Where did you ride today?

Today I took a short ride out east to get away from the city for a while. Rode about 31 miles to Strasburg. There is a gentleman who collects farm tractors. Met him (Russ) and he showed me all of his collection and explained how he got into tractors collecting. Very interesting. Most of his tractors are John Deer units. If you ever get out to Strasburg stop in and say hi, Chuck sent you.

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Rode the NT1100 out to the Tractors. There stacks are all standing at attention rusting in the Colorado sun

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Russ the Tractor collector

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His shop / man cave where has his toy tractor collection

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More pictures of the NT and Tractors.


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These are the ones that he has restored / refurbished.

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more of his Tractor yard.


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NT1100 guard dog of the Tractors. Don't let one escape. :rofl1:

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I wanna go ride today...
But the wind is 38 mph with higher gusts! 🌬️💨
Now, if I can only guarantee I can keep it as a tail wind the entire ride then that would be OK. More likely is that I'd end up with a head wind going both ways with significant wind coming from either side. So I'll wait. :frown:
 
Took an early morning run up to the Rock Store for a breakfast burrito (you'll know what a python feels like passing a pig after eating one) and some BS-ing. Got a little vitamin T (essential for mental health) in the process.
 
So this afternoon and evening pulled the Carbs out of the ST adjusted the idle mixture screws to 2.5 turns out and balanced the Carbs. Had to Teflon tape the restriction valve screws on my gauge set. Hopefully now it's accurate. Tomorrow afternoon hopefully will get to test ride my work. Y'all have fun on the roads but be safe G
 
Took the boos lady for a 135 mile ride today. Stopped in Damascus for fuel than off to saltville, stayed on 91 to 601 through tannersville to 16. Took a left and over to thompson valley. Was going to stop at the little store for a drink and break but unfortunately it is no more so a turn around and back on 16 to marion. Chalk up another trip on the back of the dragon and back to shady valley. Of course we had to stop at the country store for some hand dipped ice cream and visit with friends . All in it was a wonderful 135 mile day :bannana:
 
Thunderstorms with wind yesterday all day... Same expected for tomorrow all day... But clear blue sky today with little wind and temps around 70-73*F. So rode 81 miles while we are between the storms.
Stopped at one of the many Covered Bridges of Madison County. Most of them are down several miles of gravel roads that I would much prefer to avoid on the bike. But this one is just off the highway. It does have a gravel parking lot but that is nothing. This one was also moved from its original location due to issues with that location.
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Now I have 6851 miles on the odometer... and also on these tires. The front tire still looks good. The rear tire is JUST getting even with several of the wear bars. I should be able to get several more local short rides in during the next 2 weeks but then will replace the rear tire before FerrySTOC. That should happen around 7000 miles on the tire. I think it won't hurt to get another 150 miles on this tire.
 
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