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I love riding through the country side when the farmers are cutting hay, or through a neighborhood when grass is being mown. I also love riding along the river on a hot day as the cool air comes off the water. My favorite, though, is carving through mountain roads in the early morning when the pine trees are most fragrant!
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I enjoy a nice countryside ride. No traffic, just the nice
fresh air.
Sunshine bright, warm and no big hurry to be anywhere.
No timeclock to be punched.
Just me and my Genie and our shadows...
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The other thing,... is heat pockets... you never notice them in a car,... or even on foot... but, on a bike, you feel these sudden pockets of temperature change...
Motorcycling is a unique experience....
I wish! Up here in Maine it's cold pockets. Riding along enjoying the sun, then hit a shaded patch of woods...Brrrrr. On the bright side it is usually not too uncomfortable with a riding jacket on.
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87 savage wrote
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Serowbot wrote
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The other thing,... is heat pockets... you never notice them in a car,... or even on foot... but, on a bike, you feel these sudden pockets of temperature change...
Motorcycling is a unique experience....
I wish! Up here in Maine it's cold pockets. Riding along enjoying the sun, then hit a shaded patch of woods...Brrrrr. On the bright side it is usually not too uncomfortable with a riding jacket on.
Wow, Maine, do they make studded motorcycle tires??
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There is a road down here that winds between a commercial nursery. On hot days, when they are watering, the temperature will drop a few degrees, and it will smell like fresh rain.
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Dane Allen wrote
on 04/11/13 at 17:22:21:
87 savage wrote
on 04/11/13 at 15:57:55:
Serowbot wrote
on 04/10/13 at 09:53:56:
The other thing,... is heat pockets... you never notice them in a car,... or even on foot... but, on a bike, you feel these sudden pockets of temperature change...
Motorcycling is a unique experience....
I wish! Up here in Maine it's cold pockets. Riding along enjoying the sun, then hit a shaded patch of woods...Brrrrr. On the bright side it is usually not too uncomfortable with a riding jacket on.
Wow, Maine, do they make studded motorcycle tires??
I would need them today! Snow to sleet to rain back to snow
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When I'm in my van and I have to fart, I lean to one side. On my bike, I stand up to fart so I don't tip over. Sometimes my woman is a passenger and she knows what is about to happen when I stand up.
Being out in the air, you only smell it for a second or two. This is one of the little things that makes riding enjoyable!
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04/12/13 at 18:51:54
Watching one of the other riders in the group take a coastal dragonfly between the eyes... and then you get hit the same way with a June Bug...
Playing dodge 'em with emus and ostriches that went over the fence and are hiding in the ditch... actually pretty fun. Used to be a bunch of bird farms around here.
The smells of the neighbors' stills, pot fields or meth labs... More a western WA thing than it is down here...
New Orleans after a spring storm, in the Garden District... jasmine, hibiscus, lilies, banana plants... and a seafood boil.
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04/12/13 at 19:19:36
Good post Dane! I think the gang has hit all the high(and low)points. My commute is 40 miles one way through the Bluegrass region of Kentucky so I relate to the horses,hayfields,freshly plowed ground,skunks,manure wagons and the other "country" smells,but I also go past a major landfill.......can you say
rotting garbage
? My trip also takes me past two truck stops,so I get full benefit of the diesel fumes on cool mornings.
The main point is that those of us out there on two wheels are truly in touch with our surroundings! We see,smell and feel the world around us,unlike the poor folks trapped in their rolling parlors, equipped with climate control,six way powered and heated seats,quadrophonic surround-sound stereo and everything else they throw on cages today. No wonder the kids are so messed up!
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04/12/13 at 20:29:15
87 savage wrote
on 04/12/13 at 16:31:56:
Dane Allen wrote
on 04/11/13 at 17:22:21:
87 savage wrote
on 04/11/13 at 15:57:55:
Serowbot wrote
on 04/10/13 at 09:53:56:
The other thing,... is heat pockets... you never notice them in a car,... or even on foot... but, on a bike, you feel these sudden pockets of temperature change...
Motorcycling is a unique experience....
I wish! Up here in Maine it's cold pockets. Riding along enjoying the sun, then hit a shaded patch of woods...Brrrrr. On the bright side it is usually not too uncomfortable with a riding jacket on.
Wow, Maine, do they make studded motorcycle tires??
I would need them today! Snow to sleet to rain back to snow
Wow, so when do you ride? A couple months a year?
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04/12/13 at 22:35:08
ZAR wrote
on 04/12/13 at 19:19:36:
Good post Dane! I think the gang has hit all the high(and low)points. My commute is 40 miles one way through the Bluegrass region of Kentucky so I relate to the horses,hayfields,freshly plowed ground,skunks,manure wagons and the other "country" smells,but I also go past a major landfill.......can you say
rotting garbage
? My trip also takes me past two truck stops,so I get full benefit of the diesel fumes on cool mornings.
The main point is that those of us out there on two wheels are truly in touch with our surroundings! We see,smell and feel the world around us,unlike the poor folks trapped in their rolling parlors, equipped with climate control,six way powered and heated seats,quadrophonic surround-sound stereo and everything else they throw on cages today. No wonder the kids are so messed up!
Hey, thanks!!! Something I notice myself doing is everytime I smell something burning like brakes, tires, electrical, etc I am always checking the bike thinking it is me.
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