Show us pictures of where you ride your ebikes!

[Chargeride]

Relatively small forums like this will be the last refuge of the damned, protect it at all costs.
Facebook is just an abomination, everytime someone sends me a facebook link, I click and the sheer horrah of it engulfs me, only use it for stalking exes now

 

[PCeBiker]

So anyway,..

I've got a bunch of cool pictures from my rides last year, but I was hesitant to post them because I keep getting in trouble.

Not just here on this forum, but on the road where people have been cutting me off and spraying gravel at me on the road when they pass me and hit the the gas as they're fishtailing back and forth ten feet in front of me.
That's worse than being coal rolled.
I'm glad I always wear my goggles.

I didn't want to feed into the negativity, so I stopped posting pics on this thread.

Here's a few pictures that bring back some happy memories,..
(I took screenshots of my original pictures and cropped them.
I hope I cropped them enough to not piss anyone off ??)

I realized that most of my issues on the road were at harvest time when I'd stop to take pictures of the crops.

The farmers thought that I was specing out their feilds to steal stuff.
One farmer blew through a stop sign right in front of me and cut me off.
He was waiting for me.
I had to hammer both brakes and I skidded the rear wheel to not get hit.

It was shortly afterward that I realized the value of the crops, and how suspicious I looked taking pictures.


This is a huge pile of sugar beets just after being harvested by a machine similar to a potato picker,..

Most people think sugar comes from sugar cane, but most of it grows underground.


And these are thousands of sweet red peppers that cost a buck a piece at retail prices.
Or $4 each with the new tariffs.

 

[DaveMatthews]

So anyway,..

I've got a bunch of cool pictures from my rides last year, but I was hesitant to post them because I keep getting in trouble.

Not just here on this forum, but on the road where people have been cutting me off and spraying gravel at me on the road when they pass me and hit the the gas as they're fishtailing back and forth ten feet in front of me.
That's worse than being coal rolled.
I'm glad I always wear my goggles.

I didn't want to feed into the negativity, so I stopped posting pics on this thread.

Here's a few pictures that bring back some happy memories,..
(I took screenshots of my original pictures and cropped them.
I hope I cropped them enough to not piss anyone off ??)


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I realized that most of my issues on the road were at harvest time when I'd stop to take pictures of the crops.

The farmers thought that I was specing out their feilds to steal stuff.
One farmer blew through a stop sign right in front of me and cut me off.
He was waiting for me.
I had to hammer both brakes and I skidded the rear wheel to not get hit.

It was shortly afterward that I realized the value of the crops, and how suspicious I looked taking pictures.


This is a huge pile of sugar beets just after being harvested by a machine similar to a potato picker,..

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Most people think sugar comes from sugar cane, but most of it grows underground.


And these are thousands of sweet red peppers that cost a buck a piece at retail prices.
Or $4 each with the new tariffs.


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WTF is wrong with people... cutting you off and spraying gravel? Yikes!

 

[PCeBiker]

I was riding along a back country gravel road last fall and approached a pickup truck parked at the side of the road.

There was a lady in the field that saw me approaching and started running back to her truck with two recyle bags Full of hot tomatoes
(As in stolen, she didn't add the spice yet. )

She got into her truck just as I started to pass her then Hit The Gas, and sped up to pass me back.



Farmers used to have unscrupulous peoples plant pot plants in their corn fields.
You could smell the weed growing by the side of the road.

It's all legal now so everyone in Canada grows pot for fun or shits & giggles.

 

[Chargeride]

People are getting paranoid about being filmed and I can understand why in many cases, Im a lot more careful of what I film and I might just setup my old session 5 mini gopro under the visor for those situations.

 

[Chargeride]

Hot Vodka tastes barfy.
In all my life Ive never considered hot vodka, now I know to avoid it if I did.

Those pictures are giving me 70s vibes, maybe
Today Billie Joe MacAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge playing in the background.

 

[Jeremy McCreary]

Rode by the rock garden at the rail crossing in south Oceanside last week.

It's really grown since the last time I posted about it.

 

[Saratoga Dave]

Quiet morning on the Erie Canal yesterday

 

[Jeremy McCreary]

K and I rode to the Carlsbad Village farmers market last week to pick up some goodies at the always popular Chaupain Bakery booth. Got there 20 minutes after opening, but the Chaupin line was already way too long.

So we went to Plan B, our favorite Village coffee spot, where I had a consolation German chocolate tort. No negative caloric balance on this ride!

Still unwilling to leave our bikes unattended, so it's always a comfort to be able eat outside only a few steps away.

As we rode home to the south on the Coast Highway, hundreds of southbound pelicans passed overhead in Vs of 15-25 birds at maybe 20-25 mph.

Pelicans are amazingly efficient flyers. As they move up and down the coast, they tend to follow the sea cliffs, gliding from one deflected sea breeze updraft to the next with very little flapping in between. The highway also follows the sea cliffs here, so no shortage of opportunities to watch pelicans in flight from the saddle. Such elegant birds on the wing!

 

[Chargeride]

Thats incredible, I would actually be quite disturbed to see that flying overhead, the zombies have found the Zoos.

 

[PCeBiker]

,.. the zombies have found the Zoos.

The flying zombies have made their way to Canada too,..

 

[fooferdoggie]

 

[fooferdoggie]

 

[fooferdoggie]

saw someone having fun with junk.

 

[Slaphappygamer]

saw someone having fun with junk.

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Sometimes you got to do the best with what you got.

 

[6zfshdb]

saw someone having fun with junk.

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Around here, they call that a homeless camp and there would be a whole family living under that tarp.
At least they are health conscious and lift weights with that bench press rig.

 

[DaveMatthews]

Been rainy/ugly around here lately, but after this mornings rain it cleared up. So, after doing some shopping I wanted to get out. Was cooler today, so back to two layers and a vest. Glad I did that as it was a bit windy as well...





The grass is tall and wild now on the greenway heading south...



When is the tide ever in???



Water stop...



It's green!

 

[Watana Bob]

Looks like a very peaceful place to ride Dave, beautiful!

 

[DaveMatthews]

Looks like a very peaceful place to ride Dave, beautiful!

Cheers Bob!
Funny how we can take our immediate surroundings for granted. I'm always drooling at other people's pics as well.

 

[Jeremy McCreary]

Checked up on the local flower farm 2 days ago — different every time I pass this time of year. Previous posts about it here and here.

One new thing: The south slope's now covered in stripes of white, purple, and lavender stock. By far the most fragrant flowers I've encountered here.

Six weeks ago, in early April, they painted an American flag on the same south slope with red, white, and blue flowers. This view is from Poinsettia Park.

Looking down on the starry part of the flag back then.

Back in early April, the north and middle fields on the west slope looked like this. Now that the ranunculas have been harvested, those fields are back to all green.