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 .
Nice art. The whole state of Texas outside of the metroplexes is cowboy country. Every small town has a arena. The one here is owned by the county.

Nice! I may just have to move to Texas when all the open desert around here has been plowed under and “improved” with sub divisions, and Walmarts on every corner! :cussing:
 
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These two Scrawny fir trees are left standing on the access road next to the Shop I work in every day.
260 more apartments are coming here fast and everywhere else. This was a nice stand of very old Douglas Firs until this month.
Urban sprawl is just awful in the Vancouver burbs.
Extremely bad traffic congestion happening here.
Fun motorcycle riding is threatened here in any city limits
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I took "The SG" out for a 50 miler today. Stopped at a Carl's Jr for lunch and as I was about to mount up I saw this and had to take the pic. Kinda artsy but what the hell. Enjoy. Might help to rotate your laptop, phone or tablet to the left 90* and concentrate on the back of the front fender.
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I took "The SG" out for a 50 miler today. Stopped at a Carl's Jr for lunch and as I was about to mount up I saw this and had to take the pic. Kinda artsy but what the hell. Enjoy. Might help to rotate your laptop, phone or tablet to the left 90* and concentrate on the back of the front fender. View attachment 156061

It’s good to see you back on the road again!
I’m happy to hear your bike is running well!
 
After the break in is done (450miles or so) where to you wanna meet up? Casa Grande Ruins? Dutchman's lost mine?
 
A gathering of Cowboys......

I didn’t set out to take any photos today, I just wanted to enjoy riding on a nice crisp winter day. 9:00 AM and the morning was clear and sunny and a nice 45 degrees, I pulled on some thermals and hit the road. I didn’t even have a destination in mind , I just took off. Before I knew it I was in Wickenburg , just enjoying riding around this old West town.
Then I passed something on the side of the road that caught my eye. Freshly groomed rodeo arenas and huge pens filled with hundreds of steers. I could also see huge parking areas filling up with pickups pulling horse trailers and fifth wheel trailers.

I hit the brakes and turned around.....
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I followed a pickup truck from Wyoming , pulling a horse trailer down a dirt road to a huge rodeo grounds.
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They are gearing up for a big event running Friday, Saturday and Sunday. People were pulling in, one after the other from all the Western States with cowboy cultures, Wyoming, Montana, Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado were just a few that I saw. This one is going to be Team Roping and Barrel Racing , a qualifying event for a National championship. Arizona has a rich history of cattle ranching and rodeos, we are home to two of the worlds oldest rodeos, in Payson and Prescott. Wickenburg is no slouch in the Western history department either, cowboy culture is still very big in this town.
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It’s still pretty quiet here right now, they’re just pulling in. But by tonight these horse stalls will be filled. There’s more not shown in this photo.
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Tomorrow the fun begins!
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And it’s , “ So long girl, I’ll see ya” , when it’s time for him to go......
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“And a broken home and some broken bones
Is all he'll have to show
For all the years that he spent chasin'
This dream they call rodeo”
I never realised you could lean a horse over that far. Great photos.
 
About 8 years ago I was deep in the boonies in Yellow Barn State Forest south of Dryden on my KLR650, coming a bit too fast down a steep hill on a loose gravel road. Standing up on the pegs on a KLR puts one (uncomfortably) high, but I was feeling like a bird.

I began to sense that I had company, like there was another bike coming up from behind, so I steadied the machine as best I could, and looked around to find a large hawk joining my space about 10 feet off to the right, at eye level. Wish I had a helmet cam, so this is someone else's photo.

There were 3 of us in that space, it turns out.
I did my best to keep the KLR on the gravel while I shivered, wide-eyed.

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Woke up this morning to 37 degrees, ah but this is the desert, the sun was out and it was warming up fast. I had an early lunch and by the time I rolled my bike outside it was 63 degrees and climbing. Just out meandering through some country neighborhoods. Note the cottonwood trees changing color and the date palm and citrus trees loaded with fruit. Nothing special, just tootling around, but a beautiful day to do it. ( By the way Gary, don’t let your horses find out how good the horses here have it. They’ll want to winter here! ) :D
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