Northern Hemisphere Summer 2024 Photos

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Ted Durant

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Jun 24, 2024, 10:14:05 PM6/24/24
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Okay, it's officially summer. Near perfect conditions today, lots of sun, not much wind (and what there was came of the lake so nice and cool), fields starting to come up. It's been a wet spring so it's green green green everywhere. Paradise Rd is ... paradise on wheels. Downhill this direction.

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Ted Durant
Milwaukee, WI USA

Bill Lindsay

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Jun 24, 2024, 10:50:59 PM6/24/24
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My 200k brevet on Saturday included this view of Tomales Bay from the top of the Marshal Wall climb:


Bill Lindsay
El Cerrito, CA

DavidP

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Jun 27, 2024, 10:36:01 PM6/27/24
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Monday's 20 miles on the Acadia carriage roads was biggest ride we've done as a family but everyone finished in good spirits - amazing riding and scenery. Picnic lunch for five in the Happisack with room to spare.

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-Dave

Ted Durant

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Jul 4, 2024, 1:49:25 AM7/4/24
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Corn is starting to come up in the town of Trenton ... knee high by the 4th of July, as they say... this is just a few miles from the previous photos I posted, but a different day and a different bike.

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Rivendell Road, Joe built, Joe painted, Nitto prototype filet brazed stem chrome plated, Campy Daytona group, some old, shellacked Tressostar bar tape. I've been putting a lot more miles on this bike this year than in past years. It was my "fast group ride" bike, but I haven't done any group rides for many years, so now it's just my fast bike.

M Talley

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Jul 4, 2024, 8:14:48 PM7/4/24
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Hi Dave,
I'm curios about your silver Riv'd bike pictured. Is it old or new? It looks like a classic late 80s / early 90s MTB. Also your images remind me how I'd like to get back to Acadia. Having been there as a teen 40-something years ago.
Another thing that brought my memories back - over this last winter I met a bike shop owner from near there in Maine. While out riding a greenway trail in NC,
Bob seemed to shadow me because I was riding a steel road bike - we had a good conversation.  I looked up his shop only by his first name (as he pointed out, the population of my major Southern city was more than all of Maine.)  He is Bob Shields of Southwest Cycle in Southwest Harbor, ME
- Mark - a very infrequent RBW group participant

Hoch in ut

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Jul 4, 2024, 8:54:50 PM7/4/24
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Happy 4th!

DavidP

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Mark - my silver bike is an early 2000s aluminum framed Marin MTB. The brushed aluminum frame is what caught my attention when it popped up locally. I rebuilt it from the frame up as kind of an ATB cruiser and use it as my vacation / campground bike. I love the way it rides.

There are some photos from when it was built over in this BikeForums thread: https://www.bikeforums.net/23054376-post1150.html

That's a nice story about meeting Bob Shields. I remember seeing the Southwest Cycle shop as we drove down Main street in Southwest Harbor on our recent trip.

-Dave

Francis Ted Fay

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Jul 5, 2024, 2:39:50 PM7/5/24
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New Riv. :-)
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Jay

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One facet about the northern hemisphere is you never know what you'll get in terms of temperature.  Went for a ride last week, morning temp was 7.8C.  A few days before, 42C with humidity, and now it's about 36C with humidity.  I love all times of year, as long as I can ride weekly.

This was a 65km mixed surface ride from home and back.  20km on quiet roads, 45km on a rail trail.  The Roadini is now my favourite bike of all time.  I'm retiring my road bike, as I have two wheel sets for this bike, one with 43mm for mixed/gravel, and a set with fast 30mm tires.

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Mike Rossi

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Jul 6, 2024, 3:36:18 PM7/6/24
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Almost too hot, or humid, to be riding, but I made it to the ruins of the Carhartt mansion by the Catawba River this morning. The Susie navigates the more difficult trails around the area better than I expected.

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Nicholas A

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Jul 8, 2024, 2:04:28 PM7/8/24
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Maiden voyage for my Homer yesterday afternoon, looking over towards the north side of Dublin where you can see it is pouring down with rain!

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John Bokman

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Jul 8, 2024, 9:44:28 PM7/8/24
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Nice shot Nicholas. So now you've got a Sam and a Homer; Will be interested to hear ride reports about how they compare and differ, if you so choose.

John

Josh C

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Jul 9, 2024, 12:04:47 AM7/9/24
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Keith Paugh

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Jul 9, 2024, 1:25:27 AM7/9/24
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Can’t think of a more proper setting for an Atlantis in the wild.

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k.

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Eric Marth

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Jul 10, 2024, 5:48:06 PM7/10/24
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@mwillrossi: I definitely feel you on the too hot, too humid front. Brutal here in Virginia 

@Nicholas: Dang, I love photos with rain in the distance, thanks for sharing this one!

Andrew Scherer

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Jul 11, 2024, 1:35:18 AM7/11/24
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New Homer build on it's second ride at Blue Mountain Reservoir in Saugerties, NY
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Andy Scherer
Manhattan & Woodstock NY USA

Keith Paugh

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Jul 11, 2024, 2:48:29 AM7/11/24
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Looks like a beautiful spot Andy!

Here’s one from the Baylands yesterday:
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New Homer build on it's second ride at Blue Mountain Reservoir in Saugerties, NY

Ted Fay

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Jul 11, 2024, 3:29:25 AM7/11/24
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Fabulous. Now this is beginning to look more and more like a photo contest. 


Ted

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Looks like a beautiful spot Andy!

Here’s one from the Baylands yesterday:
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Matthew Williams

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Jul 11, 2024, 4:12:25 AM7/11/24
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Monday’s ride, from Concord through Walnut Creek, Moraga, Canyon, and over the hill to Montclair and Berkeley.

Thanks Adam, for the recommendations!

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Eric Marth

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Jul 15, 2024, 6:24:34 PM7/15/24
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It's been miserably hot and humid here in Virginia for the past few weeks. Currently 97º and 44% humidity. High of 100º tomorrow. 

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Josh C

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Jul 15, 2024, 7:33:41 PM7/15/24
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It's a hot one here in central Indiana but I talked my kid into an ~18-mile ride on some rail trail. IMG_1450 Large.jpeg
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John Rinker

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Jul 17, 2024, 1:17:35 AM7/17/24
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Summer evenings in the Slocan Valley, Kootenays, BC!
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Cheers, John

DavidP

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Like Eric (and others) we've had high temps and humidity lately, but a few evenings this week have gotten down into the upper 80s without excessive humidity - good to sneak in a quick 10 mile or so ride and the Platypus is great for these sorts of rambles.

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-Dave

Gill

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Jul 18, 2024, 12:56:37 AM7/18/24
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IMG_0007.jpegIMG_0018.jpegThe BC pics are sweet. Just returned from Maine. The Kennebec river and Sebec lake. 

Nicholas A

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The sky matching my handlebar tape yesterday. 

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Jay

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I love all the photos and variety of locations and landscapes.  Keep'em coming

Kim H.

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I went on my first group ride last month... my apologies for being late. I enjoyed riding the Willapa Hills Trail out of Chehalis, Washington. This trail used to be a old passenger and freight steam train from the 1930's that ran from Chehalis to South Bend out on the coast of Washington. There are sections of which are paved, yet most it is hard pack dirt and gravel spanning 56 miles. I rode from Adna to Rainbow Falls State Park and back: 30 miles. The weather was perfect. It was cool in the morning and after the fog burnt off abundant sunshine around 70 degrees. This is my favorite trail.

I plan on riding more it in sections of 30 to 32 mile sections at at time on my Clem in the near future. I am waiting currently for the hot weather to cool down from the 80's to 90 degrees to the mid-70's to low 70's. I don't do hot weather.

Kim Hetzel.

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Kim H.

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Kim H.

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Kim H.

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IMG_2776.jpegIMG_2779.jpegIMG_2774.jpegIMG_2780.jpegIMG_2773.jpegWe have been having great Summer weather here in Wisconsin, fortunate to miss out on the extreme heat and flooding. The above average rainfall has made the landscape lush and green and full. Yesterday I rode in Richland County, about an hour or so north of where I live. A wonderful mixed terrain ride on isolated backroads and through several unincorporated towns.
Randy in WI

Kim H.

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@Randy,

Beautiful countryside.
... jealous of your summer weather being cool and green.

Kim Hetzel.

Ted Durant

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Jul 26, 2024, 4:11:00 PM7/26/24
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First ride on Great Lakes Sam. See NBD posting for better pix of the bike. Country biking on a country bike.
Olympus OM-D EM1 / Olympus 45mm/f1.8

Apologies to Appaloosa owners.

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Ted Durant
Milwaukee WI USA

Kyle Cotchett

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Jul 27, 2024, 4:33:00 AM7/27/24
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A recent S24O out along the Puget Sound with some friends. It was the first camping trip on my modded Bleriot. Hope ya'll are havin fun out there!

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SallyG

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Rode to Morro Rock and watched the surfers this morning; they did not seem put off by several shark reports here and in Cayucos!

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Ted Durant

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Jul 28, 2024, 4:37:13 PM7/28/24
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So many fun, great photos!

Today I rode my purple bike past some purple flowers, so of course I had to take a photo. Some nice people in a car saw me stop and turned around to ask if I was okay.

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john Bokman

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Absolutely gorgeous color scheme; nicely appointed. Thanks for the photos.

John
Portland, OR

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ly29

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Thanks for all the beautiful Riv + scenery images that everyone is sharing. So inspirational. My favorite thread in this group. Can’t wait to get a Riv and add to the juice.

The light within me honors the light within you!

"I'd put my money on solar energy... I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that."
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Chris Halasz

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Maybe a final cool morning of summer 2024, temps in the 60s and heading to the low 70s, fog bank still in the distant upper right hand side of the photo looking out toward the Channel Islands

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Getting warmer now! 

- Chris 

Patrick Moore

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I enjoy the seaside or near-sea phtos and envy those riding near the sea. 96* during today's ride, 98* at end of Saturday's ride. Of course, we're dry -- which is why we have no seas nearby; or perhaps vice versa.

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Chris Halasz

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Patrick 

More photos of New Mexico-ABQ rides on your beautifully constructed bikes please! 

Ron Cramer

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Le Bleriot does the Copper Triangle.  Grateful I had a triple!



On Sat, Jul 6, 2024, 9:36 AM Mike Rossi <mwill...@gmail.com> wrote:
Almost too hot, or humid, to be riding, but I made it to the ruins of the Carhartt mansion by the Catawba River this morning. The Susie navigates the more difficult trails around the area better than I expected.

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On Friday, July 5, 2024 at 3:26:06 PM UTC-4 Jay wrote:
One facet about the northern hemisphere is you never know what you'll get in terms of temperature.  Went for a ride last week, morning temp was 7.8C.  A few days before, 42C with humidity, and now it's about 36C with humidity.  I love all times of year, as long as I can ride weekly.

This was a 65km mixed surface ride from home and back.  20km on quiet roads, 45km on a rail trail.  The Roadini is now my favourite bike of all time.  I'm retiring my road bike, as I have two wheel sets for this bike, one with 43mm for mixed/gravel, and a set with fast 30mm tires.

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On Friday, July 5, 2024 at 10:39:50 AM UTC-4 ted...@gmail.com wrote:
New Riv. :-)
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On Jul 5, 2024, at 7:49 AM, DavidP <dphi...@gmail.com> wrote:

Mark - my silver bike is an early 2000s aluminum framed Marin MTB. The brushed aluminum frame is what caught my attention when it popped up locally. I rebuilt it from the frame up as kind of an ATB cruiser and use it as my vacation / campground bike. I love the way it rides.

There are some photos from when it was built over in this BikeForums thread: https://www.bikeforums.net/23054376-post1150.html

That's a nice story about meeting Bob Shields. I remember seeing the Southwest Cycle shop as we drove down Main street in Southwest Harbor on our recent trip.

-Dave

On Thursday, July 4, 2024 at 4:54:50 PM UTC-4 Hoch in ut wrote:
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Happy 4th!
On Monday, June 24, 2024 at 4:14:05 PM UTC-6 Ted Durant wrote:
Okay, it's officially summer. Near perfect conditions today, lots of sun, not much wind (and what there was came of the lake so nice and cool), fields starting to come up. It's been a wet spring so it's green green green everywhere. Paradise Rd is ... paradise on wheels. Downhill this direction.

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Ted Durant
Milwaukee, WI USA

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Steve Aldana

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Aug 8, 2024, 3:33:48 PM8/8/24
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Hello from San Diego. 

Steve

Patrick Moore

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I replied to Chris offlist that I was in a very desultory way "working" on a portfolio of photos of bosque-adjacent residential neighborhoods that I often ride through, but as, if that happens, it will happen slowly, here's a favorite from Oct 2023. The ditch has just been dammed off as the absence of water but still-wet soil indicates, and the changing leaves match the bar tape and trim.

Below, another one from 3 months ago from a path that I'd forgotten about and inadvertently found again. There is a spider's web of acequia trails and, like Ralph Wiggums at the Easter Egg hunt, I very quickly forget those I've traveled and re-discover them with glee. This makes life simple.
Lastly, also from late May, El Rio Grande in flood -- nice change from 2023 when it almost dried up completely. This shows just the channel West of the towhead; the Eastern channel is as wide.

I rode the same bike, now with even nicer (for this bike) Oracle Ridges.


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Patrick Moore

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Aside, but worth noting: Paul Horgan's classic "Great River," 1000+ pages of New Mexico history with the Rio Grande as instrument, from before the Indians* thru the conquista, the friars, the revolt, the reconquista, the Apaches, the Yanks, and modern America. Wonderful book. Amazon has it.

*My brother, close friends with Hopi and Navajo, says that they prefer "Indian."


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... Lastly, also from late May, El Rio Grande in flood -- nice change from 2023 when it almost dried up completely. This shows just the channel West of the towhead; the Eastern channel is as wide.

Patrick Moore

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Ill written. That should have been: "... from before the Indians to the Pueblos to the Hispanics fleeing the tyranny of the Mexican colonial government to the missions ..."


On Thu, Aug 8, 2024 at 6:27 PM Patrick Moore <bert...@gmail.com> wrote:
... 1000+ pages of New Mexico history with the Rio Grande as instrument, from before the Indians* thru the conquista, the friars, the revolt, the reconquista, the Apaches, the Yanks, and modern America. Wonderful book. Amazon has it.

*My brother, close friends with Hopi and Navajo, says that they prefer "Indian."


On Thu, Aug 8, 2024 at 6:19 PM Patrick Moore <bert...@gmail.com> wrote:
... Lastly, also from late May, El Rio Grande in flood -- nice change from 2023 when it almost dried up completely. This shows just the channel West of the towhead; the Eastern channel is as wide.

Chris Halasz

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Patrick 

The photos bring memories of New Mexico: We were very close to moving to ABQ in 2016 or so, and spent a few windless days riding our Bromptons all about town. The company ended up transferring me elsewhere! 

The Super C trunk sack looks great on the Matthews. Going to look into one of those for a friend perplexed over trunks and panniers. The wider tires totally throw off perception of wheel size. 

Going to check to see if the local library has "Great River". Just finished Matthew Stewart's fascinating "The Emancipation of the Mind: Radical Philosophy, the War Over Slavery, and the Refounding of America". Check your local library. 

(Not sure if I'm the one you referenced offline - never reached my in(or spam)box.)

- Chris 

Patrick Moore

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Chris: Yes, I privately emailed you in first response to your request for NM photos. No matter, since I sent a later message publicly.

Will have to look for The Emancipation of the Mind: Radical Philosophy, the War Over Slavery, and the Refounding of America.

I Googled reviews of the same and read the ones in the NYT and Goodreads. In the first I immediately saw this:

What was the Civil War about? In a word, slavery.

What actually caused the war, however, is a vastly more difficult idea. Try this explanation on for size: The driving force in American politics in the decades after the American Revolution was the rise of an arrogant, ruthless, parasitic oligarchy in the South, built on a foundation of Christian religion and a vision of permanent, God-ordained economic inequality.


True and false: All is true except "built on a foundation of Christian religion." It was not built on Christianity. Southern slave owners distorted Christianity -- that means, heresy -- to justify their belief that blacks were less than fully human. Truly vicious slavery, as in Uncle Tom's cabin, came only with pseudo-Darwinist ideology; it did not come from St. Paul. The reviewer doesn't know his history. 

While modern philosophers undoubtedly provided doctrinal justification for the flight against slavery, evangelical Christianity and Quakerism and British Methodism were at least as active. Harriet Beecher Stowe was a Calvinist, not a modern German philosopher. And secular abolitionists usually absorbed parts of Christian morality or at least moralism while rejecting the supporting doctrines.

So framing the question in terms of revolutionary thinkers versus counterrevolutionary Christians is at very best a very small part of the truth and that small part very distorted; as so many authors, Stewart sees a bit of the truth and jumps on as the whole solution -- the everlasting error of philosophers.

One interesting thing (if one can use such an anodyne word of something as evil as the Holocaust) about 19th and 20th century white Southern American racism is its paranoid and malicious character, not shared by Spanish, Portuguese, French, or even British racists; even the apartheidist Boers didn't go so far. It was matched in malice perhaps only by the triumphalist Wilhemine German colonizers, certainly themselves social Darwinists. I'm just old enough to have seen the tail end of Jim Crow in Georgia in the 1960s, just before Maynard Jackson and recall this paranoid quality. But none of this has anything to do with Christianity. St. Paul may have accepted de facto first-century Roman slavery and counseled slaves to bear their lot (but slavery was everywhere in the Biblical Levant, even among the Jews) but he was in no doubt about their full humanity.

Patrick Moore, Ph.D. in Philosophy, Universite' Laval, mille neuf cent quatre vingt neuf.




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Kyle Cotchett

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Takin a photo break in the shade on these hot PNW summer days.


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Patrick Moore

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Beautiful photo, and we were just up in the PNW this past week. Trails were amazing! Didn't bring the bikes, but I could've done my trail running - all under shaded canopy - in moccasins. I miss my Bleriot! 

Kim H.

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Excellent photograph, Kyle !
Everything about it is outstanding.

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Ted Fay

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The Midwest says “hello” to the views of the water. 

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I went on a short bike ride this past week on a hot afternoon only to find myself resting on a rock in the shade near a bicycle trail with my Clem nearby. I took this picture whilst I was sitting down.

The pink nail polish I added to the outer parts of the front derailleur is for helping me see if the chain is centered.

Kim Hetzel.

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Kyle Cotchett

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thanks for all the photo love - been havin fun with the camera again and the bicycle always comes through as a good muse. I have been posting more photos over here if you're interested.

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Would love to add some, but I'm still in the bottleneck.



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Been off the bike for weeks due to a son's wedding then Covid, finally negative and the first order of business was to ride. Homer is at the Esopus Creek in Boiceville, NY.

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A couple pics from a 6-day bike camping trip in the San Juan Islands in early July.
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Eric Marth

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Beautiful Sam build and photo, Steve, love those tones and the parts selection. 

Ted Durant

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Well I can't compete with the San Juan Islands!!

First 200km ride of the year today. Usually I have one of those in by the start of summer, and now it feels like summer is almost over. We had some <60 deg f mornings recently, that felt like back-to-school weather. This morning we had thick fog, especially in the low areas. I modified my Holy Kettle RUSA perm route and went by the place where we got supplies back when we kept a horse. Many father-daughter bonding memories here.

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Some places the fog was quite thick, making me thankful for good lights, front & rear. The corn is tall and fragrant. 

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No more photos after this one. I lowered my nose and finished in 7:30 (riding time). Now enjoying a Sprecher root beer poured over homemade vanilla ice cream.

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(needed the hb bag space for a 3rd water bottle ... one minor flaw on the Sam Hillborne)

RichS

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August heat and clouds in Georgia. We're still experiencing 90 degree temperatures. Plenty of summer riding left:-)

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Best,
Rich in Hotlanta

Chester

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Very un-scenic picture...or maybe very scenic, I guess, depending on how you look at it. 

Have a rectangular handlebar bag on my wife's Clem, but my Roadini has a barrel/burrito-shaped bag and sometimes I fantasize about riding around with an actual burrito in it, in lieu of traditional caloric fuel.

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Chester
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Josh C

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Down by the river, Indianapolis, IN

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Nicholas A

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Exploring on Homer..

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@Nicholas,

What part of the country are you in?

Kim Hetzel. 

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Matthew Miller

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bunch of 35mm shots from recent bike camping trip to Catalina Island, CA. They give you an orange deer vest for visibility but that thing was driving me nuts so I tied it to my rear bag. however a few too many bumps sent that thing straight into my cassette, hence the roadside repair photo haha. 
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Steve

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Matthew, great shots!  Looks like Catalina must be a magical place to knock around.

Steve in AVL

Stephen

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Lovin the film shots matthew! The susie looks great. 

Kyle Cotchett

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Those photos came out great! That slugstone frame really looks in its element loaded up and out on the trails.

Sebastian Rodriguez

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Here are a couple of a Dark Gold Homer down in Southern CA.
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Sebastian Rodriguez

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Sebastian, good looking Homer. Nice parts too!

Best,
Rich in ATL 

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Matthew Miller

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thanks all! yeah the Susie was perfect out there :)

Keith P.

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Awesome photos Matthew!
Living so close by, I may have to pick your brain about camping out there. 
Looks like you packed pretty light. Does your tent pack down into one of those front or rear bags?
k.

Matthew Miller

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@Keith P for sure, hit me up if you have any questions! Everything fit into two of the small Ron's bikes Fab's Chest bags. Heaviest single item for me was water, but next time I plan to carry a lot less as there are quite a few refill spots around the island. I was prepared for some more remote days but with a bike you can really get around the island pretty fast and it ends up being pretty cushy with options to eat at the airport or harbors if you want. Main sleeping gear I use is a Durston X-Mid 1 tent, Sea to Summit inflatable sleeping pad, and Firebelly quilt. The sleeping pad and quilt I picked up at the REI used store in Manhattan Beach. I think you can get lucky with some deals there if you're willing to settle for some wear or do some light repairs. 
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Eric Marth

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Matthew — Looks like a nice trip out in Catalina! 

Here's one from my ride in Goochland & Louisa earlier this week

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Stephen

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Nice one Eric! I've been missin my appa this summer..

Here's a self portrait, cruisin on the ram around emeryville bout a month back.

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Drew Saunders

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Back on June 29th, I decided to try to see if I could carry my Leica M6TTL with Elmar 50/2.8 collapsible lens in my Swift Kestrel bag. It fits, but at 2lbs, it presses against the brake cables, so I won't carry it again in this bag:
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I rode to the Pulgas Water temple in Woodside, California, then stopped again at the Woodside Historic General Store. I finally finished the roll, got the film developed, scanned the negatives and did the PhotoShop work, so here's a few that I took, starting with "I've never been there before 9AM before, so I didn't know the gates were unlocked at 9!":
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Patrick Moore

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I haven't yet figured out how to get photos from my iPhone to my Mac (neither iCloud nor iPhoto are cooperating) so I've had to manually send them by email to the Mac and download. Also, I apparently managed to lose a passle of better photos from the Thomas Village neighborhood which I will find or re-take.

I mean to: find a way to download photos, then organize them, then get them onto a web page, but here is a start. 

There're the enclaves off of Valley View Road, then Thomas Village -- just a street since I lost the other photos, then Los Duranes from this afternoon.

The VV neighborhoods are unpscale enclaves tucked in behind Coors Blvd -- my ex and I lived in one before our divorce; Thomas Village is also a modestly upscale one  just East of the RG recreational path (over a little footbridge) and just South of Candelaria, and Los Duranes, the most interesting, is an old pre-development North Valley neighborhood named after the founding family. Working class, Hispanic, with the odd new treeless and sterile McMansion looking for cheaper land.
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Patrick Moore

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Forgot to add of course: I'm undertaken a modest and haphazard project to collect photos of bosque area neighborhoods. I find this interesting in itself, but it also provides a reason to do the sort of riding I used to enjoy as a boy, just riding around a city to explore different neighborhoods. I recall doing this in Delhi as a 12 year old on my hot-rodded (crimson repaint, aftermarket AW hub) road brake Hero, particularly the neighborhoods where a couple of girls I fancied lived.

I had through that a Clem or suchlike might be the ideal bike for this, but today I rode the Joe Starck gofast and I was very pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed just toodling around Los Duranes as an extended detour from the RG bike path. The bike is perfect comfortable for this sort of riding as for just about all other pavement riding.

I stopped at Albertson's on the way home and the Sackvill Small carried:

1 "handle" of Gordon's London gin
1 quart of lemon juice
1 pint of dill pickles
1 pint of whole mile
Fat loaf of P Farm whole wheat

Pretty good since the bag already contained a medium sized dopp kit with bike stuff in it and a Lezyne minipump
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Patrick Moore

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One more (need to organize my thoughts as well as my photos): I'm using the camera on an iPhone 8 and in our mile-high summer sun it's hard to see the screen; and then there's my so-far hopeless photo inability. I wonder if it's worth buying an inexpensive digital camera that lets you look through a viewfinder ...? Or, if one is incorrigibly incompetent with an iPhone camera, will that mean that buying another camera is simply a waste of money?

I emphasize "cheap." I know my daughter took good photos with this iP 8 (I use her cast-offs) so perhaps the wisest thing is to get better at taking snapshots (and I also emphasize "snap" shots).

Thoughts?

Patrick Moore, who did finally get a monocular for beast watching on bosque rides.

Keith P.

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Thanks for the gear info Matthew! I have been looking at links and getting ideas… I’ll definitely hit you up with the questions I haven’t thought of yet. An Island overnight looks too fun to pass up. 

Shawn, I’ve been locked out of the water temple before too. Our only consolation is that Eric seems to be locked out of knife sharpening in his photo.

Stephen - Love these mounted self-portraits 👌

Here are a few from a (mostly) urban excursion a few weeks ago. Still dialing in focus on the Olympus XA.

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Matthew Williams

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Went for a ride along the waterfront and paused for a view of the Golden Gate.

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Ted Durant

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I brought Great Lakes Sam to the West Coast, because my daughter didn't have room in the car to bring West Coast Sam to Carmel, where we're having a week of family fun. Coincidentally, Lael Wilcox was scheduled to ride right by us today. The closure of Route 1 south of here, however, forced her to change her route. She spent last night in Marina, a bit north of here, and headed east from there, then south. So, I thought I'd ride up to Marina this morning and try to catch her and ride with her for a ways. I laid out a 190km route that would have me ride with her for about half of it. The ride up Monterey Bay this morning was quite foggy. This frame from a video doesn't really do it justice. Quite beautiful riding along the dunes.

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Somehow Lael got away from her hotel without me seeing her. By the time her dot moved, she was already a good 20+ minutes ahead of me. I spent 100km chasing her, getting within maybe 5 minutes, but she turned south where I needed to head back north to Carmel and I never saw her (or Rue, one of my all time favorite photographers). Dang, she is a fast rider! The ride went down the valley along the 101 and it got very hot. What with the heat and me riding a hot pace and not staying up with my fueling, I was really burnt at the turnaround point. Which really took its toll because the second half of the ride featured a big climb. I had to ride slowly and stop several times to manage the heat. I even walked one steep section (upwards of 8-10%, so not crazy steep, but it was hot and I was tired). As always, the effort is rewarded by views and, in this case, a 60kph descent through some wooded twisties. Much fun. This is the view back to the NE from near the top of the main climb. Great ride for a Sam Hillborne - didn't slow me down during the first half time-trial, and the cushy tires were fabulous on the bumpy roads through the hills.

Labor Day next weekend ... the unofficial end of summer!

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Ted Fay

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Ted,

Great shot, and thanks for the story.

 It would be a blast to ride into Chicago with what I hope is a big group following Lael. 

Has anyone heard of any estimates as to when this finish might be? 

Ted

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I brought Great Lakes Sam to the West Coast, because my daughter didn't have room in the car to bring West Coast Sam to Carmel, where we're having a week of family fun. Coincidentally, Lael Wilcox was scheduled to ride right by us today. The closure of Route 1 south of here, however, forced her to change her route. She spent last night in Marina, a bit north of here, and headed east from there, then south. So, I thought I'd ride up to Marina this morning and try to catch her and ride with her for a ways. I laid out a 190km route that would have me ride with her for about half of it. The ride up Monterey Bay this morning was quite foggy. This frame from a video doesn't really do it justice. Quite beautiful riding along the dunes.

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Somehow Lael got away from her hotel without me seeing her. By the time her dot moved, she was already a good 20+ minutes ahead of me. I spent 100km chasing her, getting within maybe 5 minutes, but she turned south where I needed to head back north to Carmel and I never saw her (or Rue, one of my all time favorite photographers). Dang, she is a fast rider! The ride went down the valley along the 101 and it got very hot. What with the heat and me riding a hot pace and not staying up with my fueling, I was really burnt at the turnaround point. Which really took its toll because the second half of the ride featured a big climb. I had to ride slowly and stop several times to manage the heat. I even walked one steep section (upwards of 8-10%, so not crazy steep, but it was hot and I was tired). As always, the effort is rewarded by views and, in this case, a 60kph descent through some wooded twisties. Much fun. This is the view back to the NE from near the top of the main climb. Great ride for a Sam Hillborne - didn't slow me down during the first half time-trial, and the cushy tires were fabulous on the bumpy roads through the hills.

Labor Day next weekend ... the unofficial end of summer!

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Ted, your GLSam looks splendid with the California backdrop!  But, do you think you could have caught Lael had you ridden West Coast Sam?


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Ted Durant

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> On Aug 28, 2024, at 9:53 AM, John Bokman <jpbc...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Ted, your GLSam looks splendid with the California backdrop! But, do you think you could have caught Lael had you ridden West Coast Sam?
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Hah, no, ‘fraid not. Maybe on my Riv Road, but then I’d have really suffered on the climb with its 39x26 “small” gear.

Chris Halasz

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Late summer late evening ride in the local woods: 

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And an end of summer 'photo': 

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Patrick Moore

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Both photos have an elegiac quality -- another spring and summer passing into autumn.

The NY cover reminds me of Flavia de Luce's "BSA Keep-Fit" from the Alan Bradly series.

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Late summer late evening ride in the local woods:  ...
 

Jay

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It has been fun following this thread.  In the beginning, summer was just starting and that meant longer days with lots of sunlight.  I'm not a fan of the heat, but I do like light!  As it's nearly September, I feel the shift already; when I leave my house for a pre-work ride I'm now using a headlight, and the woods are quite dark just before 6:30am.  I actually enjoy this time of the year, the additional layers that are, sometimes, required.  Looking forward to the next crop of photos.

John Rinker

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Summer keeps on giving up here in the Slocan Valley. Atlantis on the Alpacka.
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Cheers, John

Kyle Cotchett

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Just took a six day tour going from Seattle to Spokane here in WA. Here's a couple photos of my bleriot loaded up! And a few bonus photos of by far my favorite section of the tour - riding through lower crab creek road. Hope your all enjoying the last bits of summer!

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Kyle

John Rinker

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Hey Kyle,

That looks like a fine ride. What route did you take? The Palouse-Cascades trail?

Cheers, John

John Dewey

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Nice, Rich. I'll always miss our towering GA thunderheads. 

JD

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August heat and clouds in Georgia. We're still experiencing 90 degree temperatures. Plenty of summer riding left:-)

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Best,
Rich in Hotlanta
On Wednesday, August 14, 2024 at 4:23:26 PM UTC-4 Ted Durant wrote:
Well I can't compete with the San Juan Islands!!

First 200km ride of the year today. Usually I have one of those in by the start of summer, and now it feels like summer is almost over. We had some <60 deg f mornings recently, that felt like back-to-school weather. This morning we had thick fog, especially in the low areas. I modified my Holy Kettle RUSA perm route and went by the place where we got supplies back when we kept a horse. Many father-daughter bonding memories here.

IMG_2238.jpeg

Some places the fog was quite thick, making me thankful for good lights, front & rear. The corn is tall and fragrant. 

IMG_2239.jpeg

No more photos after this one. I lowered my nose and finished in 7:30 (riding time). Now enjoying a Sprecher root beer poured over homemade vanilla ice cream.

Camera - iPhone SE (II)
(needed the hb bag space for a 3rd water bottle ... one minor flaw on the Sam Hillborne)

Ted Durant
Milwaukee WI USA

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And when it comes to long distance episodes, don't forget about your old neighbor (and mine), Lon Haldeman.

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Hey John,

Yeah we took the Palouse-Cascades trail for the most part! We headed north to Spokane around Revere, WA and eventually linked up with the Columbia Plateau Trail. The trail was awesome, but could get gnarly for long stretches with the track ballast. A few times we took the neighboring roads to get a break from swimming upstream, but there are sections where it's unavoidable. The heat had us getting up early to get miles done before the hottest points of the day. It made for some great views of the morning light on the golden rolling hills!

Kyle

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John Rinker

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Thanks for the information Kyle! Did you run a GPS track of your route by chance?

Cheers, John

Kyle Cotchett

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We did not run a GPS track on the route, but my friend did map the route out on ridewithgps and we followed that pretty closely the whole way. On the last day, instead of McCall Rd we took Revere Rd into Lamont. I am not sure how we would have actually got on McCall Rd. It looked doable on paper, but not so much in real life.

Day 1
Day 5

I'll have a ride report with some photos up in a week or so on my website if you're interested!


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Thanks for the information Kyle! Did you run a GPS track of your route by chance?

Cheers, John

On Sunday, September 8, 2024 at 10:10:08 AM UTC-7 kyleco...@gmail.com wrote:
Hey John,

Yeah we took the Palouse-Cascades trail for the most part! We headed north to Spokane around Revere, WA and eventually linked up with the Columbia Plateau Trail. The trail was awesome, but could get gnarly for long stretches with the track ballast. A few times we took the neighboring roads to get a break from swimming upstream, but there are sections where it's unavoidable. The heat had us getting up early to get miles done before the hottest points of the day. It made for some great views of the morning light on the golden rolling hills!

Kyle

On Sun, Sep 8, 2024 at 7:54 AM John Rinker <jwri...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey Kyle,

That looks like a fine ride. What route did you take? The Palouse-Cascades trail?

Cheers, John

On Saturday, September 7, 2024 at 9:52:04 PM UTC-7 kyleco...@gmail.com wrote:
Just took a six day tour going from Seattle to Spokane here in WA. Here's a couple photos of my bleriot loaded up! And a few bonus photos of by far my favorite section of the tour - riding through lower crab creek road. Hope your all enjoying the last bits of summer!

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Kyle

On Saturday, September 7, 2024 at 8:58:28 PM UTC-7 John Rinker wrote:
Summer keeps on giving up here in the Slocan Valley. Atlantis on the Alpacka.
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Cheers, John
On Saturday, August 31, 2024 at 1:34:14 PM UTC-7 Jay wrote:
It has been fun following this thread.  In the beginning, summer was just starting and that meant longer days with lots of sunlight.  I'm not a fan of the heat, but I do like light!  As it's nearly September, I feel the shift already; when I leave my house for a pre-work ride I'm now using a headlight, and the woods are quite dark just before 6:30am.  I actually enjoy this time of the year, the additional layers that are, sometimes, required.  Looking forward to the next crop of photos.

On Saturday, August 31, 2024 at 11:38:04 AM UTC-4 Chris Halasz wrote:
Late summer late evening ride in the local woods: 

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And an end of summer 'photo': 

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On Wednesday, August 28, 2024 at 10:05:39 AM UTC-7 Ted Durant wrote:

> On Aug 28, 2024, at 9:53 AM, John Bokman <jpbc...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Ted, your GLSam looks splendid with the California backdrop! But, do you think you could have caught Lael had you ridden West Coast Sam?
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Hah, no, ‘fraid not. Maybe on my Riv Road, but then I’d have really suffered on the climb with its 39x26 “small” gear.

Ted Durant
Milwaukee WI USA

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Lovely ride yesterday with the Major Taylor’s Trailkeeper organization here in Chicago. Fabulous fall day ride to Major Taylor’s gravesite. 

The inaugural ride with my new Pass & Stow front rack, loaded up with my Restrap Rando Bag. Thanks to the good team at Mack’s Bike and Goods here in Evanston IL for getting me all set up with the bike, fenders, lights, and the rack. 

Unfortunately my Platypus was the only Riv on the ride, although well commented on. 
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Ted

On Sep 8, 2024, at 10:27 AM, John Dewey <john...@gmail.com> wrote:


And when it comes to long distance episodes, don't forget about your old neighbor (and mine), Lon Haldeman.

JD

On Tue, Aug 27, 2024 at 9:41 PM Ted Durant <tedd...@gmail.com> wrote:
I brought Great Lakes Sam to the West Coast, because my daughter didn't have room in the car to bring West Coast Sam to Carmel, where we're having a week of family fun. Coincidentally, Lael Wilcox was scheduled to ride right by us today. The closure of Route 1 south of here, however, forced her to change her route. She spent last night in Marina, a bit north of here, and headed east from there, then south. So, I thought I'd ride up to Marina this morning and try to catch her and ride with her for a ways. I laid out a 190km route that would have me ride with her for about half of it. The ride up Monterey Bay this morning was quite foggy. This frame from a video doesn't really do it justice. Quite beautiful riding along the dunes.

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Somehow Lael got away from her hotel without me seeing her. By the time her dot moved, she was already a good 20+ minutes ahead of me. I spent 100km chasing her, getting within maybe 5 minutes, but she turned south where I needed to head back north to Carmel and I never saw her (or Rue, one of my all time favorite photographers). Dang, she is a fast rider! The ride went down the valley along the 101 and it got very hot. What with the heat and me riding a hot pace and not staying up with my fueling, I was really burnt at the turnaround point. Which really took its toll because the second half of the ride featured a big climb. I had to ride slowly and stop several times to manage the heat. I even walked one steep section (upwards of 8-10%, so not crazy steep, but it was hot and I was tired). As always, the effort is rewarded by views and, in this case, a 60kph descent through some wooded twisties. Much fun. This is the view back to the NE from near the top of the main climb. Great ride for a Sam Hillborne - didn't slow me down during the first half time-trial, and the cushy tires were fabulous on the bumpy roads through the hills.

Labor Day next weekend ... the unofficial end of summer!

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Ted Durant
Milwaukee WI USA (Reporting from Carmel CA USA)

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Checking out a new Brooks Imperial on my Homer with a loop around the Ashokan Reservoir, a beautiful day in the western Catskills.
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Andy Scherer
Manhattan & Woodstock NY USA

John Rinker

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Hey Kyle,

Thank you. As someone who adores maps of all kinds, your GPS route is such a fun way to follow along vicariously. Cheers, John

DavidP

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  Summer temps on today's ride but signs that fall is coming.

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-Dave (near Boston)

Ted Durant

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On Friday, September 13, 2024 at 2:14:33 PM UTC-5 DavidP wrote:
  Summer temps on today's ride but signs that fall is coming.
Lovely! Same here ... looks, feels, and smells like the end of summer.

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No bike in pic (I need to get better at that).

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On Friday, September 13, 2024 at 2:14:33 PM UTC-5 DavidP wrote:
  Summer temps on today's ride but signs that fall is coming.
Lovely! Same here ... looks, feels, and smells like the end of summer.

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Milwaukee WI USA
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IMG_2866.jpegSummer-like weather here in Wisconsin, although starting to see hints of Fall color.
Randy in WI

Stephen

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Looking down on Bolinas Lagoon from ridgecrest blvd, on a labor day weekend short tour adventure.

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