2020 : Our Rides in Words, Photos & Videos

[Stefan Mikes]

@Akrotiri: try Mapy.cz, which is available as both a smartphone app and http://en.mapy.cz You can download offline maps of Greece and the app and the site will work in English for you. You can plan your routes for Road Bike or MTB. I assure you: you'd be positively surprised!

 

[Deleted member 18083]

A grey day by the (shark-infested?) river …

David, you're the master of trail photography!
Can you explain the meaning of the road-sign?

Northshore, Brisbane River
10.45 am, 58 km​

Monday wasn't the cheeriest of days. No, not because of the overcast skies – they are always welcome – but because the café at Northshore was closed for the first day of the working week, whatever that might be.

This is as far as one can cycle downstream before having to make a decision: north or south, simple. I chose west, heading back the way I come from!

 

[kahuna40]

Took my first ride on my new Rize Leisure Step. I went from Manayunk in Philadelphia along the Kelly drive bike trail to the art museum and back. It was wonderful. It was a 20 mile first ride.

 

[Art Deco]

Took my first ride on my new Rize Leisure Step. I went from Manayunk in Philadelphia along the Kelly drive bike trail to the art museum and back. It was wonderful. It was a 20 mile first ride.

A 20 mile first ebike ride is excellent. The big ebike grin should last a while.

 

[kahuna40]

A 20 mile first ebike ride is excellent. The big ebike grin should last a while.

It was so fun I couldn't sleep last night thinking of all the places I could go.

 

[Art Deco]

"Oh the places you'll go " by Dr. Suess. I used to read that to my daughters.

 

[Art Deco]

...degreased & lubed Trance's chain, now am going to do same on the Vado chain

The most important part of the quote said "Don't expect any machine to stand the abuse of both riding and overhauling"

 

[Stefan Mikes]

The most important part of the quote said "Don't expect any machine to stand the abuse of both riding and overhauling"

...on the same day...

 

[Akrotiri]

@Akrotiri: try Mapy.cz, which is available as both a smartphone app and http://en.mapy.cz You can download offline maps of Greece and the app and the site will work in English for you. You can plan your routes for Road Bike or MTB. I assure you: you'd be positively surprised!

I’ll try it out and let you know

 

[FlatSix911]

Airborne …
Lovers Walk, Shorncliffe

Moreton Bay Cycleway
7.35 am, 24 km​

Trivia... do all four legs leave the ground at the same time when a horse gallops?
Bonus... do you know who first studied this question using chrono-photography?

 

[Akrotiri]

I believe 3 legs stay on the ground and only one leg is in the air per gallop.

 

[FlatSix911]

I believe 3 legs stay on the ground and only one leg is in the air per gallop.

Check out the Wiki below... Leland Stanford's horse in motion.

The Horse in Motion - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Readytoride]

I believe 3 legs stay on the ground and only one leg is in the air per gallop.

All four are off the ground at one part of the gallop stride. It's called the suspension phase.

 

[Taylor57]

Trivia... do all four legs leave the ground at the same time when a horse gallops?
Bonus... do you know who first studied this question using chrono-photography?

As a degenerate horse player in a former life, all 4 are off the ground unfortunately for me the ones I bet on probably only got 2 or 3 got off...

 

[FlatSix911]

Uh....no. All four are off the ground at one part of the gallop stride. It's called the suspension phase.

As a degenerate horse player in a former life, all 4 are off the ground unfortunately for me the ones I bet on probably only got 2 or 3 got off...

Yes, we have 2 winners... see slides 2 and 3 above.

 

[Deleted member 18083]

No rain in those clouds …

Walloon, west of Brisbane, QLD
7.20 am; 9 km (looking north)​

The parched land waits.

And where's the horse? (Non-galloping variety!)

 

[FlatSix911]

The Historic Spanish Mission in Carmel, CA... 1797 AD.

Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Taylor57]

Historic Spanish Mission in Carmel, CA.

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You are so close to Pebble Beach I can smell it!!

 

[Taylor57]

You are so close to Pebble Beach I can smell it!!

On my bucketlist...

 

[FlatSix911]

You are so close to Pebble Beach I can smell it!!

On my bucketlist...

Well worth the trip... you will have no regrets.