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[Stefan Mikes]

Good point. I’d go with starting a new one.

Please do. Mention the year, and add "& Maps" to the thread title!

 

[Mulezen]

Friends,
This thread has 402 pages now, and David Berry is not with us anymore (sadly).
What are we doing for the 2023?

Besides, HAPPY NEW YEAR!

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Stefan…I hope your daughter (and you) had a happy Christmas…as far as the thread goes I will be unhappy to see David’s wonderful photos shelved…but understand its time for a new beginning.

 

[DaveMatthews]

Could always just use this one, but no worries.

Show us pictures of where you ride your ebikes!

Pictures of my last commute ride to the workshop for 2022. I will ride thru here again but not to work. Workshop duty will commence 9 Jan 2023. Life is good, I have a chiropractor re alignment appointment and touch up painting to do on my upstairs rental unit. We was gonna go to the Bay Area...

electricbikereview.com

 

[Readytoride]

Good point. I’d go with starting a new one.

Go for it, Dave! We'll see everyone on the new thread in 2023.

 

[Rome]

I can always retreat here to read and watch you alls wonderful story telling, photos and videos.

 

[Chargeride]

Happy new year to you all, its 5 mins to go, here in Blighty

 

[Rome]

Happy New Year!!!! Wish everybody da best for the coming years. Stay in good health and keep yourselves tuned up and your ebikes as well.
9 hours to 2023 here in Hawaii.

 

[Viking1]

Christmas cheer

Haven't been able to ride at all in the past few weeks with our winter weather, especially the recent weather taking almost all of our expansive county, including neighbors Canada and Mexico, into the deepest freeze and deadliest cold in decades. Bone chilling doesn't even come close to describing this Arctic "bomb cyclone" that swept in the other day to plunge us all in the bitter cold.
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But the weather is only temporary. As soon as any bit of warmth appears (which will be next week when the warm weather rushes back in to give us balmy springtime temps just perfect for riding) I will gleefully be back on the roads with a shiny new Christmas present I have for the upcoming 2023 rides - a new 2023 Gazelle C380+ 28mph Class 3 carbon belt drive ebike.

And the best part is...the new ebike is a result of me holding the winning ticket at my bike shop's Christmas raffle!!!!

The shop held a raffle this winter to support a local non-profit that aids the area poor by providing financial help, food, and clothing. The raffle ran from November to December for ticket buying. I purchased 12 tickets to the tune of $200. And then I kept my fingers crossed. Really tightly. For two solid months.

The winning tickets were pulled at 2pm on Christmas Eve for each of three prizes offered. At 2:01pm my cell phone rang. I glanced at the caller ID, and felt my heart leap. There could only be one reason the store would call. The store owner was on the other end, and the first words out of his mouth were "I'm about to make your Christmas very special."

Anything else he tried to say was drowned out with my screams of delirious delight. I kid you not I was actually dancing around the room, screaming and laughing my head off, rupturing the poor guy's ear drums. I do remembering him laughing at my very vocal glee, and when I finally calmed down enough to actually hear what he had to say, he verified I was the winner of the ebike.

OMG!!!!!

I am still on Cloud Nine. My husband (who is still recovering from Covid which he picked up for free at a celebratory party we attended almost two weeks ago) is thrilled as well. A big plus is the new bike's battery is identical to my current Gazelle's battery - giving me now a third battery to use for the metric century, and full century, rides. I had already decided i would be buying a third battery this winter so I could at least give @RabH a run for his money in the 2023 ride distances. Now instead I will have not only an extra battery, but a whole new bike, thanks to winning the raffle!!

What a great ending to my cycling calendar for 2022!!! Come on 2023! I am soooo ready!!!

Woo hoo!!!!!!
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Awesome!! That is my bike shop as well. We are limited on space and I did not sign up for the raffle. Great bike for sure! Congrats!

 

[DaveMatthews]

Hippo New Beer folks!

 

[Rome]

2022 bye .

 

[Chargeride]

My first look I thought that was a battery going up.

 

[Chargeride]

How highs the water Mamma

Well, we can put the ebike in a homemade boat
'Cause that's the only thing we got left that'll float
It's already over all the charging points
Two feet high and risin'

Well, the pedals disappear with every stroke
Bikes in water up past her yoke
My drone is stuck in the willow tree
Three feet high and risin'


Hey, come look through the window pane
Stefan is coming, gonna take us to the train
Looks like we'll be blessed with a little more rain
Four feet high and risin'


Well, the trails are washed out north of town
We got to head for higher ground
We can't come back till the water goes down
Five feet high and risin'

Its hasnt stopped raining and Im bored.....can you tell.

 

[Twin Valley]

How highs the water Mamma

Well, we can put the ebike in a homemade boat
'Cause that's the only thing we got left that'll float
It's already over all the charging points
Two feet high and risin'

Well, the pedals disappear with every stroke
Bikes in water up past her yoke
My drone is stuck in the willow tree
Three feet high and risin'


Hey, come look through the window pane
Stefan is coming, gonna take us to the train
Looks like we'll be blessed with a little more rain
Four feet high and risin'


Well, the trails are washed out north of town
We got to head for higher ground
We can't come back till the water goes down
Five feet high and risin'

Its hasnt stopped raining and Im bored.....can you tell.

When famous American poet, Robert Frost, was living in England near the beginning of the 20th century he penned "The Road Not Taken" that my elementary teacher made me memorize some 60 years ago when I was goofing off . . . kind of sounds like your poem less the drones and e-bikes - I shall be telling this with a sigh, Two roads diverged in a wood and I, I took the one less travelled by, And that has made all the difference - so maybe you need to find a new path out of the rain - I don't know maybe Portugal or some other warm climate with inexpensive beer or wine . . . speaking of divergent roads I notice the rest of the group has moved to a 2023 thread, I got suspicious when Stefan hadn't posted for a week

 

[Chargeride]

yes, I forgot it was a new year.
Just checking ...you do know its a Johnny Cash song.

 

[Stefan Mikes]

I just couldn’t pass this up this opportunity on my way home today. For a Sunday, I expected the place to be packed but much to my surprise there were fewer skaters on the ponds than I thought there would be. I kept away from the busier north half of the ponds where most seemed to be gathering around the main pavilion.

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A video tribute to Vince Guaraldi, one of my all-time favorite pianists and composers.

@RandallS – Vermillion Lakes would be a good place to take this show on the road.

Memorable Places to Skate in Banff National Park

www.banfflakelouise.com

I had to re-watch that 2021 video again @Prairie Dog!

I am now advocating these of my friends who ride in the winter to invest in studded tyres. February has always been the most harsh month for Poland. The month's name "luty" actually means "harsh, severe".

 

[Mulezen]

yes, I forgot it was a new year.
Just checking ...you do know its a Johnny Cash song.

A Cash song derived from Appalachian Mountain music…the line I remember from that traditional “Daddy’s grave just went below the line”
And…in the 50s I recall my mother (several times) cooking breakfast for Johnny…and my grandfather in the living room complaining about his long hair

 

[Dewey]

Trail maintenance!

 

[Chargeride]

Tried for Baggy point during a storm with 70mph gusts and horizontal rain with hailstones thrown in.
Makes you feel alive and all, but what was really amazing is that they were still laying concrete on a house rebuild right next to where I took this photograph

Things started getting silly here, I was getting blown three feet sideways by the gusts, then a runner came around the bend and shouting in my ear told me he had been nearly bowled over the edge.
I turned back, fat tyres act like little sails in the wind.

So then I went to Woolacombe bay, which is a very popular upmarket beach resort, the algae foam from spray hit me right in the eye as I took this shot.

We never lose a chance to say sorry in England and these dog walkers apologised to me because their dog was blown in front of my bike which I was equally idiotically riding on a beach in a storm.

Then on to Westward Ho, this is a haunted house theme attraction that would just be superb in the storm at night I can imagine.

Then back to Combe Martin and this rather offroady baja Beetle with full roll cage and a mannequin in the passenger seat.

Got this lovely shot at Saunton beach of a kitesurfer by matching his speed on the bike

Broke my chain trying to climb a stupidly steep hill, luckily I could coast all the way back to the airbnb.

This rather snazzy house is quite the talk of the town , it was featured on CH4s Grand Designs and it all went wrong for the couple who divorced under the pressure and left it unfinished and millions in debt.
Its still empty to this day

Ive only shown the bottom half of this controversial statue in Ilfracombe by the very edgy British artist Damian Hirst, the cows in embalming fluid guy..
Its very graphic with autopsy cadaver top end.
Its called Verity if you want a look, but its rather grotesque and not my cup of tea.

Great holiday, loads of wind and sun, plenty of biking and meeting weirdos in the pubs.

 

[Stefan Mikes]

It looks the troll Rome mislead you to post in the old thread, @Chargeride.

 

[Chargeride]

Yes, and it seems you can just copy the text and images in one go and paste it again.