Show us pictures of where you ride your ebikes!

[Calicoskies]

No digit missing, fat four inch tires need to be low for sand and snow to keep moving.

 

[steve mercier]

wow that is surprising!

 

[JRA]

This cedar butt log rolled in the last few days. It looks like it has been loose for quite awhile.



Definitely what I would consider a hazard to navigation and going to try and get it beached for good here.

 

[Deleted member 18083]

Bee Gees Way, Redcliffe, Moreton Bay, QLD, Australia ...

The Moreton Bay Cycleway has been my favourite escape route since rediscovering cycling a dozen years ago. The bike path runs north (also south) from the mouth of the Brisbane River, visiting beaches and wetlands before crossing a three-kilometre viaduct to the Redcliffe Peninsula and then along the very edge of the waters of the bay.

To this idyllic spot the seven members of the Gibb family from the Isle of Man and Lancashire emigrated sixty years ago. The children attended local schools but much preferred swimming and fishing in the calm waters of Moreton Bay. They had found paradise.

On weekends the three older brothers - Barry and the twins, Robin and Maurice - sold refreshments at the local speedway. When the racket ceased between races the boys entertained the crowd using the back of a truck as the stage for their music show. Speedway owner Bill Goode (note the initials) allowed them to keep the sixpences and shillings tossed their way. 'They're not bad,' he told prominent Brisbane radio DJ Bill Gates (those initials again) who arranged their first serious contract. 'We're all BGs,' noted young Barry Gibb. And so began the careers of the music megastars.

• Ride with GPS record of this ride. (Bee Gees Way is at 44 km on return ride, heading south.)

 

[Deeps]

Can I add to that, David? Way back in 1966, whilst serving in the Royal Navy, the ship I was then serving on was lucky enough to spend a few days in Hobart, Australia during a break in exercises with various naval forces. Being essentially the youngest Radio Operator on board both in terms of age and seniority, I was tasked with establishing telephone communications with shore sides and also piping entertainment by way of the local radio station around the ship. Having done that the first music title to be heard from the radio station, whose callsign fails me at this time, was 'Sticks and Specks' by of course the Bee Gees. Subsequently, following very many telephone calls by the crew to the station, this title was played many times over during the duration of our stay. I of course had no way of knowing that this title wasn't released in the UK (and possibly other countries outside of Australia at that time) and neither did I know what a successful group the Bee Gees were to become.

Jump forward several years to 1977 or 1978 my local radio station back in the UK invited listeners to submit their Top 10 record choice. Subsequently I received a call from the station stating that my selection had been chosen but at the same time questioning my choice of my No.1 choice which was of course Spicks and Specks for which they hadn't a copy in their music library. In fact, they'd never even heard of the title. Much later I was to learn that this title, in addition to Australia of course, was only released in Germany, Holland, New Zealand and Japan. Fortunately I had managed to record the title on old fashioned tape and following the stations request I provided them with a copy. With the sound technology available at that time they managed to clean up the rather bad tape recording following which I was rewarded to hearing Spicks and Specks in it's full glory.

My apologies to the forum moderators if this post is way OT but please allow me to close by letting members listen once more (or indeed for the first time) to those melodic sounds of the early days - very early days - of the brothers Gibb. Hard to believe that Robin and Maurice were only 16 years of age and Barry 19/20.

 

[Alaskan]

@David Berry & @Deeps Great back stories, gentlemen

 

[sexton Tom]

Thank you guys !!! My wife and I have always been big Bee Gee fans. In fact the other day I watched a video of Barry going solo. His son and niece are helping him out . Barry and his niece do " How do you mend a broken heart " together and after they are finished his niece goes off stage and cry's her eyes out. I believe it is Maurice's daughter. Never heard Spicks & Specks . By the way my last name is Gates.. Thanks again !!! Love this forum getting to travel around the world and meeting some wonderful e-bike people !!

 

[Pegasus]

Along the Yarra River in Melbourne, Australia. When the water is still, platypus can be seen feeding just below the bridge.

 

[steve mercier]

what kind of tree is that on the left?

 

[Deleted member 18083]

What kind of tree is that on the left?

Steve …
Australia's bark-shedding trees are commonly called 'eucalypts' or ' gum trees' and compromise three genera in the myrtle family (Myrtaceae): Eucalyptus, Corymbia and Angophora. They're a messy mob to have in the garden, especially in spring or early summer!

Now you know where Trekkie spends lonely afternoons recharging from its morning exertions. We planted the tree behind the shed in the late 1980s and it is now around fifteen metres tall.
… David

 

[Pegasus]

This is around in the Pacific Northwest, Washington State


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That would be stunning riding around that area. Good photographs.

 

[steve mercier]

Steve...
Australia's bark-shedding trees are commonly called 'eucalypts' or ' gum trees' and compromise three genera in the myrtle family (Myrtaceae): Eucalyptus, Corymbia and Angophora. They're a messy mob to have in the garden, especially in spring or early summer! I spent an hour or so this afternoon on the rider mower mulching up their fallen bark.
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Now you know where Trekkie spends lonely afternoons recharging from its morning exertions. We planted the tree behind the shed in the late 1980s and it now around fifteen metres tall.
... David

I think it would be great to spend summers in here in Vancouver and the winters in New Zealand / Australia.

 

[steve mercier]

 

[RabH]

The forecast for the weekend was showing freezing rain/snow and there were amber warnings for ice so I thought I was having a weekend off, but thankfully the day turned out much better than the forecast so I decided to go for a ride and stick to the main gritted roads for the most part, I wasn't chancing my usual back roads! It turned out to be a very enjoyable 50 miles, the biting cold wind didn't even put me off, maybe because of the 6 layers of clothing I noticed I passed 17,000 miles on my gps today, I started using one at the start of 2012 so if all goes to plan I should hit 20,000 miles by the end of next year

 

[steve mercier]

beware of that black ice laddie !

 

[RabH]

beware of that black ice laddie !

That's why I stuck to the gritted roads I did use some back roads but they were all climbs, much safer going up at 15mph than going down at 40mph

 

[steve mercier]

Ice Spiker Pros day 2: no lost studs ,no squirming around. Bring it on Old Man Winter.

 

[Pegasus]

In Melbourne there is an urban trail called the "Koonung". It is in the midst of suburbia and closely follows a freeway, but in places, it is almost Australian bush. It is here I had my banana today.

 

[Feliz]

In Melbourne there is an urban trail called the "Koonung". It is in the midst of suburbia and closely follows a freeway, but in places, it is almost Australian bush. It is here I had my banana today.

I hope you took the peel back.......or ate it! Nice pic.

 

[LewSchiller]

No photos to share but a beautiful ride today in Metro Denver. Weather is perfect going forward into the week.
Looking forward to a few nice rides!