Show your Easter Ride
04-20-14 | 09:46 AM
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Bicycle Repair Man !!!
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From: YEG
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That ride will wait for tomorrow, today we are off to BBQ and celebrate my great nieces 3rd birthday.
As I am riding with my friend and his new Bike Friday I'll take Forrest and check out the new drive bits.
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As I am riding with my friend and his new Bike Friday I'll take Forrest and check out the new drive bits.
04-20-14 | 11:33 AM
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From: Twin Cities, Minnesota, USA
Bikes: 2017 Salsa Carbon Mukluk frame built with XT, 2018 Kona Rove NRB build with Sram Apex 1,2008 Salsa El Mariachi, 1986 Centurion Ironman
Great bikes. Makes me want to put up a "Show us your Easter bonnet (helmet)" thread, but I'm too lazy to take a pic.
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04-20-14 | 04:31 PM
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From: The Witch City
Bikes: 4 Raleinghs
Short but oh so sweet! Got home from the Easter visit and was able to take my "new" 1972 Raleigh Superb for a maiden run. Before I did I oiled the hub, adjusted the shift cable and test rode it. I spent Friday cleaning and polishing. It has been a VERY long time since I rode a bike, today was so great! This bicycle is a joy to ride, great looking and smooth as silk!
04-20-14 | 05:48 PM
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From: Forksbent, MN
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Went to some of my local haunts. A great day, low wind with ride time temps in the mid 50's and rising.
The eagles were busy in the nest today, though you can't see them in this picture. The picture of the barn was from last year, but passed by it today (same but a bit less green right now).
The eagles were busy in the nest today, though you can't see them in this picture. The picture of the barn was from last year, but passed by it today (same but a bit less green right now).
04-20-14 | 07:16 PM
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From: Liberty, Missouri
Bikes: 1966 Paramount | 1971 Raleigh International | ca. 1970 Bernard Carre | 1989 Waterford Paramount | 2012 Boulder Brevet | 2019 Specialized Diverge
My Easter ride took me through Mark Twain National Forest in the Ozarks, climbing over hill and dale. The weather was wonderful.
Oh, and I was riding my Katakura Silk on the route.
Oh, and I was riding my Katakura Silk on the route.
04-20-14 | 07:45 PM
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From: Lost on the windswept plains of the Great Black Swamp
I felt like I needed to pay for my Easter dinner so I took out the winter bike, a 30lb+ late 70's Rampar R-2 with fenders and rack...steel everything.
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04-21-14 | 04:19 AM
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Matt Pendergast
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From: North Bend, Washington State
Bikes: 1937 Hobbs; 1977 Bruce Gordon; 1987 Bill Holland; 1988 Schwinn Paramount (Fixed gear); 1999 Fat City Yo Eddy (MTB); 2018 Woodrup (Touring) 2016 Ritchey breakaway
Farm roads and regional trails with my wife
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04-22-14 | 07:40 AM
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From: NJ, NYC, LI
Bikes: 1940s Fothergill, 1959 Allegro Special, 1963? Claud Butler Olympic Sprint, Lambert 'Clubman', 1974 Fuji "the Ace", 1976 Holdsworth 650b conversion rando bike, 1983 Trek 720 tourer, 1984 Counterpoint Opus II, 1993 Basso Gap, 2010 Downtube 8h, and...
I got up early Easter morning and hit the roads at 6 AM just as it was getting light enough to ride without lights. I rode my Lambert with the S3X fixed three speed hub. I used to have a dynohub and lights-on-all-the-time-day-or-night on that bike, which was great for early morning riding, but that hub caused problems and I changed the front wheel to something prettier, though less useful; and now it doesn't have lights.
In the good-deed-for-the-day department I found some guy's wallet, complete with driver's license and dozens of credit cards etc, saw his home was just a couple miles from my present location, so I took it over there. Detour of less than 3 miles.
Anyway, what a day for a ride! Lots of wildlife, as appropriate to the holiday, including turkeys, muskrat, pheasant, deer, and herons. I got photos of several, but only the herons are pretty enough for this thread:
Found some secluded roads through the pines:
and stopped to gaze at great bodies of water more than once. This is the Peconic Bay:
Here, in the foreground, is Shinnecock Bay; in the background, the Atlantic Ocean.
I stopped to pay my respects to Plummie:
Total, 104.5 miles. Average speed: slow. I got a sunburn!
In the good-deed-for-the-day department I found some guy's wallet, complete with driver's license and dozens of credit cards etc, saw his home was just a couple miles from my present location, so I took it over there. Detour of less than 3 miles.
Anyway, what a day for a ride! Lots of wildlife, as appropriate to the holiday, including turkeys, muskrat, pheasant, deer, and herons. I got photos of several, but only the herons are pretty enough for this thread:
Found some secluded roads through the pines:
and stopped to gaze at great bodies of water more than once. This is the Peconic Bay:
Here, in the foreground, is Shinnecock Bay; in the background, the Atlantic Ocean.
I stopped to pay my respects to Plummie:
Total, 104.5 miles. Average speed: slow. I got a sunburn!
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