🏍️ Daily ride thread 🏍️

Not many pictures of today's ride but have video I'm processing now, PC being real slow.



Here's the Relive video.

Carla and I made it to Llano with Doc, Lisa and David. Ride started out wet but cleared to a day.

I haven’t been on the forum much since I got the front end together Wednesday, but I have been riding as much as work allows. I have been collecting old movie theater pics for a contest our EWMA district is hosting. I found that only 1 in 4 is still in the movie showing business. Here’s a sample:

Was a great ride on some amazing roads. The wild flowers were in full bloom. Sun was out the entire day with most of day in upper 80s. Thanks Olaf for finding the route and leading the way. We had 8 bikes and 11 people.

I have some videos that I'll post after I get home tomorrow or maybe Monday.

My friend from Iowa came in today. After riding 1200 miles on back roads over the last two days he wanted to go for a ride today. So took him for a short ride this afternoon.

Was definitely a great day riding with Iowa buddy. We got a little damp, but neither of us melted. Hats off to Brad, for his first time on these roads, he kept a very respectful pace. He got to ride some very different terrain. We're doing the ride up to Kerrville on 16 tomorrow, stopping by Stonehenge then down 39. I didn't start the Relive video until we had been on the road for a bit, so it's about 50 miles short.

Another great ride today. The Relive app quit about half way thru.


Started out wet for about 30 minutes but dried quickly.



Some of the ride shots.

Been completely bummed and jealous with @lesblank and his Iowan guest's adventures the last 5 or 6 days, so I decided to take a day off from adulting and worrying about yucky weather and just go waste some hydrocarbons. I've been by the statue of Sam Houston on I-45 many times since it was built in 1994 but never stopped to look closely, so finally took time to do that. While at the visitor center there I saw a poster about the Mr. Hamburger restaurant a few miles away in Huntsville located right across the street from the released prisoner's exit door of one of the Huntsville State Prisons. It's claim to fame is that it is very popular with the newly freed folks getting their first "taste" of freedom. Add to that one of their burgers was called "Old Sparky" (named after the now retired Texas electric chair) I just had to find out. Turns out it is a breaded, deep fried hamburger patty with the normal condiments plus "Texas Summer Sauce" which adds a nice kick without being overwhelming. Not necessarily healthy, but pretty good tasting.

The Walker County courthouse is about 2 blocks away from the Mr. Hamburger (and the prison), so looped around and got a caught that. I'll post that on the Court House thread

Having to get used to the little blind spot "button" mirrors I recently installed on the factory mirrors. They help with my view of what's going on behind me, but as I do my normal visual scan of the road conditions I found that the extra "information" in the mirrors would catch my eye and make me think something was happening right next to me. I'm sure I'll get comfortable with it in short order and the extra view will be worth the learning curve.

Got lightly sprinkled on a couple of times, but not enough to get anything other than the windshield slightly wet.

I'm now well overdue for an oil change, so that's on tomorrow's agenda for the predicted rainy morning.

Relive:

Had a great ride today to get pie. A tad over 200 miles for pie seems right.







And two piece of pie for wife. Gotta made better half happy.



Here's the Relive.


Was a great ride except the last 5 miles when I tried to outrun the rain and hail store, which I failed. On my road to my cabin, there's no where to pull over to wait it out. On a positive note, found out trike does well in a flash flood. I got off the trike, walked up on porch and filmed this. Look at the water runoff that I zoomed in on. If you ever wondered where I got the nickname "Loose Nut", this video might help explain.