Kind of a random ride out picture, not sure where else to put it but not really worth a new thread. Took Mrs Visors Street Triple for its first service in Stratford upon Avon yesterday and this was in the showroom Absolute mint condition, never been ridden with about 3 miles on the clock so like new.
Just catching up on some of the great photos - and town names. Here we have: Blue Ball, PA Bird In Hand, PA And of course - Coxsackie NY
Perfect riding weather today. Sunny, 65 degrees, fall foliage... When people hear the words New Jersey, unfortunately, they usually picture North Eastern New Jersey. Industrial, congested. However, to the North West there is beautiful, mountainous country. When you get south of Trenton, where I am, you get into wide open spaces, horse farms, dairy farms and cornfields. Eastward there's the Jersey Shore. I live on the edge of the Pine Barrens between the shore and Philly. Over a million acres of wild, flat sandy land covered in pine trees. Home of deer, coyote, bears, foxes, bobcats, eagles and rattlesnakes. That's why we call it the 51st State. I rode to the Atsion State Park area today, about ten miles from El Rancho Fork Lock. Atsion Lake Richards Mansion, built in 1826. Summer home of a money guy from Philly who had a bog iron facility here. One of the Richards out buildings Quaker meeting house in the nearby woods
More South Jersey Old tracks that transported the iron Cranberry bog. Cranberries are big here. Not the berries, they're about the size of a grape, but farming them is very big. When the berries are ripe, they flood the bogs and the berries pop off and float up. They then rake them in. Ocean Spray has a huge facility south of here. Blueberries are big business here too. The famous Atco Dragway. About 2 miles from my house as the crow flies. When the jet cars run, my windows rattle! My favorite watering hole. The Pic-A- Lilli Inn. Been here since the early 1920s, run by the same family, good friends of ours. Best buffalo chicken wings ever! I mean, addictive. Since I was right there... Old greenhouse facility off the center of the town of Atco. At dusk hundreds, maybe thousands of bats come pouring out of the stack looking like smoke pouring out.
OK, I'm trying to find some interesting "Rideout" photos here in South Jersey, but nothing here compares to some of the beautiful vistas shared by those of you across the pond in England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and mainland Europe. Here it's mostly flatlands, pines and sand. Pfffft. I'll have to head to the Jersey Shore or up NW to the mountainous area of NJ and maybe NE PA for some stunning scenery. Meanwhile...These are some shots of Batsto, NJ, a restored colonial village from the 1700s about 20 miles from my place. Bog iron was big business in those days and it was mined extensively. A lot of it went to make cannon balls for that bit of trouble between Britain and the Colonies in 1776. There's a lot more, including a general store, the folks' houses, blacksmith's, the iron works, etc., but I had to take a leak and it was a long walk back to the visitors' center. Sorry, but when you reach a certain age, if you gotta go, you'd better go, or you're gonna go. By the lake Land owner's little shack Grainary Grist mill Grist mill machinery A random old boat I passed on the way.
Sick as a dog because “events” prevented me from getting out in yesterdays sunshine, and I knew I won’t get chance later today… So I went for a very early doors scoot and was coming back as the sun was rising over the estuary! It was a bit nippy too…
I don’t have an external temp gauge on my bike, but looking at the frozen car windows and the fact I could see the stars clearly… I suspect around -2 to 0 deg C. There was some beautiful temperature inversions kicking about in the valleys (because Sat had been nice) but I couldn’t photo them in the dark… but you can see one in this photo… If you zoom in on the hills in the middle and the right, you can see the little mist banks in the valleys… there’s some mist on the estuary water too… can be a really pretty phenomenon. This is not my photo… but shows how spectacular it can be…
Yes, that definitely qualifies as "nippy"--particularly on a bike. That area in the photos is truly beautiful. I can definitely see those little mist banks. Lovely. Sometimes we get those mist banks at the lower elevations of Catalina Mountain range during the winter, especially in the canyon areas.
Absolutely perfect retirement day here in November. The youngsters are going to have to worry about global warming because Im loving it! Perfect for the GS today.
I think that bull is quite fancying a bit of rumpy-pumpy with your GS. You’d better get a moove on then… Moo-ve - never mind… Edit: Seriously though, I wouldn’t be surprised if that bull posts something on the “Robots” thread about the merits of shagging a big German bike. We have some right weird posts so far, so little can still shock me. Edit 2: That was not a challenge to go all out an shock me. I’m quite sure you all could. Leaving psychological scars that would never heal.
Not one of those calendars with forum members in the scud, covering their modesty with motorcycle parts?
