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Show your Easter Ride

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.

http://www.ravingbikefiend.com/bikep...t600%20(2).JPG

Because I'll be all over the area today:
http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=375805

Brad

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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Just got home from a 57 mile cruise. Headwinds ruined some of the fun, but it was still a great day for a ride!

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!

http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=375837

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).

I had a great ride today. The usual out and around and about. About 30 miles. First time wearing shorts, temps in the mid 70's!

Rode my Milk Chocolate Follis.
http://im1.shutterfly.com/media/47a4...D720/ry%3D480/

My Easter ride took me through Mark Twain National Forest in the Ozarks, climbing over hill and dale. The weather was wonderful.

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7397/...7a911bea_b.jpg

Oh, and I was riding my Katakura Silk on the route.

We rented a house in the Ozarks for a folk festival.....2 guitars and 2 cruisers.....http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=375859

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.

3.5 hours of Rocky Point MTB trails on my favorite, the Vicious Monolith.

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7319/...ea9f5db1_c.jpg

Just a 30 minute ride to fill the lungs with fresh air. Photo taken in front of the elementary school I attended.
https://dl.dropbox.com/s/4h835y0r6dx...2014.52.59.jpg

Went out with this little guy to explore some bike paths along the local river bank:

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Took the Concorde of course:

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-F...421_133513.jpg

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Farm roads and regional trails with my wife

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. :thumb:

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:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-a...2014.01.22.jpg
Found some secluded roads through the pines:
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-2...2008.53.47.jpg
and stopped to gaze at great bodies of water more than once. This is the Peconic Bay:
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-W...2009.09.30.jpg
Here, in the foreground, is Shinnecock Bay; in the background, the Atlantic Ocean.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Q...2013.40.01.jpg
I stopped to pay my respects to Plummie:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-j...2014.48.43.jpg

Total, 104.5 miles. Average speed: slow. I got a sunburn!

[MENTION=73614]rhm[/MENTION], gorgeous photos! Too pretty for NJ, eastern LI is great.