What have you been riding lately?
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1950 Snyder built Hawthorne triple bar (Colson guard). However, I have to rebuild the coaster brake 'cause it is chirping.
Chirping brakes just let them know you're coming. No horn needed.
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Cruisin' around my hood
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Twenty two miles on the road today with Larry T, another guy in his 70s. I rode the bike with the dropped bars, Larry rode his mountain bike. He is tough to keep up with. We rode on the Buckhorn Road and Sixteen Mile Lake Road in the Hiawatha National Forrest. These photos were taken on the boundary of where the Lake Superior snow belt ends and the Lake Michigan low snow "banana belt" stars. Riding south from here the snow banks diminish with each mile. Five miles north of here the banks are quite a bit bigger.
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There is a gale going on the day after these pictures were taken. Official NWS gale warning. It was brewing yesterday because it was a windy ride but now it’s roaring, cold and snowing. More trees are blowing down. Ill have to sharpen my chainsaw. What the? It’s April 19 today. Gonna be like this until Wednesday. I’ll ride again Thursday. It’s unrideable today unless you are up for an unenjoyable ride. I’m gonna sit by the fire and make yogurt, bread and cream brûlé. That way I get to play with my torch. Bah!
Just trying out the new forum. I’ve been riding this all week.
New tires and new crank in the past week or so.
New tires and new crank in the past week or so.
Are these 700/29er wheels? Man sometimes I just can't tell. I like everything about this bikeI had been riding the Tycoon around until last week. Dunno If I have any pics of the new ride, but it was built mostly from my spare parts and stuff collecting dust in the back of the local bike shop.
Is the rear brake cable through or along the frame?
They're 650B/27.5 wheels, and yeah, I ran the rear brake cable through the frame.Are these 700/29er wheels? Man sometimes I just can't tell. I like everything about this bike
Is the rear brake cable through or along the frame?
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You gotta be careful with the anodized. It's a slippery slope. Some looks good, too much is easy to do!
Kooka Rasta............yeah Mon!
today's social distance exercise equipment. I rode the '64 Hornet.
This was the whole crew. Most of them are my kids.
Someone got creative. Wasn't us, but we got a good laugh out of it.
This was the whole crew. Most of them are my kids.
Someone got creative. Wasn't us, but we got a good laugh out of it.
Not a recent picture, but after knocking another hole in the beaver dam, I was taking this for a ride when . . .
I encountered this snake on the bridge over the "moat". It's about 2' long. Although it's a solid color and not mottled like it's "supposed" to be, consensus seems to be that it's probably a Northern Water Snake as nothing else fits. Pretty cool looking and not the least bit concerned about me being so close. I probably could have pet the thing, but social distancing and all that. Hmm, is someone's burning leaves? Shrug and continue down the long driveway . . .
Nope, it's a neighbor's house burning down. Contractors were reportedly working on the roof earlier, so I think someone screwed up pretty badly. People are all safe, but I don't know how much of the contents of the house are salvageable and insurance can't replace the stuff that really matters. This is the quietest and most uppity place I've lived by a massive margin and I've seen and experienced unusual things in each of them, but I haven't been here quite two years yet and this combined with the naked junkie who assaulted me last November is quickly moving up the ranks to become the the craziest one. I guess it's always the quiet ones? Friendly skunk from two places ago still beats the snake, though, and the cat chasing the doberman that was threatening my sister down the street when I was a kid still wins in the animal category overall and even the coyotes around here can't beat that.
I encountered this snake on the bridge over the "moat". It's about 2' long. Although it's a solid color and not mottled like it's "supposed" to be, consensus seems to be that it's probably a Northern Water Snake as nothing else fits. Pretty cool looking and not the least bit concerned about me being so close. I probably could have pet the thing, but social distancing and all that. Hmm, is someone's burning leaves? Shrug and continue down the long driveway . . .
Nope, it's a neighbor's house burning down. Contractors were reportedly working on the roof earlier, so I think someone screwed up pretty badly. People are all safe, but I don't know how much of the contents of the house are salvageable and insurance can't replace the stuff that really matters. This is the quietest and most uppity place I've lived by a massive margin and I've seen and experienced unusual things in each of them, but I haven't been here quite two years yet and this combined with the naked junkie who assaulted me last November is quickly moving up the ranks to become the the craziest one. I guess it's always the quiet ones? Friendly skunk from two places ago still beats the snake, though, and the cat chasing the doberman that was threatening my sister down the street when I was a kid still wins in the animal category overall and even the coyotes around here can't beat that.
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Our lake has a lot of Northern Water Snakes. They eat minnows and drown in our minnow traps. It looks like a NWS to me, but ours are black. They get pretty big. Perhaps they are like Grey Squirrels, every now and then there is a black one. Natural col variation?
I think you're right. I did find pictures of a solid black one and I eventually found a picture of one in this copper-brown color, though it didn't have the black head (I've seen one of these before on a bike trail through a swamp and its head was much more distinctly black than this one). Probably what it is as the only other brown snakes we have would be about half the size and the habitat matches the description (they even mention living in beaver lodges and there's one on the other side of the bridge). I don't know what there is for fish in the ponds as they're pretty shallow, but there are a lot of frogs for them to eat.
