyone wanting a nice relaxed ride is to bypass the most northern section of Rt 9 in Delaware City. It's extremely heavy in commercial activity. Instead use Rt 13 to get to "Biddle's Corner" then head east towards Rt 9. Follow Rt 9 south right up to the gate of the AMCM. This place is off the hook cool. It's free to get in and tour. There are volunteers that will escort you into the "closed off" displays all you need to do is ask! The old control tower is just one example. Use the link and see what they have. When you leave the LAST thing you want to do is use Rt 1 going north from Dover.
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I took a nice long ride to Northland on Sunday, with no particular destination in mind, on a fine and warm day. I started off on SH16 as that avoids the herds on SH1 and provides some neat scenery and challenging roads, and is a favourite among the two-wheeled fraternity. Then it was north at a carefully-watched pace on SH1 to Brynderwyn, and then left on SH12 towards Dargaville. I caught the tail end of a group of bikes and chased them all the way through from Paparoa to Maungakaramea, they showed me a really neat twisty route and were moving at a nice pace; the Paparoa Rd is an absolute peach with great surface and endless curves. I then headed back towards Dargaville to Tangowahine on SH14, then turned right up Tangowahine Valley Rd to Mangakahia Rd then north to Kaikohe; this was another fabulous riding road and was empty and smooth. From Kaikohe I took the sweeping roads out to the coast at Opononi at the mouth of the Hokianga Harbour where I took on some fuel and had a short break. Great photo opportunities here especially the lookout at the top of the hill above Omapere.
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Looking back up the Hokianga Harbour towards Rawene

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Big sand dunes at the harbour mouth to the Tasman Sea

From here it was southwards firstly through the endless twists of the Waipoua Kauri forest, which was just as much fun as it sounded and did nothing for my fuel consumption (averaged 13.1km/L but it was worth it) then the more open sweeping terrain back to Dargaville, followed by the first straight roads for the whole day, then back howm again through SH16.

All up I covered 650km of mostly empty, dry twisty roads with just the one 10 minute stop, and needed a bourbon and a lie-down afterwards. The PR4 tyres were ace and never gave a moment's concern even with hard parts grinding. The ST averaged 16.2km/L over the distance.
 
Haven't ridden it yet, but FM 689 between South Plains and Quitaque, Tx has seven miles of nice canyon road before hitting 1051 to head north to Quitaque. Did you ride it Raymond?
 
Thanks for that Coop, marked it on my Google Maps.
 
I took the ferry from Calabria to Sicily. It's a short ferry ride, about 15 minutes... the ferry operates continuously, kind of like a subway. No reservations, no tie-downs, just show up, hand over your money, and ride on board.

I've been riding in Italy since the beginning of the month - I started up in Zurich, Switzerland and headed south. Italy is an interesting country. Up in the north - Lombardy, Milan, Tyrol - it's quite civilized, almost like being in Europe. As one proceeds south, it gets a bit more primitive. By the time you get to the bottom, it's very much the Third World. It is, however, nice and warm in the south - temperatures around 80°F every day, which is a lot better than at home in Toronto.

Traffic here is very stressful. As a friend of mine once said, "In Germany, red lights are an obligation. In France, they are a recommendation. In Italy, they are a decoration."

No-one in the south pays any attention to speed limits, stop signs, priority to the right, or any other kind of traffic rules. It took me a while to figure this out. Yesterday, I was zipping along doing 120 km/h (75 MPH) in a 50 km/h (30 MPH) zone when I was passed by a police car, who waved and smiled at me when he went by.

I plan to spend the next two weeks riding around Sicily. There are a lot of old buildings here, some over 2,000 years old. Apparently there is a volcano here as well, but I have not seen it yet. Tourist season is over, so maybe they turned it off until next summer.

Michael

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