Where did you ride today?

Got out of work early today. 70 sunny in Nov north of Chicago. Ride in was short this morning. Managed a 40 min ride at lunch. But when 3 pm came I was out the door. An hour and a half before sunset. Would have been nice had I remembered that. Thought I had 2 and a half. So about 4:20 it hit me that I had messed up. Odd how low the sun was already. But really didn't care. Got in about 100 miles in SE Wisconsin. High tomorrow is also the low for today at 39. So gonna be a big change. Might even get in a sub 20 degree ride next week.
 
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A couple questions. What is this season you mention? What is snow? (and work?) :cool:

I saw 90 on the bike readout riding home Monday. It was sitting on 86 to 88 for around 5 hours. Now if you want to discuss monkey butt powder...
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Yes, we know you identify as retired. Some of us are not. Sitting at home watching people sand drywall and noticing the exceptional weather today. This sucks! Maybe I’ll dream of riding tonight.
 
This morning I rode to pick up a Veterans Day breakfast meal when it was 20.2 F temp and rode 22.4 miles (only 3 miles from restaurant to home but made it 5 miles anyway).
Then this afternoon I rode again to pick up a few Veterans Day vouchers for using later in the year and also to get my free lunch. I rode another 19 miles that time and it was 26-27 F the entire ride (only 2 miles from lunch to home). Not long distances but just conditioning for the cold riding season.
 
Limestone Lake, Marquez Texas, free camping, empty park. :thumb:

Tom

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Love those Texas little town murals. I wondered about the baseball player…Marlin's mild climate, hot mineral water baths and proximity by train to Dallas, Houston and San Antonio made it an appealing spring training location for Major League Baseball teams. Four different teams trained in Marlin from 1904 to 1918: the Chicago White Sox, St. Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds and New York Giants.

I think the guitar player was because the movie Leadbelly; a 1976 film chronicling the life of folk singer Huddie Ledbetter(better known as "Lead Belly") was filmed there.

Tom

Marlin Texas:

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To work on the 04, I moved the 12 out of the garage, but I couldn't just move it out, so I took off on it and rode it around a BIG block (about 1.5 miles). Before putting my attention back to the 04.
 
Didn't do it yesterday so I rode for some tacos today....walked up to the Taco Bell counter and waited for a while until someone told me to use the kiosk to order....What! I can't order here?.....No, we're trying to reduce contact with the customers.....touched the kiosk multiple times to order, could not use cash and did not get my paper receipt (e-mail or text only) I guess I'm officially a grumpy old man :biggrin: but I did ride 100 miles today:) Russ.
 
More riding along the east coast of Iowa and the west coast of Illinois. A shot of the Morman temple in Nauvoo from across the river, and the hydroelectric dam in Keokuk responsible for the wide river.
 

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It's Turkey here. After delivering a foil pan to my Daughter's house at 6:30 I noticed it's a great day for a ride. So in @drbuzzard fashion I went for a ride in the hood, or to the beach. Same thing right? So like the ol buzzard I took some pictures along the way.

First up the new 3 mile bridge across Pensacola Bay is nearing completion with all lanes open in 3 more months. This bridge is near exactly 3 miles long so this is the view from 1.5 miles "north" of the bridge. I'm going to rent one of those electric bicycles one day and peddle across the bridge like everyone does now.

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It was 63 leaving my house (inland 3 miles from the Bay) but the marine layer was soild at the Pensacola Beach beach ball water tower. Pretty good crowd there at 7:36 am for a turkey trot fun run down the beach road. Temp was only 58 at the beach so I headed back north.

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On the North side exit at the 3 mile bridge is the "Gaffitti Bridge". It's regaffitted daily at times and usually some type bs but today it's still rocking the painting of the Blue Angels airshow at the NAS a couple weeks back.

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I headed randomly north through town and took a pix of this bush putting out it's last blooms of the year I suspect.

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A another spot provided a pic of an Orange tree. The Orange trees are doing very well this year and the tree in my Daughters yard has great tasting fresh fruits.

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Crossing the Norhtern end of Pensacola bay the bridge at Hwy 98 over the Escambia river was clear of most all people so I did a bad and stopped a snap a picture right at the top of the bridge. (25' clear of the no traffic). This is where the river enters the Bay.

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I rode just 4 miles north and turned around to get a few "sea level" shots. This is a Kayak launch made to slide the Kayak right out the truck bed and into the Simpson river at the Bay. The launch ramp (pipes) runs right down in front of the ST.

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Now under the HWY 98 bridge the duck hunters were out in full force at the Swamphouse boat ramp.

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I made it to the Turkey Day chosen site (Daughters house) and the neighbors house was just asking for a picture in front of their loaded down Orange tree.

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Today I went out for a Thanksgiving Day ride for the very first time since I've been riding. Due to family scheduling we are celebrating with the turkey dinner on Saturday. My son and his family are celebrating that today by having his in laws over at his place.

Just finished replacing the rear tire on my AK so I needed to take it out anyway to check out if the balance beads are good and if I aligned the belt right, etc. First time for replacing the rubber myself. First time for using balance beads. First time for owning a bike with belt drive and adjusting the belt/sprocket alignment. I discovered that the TPMS may be off a little more than I thought. After getting the tire bead set using up to 80 psi I adjusted the pressure back to 42 psi using a tire gauge. Then I mounted the tire on the bike and checked the pressure using the TPMS and found it was reading only 38.5 psi. So I double checked with the pencil gauge which was still showing 42 psi. I checked with a second pencil gauge with the same result. I know that pencil gauges are not really all that accurate but didn't think two of them would be off almost 4 psi. So I set the TPMS indicated pressure to 39.5 psi instead of the usual 40.5 psi. Not much change but closer. The manual calls for about 38 psi anyway and the tire sidewall says 42 psi max. I always like to go a little higher than what the manual says as long as I don't go over the tire max. I set the front tire to 37.5 psi. All of these pressures are +/- .5 psi so the readings will vary. It is very hard to get closer than +/- .3 psi with this TPMS. Close to those numbers is close enough given the accuracy of the gauges.

I rode slower roads at first just to get a feel for the new rubber. Then I increased the speed a little at a time choosing roads that were progressively faster. Near the end I finally jumped on the Interstate for a fast run at just over 65 mph. All is well. The tire ran very smoothly. I ended up with a total of about 35 miles. Temp during this ride was around 47 F. The handlebar muffs were left on (I was too lazy to remove them) and my hands were a little more than warm as a result.

When I returned home I immediately felt the hub and axle of the rear wheel just to be sure it wasn't heating up and it actually felt cool to the touch. I think I got it right. I also checked where the drive/timing belt was running on the rear sprocket. Originally, from the factory, the belt was riding close to the outer edge of the sprocket. But still 1-1.5 mm from the edge. The spec is a minimum of 1 mm. After the ride I found the belt was about 2-2.5 mm from the inner edge of the sprocket, or just inside of center. I wanted it centered. So I did some more adjusting and got it to ride in the center of the sprocket. This was done by adjusting a little and then running the bike on the center stand for a while at around 4000 rpm. Then checking and adjusting again and running again. Will see if this stays put under power on the road.
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