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09-28-2014, 10:54 AM | #1 |
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Went for a little (300 mile) ride yesterday
Beautiful fall weekend in New England this weekend. Temps near 80. No rain in the forecast. Not a cloud in the sky.
Sue and I decided to head north to the White Mountains to check out the foliage. Just getting started in some areas. Near peak in others. After a stop at Bretton Woods for lunch with our son and a ride up the chairlift, we headed over to the Mt Washington Auto Road. Couldn't have asked for much better of a day for a ride to the summit. 58 F at the summit. Light winds. No clouds. Little hazy in the distance, but otherwise perfect. Interesting ride down. Lost the rear brake about halfway, even though I was in first gear. But the vehicles in front of me were going really slowly, so I had to use it a little more than I would have otherwise. Suspect the fluid boiled. Got the rest of the way down with the front brake only, and the rear had recovered totally by the time we got to the bottom. After we got down, we hit quite a bit of traffic heading back south towards home, so detoured across Hurricane Mountain Road to get around North Conway and Conway. Starting to get a little dark as we headed down Route 16. With still another hour to go before home, we decided to pull into a little rest area along the shore of Lake Chocoura to watch the sunset. As we pull in, I notice another Nomad parked over to the side, and see someone resting against a tree looking out across the lake with a woman along the lake taking pictures. Geez, that looks an awful lot like Mac against the tree. And the woman sure looks a lot like Gwyn. Had a great little rest stop, with the four of us chatting and watching the sunset over the lake. What a wonderful end to an absolutely perfect day.
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09-28-2014, 12:08 PM | #2 |
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Great pics. The foliage is looking good up there.
Why does the brake fluid boil?
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09-28-2014, 12:12 PM | #3 |
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Looks like a great area to ride. Thanks for sharing the pictures and story.
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09-28-2014, 12:24 PM | #4 |
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09-28-2014, 04:24 PM | #6 |
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We rode about 250 miles yesterday a great time of year to ride in Tennessee
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09-28-2014, 08:50 PM | #7 |
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Nice looking foliage colors. Thanks for sharing. I'm looking forward to a week of riding in Virginia during the 3rd week of October. I really enjoy the scenery and the cooler temps.
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09-29-2014, 09:55 AM | #8 |
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Great pic's tom. The wife and I along with another couple took the back way up to Northampton, Ma on Sat. Colors are still a bit early. There is nothing like fall time in New England. We know what's next though.
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09-29-2014, 06:38 PM | #9 |
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We have had the same weather here the past few day, I also went on a 300 mile ride on Saturday, we went to the wine region in the Picton- Wellington area of Ontario. The leaves there were all changing colors too, it made for a very scenic ride. And to top it off, Honda had a demo day ride, I got to try a Valkyrie, and a Gold Wing.
Those Gold Wings are an amazing handling machine with tons of horsepower.
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09-30-2014, 09:28 AM | #10 |
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We spent the weekend around Huntsville/Magnetwan, Ontario.
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09-30-2014, 12:30 PM | #11 |
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nice ride Tom.
We did 515 miles over the weekend on with worn times on my bike. Just had two new ones put on today. We were in the northern part of Pa. 017.jpg 004.jpg
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09-30-2014, 04:16 PM | #12 |
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Very nice photo's and ride narration...Thanks ! ..(I'm off my Big Assed Bike for a while, due to medical issues, so I'm "mind-riding', with you folks for a week or so)
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