Where did you ride today?

[dduelin]

The Folkston Funnel. 40 to 60 trains a day pass in front of this mural.

 

[Tdinova]

Hot day in Nova Scotia Canada 32c. Round trip 313km
Lookoff Canning



Halls Harbour At low tide




Down the Bay of Funday is Harbourville

 

[rjs987]

Watched the granddaughters yesterday and when they left one of them forgot her iPad here which she desperately needs!
So she did video call using her dads phone and pleaded very nicely for me to bring it. I didn't plan to go riding to day due to being the hottest day since Tuesday but I relented and hopped on the AK for the 24 mile ride to my son's house. I took all back roads and tried to stay as much in the country as possible to keep the breeze going. Ended up with 49.4 miles there and back. Drank a glass of water before I left, and one at my son's house, and another when I got home again. Temps started out at about 94F when I left home. It was only up to 96F at their house. But they are north and the temps were cooler there anyway. The temp warmed up a lot coming back and when I walked back into the house I checked our home temp sensor and it was showing right at 100F (37.8C). 20 minutes later, right now, it is showing 102F (38.9C)... the same as last Tuesday. Humidity is up today also.

BTW- Some who live down south don't believe it can get humid here in the upper MidWest as it does down south. Maybe not as continuously humid but it sometimes does get just as humid as I've experienced in FL. I spent the hottest 11 months in Florida so have some significant exposure to that. We do have a lot of corn fields in Iowa.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/clim...&crl8_id=d352fead-6e51-4bb1-9dd4-ed1b0071148e

 

[W0QNX]

It’s a dry humid heat in Ohio but I didn’t know the cruise ships came all the way to Marietta.

 

[ChucksKLRST]

Rode the V-STrom down to the Deckers Café for a coffee and brunch bagel and then back along the rive home.. 100 mile round trip. Did not take any pictures today so here is some of my file footage.

 

[TerryS]

I had my first proper post-COVID ride yesterday. We had a few days of fog/sun so the roads dried out, and I headed north up SH16, a brief bit of Police-infested SH1, then the fun road to Paparoa, and on through the twists and turns of SH15 to Kaikohe. The roads were great, generally dry and clean, and very little traffic. After the morning fog cleared away there was a bit of weak winter sun, and the temperatures got up to 16C. I had a very brief stop for fuel and a photo at Omapere overlooking the Hokianga Harbour, then it was back into the super-twisty run through the Waipoua Kauri forest and home via Dargaville before retracing my steps down SH1 and 16. All up just on 7 1/2 hours solid riding over about 640km. The mighty ST was running like a train, fast and smooth, and even doing a decent job of being a sports bike on the twisty parts. Really the perfect machine for this sort of outing.

Yesterday's route. Only about 40km was motorway. The rest was roads chosen for their twists and turns.


Overlooking the Hokianga Harbour mouth at Omapere


Having a blast through the Waipoua Forest, looking out for the damp patches. The road is like this for 27km, with a few one-lane bridges thrown in for good measure.


Hayfever sufferers, look away! That is a cloud of pollen blowing off a pine forest, just north of Donnelleys Crossing.

 

[Smudgemo]

Not today but home yesterday. My daughter and I did a three-day tour in the Tahoe region of the Sierra.
Hwy 88:


Bear River Reservoir:





Hwy 207 in Nevada:

 

[ChriSTian_64]

Couple days ago, I made a 9 hours solo trip on my ST1100, along freeway 401 in Ontario.

Was a bit heartbroken : our dear and beloved dog is not going well these days. They finaly diagnosed chronicle arthritis, but for a while, we thought it was the end for her.

So it's true what they say. The ride helped me feel a bit better after a while.

 

[W0QNX]

64 degrees and hard rain so far today. Rain eased up just as I got to the park.

 

[Daboo]

A taste of things to come. Mt. Rainer in the background, sitting 14,000 feet above where I was.

The scenery getting to Mt. St. Helens was wonderful.

I was fascinated by this view. Blow it up to full-size and just take in all the textures from the grass in the bottom center starting to grow, to the cut out river banks, all leading up to the dome in the crater.

FWIW, when I was in the 9th grade, I climbed the earlier version of Mt. St. Helens. As we crossed the crater, I was thinking, "This is an active volcano. What would it be like if it blew up." Obviously, it was years later when that actually happened.

Chris

 

[CDNolddude]

Ontario…Finally got an all day ride in. 840klm up to Bancroft area and back. Nice to get on those roads again. Lunch in local park in Coe Hill ON. Bike ran great on non ethanol fuel and got 61mpg(imperial gal). Sure the guys planning ONstoc already know, but don’t bother with 504 as is in lousy shape and dirt/gravel detour is very slippery. Other than that, a great day.

 

[Tdinova]

Yesterday my ST rolled past 131000km. Here are pictures of high and low tide at Harbourville Nova Scotia Canada. Over 40 foot tide

 

[TerryS]

The majority of my riding is day-trips, where I spend a bit of time with my wife and walk the dog in the morning, then clear off on the bike, and return before sunset or dinner time at 6pm. As a result, I do tend to go over the same ground quite often, so I keep an eye out for un-ridden and interesting roads. Having said that, I live close to some great riding roads so have little to complain about, I hit open country roads within about 5km from home, and can ride in a "brisk and spirited manner" (i.e. at my own pace) within about 30km.

I did some exploring yesterday of an interesting map squiggle about 200km from home starting in the King Country town of Te Kuiti, and had a great run in glorious winter sunshine through some beautiful countryside, where I had no idea what to expect around the next bend. I only had to backtrack once (when the tarseal turned to a dirt road which was unlikely to connect anywhere useful) but did have a few moments of doubt that had me mentally calculating the point of no return, where I would have to turn back before running low on fuel. Of course I was out of cellphone coverage so Google Maps was not especially helpful.

So for anyone that follows in my steps, I can confirm that Rangitoto Rd, through to Waimahora, Maihiihi, Wharepuhunga and Ngaroma Rd is a perfectly pleasant way to cover 90km whilst having no real idea where you are. I call that a win.

 

[W0QNX]

My trip continues, up to 3,700 miles since leaving home. I rode from the NW corner of Iowa down across the tall grass prairie of Kansas. They have fancied up the pull off at the cattle pens of the Kansas turnpike. Yes I rode 100 miles of turnpike. It’s the quickest way when the temp taps 103f.

 

[Mophead]

Rode up through northern New Mexico to have breakfast at Shotgun Willies in Red River yesterday. From there up to Taos ski valley, nice and cool. Someone please build a loop around Taos. The traffic there is always terrible on weekends. Hippies are still alive and plentiful. Left there and headed toward Mora to see what fire damage occurred. Massive fires around Mora. The entire town was loaded with sandbags. Talking with a local they had massive monsoon rains after the fires and the town flooded everywhere. Post office had sandbags almost waist high around it. If you had a wire fence it was filled with trash and some even washed away. Anywhere there was a gully with a culvert it was washed away. Never saw so many old culverts piled up waiting to be removed. Only saw a couple of homes that were burned down. They did a great job keeping the fire out of town. Weird thing was where the trees burned the ground underneath was luscious green from the rain.
Nice little ride of 647 miles by the time I got home. Cimmaron canyon has new blacktop most of the way through and encourages peg scraping.

 

[Daboo]

Yesterday was my birthday. Since my wife was going to her 50th class reunion, I decided to get out myself and headed north to Artist Point. Most summers, I'll go there about three times. When it just opens, the water in the pools and the snow, makes this gorgeous blue color. In the summer, like yesterday, its different. And in the Fall, the colors turn to the oranges. So even though you've been before, it's always beautiful.

I parked and headed up toward Mt. Baker. Weather was coming in, and Mt. Shuksan looked like it might get rainy...which it did though only sprinkles.

Upper Bagley Lake.

Mt. Baker on the Ptarmigan Ridge trail.

To give you some perspective, there are some hikers on the trail.

Zooming in some.

And using the digital zoom up to about 10x magnification. The scale of what you see when hiking up there is amazing.

Mt. Shuksan

Almost to the parking lot.

Headed home.

Chris

 

[SupraSabre]

Last week (8/14-21) Chris and I went to Montana to see our oldest and his family.

On Thursday, we decided to go out to Kootenai Falls, some 100 miles to the west. My son Bobby, informed me that we would be riding the bikes, while his wife and mom (Chris) ride in their Highlander.
So Bobby rode his KTM, and I rode the ST1300, that I gave him a few years back. I was a great ride out. Even the temps weren't too bad.







When we stopped, the ST1300 was leaking coolant from the leftside of the bike. But since the temp gauge was fine, we waited until we hit town and picked up some coolant, to to make sure we make it back.

Well, while we didn't have any issues, the weather got up to 99F, so it was a long hot ride back. Also, since I did NOT bring one of my RDLs, I had to use the stock saddle! WHAT A PIA!

But we did make it back:



The next day we found a large crack in the overflow bottle. He ordered a new one and will fix it later!

 

[TPadden]

New Bethlehem Pennsylvania...$2.00 Yuengling.

Tom

 

[rjs987]

Back out for a little ride on a beautiful day. Partly cloudy and high just over 82F and almost NO traffic. Since so many riders want others to stop riding to take photos I did that and include those here. There was one or two other spots I could have stopped for a good pic of the curves I was headed into but then I would have to get back up to speed and miss out on the initial entry into those curves. Which is why I tend to just keep riding without stopping. I'm about the ride rather than the photo op.
This ride was actually a shopping trip to Costco... which is 1.5 miles from my home. I ended up with just over 72 miles to get there and back. Yep, happened again. The bike just has such a hard time going the shortest route when shopping! Rode on a few roads I haven't been on in a long time and one section I have never been on by bike. I may be taking that route more often in the future.

 

[Chris09]

Even if I had a pic to attach it would be a black bike against a black background, but it's great to see everyone elses, been riding out after dusk last couple weeks around the east lower mainland coquitlam, pitt meadows, port moody, east van, maple ridge, burnaby, jump on the 1 with all the maniacs for a bit now and then, couple hours here and there, 25 or 26 C and 20 or so by the time I head back so nice temps, no traffic, no friends [ I invite people but no night owls, I like the Harrison / Hope rips during the weekends with others, but these solo night time rips are where it's at for me, lots of skills practice, and no heat, literally or figuratively. I hope it goes on forever.