Just Ride.

Should this ride thread be just a.... well, thread? Or should there be a dedicated Forum topic?

  • Yes, it's own topic in the Forums

    Votes: 19 90.5%
  • Nah... threads good enough.

    Votes: 2 9.5%

  • Total voters
    21
  • Poll closed .
I wrote a blogging software experiment a couple of years ago that I want to try out. I plan to post links to it from here.

https://hwmblog.herokuapp.com/

Hi XJ,
I followed your link and I can’t quite figure it out. There seems to be a lot of foreign language posts. What is your itinerary , or at least your general plan? I wish you would reconsider posting updates and photos here.
I’d love to follow along!
 
Pete was in St. Paul at 8PM, still headed this way.:) Expected here about midnite if he doesn't get smart and quit first.
I wasn't on a bike but was shagging some XS650 parts when I ran into a flock of birds.

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Goony Birds!
A real sleuth can figure out exactly where I was from the pics.
 
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Thanks all - and thanks Gary for the hospitality (and for cleaning the bugs off my windscreen)!
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It was quite a ride: 1129 km from Winnipeg to Baraboo starting at about 12:45 pm CST.
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Pete

Pete,
Are you going shopping in Gary’s shed of I’ll repute? Careful there’s sooo much good stuff in there! Don’t hang around too long or Gary will have you splitting firewood to fill his sheds!
 
Looks like a GREAT ride, Pete!

I was in Mount Pleasant which you may have ridden through on your way to The Bridge.

Speed limits in Michigan ARE kinda weird. 127 is a main North/South route right up the center of the state. From Lansing North, the limit is 70 or 75 (miles, not K's) and several miles of it are just ordinary 4 lane road with NO LIMITED ACCESS! Gravel farm roads running right up and crossing! Scary.

When I was growing up around there as a kid in the 60's, that was 27, not 127 and I don't remember the speed limits being anything like that.

Sorry we couldn't get together, a little mis-communication on my part as I never planned on being in Michigan until Monday. Left Maine on Sunday and drove as far as the NY/PA border before I ran out of steam.

EDIT: The western end of NY where PA juts up to Erie.
 
Hi XJ,
I followed your link and I can’t quite figure it out. There seems to be a lot of foreign language posts. What is your itinerary , or at least your general plan? I wish you would reconsider posting updates and photos here.
I’d love to follow along!
haha. it's just random garbage in it right now, for place holding and testing since i made it from scratch. the text is lorem ipsum
 
Rode The Moto Guzzi over to the SS Badger ferry at Manitowoc with Pete then headed back, stopped to see Allison at a horsy ride, 280 miles round trip. Sorry the phone battery crapped out so no pics. :poo: Only two near misses with deer at dusk. Set the GPS on avoid highways, got lots of freindly waves from Amish farmers.
 
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No prob DE - life is complex.

I just arrived home in Windsor at about 11:45 PM. It was a long day from Baraboo but it was fun. Here is a photo of the tripmeter for the return leg from Winnipeg...it shows 1179 km or just about 1105 miles ridden since 12:30 PM on Friday.
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As Gary said, instead of riding through the whole YUK of big city Chicago, I took the historic SS Badger from Manitowok WI to Ludington MI. Both are nice little towns. The Badger is the largest car ferry (410 ft in length) and the largest steamship (hence the “SS” designator) that still operates on the Great Lakes. Interestingly, she is coal-fired not oil like most steamships built after WW-I. There were a lot of bikes on- board but loading was pretty efficient and strapping down the ST was no big deal. The trip takes 4 hours and it was such beautiful warm early fall day that all thoughts of riding through Chicago vanished.
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Thanks again to all for your best wishes along the way and to Gary for his kind hospitality.l

I’ll say one thing: riding long distance quickly is sure easy on that ST1300. It really can go bloody fast for hours with no effort at all and the fuel range means that I run out @ss before I run out of gas.

Cheers,
Pete
 
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Some of the most pleasant rides I've taken have been in my own community, the rural hamlet of Marietta, on the east side of Otisco Lake. We have a post office, a church, and one bar; you can catch some live country music and occasional rock and roll there twice a week.

Other than that, we've got some well-preserved old wood barns. This morning's early light was hitting this favorite about 9am:

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This one is still seeing use as a horse barn:

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.....and there is corn everywhere, flourishing this year with all the rain we got.

On Coon Hill, just up the hill from my home.

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