Lake Annabel, San Ramon, CA

First ride on the new bike and the PNW weather decided to play nice!

Bruce Freeman RT foliage

Greece, Saronic Bay

Dope bike. Like the color.

Lake Gregory

At the Water Fires in Providence. Last lighting of the season will be Nov 4th.

My bike, the Thames, the Tower of London from the 11th Century on the right, and the 20th and 21st Century upstarts on the left.

Not a road bike, but pictured here on the bank of the Virgin River’s North Fork, in Zion National Park a few weeks ago.

Getting ready to board the ferry from Long Island, NY to Connecticut.

So you ferried from New London to ride around there? If not mistaken, that's the ferry I used for a motorcycle ride years ago.
Long Island had a few little ferry's within that I found pretty neat.

From Sunday in Newport on our last day of freakishly warm temps.

Cross Sound Ferry, New London to Orient Point. Price has gone up, one way is $23, it was $11 a few years ago. Bikes are $12 each way, IIRC they were $5.

Silhouette of Catalina Island on the right

2011 Specialized Globe Roll2

Chesapeake Bay

Forty some years ago, during the summers of my sophomore and junior years of high school, I’d ride a bike exactly like this from the time I got up in the morning until Star Trek came on after the 10:00 news. I’d ride every brick and pothole riddled street of my little town or the county roads to a couple of other small communities. Occasionally I would throw it in the back of my car and take it to ride a bike and running trail that led to this very duck pond. And a picture of me riding it through the halls of my school made it into my senior yearbook.

During a city wide cleanup about 30 years ago, I decided it was time to be done with it. I didn't have time to ride it with a young and growing family of three boys, and I couldn't even afford to put tires on it. Looking in my rear view mirror I saw a city worker pull it off the pile I had just put it on at the dump and I immediately felt regret. A few years ago I started checking facebook marketplace and Craigslist for another one. And I acquired two nice old Takaras from the same timeframe as the one I had, and while nice, just not the same.

But a few weeks ago, I found a bike exactly like the one I had in high school. A burgundy Takara 960 Deluxe Touring with all the original parts. I don’t think I will be riding it down any school hallways, but today I test rode it after a complete rebuild to the duck pond I would ride to four decades ago. I almost felt 18 again.

I bought this Madone SL7 2022 new out of the box two weeks ago. I have almost 200 miles on it now and each time I take it out for a ride I'm liking it more and more. Initially, I didn't see the hype in the Di2 electronic shifting compared to my TCR which has Ultegra 11speed mechanical. However, after using the Di2 for two weeks and seeing the other programming benefits, I'm a believer and really think its slick. Disk brakes are noticeably better on the decents over my carbon road wheels on the TCR with rim brakes.

looks like the colonial parkway

Nope - This is a small creek running into the Chesapeake Bay on the western shore at Herring Bay, near Deale, MD