Just Pics from Your Good Ride Thread

[in Dallas nick]

Why do many of us feel compelled to share pics from our rides?

From my perspective a good bike ride is just so enjoyable on a variety of levels I just want to share it. 

Some things that come to mind are that a good ride can be:

therapeutic, de-stressing, 

good exercise, renewing,

peaceful, recharging of the batteries,

inspiring, and restorative. 

(Ok, some of these mean the same thing.)

I'm sure many of you are of a similar mind and have insights and pics to share of what a good ride does for you and you don't want to keep it to yourself but share it.

It's not like we haven't already been doing this over the years already but I didn't have a specific thread to go to on the Riv list so I just started this one.

I built this bike frame up for a friend the last few days and decided to go on a 10 mile shake down ride to check it over.

Please share your pics and perspectives.

Paul in Dallas 

[in Dallas nick]

[Paul in Dallas]

There are around 140 of these Magnolia trees along these fountains at the University of Texas at Dallas campus
that I refer to as Avenue of the Magnolias.

It's one of my favorite bike pic backgrounds in my general area.

Paul in Dallas

[aeroperf]

I'll play.

Riding the Nantes-to-Best Canal through Brittany.
208 miles in 7 days going from B&B to B&B.  A REALLY good bike ride.

[Lithocarpus]

I spent the better part of four hours wandering around trails near my home in the Napa Valley trying out the new drivetrain on my hillibike-ish Atlantis.  I nearly always take photos on my rides.  I've done this for many, many years and used to take actual cameras with me before the advent of good quality cameras on phones.  This shot is from the top of Conn Peak, looking south over Lake Hennessey.  

I spent the better part of this ride pondering death. A colleague at work died suddenly this week and I've been processing all of it.  I've lost a lot of people over the years, as we all have I'm sure, but this one has bothered me in a different way.  He was in his late twenties and it makes it all feel really tenuous.  Being on my bike, riding, climbing hills, helps keep me grounded in the here and now and cope with the bigger mysteries of life and death.  It's another form of meditation.   

[Deacon Patrick]

No pictures from today's ride, if that's a posting requirement. Grin. From a few days ago though, at one of me favorite haunts.

My ponderings of late have been around the personal cosmology about death and what it leads to (or does not) in relation to the multitudinous false, yet broadening and deepening, dichotomies of mask v no mask; virus real v. hoax; opening v quarantine; et al. To one for whom death is the end, this must be terrifying, and thus defines the need to cherish and extend and protect this life, and the actions of those who hold a Judeo-Christian belief that death is not oblivion but a door to eternity of one form or another,  this life is but the beginning and the meaning of how we (I'm Catholic) understand and live it, and the choices we make, is ontologically different and makes no sense to someone for whom death is oblivion. It seems to me this is the true chasm beneath the chasms of false dichotomies, virus related ones being only the latest examples. Framed this way, chasmic differences regarding faith, marriage, gender, life, death, care, family, science, truth, etc, come into greater clarity.

With abandon,

Patrick 

[DHans]

I’m sorry for the loss and especially for this young person’s family. Death of someone young and unexpected is hard to process.

Your Atlantis looks good and it’s great you had a nice long ride to think and relax. Is that one of the new long wheelbase Atlantis frames?
Doug

[Deacon Patrick]

Ooooh, Lithocarpus! Active contemplation on a bike ride is a beautiful way to wrestle with life's core questions, and none is more core than death. Backwards as it seems, our understanding of death defines our understanding of life, and our value, meaning, and purpose. May your rides help you find peace, value, meaning, and purpose!

With abandon,

Patrick

[Jason Fuller]

I was feeling pretty low energy this morning but convinced myself to get out for a short ride, which turned into 40km of mostly parkway just out into the suburbs a little ways. Was a really great day on the bike.  Also was my first ride with the new fenders on the truck (74mm Simworks Honjos, was a tight squeeze and required re-radiusing from 650B to 26", but it worked!) 

[Eric Norris]

Yesterday’s ride took me down the American River to Old Town Sacramento, which on this Memorial Day weekend was almost devoid of people. If you look closely, you’ll notice that I did not bring a Rivendell—bike of choice was my ’83 Alex Singer randonneuse.

P.S. If you’re into photography, or even just cool old mechanical things … These photos were taken with an Olympus Pen half-frame film camera on Ilford FP4. Developed at home using Cinestill Df96 monobath.

The Olympus Pen camera was introduced in 1959; mine was made that year or in 1960. After that, the started adding more features. The original model is fully manual and mechanical, which might explain why it’s still taking photos all these years later. Read more about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympus_Pen 

--Eric Norris
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[in Dallas nick]

I saw this little busy one on yesterday's ride around my area.

Paul in Dallas

[in Dallas nick]

Eric, the b&w pics are wonderful. 

So cool to be able to develop and print yourself.

Several decades back I took a photography class which covered this process and other aspects of photography.

It really helped me understand the process and learn a few things.

My biggest takeaways I still retain are the supreme importance of lighting.

Secondarily,  composition was a key variable I learned to appreciate.

Paul  in Dallas 

[in Dallas nick]

[WETH]

I am enjoying reading and seeing the photos on this great thread. Yesterday evening I ventured out for a 10 mile ride through the neighborhood. It was after 6pm so most folks were home. I had many of the roads and paths to myself, which is unusual with so many people exercising outdoors during this Covid 19 outbreak.

[True Golden]

Like others have expressed I also contemplate while riding my bike.

Some of my best thinking is probably done while riding.

The subject of the end of life is also something I think about.

I often pray for protection on my rides as the risk is there my life could be ended while riding.

It's a subject that can get folks in an uproar real quick as the r word gets involved and strong feelings generally come to surface.

Then the thread can get shut down.

We are all fellow human beings on our journey through this life which will have an end.

It's something we all have to wrestle with and figure out how to come to grips with it during our life

as in forming our philosophy of faith or not faith or whatever we decide to believe or not believe or try to ignore the topic all together.

I don't think it's an easy process to sort out.

Life's not easy and it's ending is not easy either particularly for those we deeply care about.

I don't mind talking about it offline should anyone care to as I am very much at peace with discussing the subject. I have found the answers I sought after.

I'm probably one of the older folks 'official old geezer status '

that participate in the group thus perhaps closer to what's next than you younger folks.

For me everyday is a gift and I try not to take it for granted. 

Cycling adds to my enjoyment on many days.

I expect there are groups online that discuss this subject of life's ending and finding purpose in depth and of course I agree this is not the group for it.

Paul in Dallas

Trying to remember the wonder of it all each day.

[Eric Norris]

Thanks! I enjoy being able to process film myself. It’s also a whole lot less expensive—I can process a roll of color film for about $1 in chemicals. 

I used to process film and make prints in a darkened bathroom/darkroom when I was in high school some 40+ years ago. Doing film photography now takes me back to those days, when you didn’t get to see how your pictures turned out immediately. Even my 20-something daughter, who also shoots film, admits there’s something nice about the waiting. 

Let me know if you want to get started in film. I can give you some recommendations.

Eric N

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[Austin B.]

A great ride this morning in the Catoctin range above Frederick, MD. Reached 1,772 feet of elevation at my highest--does that make it a mountain?

I converted my SH to a poor man's 1x, removing the 50t chainring from a crankset and getting shorter bolts to fasten the 34t by itself. No clutch derailleur, no 1x chainring, and I made a DIY chain catcher out of an old front derailleur with a stripped cable anchor. This was my first offroad ride and I'm pleased that everything worked beautifully and did not drop a chain once.I'll probably buy or 3D print a proper chain catcher.

Contemplating a nostalgic feeling that music conjured up last night. Part of me was aching to go back to a simpler, slower year of 1989 and thinking of this during the ride left me feeling happy and content. I needed nothing added or taken away. Music can have that effect.

Total isolation at the top--so sights or sounds of humans--just the sounds of nature.

-Austin

[ANDREW ERMAN]

Beautiful pictures and scenery.  I am sending you thoughts of caring for your loss.  Andy

On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 6:37 PM Lithocarpus <densi...@gmail.com> wrote:

I spent the better part of four hours wandering around trails near my home in the Napa Valley trying out the new drivetrain on my hillibike-ish Atlantis.  I nearly always take photos on my rides.  I've done this for many, many years and used to take actual cameras with me before the advent of good quality cameras on phones.  This shot is from the top of Conn Peak, looking south over Lake Hennessey.  

I spent the better part of this ride pondering death. A colleague at work died suddenly this week and I've been processing all of it.  I've lost a lot of people over the years, as we all have I'm sure, but this one has bothered me in a different way.  He was in his late twenties and it makes it all feel really tenuous.  Being on my bike, riding, climbing hills, helps keep me grounded in the here and now and cope with the bigger mysteries of life and death.  It's another form of meditation.   

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[Matthew Williams]

On Sunday, May 24, 2020 at 8:08:07 AM UTC-7, Paul in Dallas wrote:

Please share your pics and perspectives.

A skittish bike with a touch of blood in it is better than all the riding animals on earth, because of its logical extension of our faculties, and the hint, the provocation, to excess conferred by its honeyed untiring smoothness.

Berkeley to Martinez: 27.7% of a Century (album)

 

[Deacon Patrick]

A wee bit a snow in the highlands...

[Austin B.]

It’s Memorial Day weekend. It’s officially too late for snow!

[Corwin]

Apparently, you've never lived in Colorado Springs. I've been snowed on there during the first week of June.

Namaste,

Corwin

[ascpgh]

We plant tomatoes in Western PA this week, just now being sure of no more frosts.

Andy Cheatham

Pittsburgh

[ascpgh]

Spending a lot of time at the sharp end of the stick in my world, holding the knife to keep it sharpened on most days. Not the place decide on being change averse, we're specializing in it. 

I've been riding my Rambouillet to work this week as I have adjusted my commuter for a guest we've added to our quaranteam. 

I grab rides where and when I can and have headed out for rides wearing whatever I had on in the moment than I had in the past. While the longer, more logistically detailed bike rides have been fewer, I believe I'm riding more miles and riding more frequently this spring but only have a cyclometer on my Rambouillet so there's no quantification. I signed up for Strava over the winter and so far have gotten more spam from them to justify their changes to fewer functions for free, most by subscription. Goofing around with that hasn't crossed my mind until I've been well along many rides. I delete the app when I remember. 

Riding is redemption. It's a departure from static part of life on a dynamic mode that gets your mind to participate. If you can ride with just the necessary attention, effort or sleep, you have a huge amount of bandwidth to let your mind flow through things that aren't at your job, your profession, your address, etc. A good bike outfitted for your uses really makes it possible. 

Some sights from this week:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/CB7pdtVRzCGBPQtG9

The Doughboy. The weary but resolute guard of the entrance to the Lawrenceville neighborhood. I've ridden thirty miles since 4;30 am, it's predawn, rain starting to fall and I'm not prepared for that but neither did those who he memorializes. 

https://photos.app.goo.gl/yCpCn4fH18UbFihQ7

Yesterday morning I see this 12 barge raft heading up the Monongahela River from the Ohio River at a pretty good clip. They're empty, moving right along and I decide to see if I can keep up with it and possibly beat it to the Hot Metal Bridge several miles up river. 

https://photos.app.goo.gl/JvMjCP1rnCVpHFdv5

I go there first and waited for it to reach my vantage point.

So far this year the rides haven't so much been defined by where the destination has been or the rare sights seen along the distant way. It's been a series of opportunities to savor more clearly against a backdrop from which I am distracting myself, within a nearer circle. 

Andy Cheatham

Pittsburgh

[Pancake]

Lithocarpus, Cobb is beautiful, especially with such clear air these days it must have had some great views! I went up to the end of Partrick Rd (I live near in Browns Valley) yesterday (foolish when it’s so hot but that was part of the fun)! To many more great rides!
Abe

[masmojo]

Since getting this bike I've been pushing my mileage; rode 45 miles on Friday! It's been a while since I rode that far in one day; 20 years?  I don't go very fast, but I go pretty far!

Paul, That's a sweet looking Miyata!!

[JAS]

I love an evening ride; it's quiet and calm, I can hear the birds singing and geese calling across the lake.  Tonight I left at 8pm to go check out the lake boat launch at a nearby county park that had been closed due to Covid.  It's open once again and a few fly fishers were plying the waters.  

[Andrew Erman]

Sweet!  Love the bike and scenery.  I have a Clem high but if I were to do it again, I would get the low step.  Yours looks great.  Andy

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I love an evening ride; it's quiet and calm, I can hear the birds singing and geese calling across the lake.  Tonight I left at 8pm to go check out the lake boat launch at a nearby county park that had been closed due to Covid.  It's open once again and a few fly fishers were plying the waters.  

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[Jim M.]

In the foothills of Mt. Diablo:

Now I re-examine philosophies and religions,

  They may prove well in lecture-rooms, yet not prove at all under the

      spacious clouds and along the landscape and flowing currents.

Excerpt from “Song of the Open Road”, Walt Whitman

jim m

walnut creek

[ANDREW ERMAN]

Wow!!!

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[JAS]

Andy, thanks!  I really love the Clem with its low step-through and smooth ride.  Life is short and you never know what tomorrow will bring so I suggest you just sell your ClemH and get the L version!  

Jim, what a beautiful sky with just a hint of a trail leading one off into the hills.  And that quote...perfect combo!

[True Golden]

Yes, Wow!

Some terrific pics being posted.

Andy Cheatum's and Jim M.'s really stand out for me.

[Paul in Dallas]

Way to go masmojo!
Nice ride.

And thanks on the Miyata.
It's the closest I can swing to a Riv
these days and it's set up very comfortable for me in much the same way many of you guys' Rivs are set up.

I have XT parts on it and its rocking those basketball tread Continental tires like Riv carries, tall bars and a Brooks.

It barely accepts those tires in a 700x42. Thet roll well for me and seldom flat.

[True Golden]

Out on it now for 5 or 6 miles.

[Jim M.]

Nice, Paul! Is that part of a sculpture garden, or a nuclear research facility?

jim m

[Clayton Scott]

Was gifted a cactus on the way home.

Clayton Scott
HBG, CA

[Lyman Labry]

Beautiful!

Lyman in Austin

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[True Golden]

Jim,

That archway is a sculpture piece made to pay a bit of homage to a former piece of playground equipment from 40 or so years ago that was shaped like a rocket.

Kids growing up in the area loved climbing on that Rocket Ship.

I think that when the decision to tear it down was made an agreement was reached to put in that arch sculpture as a memorial to honor that beloved rocket ship.

The park is in the other side of the sculpture and across the bridge.

A Rec Ctr is on the other side nearer the arch.

The kids used to refer to the park as the rocket ship park.

A bit of minor area trivia.

[Takashi]

I love all great pictures in this thread!

On Sunday I went to Kakizore Ravine where it's 2-hour-ride away.

Went there, ate lunch, and rode back home.

Couple of movies of Kakizore River:

https://flic.kr/p/2j5PGBm

https://flic.kr/p/2j5M3tP

Takashi

[Kent Peterson -- Eugene, Oregon]

Here are some pictures from a couple of my recent rides around the Eugene and Springfield areas here in Oregon.

Kent Peterson

Eugene, OR USA

[JAS]

YAY, Kent!  Another Bike Friday!  I like riding mine as much as my Clem-L due to the easy step-through height and because it is so handy for my travels.  I have a dark blue NWT.  What is the bag you have on the front?

--Joyce

Whidbey Island, WA

[Kent Peterson -- Eugene, Oregon]

Hi Joyce,

The bag is a Jandd Mountain Handle Pack.

https://www.jandd.com/detail.asp?PRODUCT_ID=FMBHP

I've always liked the Jandd bags. Well made stuff.

Kent Peterson

Eugene, OR USA

[Bill Rhea]

Lithocarpus, sorry to hear about your friend's passing.  Nothing like a ride in the country to give one time to ponder, I do plenty myself on every ride, and it feels therapeutic to me. That's a beautiful Atlantis, BTW, kinda jealous here ;-)

Pancake, that stretch of Partrick Rd near the top is one of my favorites. Always worth the brutally steep parts just to get up there.  Still no rebob sitings for me....

My photos to add to the thread: On Memorial Day, I took my longtime girlfriend and her daughter out for a ride from Denmark Rd out to the Lovall Valley loop, with a picnic in Sonoma town square. It was so fun to plan the picnic (and how to carry it!), get them up early that morning (almond croissants right out of the oven and mimosas helped), and take them out for a moderate ride in a place they'd never ridden:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nEfLoqHdGW4s3UMTU2oxOFcVJ7oVUGjR/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ol8-MdJFvfvqLy_Y5eXyuGjUl7db0Nn3/view?usp=sharing

They had a really great experience, which was (and always is) my only goal on family rides :-) Now to plan the next picnic ride....

Bill Rhea

Napa, CA

[Lithocarpus]

Well, Pancake's post prompted me to go up Partrick today for my evening ride.  It was gorgeous up there.  Lots of sheep and two rattlesnakes, but no Rebobs.   

[Craig Montgomery]

Here's where I've been for the last week. Riding and hoofing it English Rough Stuff style to get as deep as the two wheels and two feet will allow. Then kicking back and communing with the spirits, a good book, and great coffee. 

Camped in those trees. Some good coffee with a shot, a little toke, a can of chili. No gods could offer better. 

Sometimes you have to work for great spots. 

Nestled in. 

Yea, that's right. 

Craig in Tucson for not for long. 

 

On Sunday, May 24, 2020 at 8:08:07 AM UTC-7, Paul in Dallas wrote:

Why do many of us feel compelled to share pics from our rides?

From my perspective a good bike ride is just so enjoyable on a variety of levels I just want to share it. 

Some things that come to mind are that a good ride can be:

therapeutic, de-stressing, 

good exercise, renewing,

peaceful, recharging of the batteries,

inspiring, and restorative. 

(Ok, some of these mean the same thing.)

I'm sure many of you are of a similar mind and have insights and pics to share of what a good ride does for you and you don't want to keep it to yourself but share it.

It's not like we haven't already been doing this over the years already but I didn't have a specific thread to go to on the Riv list so I just started this one.

I built this bike frame up for a friend the last few days and decided to go on a 10 mile shake down ride to check it over.

Please share your pics and perspectives.

[Doug Hansford]

Lithocarpus,

I'm curious about the drivetrain on your awesome Atlantis. What's your crankset and cassette? Which shifters do you use?

Thanks,

Doug

[True Golden]

Wow!

Craig Montgomery,  your really putting your Rivendell through it's places.

That type of riding and camping is something I'd like to do again. 

I forget,  is it an Allrounder?

What panniers?

Paul in Dallas

[Craig Montgomery]

A '96 All Rounder Paul with 26x2.1 Gravel Grinders. Karrimor(!) panniers from the 70's or 80's I found NOS a couple of years ago. And of course a Carradice Nelson Camper LF.  

Craig in Tucson

[EricP]

Here's one from a couple of days ago. My Hillborne on the Bruce Vento trail in St. Paul. No idea what the flower are, just thought they looked nice and worthy of a photo.

Eric Platt

St. Paul, MN

[Bill Schairer]

Bill S

San Diego

[JAS]

Lovely fragrances punctuated the ride today from the wild roses along the trail and from the Ceanothus in the neighborhoods.  Sorry, no photos of the Ceanothus, but perhaps you can imagine the brilliant indigo blue flowers against shiny, dark green leaves and bees on every blossom.  

[Bones]

Fifteen miles around the river this morning, before the heat comes. Traffic is still pretty light around here... something I will soon miss.

[True Golden]

Some of you get to ride in some remarkably beautiful areas.

From today's ride near a university campus. 

[Patrick Moore]

Paul: The quality of your photograph makes up for any minor defect in
the background. Is this quality by happenstance, or are your a pro or
at least a practiced amateur?

Patrick "unpracticed amateur but good critical eye" Moore

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[True Golden]

Patrick,

Thank you.

I am definitely an amateur.

Three decades back I took a photography class and learned the basics.

I bought a good Nikon film camera and several lenses and practiced quite a bit, even buying a dozen or so photography books to try to improve.

While my children were growing up I took many pics of them.

When I got into cycling the two hobbies meshed and more often than not I had a camera with me on my rides.

These days with a decent smart phone or compact digital camera it's of course easy to snap away.

It's also easy to get sloppy and not concentrate on the various aspects of a decent pic and rush which I most often do.

Along with the improved cameras on phones the editing software has improved which makes it pretty convenient to crop,  adjust, the light, exposure, contrast, color saturation, tone and quite a bit more to one's preferences.

Also I make good use of the delete button.

I love playing with various special effects features also.

Photos turn out better of course if I  think through the composition, the lighting, etc

 b4 snapping it,  having something decent to work with on the editing.

Over the years I've had 3 friends that were quite good, one a professional that inspired me to work at it.

I admire the Riv folks and other folks that take film cameras along and then share their results.

Paul in Dallas

Amateur who knows what makes for a decent photo but often rushing the process

and perhaps liking a couple photos I take out of a hundred.

[Patrick Moore]

I brought up the question of photographic skill a while ago on this or the Bob list, asking for books or instructions on improving my very poor skills; the consensus in reply was: practice, paying attention to your results so that you start to see what action produces what results. I must do that; busy enough that I forget about that earlier discussion.

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[Max S]

Highly endorse looking through classic photo books and learning by osmosis. A few instructional books from the library (when they reopen?), or something like: “Why Photographs Work” might help you find your style. Also recommend a simple digital camera — iPhone with the grid enabled is one extreme, a Fuji XT in full manual mode is another that forces the learning process. (Everything else is too expensive and takes too long - and I own and still shoot 4 film cameras, in addition to digital.)

Even aesthetic endeavors are not without rules or best practices!

- Max “picture this” in A2

[John Johnson]

Where Fontainebleau forest touches the Seine. Clem 45 in mustard. 

On Sunday, May 24, 2020 at 5:08:07 PM UTC+2, Paul in Dallas wrote:

Why do many of us feel compelled to share pics from our rides?

From my perspective a good bike ride is just so enjoyable on a variety of levels I just want to share it. 

Some things that come to mind are that a good ride can be:

therapeutic, de-stressing, 

good exercise, renewing,

peaceful, recharging of the batteries,

inspiring, and restorative. 

(Ok, some of these mean the same thing.)

I'm sure many of you are of a similar mind and have insights and pics to share of what a good ride does for you and you don't want to keep it to yourself but share it.

It's not like we haven't already been doing this over the years already but I didn't have a specific thread to go to on the Riv list so I just started this one.

I built this bike frame up for a friend the last few days and decided to go on a 10 mile shake down ride to check it over.

Please share your pics and perspectives.

[Brady Smith]

New to this group, so here goes--a shot from today's ramble in Rockland County, NY. Maiden voyage for some Dia Compe 980s, Newbaum's bar tape and a Silver 2.0 shifter. It all works great!

On Sunday, May 31, 2020 at 6:38:31 PM UTC-4, Patrick Moore wrote:

Paul: The quality of your photograph makes up for any minor defect in
the background. Is this quality by happenstance, or are your a pro or
at least a practiced amateur?

Patrick "unpracticed amateur but good critical eye" Moore

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> Some of you get to ride in some remarkably beautiful areas.
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> From today's ride near a university campus.
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[True Golden]

John Johnson, 

That stream in the forested area looks enchanting.

It looks to be a wonderful place for contemplating and refreshing ones soul.

Paul in Dallas

[True Golden]

Welcome Brady Smith!

Your Black Mountain looks ready for all sorts of great riding.

I like that yellow color.

Paul in Dallas 

[Drew Saunders]

I took May 22nd off from work and rode the Riv up Montebello Road in Santa Clara county. Took this shot more or less at the top of the hill. The paved road ends and it's reasonably easy fire road after that. 

[Patrick Moore]

These are from a ride a few weeks ago on a newly discovered, or at least re-discovered (I'm like Ralph and the Easter eggs) trail: acequia ditches and trails through small plot agricultural and surrounding North Valley suburbia. If I posted them before, I apologize.

The cyclone fence gate is included because, while acequia trails are by law (and it's an ancient, one-of-a-kind law in the US governing the ditches and access) required to be open to all, some people still block them.

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[aeroperf]

There are some really great photos here.
I envy the camping and nature shots.  There are also great shots from morning, or evening, rides.

I’m posting a couple more from the Nantes-to-Brest canal ride.  The canal was built to save French shipping when the British were blockading the Brittany coast.  It was finished in 1856 and quickly made obsolete by the railroads.  Since there was little flood control, the towns are built on the hills above it.  So, a day’s ride capped by a steep climb, then dinner at a cafe, and a bottle of wine.  It is now part of Euro Velo Route 1.

My wife and I reconnect on these rides, while seeing places where we’ve never been.  Four-ish hours of biking a day let us discuss more than “What color do you want to paint the dining room?”  The only downside is that we have to finish the day's ride - our luggage is already at the next B&B. 

I’m deliberately avoiding putting a Riv into these shots.  There is a “daily post your riv” thread for that.  My Sam has made it through a couple of these trips.  Depending on the length of the ride, I used to be able to ship a bike as cheaply as renting one.

Let's see if I've figured out how to attach a file...

[ANDREW ERMAN]

Wonderful!   Thank you for sharing.  This brightens my day.  Andy

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[Eric Norris]

I’ve been to that part of France, but always while riding Paris-Brest-Paris, which doesn’t allow for leisurely sightseeing. I’m inspired now to go back and enjoy it at a slower pace. With sleep and showers!

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[eddietheflay]

my riding buddy today on the Pacific Coast between Russian River and Bodega Bay.

[True Golden]

From today's errand ride.

Hey Patrick,  nice to see some of the areas you ride.

Nice pics all. 

Thanks taking the time to share them.

[Lyman Labry]

Edwards Aquifer just north of Barton Springs Pool, Austin Tx.

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[Matthew Williams]

"Who has not felt the urge to throw a loaf of bread and a pound of tea in an old sack and jump over the back fence?"--John Muir

[lambbo]

with dog, in old lyme, ct, by sheep on the ct river

[Collin A]

Out for a jaunt in the 100 deg heat through downtown Wednesday, would've ridden later in the day but the curfew starts at 8 pm here (sunset is at 9-ish, so that seems dumb). Seeing national guard troops and vehicles in front of the state supreme court was a bit of a shocker, too.

Getting out of the city and enjoying some of the less traveled side paths along the American River felt nice though.

[Lithocarpus]

It's my new 1x setup.  SRAM 11-50 rear cassette (on a Shimano XT hub body), SRAM GX deraileur, Silver cranks (Wolf Tooth 34t chainring and a Silver chainring guard), and a SRAM GX trigger shifter.   The gearing is for off-road adventures but I'm riding it on the road for a few more days while I wait for my Appaloosa to come back from the painter's shop on Monday.  

Erik   

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Lithocarpus,

I'm curious about the drivetrain on your awesome Atlantis. What's your crankset and cassette? Which shifters do you use?

Thanks,

Doug

On Friday, May 29, 2020 at 12:07:46 AM UTC-4, Lithocarpus wrote:

Well, Pancake's post prompted me to go up Partrick today for my evening ride.  It was gorgeous up there.  Lots of sheep and two rattlesnakes, but no Rebobs.   

On Thursday, May 28, 2020 at 7:09:51 PM UTC-7, Bill Rhea wrote:

Pancake, that stretch of Partrick Rd near the top is one of my favorites. Always worth the brutally steep parts just to get up there.  Still no rebob sitings for me....

[Deacon Patrick]

Early spring colors on the trail on the skirts of Pikes Peak:

https://deaconpatrick.org/early-spring-colors

With abandon,

Patrick

[Patrick Moore]

Beautiful pictures as always. Your skies are even bluer than ours.

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[Deacon Patrick]

Aye, at 9,500ft, these trees have less betwixt them and space, so the blue really pops, unless we have fire haze. In sympathy to your heat, you'll be happy to hear today's ride had me having to un tuck my shirt to promote air flow at 8am swelter approaching 70˚F climbing up the pass. Grin.

With abandon,

Patrick

On Friday, June 5, 2020 at 3:43:50 PM UTC-6, Patrick Moore wrote:

Beautiful pictures as always. Your skies are even bluer than ours.

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Early spring colors on the trail on the skirts of Pikes Peak:

https://deaconpatrick.org/early-spring-colors

With abandon,

Patrick

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[Patrick Moore]

I recall Velouria/Constance from Lovely Bicycle speaking about the heat in -- is it Northern Ireland where she lives? -- at any rate, it was in the mid 60s, so damned hot!

I meant to add in the post that I wore one of my thrift store Hawaiian shirts. I generally dislike riding in baggy shirts -- when you are riding into a big hot headwind with a single gear and no power to spare, you resent any effort lost to wind drag. But I wore one today, and I have to say that thin rayon, baggy, untucked, is just heads and shoulders more comfortable in at least high and dry heat than cotton or anything else, including (IME) seersucker. Too bad so many Hawaiian shirts are so ugly. 

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Aye, at 9,500ft, these trees have less betwixt them and space, so the blue really pops, unless we have fire haze. In sympathy to your heat, you'll be happy to hear today's ride had me having to un tuck my shirt to promote air flow at 8am swelter approaching 70˚F climbing up the pass. Grin.

[Will Rhea]

Hi Lithocarpus,

I recognize that gate in the first photo - that's where the dirt connector from behind the monastery on Redwood Rd spits out onto Partrick Rd up near the top.  Do you ever ride that?  Technically private property (I think) but it's mighty remote from people (and the hiker gate was open) so I thought, game on...  Beastly steep but I had to see it myself.

Still on the lookout for nice, remote-ish dirt roads and trails in the Napa area that are legal to ride.  Seems like all the stuff I see and want to ride is on vineyard property.  Even some of the roads I thought were open (like Gehricke Rd in Sonoma) are gated. Any suggestions?

-br

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[Litho]

Yeah, I've been on that road between Redwood and Partrick.  Non-trespassing off-road is difficult to find on the eastern side of the valley.  I actually lived at the very end of Redwood Rd. for a time.  I was the caretaker for the Archer Taylor Preserve and had all 400 acres to myself.  I got to know all of the land owners on the mountain really well and had access to otherwise off-limits places.  Unfortunately, a lot of landowners up there have had major problems with clandestine grow operations and other criminal activities and aren't inclined to allow or tolerate any access.  I've ridden from Redwood all the way across to Gehricke and into Sonoma.  There are some amazing out-of-the-way roads up there that go all over the mountain and down into Sonoma.  You can see them on Googlemaps.  But, it's all off-limits now and I've chosen to respect the property owners' wishes since I no longer live up there.  Same thing up in St. Helena where I grew up.  When we were kids we didn't think anything of heading up into the eastern hills and hiking from St. Helena to Kenwood via Sugarloaf or Hood Mountain.  But the problems with pot growers over the last twenty years have made it more problematic to get legitimate access to private property.  Kinda sad, but it's a reality.  There are some amazing places in this valley that very people ever get to see.    

Here are some photos from ride up Redwood Rd. to my old home at Archer Taylor from this past week: 

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[Deacon Patrick]

Today's weather matches the world's tumult. A gentle, steady rain on the climb up, stiffer rains for me pipe, then amazing winds up to 60mph complete with grit and falling branches whipping about as head and side winds, making me work at least as hard on the downhill return trip as the climb up. I don't care how stable the bike, 60mph blasts that gust, stop, switch 15˚ and blast again, makes you ride wobbly. Grin. This afternoon, we've had boomers rumble though with sheets of rain and sleet and pea sized hail. Pretty typical for a Colorado spring. Grin.

With abandon,

Patrick

[Andrew Erman]

Sounds fantastic!  

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[Will Rhea]

Hi Lithocarpus,

You wrote "I've ridden from Redwood all the way across to Gehricke and into Sonoma.  There are some amazing out-of-the-way roads up there that go all over the mountain and down into Sonoma."

Now THAT's what I'm talking about!  I'm new to Napa (just 2 years) and don't know the local riding landscape so well...  The tops of dead-end Redwood Rd in Napa Co and dead-end Arroyo Rd in Sonoma Co are SO close to each other, it's making me crazy to see stuff on the map so close to home but so forbidden.... I'm guessing that Partrick Rd and Henry Rd must connect, but it's likely the same deal.  Argh, curiosity is killing this cat!  But I'll have to be content with the beautiful roads we CAN ride around here. In the one photo that's me coming down Gehricke Rd, snapped by "Roadini" Mark from Petaluma, who I met that day my first time up there, when I saw my intended route to Arroyo Rd was gated off...  And the view from Partrick Rd, well, I just don't get tired of it...

I grew up on the SF Peninsula back before mountain biking was enough of a "thing" to be regulated.  Sad to see once available riding spots no longer an option....

Cheers,

Bill Rhea

Napa, CA

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[Eric Myers]

Most of my rides are along the American River Bike Trail in the Sacramento area.  For me they are therapeutic, grounding, and recharging.  I love seeing the the changes of seasons, and deepening my relationship with the outdoors beyond my own property (which is a very small orchard).  Most of my rides are also with my son, now in his early teens.  Boys (big and small) can be moody if they are sedentary for too long, so getting us both out and moving is a good reminder of that for both of us, and a chance to improve communication.

No picture from today's ride, but we passed another Riv rider going the other way, on an Atlantis (I think) with a front basket.  I said hello as we passed each other, but today I wondered if there is a Rivendell wave or anything like that?

-Eric

[Patrick Moore]

I met no other Rivendell riders on this afternoon's 21 mile out-and-back, but I got a lot of friendly waves (but not from the one man who passed me, durn him -- tho' I console myself that he was at least 20 years younger than I who just got onto Medicare). I rode south for 10 miles on the Rio Grande paved path against a 22 or so gusts to 37 in the 76" gear, in the hooks all the way, and while I can't say that riding into gusty headwinds in too high a gear is my favorite sort of ride, I expiated a great number of sins -- no, strike that; I was pleased to find that I can comfortably maintain the hooks position for 7 or 8 miles at a stretch, my very sensitive left palm being the weak point. At any rate, I took it easy and averaged 15.5, and the ride back was easier at 16.5 including the stop to fish the errant Nitto wire guard out of the spokes. I started a little after 2 pm without having eaten anything since the previous night; must remember to bring food; but I had to rush back anyway, so I made it alright.

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[Andrew MacDonald]

I have an Atlantis with a basket but haven’t been on the trail since last Monday. My gf and good friend both have Hillbornes, one black the other sage. See you out there sometime.

-Andrew

[Michael Iauch]

morning ride along the watauga river Boone, NC

On Sunday, May 24, 2020 at 11:08:07 AM UTC-4, Paul in Dallas wrote:

Why do many of us feel compelled to share pics from our rides?

From my perspective a good bike ride is just so enjoyable on a variety of levels I just want to share it. 

Some things that come to mind are that a good ride can be:

therapeutic, de-stressing, 

good exercise, renewing,

peaceful, recharging of the batteries,

inspiring, and restorative. 

(Ok, some of these mean the same thing.)

I'm sure many of you are of a similar mind and have insights and pics to share of what a good ride does for you and you don't want to keep it to yourself but share it.

It's not like we haven't already been doing this over the years already but I didn't have a specific thread to go to on the Riv list so I just started this one.

I built this bike frame up for a friend the last few days and decided to go on a 10 mile shake down ride to check it over.

Please share your pics and perspectives.

[esoterica etc]

Michael,

My goodness! What size tires are those, and what kind of Miyata is that that allows you to run such huge tires?

~Mark 

Raleigh, NC

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[Brendan Willard]

Miyata 610 it appears. I had 700x35 RH Bon Jons on mine with fenders. 

Speaking in Thumbs 👍

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[True Golden]

I've been enjoying seeing everyone's pictures. 

Thank you for sharing them.

I tend to get bored over time and seek out another bike project.

It's a process I enjoy.

Most of mine are at the low end of the economic spectrum.

Playing around with special effects on the smartphones is also fun for me, hence this photo of a project bike I finished 2 days ago.

The last few years the cockpits tend to turn out very similar as this is what is comfortable for me being an older guy. 

Also I tend to reuse parts for my builds so I typically use what I have on hand.

All I purchased for this one were tires and DT cable stops.

I rode this bike, a Schwinn Le Tour, after a quick changeout from road to upright bars for a couple weeks to make sure I liked it enough to proceed.

Then I disassembled it, had it powdercoated and rebuilt it this week.

Yesterday was the first ride after finishing it up.

I also tend to ride over to this spot for pics.

[True Golden]

A non special effects pic.

[True Golden]

Michael's blue Miyata tires do look fat.

The brownish coppery color Miyata 610 of mine takes relatively fat tire without fenders.

I tend to squeeze in as fat a tire as possible that doesn't cause any rub on the chainstays.

Mine are 700 x42 Continental Contact Speed with the basketball like pebble looking tread like 

Riv Bikes sells or used to sell.

Front clears fine. Rear barely.

With a true wheel there is no rubbing.

These do measure the 42mm perhaps a half mm more.

[True Golden]

I was able to zoom in and Michael's Miyata tire label shows 700x44.

[Corwin]

Hi -

If you've read the Blug in the last several months, you may have seen my new (Cowin's) Hubbuhubbuh. My wife is a relatively new (~3 years) cyclist. She suffers from neuropathy in several areas and has trouble standing for more than a few minutes. Yesterday, we passed a big milestone. We went out on the Richmond/San Rafael bridge and made it to the top of the first hill from the Richmond side. We have never climbed a hill this tall before. Every time we go out on a challenging ride, she gets a little bit stronger - both on and off the bike.

A couple pics below of us and the Hubbuhubbuh at the top of the hill. I see Tunnel Road and The Three Bears on the horzion.

Namaste,

Corwin