Fall Riding

MaxPete · Dec 18, 2017

I could be wrong, but that red colour is usually related to the iron content in the rock. Interesting how local geology affects the colours you see in natural and man-made structures.

In Canada’s eastern coast Maritimes region, the tiny province of Prince Edward Island (PEI) is famous for its bright red sand (and its fantastic potato crops). For a good laugh, check out the song by Stompin’ Tom Connors “Bud the Spud”. It’s a tale about a trucker named Bud who comes from PEI (“Bud the Spud from the bright red mud”) with a “great big load-a-potato’s”.

TimeMachine · Dec 18, 2017

Mailman, those beautiful desert landscape pics "Rock" !
That kind of scenery could cause a guy to forget about fuel,time, and daylight.
He!!, I don't know if I could even stay on my bike. Might just head out on foot there !
Got anything there that would bite you ? Prob so..
Thanks for those awesome ride pics ! :bike:

Mailman · Dec 18, 2017

xjwmx said:
Where is the red road close to? It might be unique to AZ. Kind of reddish in general out there from pictures and flying over.

Red colored roads can be found in many areas in Arizona, I also know they can be found in Texas, New Mexico ( a lot! ) and Utah, maybe elsewhere.
And Pete, you are correct sir, it's caused by the iron content in the rock, it's essentially rust.

YamadudeXS650C said:
I saved my T-shirt from that incident:

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Where did you get your road rash, Bob?
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I was 19 and working for the copper mines in Globe Az, I was riding my Yamaha XT500 on a rural paved road and was charged by a big dog. This was the mid 70's and all I was wearing was an open face helmet, no other protective gear. I thought I could gas it and shoot around the dog but the dog also gassed it and shot right under my front wheel. It flipped my handlebars sideways and launched me over the bars, I flew like Superman and did a colossal belly flop on the pavement. I took the skin off both forearms from wrists to elbows, rolled and took the skin off my right shoulder and both knees. I had the wind knocked out of me and was laying there trying to get my wits about me and that's when I heard the truck start. I looked up and saw a pickup truck backing out of a driveway coming right at me, perfect.... why not?
I was living alone in a town that I didn't know a soul. I drove myself to the hospital, got X-rays, I thought I had a broken hip. Got all my rash scrubbed clean, then drove myself home. The best part about being 19? The next day I was back welding at the mines, never missed a day. If that were to happen to me now? Forget about it, it would be a career ender! Haha!

YamadudeXS650C · Dec 18, 2017

Mailman said:
I was 19 and working for the copper mines in Globe Az

That's quite a story, Bob, and I imagine like me, you've still got the scars to go with it. Someday, when we finally meet and have had way too many beers at the bar, we'll have to take our shirts off and ask the girls who are watching to rate the gruesomeness of our accidents..

Mailman · Dec 24, 2017

CHRISTMAS EVE riding,

From sunny Arizona , Mele Kalikimaka everyone!

TimeMachine · Dec 24, 2017

Nollaig Shona Dhuit ! (Irish)

Mailman · Dec 24, 2017

TimeMachine said:
Nollaig Shona Dhuit ! (Irish)

You leprechaun, you!

YamadudeXS650C · Oct 17, 2019

I opened this thread in 10/17 with these observations and thoughts:

I have mixed feelings about the fall season. Outdoor music festivals (my cocaine) have come to a close, and I start to go into withdrawal. Things are starting to turn brown, and the prospect of putting the bikes into storage is beginning to loom. Perhaps I still harbor gloomy emotional memories of returning to school after a fun summer; I hated most of high school.
However, a long afternoon ride in the country reminded me, today, that the fall is my favorite season to ride. It was a balmy, breezy day, and the leaves were skittering across the road in front of the bike.
In the town of Pompey, I stopped at a homestead on a quiet side road, where the landowner was out in his yard, tinkering with his mower. I asked if I could take a picture of my bike in front of his old silo and superb sumac. At first I thought his response was one of disbelief, but then he smiled, and mentioned that he had an old bike behind the house. Steve, he offered with with a handshake, noted that when his father bought the land in 1949, and it had a large barn attached, but it burned down the day they moved in. They never did discover the source of the fire.
He went on to say, proudly, that only a couple months ago, he found out that the small rooms in the basement of his early 1800's farmhouse were used in the Underground Railroad.

....and I found a field of corn that I'll never forget.

Fall continues to be my favorite riding season,
both in Central New York and in the Catskill Mountains.

Started most of my Cats treks this fall with "Jimi" my '80 XS650 in Mine Kill State Park, just a few miles north of Grand Gorge, I found that I had the place all to myself.

The colors off the side of Bull Hill rd just north of Conesville made me stop to soak it all in.

As always, I stop for lunch on rt 10 in the Hunter Mountain Range.

Just south of Livingstonville on Rt. 145 there is a curious historical marker just off the road:

Here is a close-up:

The whipping post has a centuries-old history. Many, many centuries, all of it painful.

As I rode away, two guitars began to play in my head...

Mailman · Oct 17, 2019

Great ride and photos Dude! I do so love your beautiful countryside and fall colors. Get as much riding in as you can! :thumbsup:

MaxPete · Oct 17, 2019

Ahhhhh.....the ‘75......and fall colours in New York.

Beautiful - absolutely beautiful - thanks for sharing Dude.

Pete

YamadudeXS650C · Oct 17, 2019

Mailman said:
Great ride and photos Dude! I do so love your beautiful countryside and fall colors. Get as much riding in as you can!

...thinking of you, Bob, as you enter your prime riding season !

59Tebo · Oct 18, 2019

Thanks for sharing the pictures, the ride, and the video! I LOVE that song! It makes me sing at the top of my lungs :yikes:

when it comes on the radio! (as long as there's nobody else in the truck!) And I never get enough of seeing that beautiful '75! Cheers! :cheers:

jetmechmarty · Oct 18, 2019

Summer finally gave in. Someone gave me key to a '93 Vmax. I spent my lunch break doing a lap around the Memphis airport. Beautiful day! Now, I want a Vmax! :love:

madmax-im · Oct 18, 2019

jetmechmarty said:
Summer finally gave in. Someone gave me key to a '93 Vmax. I spent my lunch break doing a lap around the Memphis airport. Beautiful day! Now, I want a Vmax!

Spoiled so quickly.....

gggGary · Oct 18, 2019

Went for a fall ride with Allison today. :sneaky:

What? No one said it had to be motorcycles....

I gotta admit it was perfect day to be out in the woods on horseys.
Bonus; I didn't fall off. Not even once.
Not as easy as you'd think trying to take pics while on a horse.

MaxPete · Oct 18, 2019

Very nice Gary - but you look a little blurry...

Mailman · Oct 18, 2019

Wow! I can sure see the appeal of that! That would be so peaceful and serene. Although something tells me horses require even more maintenance than our 650’s! You can’t ever just say, I don’t feel like messing with them on a freezing Wisconsin morning. Do they have an indoor barn?

MaxPete · Oct 18, 2019

Mailman said:
morning. Do they have an indoor barn?

Nope.

I’ve seen it up close and I can confirm that Allison’s horsey barn is definitely not inside the house - it is at least 100 feet away from the house in fact.

....oh....maybe that’s not quite what you meant.... :cool:

gggGary · Oct 18, 2019

They have a barn but live outdoors year round. It's nice on a defined trail cuz you can look around and still usually be going where you were expecting to.
Switched to a mechanical beast.
Carbs and petcocks leak free, not to bottom of perfect running yet. Changed; plugs, caps, wires, no difference. It went 35 miles with many photo stops and restarts, took some kicking a few times but always started.

Even tried fresh gas........

OK this is getting corny now.

The road less traveled.

Rode 35 miles, when I got back checked spark with an inline tester showed steady and strong both sides.

Mailman · Oct 18, 2019

Gosh that is just so beautiful there! Like a postcard! :geek:

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