SHOW us YOUR PIX here .... Odd, WeiRd ,UnUSuAl or EyE CaTchIng things from your rides
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Prairie Dog
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- Red Deer
Now that’s what I call a public washroom. Wonder if that TP is 2 or 3 ply?
fooferdoggie
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more like do you get two or three slivers using it.Now that’s what I call a public washroom. Wonder if that TP is 2 or 3 ply?
Chargeride
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Not by Kia SoulsScooted 4 of these little rascals off the Des Plaines River Trail today. Sunbathing in the warm afternoon sun. I wonder how many get run over this time of year….
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I visit the island of Kauai in Hawaii often. So often that I decided to take a bike there and leave it there. Unfortunately, it isn't an electric bike. I could use one there. I was riding one day on an isolated road and saw a person with a motorcycle stopped on the side navigating a drone. I passed him up and he later passed me with the drone following him. It appeared the drone was tracking him. It was a category 4 hill which is why I could have used an electric bike.
Still climbing the hill, the motorcycle rider passed me going down the hill with the drone tracking him again. I decided to take my GoPro out when I reached the top of the hill and hoped he would pass me again while I went down the hill. As it turned out he was going up the hill while I was going down. You have to zoom in to see the drone.
You also have to zoom in to see the drone as I passed the motorcycle rider.
Here you can see the drone in the top left.
Ok here is a question. The roads are being repaved here for about a 4 mile stretch. The paving is incomplete in some parts. Initially, I stayed off the main highway with the paving. I took an alternate route which involved riding on an unpaved surface for 1.5 miles. On the weekend I decided to ride on the main highway. There are several areas where you have to crossover from the unpaved road to the paved road. The first time I decided to walk my bike over the ridge. Later, I attempted to just ride my bike over the ridge. Not all in the same area, but I made it successfully over the ridge with no incident at least 30 times until I didn't. Yes, when crossing over you cannot parallel the ridge. You also can't go at too great of an angle otherwise you will end up in the car lane. I have no idea why I fell. Maybe the angle wasn't great enough or the gravel was loose. Fortunately, I went down with no cars on the road behind me. I did end up partially in the car lane. The most embarrassing part was all the cars that stopped to see if I need help. I wanted to just lay there for a few minutes to recover but I had to get up to tell everyone I was ok. A few scrapes but nothing broken. Would you attempt to ride over the ridge? I decided not to ride over the ridge anymore. By the way, the speed limit on that highway is 50 mph.
Still climbing the hill, the motorcycle rider passed me going down the hill with the drone tracking him again. I decided to take my GoPro out when I reached the top of the hill and hoped he would pass me again while I went down the hill. As it turned out he was going up the hill while I was going down. You have to zoom in to see the drone.
You also have to zoom in to see the drone as I passed the motorcycle rider.
Here you can see the drone in the top left.
Ok here is a question. The roads are being repaved here for about a 4 mile stretch. The paving is incomplete in some parts. Initially, I stayed off the main highway with the paving. I took an alternate route which involved riding on an unpaved surface for 1.5 miles. On the weekend I decided to ride on the main highway. There are several areas where you have to crossover from the unpaved road to the paved road. The first time I decided to walk my bike over the ridge. Later, I attempted to just ride my bike over the ridge. Not all in the same area, but I made it successfully over the ridge with no incident at least 30 times until I didn't. Yes, when crossing over you cannot parallel the ridge. You also can't go at too great of an angle otherwise you will end up in the car lane. I have no idea why I fell. Maybe the angle wasn't great enough or the gravel was loose. Fortunately, I went down with no cars on the road behind me. I did end up partially in the car lane. The most embarrassing part was all the cars that stopped to see if I need help. I wanted to just lay there for a few minutes to recover but I had to get up to tell everyone I was ok. A few scrapes but nothing broken. Would you attempt to ride over the ridge? I decided not to ride over the ridge anymore. By the way, the speed limit on that highway is 50 mph.
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Stefan Mikes
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- Mazovia, PL
I would do that very slowly with the front wheel at a high attack angle (just creeping speed). My first e-bike crash occurred on a just symbolic ridge but I was riding at 20 mph with the front wheel almost parallel to the edge.
Interesting creatures. They still give me a jolt when I see them. "Zero at the bone" was Emily Dickinson's way of describing the feeling. I once embarrassed one in the process of swallowing a small slug. Around here (NW Washington) we have no poisonous snakes. A lady out in the rural part of the county once called the sheriff to report a "snake ball" (a big tangled ball of snakes that hibernate that way). She wanted to sheriff to do something about it. She got upset when he ignored her. She apparently thought garter snakes were dangerous.Scooted 4 of these little rascals off the Des Plaines River Trail today. Sunbathing in the warm afternoon sun. I wonder how many get run over this time of year….
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Doesn't look like Charles. I'd say one of the princes, maybe William or Andrew? Charles has big ears and his eyes are close together. Not many royalists around these parts.
We have a Yew Street Road in Bellingham.
If your area ever had glaciers, that could be a glacial erratic. It would be frozen into or onto an ice floe, and dropped wherever it ran aground. We have a fair number of them on our beaches here. You can recognize them because they are granite from British Columbia, and we have no local granite in NW Washington. At least none along our shorelines.
fooferdoggie
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saw this Saturday right after but didn't to stop for a pic.
I used to make wine out of those guys. Crystal clear, deep ruby red, and tasted like a zinfandel. Excellent stuff.
Prairie Dog
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- Red Deer
Don’t have a cow, man.
I stopped by this excavator parked at the side of the road to remove my windbreaker during today’s ride and immediately noticed a herd of cows began gathering near the fence all while mooing incessantly. I don’t know what I did to cause this cowmotion but I swear my body odor wasn’t that bad.
I stopped by this excavator parked at the side of the road to remove my windbreaker during today’s ride and immediately noticed a herd of cows began gathering near the fence all while mooing incessantly. I don’t know what I did to cause this cowmotion but I swear my body odor wasn’t that bad.
JedidiahStolzfus
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- USA
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- Lancaster, PA
Cows get curious and will gather and watch when they see something unusual.
fooferdoggie
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Chargeride
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This clay and painted sheepdog in a random shop window in Wales.
Artist unknown, possibly by choice
Artist unknown, possibly by choice
BlackHand
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- USA
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- Western WA
Looks like something out of a Tim Burton movie
steve mercier
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I hope they did not quit their day job
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