A couple from yesterday's ride: -

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Shapwick Heath
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Long Drove, Launcherly

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Brent

Tonto Road NE of Cheyenne, 6/2/21.

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Not a road bike, but my Surly Steamroller fixed gear. Also not technically a road, more of an MUP ahead picture. This is one of my favorite places to ride, on any bike. Pic was taken December 2018.


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Buxton to Hatteras Village.

Yet another 22 foot powerboat sitting beside an oversized igloo. Everywhere you turn, there is another one. You just cannot get away from these here in south-central NC (USA).

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dave

ps. The sign says something like "Richardson's Thermal Controls". It has had this 'just abandoned last month look' for about five years now. The other buildings on the property (out in the country-side near Derby, NC across the road from a big solar farm) are associated with some kind of sign company where you do see signs of life on occasion. I have ridden by this place hundreds of times and have never seen anyone go in or out of the igloo.

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Old Airline Hiway. San Benito Cty, CA

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Just me and the Bald Eagle I flushed out. In beautiful Pepin County, Wisconsin.

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Charles City, Va

glendora mountain road (aka gmr) above the los angeles basin, angeles national forest.


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Usery Mountain, Mesa, Az

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Highway 89 entering Arizona from Utah

Outside of Livingston, NY (columbia county)

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Attempt to hide from the heat of almost 100 in TX yesterday, I decided to ride the Northshore of Grapevine Lake which is mostly shaded. Really needed some suspension and my body is paying the price today :)

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Love riding Mt. Lemmon. Haven't been able to for quite some time - was closed due to wild fires

Man I miss riding there. Took me hrs to get to the top...not nearly as much to get down!!

a sweet and scenic little ascent/decent through there. some big crosswind exposure. nice pic.

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This looks exactly like a spot in southeastern Utah, on Hwy 95. It is a super fun, fast descent if you're going west. I've ridden it a few times during a long relay race. Your pic makes me want to go down and ride some of those roads again.

I bet Utah has a ton of epic cycling. I took that pic from the car on my way back home from Powder Mountain last season - lovely view but I wouldn't ride a bicycle on that part of the highway :)

Yes, more than a guy can ever do, unless he makes it his full time vocation!

Many people don't realize the diversity of terrain we have. There certainly are millions of acres of dull, high desert dreariness, but there are also alpine canyons, green valleys, rocky mountains, sandstone towers and walls, and world class skiing (as you apparently know)... pretty much something for everyone.

Do you ride mountain bikes, too?

Not anymore. I was all about MTB in the '90s, when I was in my 20s. Lots of trips to Moab (only a five hour drive, even in a tired old Subaru loaded down with my buddies and our gear). Also lots of evening jaunts to trails up the canyons east of Salt Lake. Somewhere along the way I just lost interest, or got distracted with trying to be an adult. Then I did motorcycles for a while, and 4x4 trucks. Now I've come back around to human-powered outdoor rec, but this time on road bikes.

I've never been to Utah but friends have ridden roads and trails there. Funny, I rode off-road motorcycles before bicycles and started riding bicycles to get in better shape for motorcycling. That was around 1982-83. Eventually stopped motorcycles in 1991 and just did road rides because I thought I wouldn't enjoy mtb riding after motorcycling. Eventually started riding mtb also. In 2018 I bought an enduro style mtb and I've had a lot of fun on it but I'm turning into a wuss. I'm 67 and don't do anything too technical anymore.