2020 : Our Rides in Words, Photos & Videos

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The snow finally cleared out here in Colorado, good to get out and ride (nice 51F day). Boulder Flatirons to the left and Longs Peak (14259ft) in the middle.
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Love Boulder used to live on Pine street and work at Pedro Verdes Mexican restaurant on Pearl street in college. Good times. There used to be a world class bike race through town if I remember correctly...
 
Chargeride said:
Weather on and off, strangely rained on while sat on a beach in complete blue skies, cloud the size of a small dog sneaked up on us.
We are staying in a house thats actually smaller than a beachut, but its fantastic with a beautiful widescreen view over the bay.

The beach looks very moody today and as I mentioned in the last post it was used as training for the American landings at Normandy because of the similarities to the French beaches, but the German eboats turned up and sent 750 men to their deaths and seeing it now can in no way concentrate the mind to the loss and horror of that day, it was kept a secret till after the war.
I cant even begin to context it in my mind, to drown on a foreign beach, so far from your loved ones without even seeing a day of actual combat.
Men who didnt even really have a hand in this conflict
Ive been watching the tourists read the plaques, reading their faces as the enormity of it dawns on them.
Just..really..never again.

Sorry to be so morose.
It was just a blip I suppose in the carnage of war.
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My future father landed at Pointe Du Hoc on D-day...😔
 
Slapton Sands weighed heavily on OverLord planners. They were worried that if a few German E Boats (irony intended) could cause such losses what would the sluggish, confined Normandy fleet suffer. Anthony Beevor explores this in his ‘D-Day’ as well as other histories.
 
David Berry said:
Remember to bring my Medjool dates, Dave?

View attachment 69912 Humpty and Friends : Wanora, QLD
Brisbane Valley Rail Trail​
It was early enough for the mist to be lingering amongst the trees and dew-laden webs to be caught in the grass… an appropriate time to cadge snacks from the first rail trail user of the day?

The termite mound (right foreground) was decapitated by fencing contractors last month. Watch out snipped-off ends of barbed wire when you ride anywhere near a new fence!
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Another nominee for the EBR photo of the year! ;)

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David Berry said:
A few years ago I read a book, Slapton Sands by Francis Cottam, which was about this extraordinary period (immediately before I was born) spent preparing for the D-Day invasions (immediately after I was born). Eisenhower and his top commanders spent the short interval between Ready! and Invade! poring over tide tables and weather forecasts; my mother used the lull to bring me into the world! At that time my father, from Ashton-under-Lyne in Lancashire, was somewhere in Africa servicing Sunderland and Catalina flying boats.

So much went on behind the fighting. You've brought it all back and I've moved Slapton Sands onto the 'read next' list on my Kindle app. Thanks.
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ll look that up, struggling here with potato speed internet, I'll have to post when I get home.
 
No wind today …

Nudgee Beach Wetlands, Brisbane

Moreton Bay Cycleway
Nudgee Beach Wetlands
2020-10-29​
Overnight there had been torrential rain along the coast and this morning I was a bit hesitant to head that way. It's just as well I did go: no rain and no wind. Of course, there was plenty of water around!

Two weeks ago I took the following photo at the same spot, looking straight down at the cracked mud with the wading birds' footprints inviting fossilisation. All changed!

Nudgee Beach Wetlands

Nudgee Beach Wetlands
2020-10-16​
 
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fooferdoggie said:
Hardly go anywhere for got pic lately or hate to stop for pics. when it is cold out. got another pic of mount hood this evening. also I liked how the sunset was showing through the tree with the contrail too.
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I miss the PNW, especially now that I have an ebike I can go longer distances on.
Climbed Mt. Hood back in the early ‘80s and camped 500‘ from the peak. That night we got hit with 80mph winds which broke/blew away a number of our tents, backpacks and nobody got any sleep. Sadly, we were turned away from finishing the climb.
 
Dallant said:
I miss the PNW, especially now that I have an ebike I can go longer distances on.
Climbed Mt. Hood back in the early ‘80s and camped 500‘ from the peak. That night we got hit with 80mph winds which broke/blew away a number of our tents, backpacks and nobody got any sleep. Sadly, we were turned away from finishing the climb.
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we want to ride to it but it would be a two day trip. it always looks so close.
 
Stefan Mikes said:
Roadrunner Once

Everybody must have their own "song of the road". Here's mine:

Just replace the word "drove" with "rode" and we're having it! :)
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If there's one song I always love riding to, it would be Love and Rockets "Yin and Yang (The Flowerpot Man)".

Other than that, it's a real mixed bag of mixes from just about any genre - swamp rock to hip hop, post-punk/new wave to jazz to 50's rock n roll (Buddy Holly), depending on the kind of ride, or mood, I'm in. A good post-punk/industrial mix with band like Ministry, KMFDM, and Killing Joke will always get you moving. :D
 
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Can you ever have too much water?

Redcliffe Peninula Water Reservoir

Redcliffe Peninsula​
There were no birds in the real wetlands yesterday so I had to content myself with their friends on the hill, not that the highest point on the peninsula really deserves that title.
 
Taking our humans for a walk …

Scarborough, Redcliffe Peninsula

Scarborough, Moreton Bay
8.35 am; 45 km of 80 km ride​
The Moreton Bay Cycleway is just visible on the extreme left. It runs behind the Norfolk Island pines and around the 'top' of the Redcliffe Peninsula before hugging mangrove-lined Deception Bay and, eventually, depositing cyclists on Bribie Island on the horizon to the right. I was headed that way for barely another 15 km before heading inland (past the water tank, 60 km) and along the Redcliffe Peninsula Rail Trail.

Those apartment blocks weren't there a few years ago. Presumably, their presence has something to do with the enormous increase in human population, starting with the Baby Boomer years.
 
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