obrentharris 

@SJX426 Thanks for the travelogue!
Brent

SJX426 

GREAT! Let me know!

Spaghetti Legs 

43 miles with a lot of hills on one of my standard routes today. Sunshine, temps in low 70's and beautiful colors. A bit windy and I felt like I had headwind both ways but probably just grumpy legs.

Dudley Mountain Rd

bironi

Very nice day back there in Virginia.
We had a few hours of filtered sun in our hood as well.
No pics, but a great day in a group of four.
Beer and bull after.

northbend 

Hey Byron,
Glad to see you're getting some riding in.
I saw on VS that you were looking to make some changes to your handlebars to resolve some pain issues.
You musta done that..
Matt

Spaghetti Legs 

The missus had the day off from work today, as did I, so we rode our city bikes down to a cafe for un cafe et croissant. We went for a walk along a shortish riverside trail and noted the handy bike rail on the steps to the bridge over the creek. The trail on the other side would take about 5 minutes to ride by bike so maybe not the most productive use of a resource, but appreciated nevertheless. First time I've seen this outside of subway stops in Copenhagen.

jimmuller 

I went for a spin today, about 30 miles along hills and valleys I've ridden many times, and a few I've ridden rarely. Today's machine of choice was the Peugeot PF10, nee PFN10 but now wearing tubulars. It's a nice machine. All French, or at least mostly French.

The fields are looking a lot like winter, sans snow. Yeah, I know, yet another pic of a bike with a field in the background.


Did I mention French?


I stopped for a snack at Merriam's Corner, the site of the first major fighting in the British column's retreat from Concord back to Boston, April 19, 1775.


The trail of Battle Road, the National Historical Park along which the British column marched, has this little footbridge heading east from Merriam's Corner.

While I munched away I watched various cyclists try to negotiate that mud. You can't quite tell from the picture but a puddle of water covers much of that area. Some cyclists stopped, turned back to the parking lot a hundred yards through the woods, and rode around on the road. Some just rode through the mud. One poor woman got two thirds of the way across and her bike stopped. Fortunately she was able to put a foot down on reasonably dry mud. I just kept eating.

bironi

Matt,
I did put some swept back Nitto bars that Chris gave me on my Medici.
Non-fendered bike, so I haven't given it a good testing period.
If these don't work, I've also found an off name brand that makes a shape that makes more sense to my eye.
I'm also schedule for a video consult from a wrist surgeon on Friday to see what options are available.
It's all a PITW!
By

zukahn1 

First snow ride of the season today bit window and cold so just a short ride on local paths roads. Took the Mesa GSX which is very good in the snow.




Latest date for some snow cover on the roads in several years.

A Veteran's Day themed at the Fairplay cemetary.

northbend 

I hope you get it figured out. Best wishes to you buddy

JaccoW

Is it simply a gutter or even a powered one with a small conveyor belt inside? I like it when those are available (or more like, I hate it when they're not). Not too expensive but much easier than carrying the bike.

EDIT: Like this: (gutter with brushes or one with a conveyor belt inside.)

Spaghetti Legs 

Ahh, Jacco, we are a long way from conveyor belts in the US! Just a simple rail. The brushes are a nice touch. The ones I noticed in Copenhagen were pretty unobtrusive and simple indented steel rails. I’m going to start searching YouTube for videos of people riding their bikes on the conveyor belt versions.

NJgreyhead

Rode the GT Outpost to the local American Legion post (and my polling place) and ran a Veterans Day 5k to benefit their scholarship fund. Did well.
The devil made me do it?

Warbird21

19 miles on the road/C&O Canal today, 44 degrees and despite my phone app saying 10% chance of rain, it rained pretty hard for most of it...Neoprene winter jacket, shoe covers and a few layers kept me warm and mostly dry. (need to replace my 30 year old Performance Winter gloves....)
Discovered my rear disc brake isn't stopping my bike at all, I thought the lever travel was extreme, bottomed out on this one stopping power. First issue with this disc brake (mechanical) setup, hopefully an easy fix.

Sir_Name 

Sweet autumnal New England ride today. It started off warm enough if a bit blustery, then the thunderstorms hit. No pics of that part of the ride, but I was very glad to be wearing wool.

zukahn1 

Expect to see some crash footage one of the reasons there aren't many coneyor betlts or rails in the US is people would try to ride therm and crash rather than follow the rules and walk are stand. While the US is getting better but most public transit and roads trails in the US are just no very bike commute basic transportation friendly.

botty kayer

Did my usual weekend thing of heading out around London without a planned route, and just see what I come across. I'm always on the look out for new pieces of street art and we're lucky here in London that the place is so big there's also loads of outside artworks to see, permanent and temporary, so there's always new discoveries.

First stop is Leake Street tunnel, a legal street art/graffiti spot near Waterloo station.


Spotted a nice 1968 Cadillac Coupe deVille being used as an advertisement for a new steakhouse.

Rode down Constitution Hill which is looking very autumnal.

To the right of this road is basically the back garden to Buckingham Palace. The Queen was in as she'd nursing a bad back so she missed the Remembrance Sunday service at the Cenotaph today.

Saw some remembrance street art over in east London.

Sunglasses are not going to be needed here for a few months but nice to have bright colours to offset the grey

A couple of new works on Brick Lane

Like this one as the bloke on the phone just turned round at that second and he's mirroring the ghost figure in the artwork

A new snowflake inspired art piece in Broadgate

And finally on my way home along the river Thames, there's a new shed artwork by Nathaniel Rackowe that has appeared on the banks opposite the famous Secret Intelligence Service building or Mi6 as its known, which is the building on the left. It was seen being blown up in James Bond film Skyfall, using special effects obviously, they didn't really do it. The tall building on the right is called St George's tower, a helicopter crashed into it in 2013, killing the pilot, and a pedestrian was also killed by falling debris. I live in an old Victorian terrace house in a street behind these two buildings.

cooperryder

Pic from yesterday's ride.

Old White Rock Lake Pump Station seen across the Lake.
Lots of folks out enjoying the urban lake in temps of 50's to low 60's throughout the beautiful sunny autumn day.

It's between 9 to 10 miles to go around the lake depending on the path one takes.

It's a wonderful area resource that many enjoy.

https://www.chamberlinltd.com/article...ervation-story



Also the old White Rock Lake Boat House in the background in this pic.



White Rock Lake, Dallas, Texas: The Boathouse at White Rock Lake

nlerner

Single-speed Sunday on the Milwaukee:

northbend 

We had a break in the moist weather. Enough for a few hours of riding anyways...
The view from the observation point by Matthew Pendergast, on Flickr

A clear-is view of Snoqualmie Falls by Matthew Pendergast, on Flickr

cooperryder

Also an over the shoulder shot while riding through downtown Dallas past the JFK Memorial.

zukahn1 

Nice but windy weather today got took a nice ride up to Thompson park in the Pike national forest and did about half of the hack trail on the Raliegh MT-200 15 miles or so round trip no one at all in the park.


The Mt-200 is surprisingly smooth and fast on the downhill section of road trail.




Several inches of snow on the trail in places so it will likely be snowed in for winter in another week or so.

Andy_K 

Dry days in November are rare in Oregon, so when one comes along you've got to jump on it. This Saturday was such a day and @gugie and I planned to ride the Historic Canby Ferry Loop. This was the fourth time in three years that gugie and I had planned to incorporate the Canby ferry in a bike ride, and for the second time in those four attempts, our plan was thwarted.



The first time we tried it was on President's Day in 2019, when we discovered that President's Day is one of six days a year that the ferry is closed. Since then we've been sure to check ahead of time to be sure the ferry was open. Unfortunately, gugie entrusted this duty to me and I made the critical error of trusting what the web site told me. When we arrived yesterday to find it closed, we called the phone number listed on the web site and were informed that the ferry wasn't running because of high water. Isn't high water the reason ferries exist in the first place?

But just as you can't fight City Hall, you can't fight a ferry operator who is taking the day off.



And so 16 miles into a planned 20 mile ride, we were forced to turn around and go back the way we had come. That was OK though, as it's a beautiful ride, especially on that side of the Willamette. It was mostly a lot of this:



I hadn't taken any pictures on the first pass through Oregon City, but on the return trip I got a bunch.



The highlights were the McLoughlin Promenade and it's views of Willamette Falls and the Oregon City Municipal Elevator. According to Wikipedia, Willamette Falls is the largest waterfall by volume in the Northwestern United States and the 17th largest in the world. I wouldn't have guessed that. The Oregon City Municipal Elevator, again according to Wikipedia, is the only outdoor municipal elevator in the United States. More importantly (to me), it keeps you from having to walk your bike up a nasty climb. And, of course, Oregon City is where you end up if your oxen don't die along the Oregon Trail.

gugie 

Oregon City isn't typically on the "best of Portlandia" tourist list, but I highly recommend it. It's hard astride the Willamette River. Several old papermills and powerplants are located next to the river. The falls aren't Niagra Falls spectacular, but outside of the few summer months we have here they're pretty dang cool to stare at. The Munincipal Elevator looks like it was made for the Jetson's - the latest iteration was built in the mid-50's, right around the time that Googie architecture (no relation) was big. It's free, and you can take your bike on it. The McLouglin Promenade follows the cliff just above the small downtown district and has wonderful views. If you can catch a day with the Canby Ferry running, this is a nice little ride, but I'd recommend mapping it out on a GPS unit, as there. There's a few local restaurants to start or end your ride at.


Willamett Falls as seen from the McGlouglin Promenade in Oregon City

bironi

Andy_K,
Is the black bike your's?
What's the brand if so?
Thanks.