What Have You Being Doing With Your Non-triumph Today?

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  1. Sandi T

    Sandi T It's ride o'clock somewhere!
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    This afternoon I did a solo ride on my H-D Low Rider S on one of my favorite routes--Saddlebrooke and Rancho Vistoso. It was a beautiful day and the ride was good therapy. I am coming to love solo rides more and more these days though I'm not sure why. I guess the world just seems to have gone a bit loony and riding helps me to feel calm and clear my head.

    The big standout on today's ride was the unbelievable number of butterflies flying about. Hundreds upon hundreds! I read up a bit after getting home and it turns out that the increase is due to how much rain we've received this monsoon season. Mr. Sandi and Ellie and I have also noticed how many butterflies there are during our morning walks along the Rillito River. But there were so many on the ride today that I found myself trying to dodge them as I was riding! If you've driven a car at night in a snowstorm, that's sort of what it felt like. I'd be riding along and the butterflies would come at me like those big fat snowflakes. And many of them hit my helmet--my face shield in particular--leaving a trail of bug guts. :p:eek:

    Early on in the ride I was sitting at a stop light when a large butterfly landed on my handlebars and just sat there. I'd have pulled my phone out for a photo but figured the moment I got my glove off and my phone out that the light would change. So I just watched for a bit then shooed it off my bars. Interestingly it moved only a foot or so and landed on my right arm just below my shoulder and just sat there. It wouldn't move when I shook my arm and had to shoo it off. Does that mean something? Is there some lore or superstition about a butterfly hanging around you? Anyway, I then watched it fly over and land on the passenger window of the car sitting right next to me in the turn lane to my left. The woman driving the car had watched the whole thing and we gave each other a thumbs up. :) Butterflies--uniting the world! :D

    Here are a couple of photos at my usual stop in Saddlebrooke for an energy drink. (Following the "no photos--didn't happen" rule.) I wound up talking with a woman who commented on how much she liked my bike. Turns out her son is a motorcyclist (and she used to be) who rides a Triumph Daytona. It was a lovely conversation and a great reminder of how bikes bring people together. Motorcycles--uniting the world! :D Well, maybe that's an overstatement. :rolleyes: But it certainly made for a pleasant 15 minutes. :blush:
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    Loved the sign in the window--"It's a desert thing". I think that's more applicable to the water and ice dispensers than Pepsi, myself. I had to Google Blue Rhino. It's propane.
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    https://www.kold.com/2021/08/27/butterfly-populations-soar-after-monsoon-rains/

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  2. Mrs Visor

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    I had to Google the line name as I only know where it runs from and to - it's the Welsh Marches Line. Looks like the train was on The Welsh Dragon tour. I saw the Flying Scotsman when I was out running too probably about 2019 - assume pre covid. I know nothing about trains at all (can you tell??!!) but have to admit the steam trains are a lovely sight and sound.
     
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  3. Mrs Visor

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    Sounds like you had a lovely time - my superstitious grandmother used to say that it meant something new or exciting was going to happen to you if it landed on you....
     
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  4. Ducatitotriumph

    Ducatitotriumph Crème de la Crème

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    Umm….

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  5. Col_C

    Col_C I can't re...Member

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    Well it wasn't a pretty bike to start with.
    Should be on one of those tv shows "when cosmetic surgery goes wrong" :joy:
    On such an expensive bike to start with too - someone's having a laugh.
     
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  6. andyc1

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    I actually thought the fairing was held on with tape until I zoomed in and realised its the paint. At least if it was tape you'd pass it off as a joke! Unfortunately someone called that finished :joy:
     
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  7. andyc1

    andyc1 Lunarville 7, Airlock 3

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    How do you see where your going
     
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  8. Ducatitotriumph

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    I can only presume it’s between the headlight and fairing?
    Or, you actually stand on the seat??!?!?
    Either way, holy fu;! balls…
     
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  9. Ducatitotriumph

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    One thing is for sure, it’s way too fugly for even pumping out ditches….
     
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  11. Sandi T

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  12. Wessa

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    849F151B-A7D9-4595-BCE4-0C197AA922F6.jpeg 4083DC66-DBAB-404D-AD2A-3AD25005F2FE.jpeg Had a run around the Cheshire lanes on the interceptor today. Lovely weather :):)
     
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  13. andyc1

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    Stop!... its hammer time :p
     
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  16. speedrattle

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    butterflirs are scarce now in ohio. ive noticed fewer and fewer for the past several years. i used to see a dozen monarchs a day. i havent seen a dozen thiscwhole summer. swallowtails too.
     
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  17. Wessa

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    Yes a worrying decline. It is the same here in the UK. We used to see many different butterflies in our garden. Yesterday I seen a rare butterfly in my garden.
     
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  18. Hubaxe

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    #1358 Hubaxe, Sep 6, 2021
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    Goldwing 1200 rebuild goes on. The bike did not rev over 4000 rpm.
    Remove carbs from the bike. Carbs are really clean, they have been recently rebuilt, but probably not by a pro.
    I'm not a pro neither but could find the float pins are new, but floater levels are not within Honda specs.
    Now the bike revs better, but now need a sync and idle setup. No electronic involved, welcome back to the eighties. :grinning:

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  19. Ducatitotriumph

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    Well they’re not working because they are upside down!!!!! ;);):):)
     
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  20. Yorkshireman

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    Best thing that could happen to that is an intimate close up meeting with the underside of that semi-trailer (I’d insert a vomit emoji here if I had one);)
     
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