SHOW us YOUR PIX here .... Odd, WeiRd ,UnUSuAl or EyE CaTchIng things from your rides

[Jeremy McCreary]

No bike on this trip to Portland to see our daughter, but I'm assuming that @fooferdoggie has ridden through the Williams Avenue shopping/art/food district where we're staying.

One of many indicators of the heavy cycling presence in this neighborhood. The adjacent bike lane carried a steady stream of bikes of all kinds.

The nearest supermarket back home has 1 bike lockup. This one has at least a dozen.

A potential ebike fix just a few blocks down from our VRBO. Is this saying that if I return one of these bikes to a BIKETOWN station, I can ride indefinitely for free?

A neighborhood brewery sporting one of the area's many colorful storefront murals. Someone should paste an "Eschew Obfuscation" bumper sticker on the door.

 

[6zfshdb]

One of the trailheads I regularly frequent, has no cell service. The small town where it is located, added a WiFi hot spot to encourage more visitors. To commemorate the improvement, they installed this odd sculpture:

 

[fooferdoggie]

No bike on this trip to Portland to see our daughter, but I'm assuming that @fooferdoggie has ridden through the Williams Avenue shopping/art/food district where we're staying.

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One of many indicators of the heavy cycling presence in this neighborhood. The adjacent bike lane carried a steady stream of bikes of all kinds.

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The nearest supermarket back home has 1 bike lockup. This one has at least a dozen.

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A potential ebike fix just a few blocks down from our VRBO. Is this saying that if I return one of these bikes to a BIKETOWN station, I can ride indefinitely for free?

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A neighborhood brewery sporting one of the area's many colorful storefront murals. Someone should paste an "Eschew Obfuscation" bumper sticker on the door.

yes I have ridden by that ball so many times.

 

[fooferdoggie]

 

[fooferdoggie]

Adidas campas.

 

[Stefan Mikes]

One of the trailheads I regularly frequent, has no cell service. The small town where it is located, added a WiFi hot spot to encourage more visitors. To commemorate the improvement, they installed this odd sculpture:

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Your photo has reminded me of some things we saw on our August 2021 e-bike trip with brother to Kłodzko Valley in Poland, an exciting huge valley almost surrounded by mountains.

This statue was put in Bardo to indicate how many technical MTB singletracks were available in so-called Singletrack Glacensis system.

A velocipede found on our trip.

There, you could take a photo of your family riding a tandem (The wording is: 'The Cycling Village of Wielisław: familywise, healthy, bicycling')

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An urban explorer met at a ruined castle once owned by a Baron von Munchhausen

 

[Art Deco]

Not much cycling, but I went for a ride from Holyhead to find where I learnt to scuba dive forty years ago.

It's somewhere next to this castle.
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I'd found out they long abandoned the dive centre and the attatched hotel
All overgrown and collapsed.
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This was the entrance, and you stepped straight out the back into the sea
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This used be be a busy hotel.
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I can't believe I learned to dive in a Welsh coastal castle and didn't really notice at the time


Visited this slightly famous train station on the way back.
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"This slightly famous train station on the way back." But can you pronounce it properly?

 

[Stefan Mikes]

"This slightly famous train station on the way back." But can you pronounce it properly?

I can sing the name.

Learned from this video You can try it, too

 

[Chargeride]

Us Saxons didn't build those castles to start speaking Welsh

 

[Stefan Mikes]

Us Saxons didn't build those castles to start speaking Welsh

You mean the Conwy Castle?

 

[Chargeride]

 

[fooferdoggie]

 

[DaveMatthews]

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Treecycle?

 

[fooferdoggie]

Treecycle?

this is where the bikes made from wood are grown and harvested.

 

[Stefan Mikes]

A recollection from our August 2020 e-bike ride in Karkonosze (Giant Mountains), Sudety, Poland. The Vang Stave Church in Karpacz is unique (several similar churches can still be found in Norway today). Built around year 1200 in Vang, Norway, the church was constructed without using a single nail. It was bought in 1842 by the King of Prussia Frederic Wilhelm IV, disassembled, transported to Prussia, and eventually reconstructed in today's town of Karpacz. The stone tower was added to protect the church against violent winds blowing from the neighbouring Snowy Mountain.

That was the day I and brother had a little time, so we did a crazily fast Turbo ride uphill from Jelenia Góra/Hirschberg to Karpacz and back

 

[fooferdoggie]

 

[fooferdoggie]

 

[Prairie Dog]

Frankly my dear, I don't give a dam.

 

[Chargeride]

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A recollection from our August 2020 e-bike ride in Karkonosze (Giant Mountains), Sudety, Poland. The Vang Stave Church in Karpacz is unique (several similar churches can still be found in Norway today). Built around year 1200 in Vang, Norway, the church was constructed without using a single nail. It was bought in 1842 by the King of Prussia Frederic Wilhelm IV, disassembled, transported to Prussia, and eventually reconstructed in today's town of Karpacz. The stone tower was added to protect the church against violent winds blowing from the neighbouring Snowy Mountain.

That was the day I and brother had a little time, so we did a crazily fast Turbo ride uphill from Jelenia Góra/Hirschberg to Karpacz and back

I'm going there with a nail detector.

 

[Stefan Mikes]

I'm going there with a nail detector.

There is an old Polish proverb that says:
'To be as unlucky as to have their head cracked by a falling brick in a wooden church'