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GravelBoxer
GravelBoxer
📅 acum 5 z

Gschnitztal statt Pass, die letzte Runde vor dem Service

Solo Ride Country Road Season End Tips Scenic View +4

Die hohen Paesse habe ich fuer heuer abgehakt, das habe ich mir Ende September vorgenommen und auch eingehalten. Am Freitag kommt die GS zum Service, also war der Sonntag die letzte Gelegenheit fuer eine richtige Runde. Weil ich nicht schon wieder ueber Kuehtai wollte, ist es das Gschnitztal geworden, das ich seit Jahren nur vom Vorbeifahren auf der Brennerautobahn kenne.Los um halb neun, bewusst nicht frueher. Am Samstag hat es den ganzen Tag genieselt, und nach so einem Tag sind die Schattenseiten im Wipptal bis in den Vormittag nass. Nicht ueber die Autobahn, sondern die Brennerstrasse hinauf, ueber Schoenberg und Matrei bis Steinach. Auf der Bundesstrasse ist am Sonntag in der Frueh kaum etwas los, ein paar Ausfluegler Richtung Italien und sonst nur Einheimische.In Steinach geht es rec...
FjordGS
FjordGS
📅 acum 10 z

Epletid i Hardanger

Solo Ride Country Road Scenic View Scandinavia Norwegian Fjords +2

Jeg hadde en feriedag igjen fra sommeren og tok den i gaar. Det var meldt opphold til langt utpaa ettermiddagen og regn fra kvelden, og det var nok til at jeg ikke trengte aa tenke meg om. Ute av byen litt over aatte, etter at det verste av trafikken hadde lagt seg.E16 til Trengereid og saa opp over Kvamskogen. Der oppe er bjoerka nesten naken naa, og det laa taake over myrene. Maaleren viste fire grader. Paa vei ned mot Norheimsund lettet det, og plutselig laa Hardangerfjorden der, blank og stille, med fjellene paa andre siden opp i skyene.Videre langs fjorden gjennom Oeystese og Aalvik til Kvanndal. Jeg rakk ferja over til Utne med fem minutter til gode. Paa dekket sto en pickup med lasteplanet fullt av eplekasser, og sjaafoeren sa at det hadde vaert et godt aar, men at alt kom paa en ga...
FjordGS
FjordGS
📅 acum 14 z 👁 1 👍 1

Rundt Osteroeya i yr

Solo Ride Country Road Rain Scandinavia Norwegian Fjords +2

Loerdag var det meldt yr hele dagen, og det ble det ogsaa. Men det var den fine sorten, den som bare henger i lufta og ikke faller, og etter en uke inne kjente jeg at jeg maatte ut litt, selv om det ikke ble langt. Ute av byen ved tre-tiden.E16 forbi Arna, av ved Herland og over Osteroeybrua. Midt paa brua blaaste det mer enn jeg hadde regnet med, og fjorden under var graa og blank som bly. Jeg holdt meg i hoeyre del av feltet og tok det med ro. GSen ligger fint i vind, det er meg det er noe galt med.Paa oeya er alt smalere og roligere. Fra Haugo og utover mot Lonevaag gaar veien langs vannet med bjoerk og rogn paa begge sider, mer gul enn groenn naa, og vaate blader i hjulsporene. Folk sier rognebaerene aldri har vaert saa roede som i aar, og at det betyr en snoerik vinter. Jeg tror ikke ...
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BariCoast
📅 acum 14 z

Sabato in Murgia, fino a Castel del Monte

Solo Ride Country Road Scenic View Autumn Weekend +1

Da noi l'autunno non arriva, bisogna andarlo a prendere. Sabato a Bari c'erano ancora ventisei gradi e il lungomare pieno di gente in costume, quindi dopo pranzo ho preso la moto e sono salito in Murgia, dove almeno qualcosa cambia.Statale 98 fino a Bitonto, poi Terlizzi e Ruvo. Sulla strada piu trattori che macchine, tutti con i rimorchi pieni di cassette d'uva, e dietro ognuno una scia di mosto che ti entra nel casco. Superarli non conviene, tanto alla rotonda dopo ne trovi un altro. Per una volta non avevo fretta.Dopo Andria si sale. Gli ulivi finiscono e cominciano i muretti a secco, i campi gia arati, le pietre bianche che spuntano dalla terra rossa. Il vento c'e sempre, e a un certo punto ho dovuto chiudere la giacca, cosa che a Bari non faccio da maggio. La ventola non e partita una...
ChromeWolf
ChromeWolf
📅 acum 14 z 👁 1 👍 1

Catfish at a Fire Hall Out Past Chapel Hill

Country Road Sunset Story Time Food Stop Cruiser +1

Friday evening I took the Heritage south on 31A, down through Nolensville and past Triune where the new houses finally give out, and kept on toward Chapel Hill with the sun getting low on my right. No plan to it past the road itself.About the time the fence lines got honest again I smelled grease, and then I saw the sign. Hand painted on plywood, leaned on a sawhorse at a crossroads: FISH FRY TONITE, with an arrow. I followed it to a cinderblock fire hall with both bay doors rolled up and the trucks parked out in the grass to make room. Three big cast iron kettles going out back on propane, and a line of folks that ran out past the flagpole.Plate was catfish, hushpuppies, white beans and slaw, twelve dollars, and the money went in a coffee can marked for new turnout gear. Nobody made chang...
ChromeNation
ChromeNation
📅 acum 14 z 👁 1

Brisket in Lockhart and the Long Way Home

Solo Ride Country Road Food Stop Autumn Cruiser

First Saturday of October and the forecast finally had a number under ninety in it, so I rode down to Lockhart for lunch. It is barely thirty miles from my place if you take 183 straight down, which is exactly why I did not. Went east first on the back roads past the airport and came into town from the north with the sun behind me.Parked on the courthouse square. That courthouse is a big old stone thing with a clock tower, and every time I see it I forget it is not a movie set. Walked over to Smitty's, the one where you come in through the back and walk right past the fire on the floor of the pit room. Smoke in your eyes, heat on your shins, and they cut your brisket onto butcher paper while you watch. Half a pound of fatty, a sausage ring, crackers and a slice of onion. You eat it with yo...
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BrickMonster
📅 acum 14 z 👁 2 👍 1

Door het Gooi naar de Loosdrechtse Plassen

Solo Ride Country Road Scenic View Autumn Morning Ride +1

Eerste weekend van oktober en voor het eerst in weken een voorspelling zonder regen tot de middag. Ik rijd bijna altijd naar het noorden of langs de Amstel, dus deze keer bewust naar het oosten, het Gooi in. Om half negen de Monster van het slot, de straat nog nat van de nacht, de lucht al open.Via Diemen over de oude weg naar Muiden. Bij het Muiderslot even stilgestaan op de brug over de Vecht, de gracht om het kasteel nog in de mist en verder niemand, alleen een man die zijn bootje aan het leeghozen was. Daarna over de dijk naar Naarden. Ik was eerlijk gezegd nog nooit binnen de vesting geweest, alleen erlangs op de A1. Je rijdt over een brug door de wallen naar binnen en dan sta je ineens in een stadje waar alles klopt: kinderkopjes, lage huizen, de grote kerk in het midden. De Monster ...
ChromeWolf
ChromeWolf
📅 acum 17 z

The Sorghum Pan Out Past Lafayette

Solo Ride Country Road Story Time Food Stop Autumn +2

Saturday I got the Heritage out early and ran northeast on 31E, up through Gallatin and Westmoreland toward the Kentucky line, with no plan past finding a road I had not been on. Fog was lying in the creek bottoms and the first of the sumac had gone red along the fence rows. Up around Lafayette the land starts rolling hard and the farms get smaller, and every third mailbox has a hand painted sign under it for eggs or honey or firewood.One of those signs said SORGHUM MAKING TODAY, with an arrow down a gravel lane. I have never once in my life seen sorghum made, so I eased the Heritage down that gravel at about a walking pace and parked her by a shed where a dozen pickups already were.They had a cane press going behind the shed, an old green iron thing run off a belt from a tractor, and two ...
MonstroMI
MonstroMI
📅 acum 18 z 👁 2

Ultima sera di settembre, fino a Pavia

Solo Ride Night Ride Country Road Cold Weather Gloves +3

Ieri sera era l'ultimo giorno di settembre e non mi andava di chiuderlo davanti alla tv, cosi verso le otto e mezza ho preso il Monster e sono uscito senza un'idea precisa, come sempre. Ad agosto mi ero fermato a Binasco e da allora mi era rimasta in testa questa cosa di andare fino in fondo al Naviglio, fino a Pavia, e ieri sembrava la sera giusta, cielo pulito e niente vento.Il Naviglio Pavese di sera e una riga dritta con l'acqua a sinistra e un lampione ogni tanto, e dopo Binasco anche i lampioni finiscono e restano i campi. Il riso in parte l'hanno gia tagliato, ci sono le stoppie e qua e la qualche campo ancora giallo, e sopra c'era quella nebbiolina bassa che sale dall'acqua appena va giu il sole. Non la nebbia vera, quella arriva a novembre, pero abbastanza da farti alzare la visie...
WheelieKing
WheelieKing
📅 acum 1 luni 👁 2 👍 1

La Albufera en plena siega y yo con gomas de calle

Solo Ride Country Road Muddy Autumn Morning Ride +2

Todos los septiembres pasa lo mismo y todos los septiembres se me olvida. Empieza la siega del arroz en la Albufera, salen las cosechadoras a los campos y a los dos dias las carreteras de alrededor estan sembradas de barro, paja y agua sucia. Lo he oido mil veces en el bar, pero una cosa es oirlo y otra es meterse tu solo a las siete de la manana con una supermoto y gomas de calle.El miercoles sali temprano porque tenia el dia libre y porque a esa hora por alli no hay nadie. Desde Pinedo hasta El Palmar la carretera va pegada al agua y el sol estaba todavia bajo, asi que los campos inundados se quedan como espejos y no sabes muy bien donde acaba el arrozal y donde empieza el cielo. Eso, que suena a foto de calendario, es lo unico bonito que voy a decir en toda la historia.Porque en la prim...
DustLine
DustLine
📅 acum 1 luni 👁 2 👍 1

Fim de tarde pela N108

Solo Ride Country Road Sunset Portugal Scrambler

Sai do trabalho as seis e em vez de ir para casa fui pela N108, aquela que segue o Douro pela margem norte a partir de Gondomar. Ja tinha feito aquilo em julho com o sol alto e nao e a mesma estrada em setembro. A luz chega de lado e o rio fica quase preto por baixo das encostas.A estrada e estreita e cheia de curvas cegas, com muro de um lado e a queda do outro. Nao da para andar depressa e ainda bem. A Scrambler gosta daquele ritmo, em terceira, com o motor a puxar de baixo, e o som volta das rochas quando se passa junto ao paredao.Parei em Melres, no cais pequeno onde ainda ha barcos amarrados. Nao estava la ninguem. So um homem a arrumar redes que me perguntou se a moto era antiga. Disse-lhe que nao, que so parece. Ficou a olhar para ela mais um bocado e voltou as redes.Voltei a arranc...
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BrickMonster
📅 acum 1 luni 👁 2 👍 1

Zaterdagochtend langs de Amstel naar de Ronde Hoep

Solo Ride Country Road Autumn Morning Ride Naked Bike

Zaterdagochtend voor achten de deur uit, zonder dat er iets gepland was. De stad is op dat uur nog van niemand, alleen van de bakkers en van de mensen die de terrassen naar buiten zetten. Via de Weesperzijde de stad uit en bij de Berlagebrug de Amstel op.Ik rijd bijna altijd naar het noorden, over de dijk en langs het water, dus dit keer bewust de andere kant op. Langs de Amstel richting Ouderkerk is het een heel ander soort weg dan Waterland: geen wind van opzij, geen open land, maar bomen aan weerskanten en bochten die precies zo lang duren als je wil. De Monster hoeft daar helemaal niks te doen, tweede versnelling en verder gewoon kijken.In Ouderkerk was nog niks open, dus doorgereden de Ronde Hoep in. Dat is een polder waar letterlijk een weg omheen ligt en verder bijna niks in staat. ...
ChromeWolf
ChromeWolf
📅 acum 1 luni

The Coffee Can Out Past Cottontown

Solo Ride Country Road Story Time Food Stop Cruiser

Last evening of August I ran the Heritage northeast out past Goodlettsville and kept going until the road quit having a shoulder to speak of. Out toward Cottontown, where the fence lines do more work than the pavement does and every mailbox has a name on it that has been standing there longer than the blacktop has.There is a produce stand out that way, if stand is the word for it. Piece of plywood across two sawhorses under a tin roof somebody nailed to four posts, and on the plywood a row of tomatoes, a basket of okra, and four watermelons picked that same day judging by the dirt still on them. Nobody sitting with it. No prices anywhere except one written on a paper plate. Tomatoes two dollars a basket, melons five. And a coffee can with a slot cut in the plastic lid.I shut the motor off,...
DesertYezdi
DesertYezdi
📅 acum 1 luni 👁 13

Out to Samode Before the Heat

Solo Ride Country Road Scenic View India Morning Ride

Sunday, out of the house before six. August is nearly finished and these are the last mornings of the year that are worth getting up for, so I did not want to spend this one at home with tea and the phone.Took the Sikar road out through Chomu. Trucks were still parked along the shoulder with their drivers asleep underneath them, and once past the last set of lights the road opened up completely. The Aravallis after two months of rain do not look like the Aravallis at all. Everything is green, the kind of green that holds for about six weeks and then goes back to brown until next June. Twice there was water still running across the road where the nallahs cross it. Both times slow, both times fine.The Yezdi is a single and it never lets you forget that, but at fifty five or sixty on an empty...
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BrickMonster
📅 acum 1 luni 👁 6

Vrijdagochtend door de Beemster

Solo Ride Country Road Fog Season End Morning Ride

Gisterochtend voor zevenen wakker zonder wekker, dat gebeurt de laatste weken vaker. Buiten was het stil en koud genoeg voor de dikke handschoenen, dus heb ik de Monster van slot gehaald en ben ik zonder plan de stad uit gereden. Via het Noordhollandsch Kanaal naar boven, op de pont vooraan gaan staan zodat ik als eerste weg kon.Bij Purmerend ben ik van de doorgaande weg af gegaan en de Beemster in gereden. Dat is het soort landschap waar niemand foto's van maakt: kaarsrechte wegen, sloten aan weerskanten, rijen bomen die precies even oud zijn en een horizon die je de hele rit blijft zien. Op de kop van zo'n weg lag de mist nog laag over het land, een halve meter hoog, met de koeien er tot hun schouders in. Ik heb de motor uitgezet en een minuut of vijf niks gedaan, wat me op de terugweg n...
ChromeWolf
ChromeWolf
📅 acum 1 luni 👁 9

Cutting Grass at a Church Out Past Ashland City

Country Road Fog Story Time Morning Ride Cruiser

Went out early Tuesday because August in Tennessee only lends you the morning and takes the rest of it back. Ran the Heritage north on 12 with the fog still sitting in the bottoms along the river, thick enough in spots that I could see the tops of the corn and nothing under them.There is an old brick church out that way with a cemetery beside it and a gravel lot that has been packed hard by about a hundred years of Sunday parking. I have gone by it more times than I can count and never once pulled in. Tuesday there was a fella on a riding mower working his way between the stones, so I turned in.He shut the mower off when he saw the bike, which I did not ask him to do. Said he cuts it every other week from April to October and nobody pays him for it and nobody asked him to start. His people...
FjordGS
FjordGS
📅 acum 1 luni 👁 11

Tirsdag inn Modalen

Solo Ride Country Road Gravel Scandinavia Norwegian Fjords +2

Tok fri i gaar og vaaknet klokka fire uten vekkerklokke. Laa og hoerte etter regn, men det var stille. Kaffe paa termosen, hansker som fortsatt var klamme fra forrige uke, og ut av byen for halv fem.E16 innover er ikke noe aa skryte av, men klokka fem om morgenen er den nesten tom og da gaar den fort. Ved Dale laa taaka i lag over vannet, og fra Stanghelle og innover var det bare meg og et par lastebiler paa vei vestover. Jeg stoppet ikke foer avkjoeringen inn mot Modalen.Den dalen er en av de fineste jeg vet om og nesten ingen kjoerer den. Smal vei, fjellsider rett opp paa begge sider, og vann som kommer ned overalt naar det har regnet en uke i strekk. Jeg tok det rolig. GSen trenger ikke fart for aa vaere fin paa saann vei, den bare gaar.Grusen videre oppover var vaat, men fast. Kjoerte ...
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BarnCafe
📅 acum 1 luni

Die Kette hat selbst entschieden

Country Road Maintenance Garage Summer Café Racer +3

Samstagfrueh war es schon warm, und der Karton mit den Lenkkopflagern lag genau da, wo er seit letzter Woche liegt. Ich habe ihn liegen lassen und bin rausgefahren. Ueber Altlandsberg raus aus der Stadt und dann die kleinen Strassen Richtung Buckow, weil man da ab dem Ortsausgang eigentlich nur noch Feld, Allee und ab und zu ein Stueck Kopfsteinpflaster hat.Es wurden knapp hundertachtzig Kilometer, die erste laengere Runde seit dem Tag, an dem ich die Kette nachgemessen habe. Und genau dafuer war sie gut. Auf der Landstrasse merkt man gar nichts, da laeuft der Twin in seinem Bereich und alles ist ruhig. Aber in den langsamen Ecken hinter den Doerfern, wenn man im zweiten Gang aus niedriger Drehzahl wieder aufmacht, kommt ein kurzes Rucken in den Antrieb. Nicht laut, nicht dramatisch, eher ...
XDiavelKing
XDiavelKing
📅 acum 2 luni 👁 4 👍 1

Mit dem falschen Motorrad durchs Bergische

Country Road Twisties Summer Weekend Cruiser

Jeder hier in Düsseldorf fährt irgendwann am Wochenende ins Bergische. Das ist kein Geheimtipp, das ist Pflichtprogramm. Und seit zwei Jahren höre ich denselben Satz: mit dem XDiavel? Da? Wo alle zwei Kilometer eine Kurve kommt? Ja, genau da.Samstag um sieben los, über Solingen und an der Müngstener Brücke vorbei Richtung Remscheid. Um die Zeit ist unten im Tal noch niemand unterwegs, die Sonne steht flach zwischen den Bäumen und der Testastretta bollert so tief, dass man ihn zwischen den Hängen zweimal hört. Danach die B229 hoch nach Wermelskirchen und weiter Richtung Wipperfürth. Das sind keine Alpenkurven. Das ist ständiges Auf und Ab mit Kuppen, hinter denen man erst mal gar nichts sieht, und Belag, der von Ortsschild zu Ortsschild wechselt.Und ja, das Motorrad ist dafür das falsche We...
DustLine
DustLine
📅 acum 2 luni 👁 17

Domingo pela N222 ate ao Pinhao

Solo Ride Country Road Sunrise Scenic View Portugal +3

Domingo sai do Porto ainda de noite, pouco depois das cinco. Meti a A4 ate a Regua so para despachar o caminho aborrecido, e ainda estava tudo fechado quando encostei na ponte para tirar o capacete e olhar o rio la em baixo, cinzento e parado como se ainda nao tivesse acordado.A partir dali comeca a N222. Ja a fiz meia duzia de vezes e continuo a nao me fartar. A estrada anda colada ao Douro, sobe um pouco, volta a descer, e a cada curva as vinhas mudam de tom conforme o sol vai chegando as encostas. Aquela hora de domingo nao ha ninguem, so um ou outro carro de quem vai trabalhar nas quintas e um trator que me deixou passar com um aceno.A Scrambler gosta daquele ritmo. Nao e uma estrada para andar depressa, as curvas sao cegas e ha sempre gravilha a sair dos caminhos de terra. Vai-se em t...
ChromeWolf
ChromeWolf
📅 acum 2 luni

Counting Cars at a Crossing Outside Lebanon

Solo Ride Country Road Sunset Story Time Cruiser

Wednesday evening I ran the Heritage east out past Mount Juliet, out where the subdivisions finally give up and the road goes back to being a road. No plan to it. I just wanted to be somewhere the light could get all the way to the ground.About ten miles short of Lebanon the crossing arms came down on me. Little two lane, no shoulder, corn on one side and a hay field on the other, and here comes a freight out of the west taking its own sweet time about it. I shut the motor off, which I don't usually do, and put a boot down.You forget how long a train is until you are sitting in front of one with nothing else to do. I got to counting cars and lost the number somewhere in the hoppers. Grain, tankers, a long string of container flats with names on them from ports I will never see. The whole t...
ChromeWolf
ChromeWolf
📅 acum 2 luni 👁 14

The Auction Barn at College Grove

Solo Ride Country Road Sunset Summer Cruiser

Friday evening I took the Heritage southeast for a change, down through Triune and out toward College Grove. That road quits pretending it has anywhere to be about the time the last stoplight falls behind you, and after that it is fence line and hayfields and whatever the light feels like doing.Somebody had cut hay that afternoon and the whole valley smelled like it. The rolls were still sitting out there throwing shadows twice as long as they were. I rode slow on purpose. No sense hurrying through the one part of the week that isn't asking anything of you.Pulled in at an old auction barn where a few trucks were parked with the doors open, sale long finished but nobody in a hurry to leave. Two fellas on a tailgate arguing about rain that's supposed to come Sunday. One of them looked the He...
ChromeWolf
ChromeWolf
📅 acum 3 luni 👁 5

Waiting Out the Rain at a Feed Store

Country Road Rain Story Time Cruiser

July storm came up fast out past Franklin yesterday evening, sky going green-black over the fields quicker than the radio said it would. I know better than to argue with Tennessee weather, so I pulled the Heritage under the awning of an old feed store that's been closed since before I had gray in my beard.Sat there on the step watching the rain come down sideways, thunder rolling off the hills like a freight train with no schedule. Bike ticking beside me, both of us dry enough and in no hurry.After a while an old boy in a pickup pulled in to wait it out same as me. We talked bikes and hay prices through his rolled-down window without ever learning each other's names. That's about the purest kind of conversation there is.Rain quit like somebody turned a tap. Steam coming up off the blacktop...
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SakuraLine
📅 acum 3 luni 👁 11

レンタルバイクで大原まで

Solo Ride Country Road Test Ride Beginner

朝早くレンタルのCB400に乗って、大原まで走ってきました。市内を抜けるまでは緊張しましたが、山に入ると道が空いていて、風がとても気持ちよかったです。三千院の近くにバイクを停めて、自動販売機のコーヒーを飲みながらずっと考えていました。そろそろ自分のバイクが欲しいな、と。毎回返却するのが寂しくなってきたので、気持ちはたぶんもう決まっているんだと思います。
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