The Random Rideout Pictures

Had a ride fairly close to home today, 15c and dry so be a shame to waste it. Ended up in Great Heck for no particular reason other than I’ve never been there before. Riding past the pub in the village I spotted what I believe is the first sighting of the new R1300GS

Looks nice in red I thought. From there it was on the back roads to Squires cafe at Sherburn where there were some nice unusual bikes enjoying the sun.




I followed the Triumph on the approach to Sherburn and it sounded divine on those open pipes.
Then home for a nice cold Speckled Hen

 

Those vintage bikes all look mint!

 

They were indeed Vulpes, the Guzzi and the BMW followed me into the cafe. I spoke to the Triumph owner and asked if he was a member on here but he wasn’t though he was very involved with the Triumph owners club and had owned that one for 18 years, it’s got 40,000 miles on.

 

That yellow on the Triumph is just gorgeous. I remember when the Katana was first marketed, very modern for it's day. I still like them, actually.

 

I had the 650 Katana, XTL 7X was the reg number, had to sell it to put a deposit on my first house

 

Highs n lows.
Out on the 1st day of sun in weeks… and saw the 1st road that has been salted!

 

Kind of a random ride out picture, not sure where else to put it but not really worth a new thread. Took Mrs Visors Street Triple for its first service in Stratford upon Avon yesterday and this was in the showroom Absolute mint condition, never been ridden with about 3 miles on the clock so like new.

 

Quick spin on the GS before dropping it off for a 6 HOUR!! software update.

 

Any wonder it takes 6 hours... you dropped it off at an old train station

 

Just catching up on some of the great photos - and town names.

Here we have:
Blue Ball, PA
Bird In Hand, PA
And of course - Coxsackie NY

 

(More) absolutely stunning photos, @SleepyOwl!

 

And more retirement shenanigans out on a wet Dartmoor today

 

Perfect riding weather today. Sunny, 65 degrees, fall foliage...

When people hear the words New Jersey, unfortunately, they usually picture North Eastern New Jersey. Industrial, congested.
However, to the North West there is beautiful, mountainous country. When you get south of Trenton, where I am, you get into wide open spaces, horse farms, dairy farms and cornfields. Eastward there's the Jersey Shore. I live on the edge of the Pine Barrens between the shore and Philly. Over a million acres of wild, flat sandy land covered in pine trees. Home of deer, coyote, bears, foxes, bobcats, eagles and rattlesnakes. That's why we call it the 51st State.

I rode to the Atsion State Park area today, about ten miles from El Rancho Fork Lock.


Atsion Lake


Richards Mansion, built in 1826. Summer home of a money guy from Philly who had a bog iron facility here.


One of the Richards out buildings


Quaker meeting house in the nearby woods

 

More South Jersey

Old tracks that transported the iron



Cranberry bog. Cranberries are big here. Not the berries, they're about the size of a grape, but farming them is very big. When the berries are ripe, they flood the bogs and the berries pop off and float up. They then rake them in. Ocean Spray has a huge facility south of here. Blueberries are big business here too.



The famous Atco Dragway. About 2 miles from my house as the crow flies. When the jet cars run, my windows rattle!



My favorite watering hole. The Pic-A- Lilli Inn. Been here since the early 1920s, run by the same family, good friends of ours. Best buffalo chicken wings ever! I mean, addictive. Since I was right there...



Old greenhouse facility off the center of the town of Atco. At dusk hundreds, maybe thousands of bats come pouring out of the stack looking like smoke pouring out.

 

OK, I'm trying to find some interesting "Rideout" photos here in South Jersey, but nothing here compares to some of the beautiful vistas shared by those of you across the pond in England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and mainland Europe. Here it's mostly flatlands, pines and sand. Pfffft.
I'll have to head to the Jersey Shore or up NW to the mountainous area of NJ and maybe NE PA for some stunning scenery. Meanwhile...These are some shots of Batsto, NJ, a restored colonial village from the 1700s about 20 miles from my place. Bog iron was big business in those days and it was mined extensively. A lot of it went to make cannon balls for that bit of trouble between Britain and the Colonies in 1776. There's a lot more, including a general store, the folks' houses, blacksmith's, the iron works, etc., but I had to take a leak and it was a long walk back to the visitors' center. Sorry, but when you reach a certain age, if you gotta go, you'd better go, or you're gonna go.

By the lake



Land owner's little shack



Grainary


Grist mill


Grist mill machinery


A random old boat I passed on the way.

 

Well, you certainly found some nice spots and took some nice photos!

Kudos.

 

Sick as a dog because “events” prevented me from getting out in yesterdays sunshine, and I knew I won’t get chance later today… So I went for a very early doors scoot and was coming back as the sun was rising over the estuary! It was a bit nippy too…

 

Beautiful, DCS. So peaceful looking. What temps there qualify as "nippy"?

 

I don’t have an external temp gauge on my bike, but looking at the frozen car windows and the fact I could see the stars clearly… I suspect around -2 to 0 deg C. There was some beautiful temperature inversions kicking about in the valleys (because Sat had been nice) but I couldn’t photo them in the dark… but you can see one in this photo…
If you zoom in on the hills in the middle and the right, you can see the little mist banks in the valleys… there’s some mist on the estuary water too… can be a really pretty phenomenon.




This is not my photo… but shows how spectacular it can be…

 

Yes, that definitely qualifies as "nippy"--particularly on a bike. That area in the photos is truly beautiful. I can definitely see those little mist banks. Lovely. Sometimes we get those mist banks at the lower elevations of Catalina Mountain range during the winter, especially in the canyon areas.