Biker395 

My favorite beach.

papik

Thanks, nice , but no Nice city.....it is the coast of Carqueiranne between Toulon and Hyeres .....the begening of Azur Coast ....well namad this day.....

papik

And for a little prayer.......Chapel near Bormes les mimosas (between Hyeres and St Tropez)....

BikeWNC

I'm still going through the hundreds of photos I took while on the river up in the Yukon and Alaska. Here's one with some morning glacial glow.

TromboneAl

Less scenic but somewhat interesting:



This was a local news reporter interviewing people about the new sheriff in Blue Lake (where we stop for coffee). I got the dog and the cyclists in there just by luck.

I decided I should have told her I lived in that town, and my name was Christopher Froome. I know they wouldn't have noticed, and my interview would have been aired with that name below me as I was talking.

And, as I've noticed before, female news reporters are way hotter in real life than they are on TV.

TromboneAl

And here's "Break Time."

David Bierbaum

Here's some early morning steampunk techno grunge. Who knew a refinery could look pretty?


CRW_0484 by goofus_maximus, on Flickr

I took my camera along today, because I was visiting a local botanical garden I just ran across on Monday.













Oh, and I went by way of the Delyte Morris Trail. There are lots of turn offs to MTB paths along this section. I did not indulge!


CRW_0485 by goofus_maximus, on Flickr

This all looks purty, but it was freaking 50 degrees f, this morning! I was not properly dressed, and my hands were barely functioning by the time I got home from the self-induced wind chill. I literally had to use my entire left hand to shift the front derailleur because my thumb wouldn't do it.

rumrunn6

breakfast with wifey on deck at motel before a ride in the Berkshires. we don't get away much so even tho the pic stinks, the morning was beautiful

Dudelsack 

Rode to this today:



The scenery was insane:



And all on a recumbent. This was around 10,000 feet:

TromboneAl

Must have hard to breathe up there, yes?

Here I am at the Vail pass in May (that clothing was appropriate for where we started driving that day):

Biker395 

What a glorious place to ride. Gotta love Colorado!

Pamestique 

This is from my ride last night around the bike trails of Orange County - Quail Hill...


I was taking my friend out for a first ride on her new bike - she went from an old Trek 700 to this:


She loved it but it scared her alittle - it rides as fast as it looks!

volosong

Very nice! When she gets some "real" pedals, she'll feel more confident.

TromboneAl

Was she reading the instruction manual while riding (the one attached to the handlebars)?

Biker395 

Life's full of U-turns.

MileHighMark

This morning's commute:

Pamestique 

So my friend is a real "noob"... I don't know why she attached on old route slip (from a ride she did a month ago) to her bike... to make people think she has been riding awhile? I didn't ask. Also the shop gave her water bottles for free... she rides with a camelbak; I told her she does not have to ride with the bottle if she is not using them... it's just added "weight". Right now I am just trying to get her adjusted to riding a real road bike. I am really hoping to get her working with pedals shortly but right now she is not secure on the bike... so it will take time. I was able to talk her nto ditching the really ****er saddle bag she had - it came off her old bike. When she bought the Domane so told me she will have to bring the old bike in. I asked "why - for a fit?" "No...to transfer all the reflectors". I told her don't worry the new bike also comes with reflectors which maybe the first thing you take off!

Dudelsack 

Is that Singletree/Mayhoeffer?

MileHighMark

Yup (good eye).

Dudelsack 

Not bad, really. Someone told me that the older we get, the less the altitude messes with you. Maybe we have fewer functioning brain cells to go haywire.

I did have trouble breathing with activity here:



As we drove up, we passed a few souls climbing this thing:



The owner of this bike said it was his first time to climb Mt. Evans, and it "really wasn't that bad". I'll take his word for it.

This is the view of Mt. Bierstadt. My daughter and sil climbed this earlier in the week. I was invited, but I wanted to save what reserves I had for Vail Pass.


One more thing, sighted at the Echo Lake Lodge:

Pamestique 

Just sorting through photos and came upon ones taken from my Hellwekk adventure. Hellweek is a ride out of Fredericks TX (Hill Country) and is used by RAAM rides for training. Every day is a century ride but you can modify the route to do shorter lengths. Whether was unpredictable and started out hot and ended up so friggin cold I didn't have enough clothes to wear. The roads were beautiful however, clean and well maintined, quiet of car traffic (except here and there and close to town). Lots of Huge ranches, Deer blinds, exotic animal ranches for hunters and quaint old buuilding and cemetries. I would do this ride again in a minute!

Just some random images:

Dudelsack 

Believe it or not, I went up the Meadowlark trail on a LWB recumbent this week.

I think I've already posted it, but I still think it was cool.

jppe

Since we're on Vail Pass, a few photos of that section coming from Vail towards Frisco in June 2011 I believe:

MileHighMark

Do you ride a black LWB 'bent?

Dudelsack 

No, it was red.