Where did you ride today?

Needed to do some grandparent daycare duties tonight so rode the bike. Went 45 miles round trip. This was the first time riding the Vulcan S at night since I came home after 8pm... Way after dark. Seems the factory headlights work really well. Didn't have any issues seeing the road and both sides. Adding driving lights would improve things but I'd have to turn those off anyway for most of the route going home on 2 lane roads with a little traffic.
 
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Rode the old girl, daughter on the back, to a brew pub 25 miles away when they had a location 5 miles away. I mean, who wouldn’t do that? Later I decided that I absolutely had to have sour cream for our taco dinner so naturally I had to ride to the grocery store. I haven’t been out today. Yet. There is dessert to consider.
 
Norb, that is an unusual place to have your picture taken. The big guy in the chair sure looks happy.
Mike
 
A nicely overcast day today... IOW no bright sun in the eyes. My wife told me to ride my bike to the apple orchard to buy some donuts. So I did.
21 miles round trip. 43 deg F (I put my temp sensor in the clear pocket of my tank bag). I haven't yet put on the Kemimoto bar muffs but I did wear my old cotton glove liners from my military chemical suit and that was warm enough. There are a few days in the next week or so claiming temps will get into the 60s F but I might put the muffs on anyway.

Rode to the Iowa Orchard store. Bought some Apple Cider donuts. I asked about getting an apple pie :pie1: but she said not this time. They still looked really good.
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Still had a few tires from replacing the rubber on my AK so I strapped them on the tail of my Vulcan S and took the side roads to the recycle drop off center... the only place I could get rid of old rubber other than going directly to the dump. They do charge the same at the drop off center as at the dump but the center is closer. Still ended up with 52 miles round trip on side roads. It was a nice mostly sunny day with very little wind and temps around 60F... starting out at 59F and getting up to 62F.

Several days ago I put on my Kemimoto handle bar muffs and this was the first ride with them on. I wore my summer gloves and my hands were almost too hot. I found that there is a zipper along the full length of the inner side of the muffs that allow them to open enough to slip over the stalk mirrors and grips and levers without removing the mirrors. The slot for the mirror stalks to fit through is closed on the inner end so I was thinking it would be more difficult than it was. Turned out to be really easy. The zipper opening is baffled so it doesn't really open and remains wind/waterproof.
 
rjs987 said:
Still had a few tires from replacing the rubber on my AK so I strapped them on the tail of my Vulcan S and took the side roads to the recycle drop off center... the only place I could get rid of old rubber other than going directly to the dump. They do charge the same at the drop off center as at the dump but the center is closer.
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Things are probably different there, but I just go to the nearest car tire store and ask if I can recycle my tires there. They always say sure and I carry them over to the pile of tires they're recycling and its no charge. Maybe that would work in your neighborhood too?

Chris
 
Daboo said:
Things are probably different there, but I just go to the nearest car tire store and ask if I can recycle my tires there. They always say sure and I carry them over to the pile of tires they're recycling and its no charge. Maybe that would work in your neighborhood too?

Chris
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That would be nice but no. I never see any piles of tires around those places since they pay for a pick up regularly.
It was $8 per tire.
 
Robert, it wasn't that they had a huge pile, but that in this case, they stacked the old tires for recycling off on the side of the building. I never take it for granted that I can just toss my tires into their stack of recycled tires. I always go to the front counter first and ask if it is possible.

Even if they keep them inside the building, they'll have a stack of tires to recycle -- somewhere. And if you go to the front counter, they'll tell you where to take them. $16 for a set of tires isn't much, but it's gas money at the least for another ride. ;)

I've taken my old tires to two different tire shops. Both said it was no problem.

Chris
 
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