Great ride to/from work...

[hubcapsc]

A year or so ago I started going to work on a new route, it takes
me through some really nice farmland. There's numerous ways
to noodle through there, recently I started going down this road...
There's a giant field of soybeans behind me... You can't see even
half of this cow field in this picture, and there's another lake
full of cows just a little bit further on. Lately there's been flocks
of crows and something that looks like pigeons. And there's
ducks too, I could hear them while taking the picture and see
a few of them in the lakes...



-Mike

[The emperor has no clothes]

Chewy is looking downright respectable 

[RainMaker]

Both a good route and a picture of a great ride.

[Black Pearl's Captain]

Cool route you choose it seems. I enjoy the birds both while riding and just sitting around. I just got home from a pretty long trip last week, saw a crow sitting right next to the road in the U.P. of Michigan that was about 95% white. He only had a few black and gray feathers mixed in with the white feathers. It was sitting there with one other black crow so I'm 100% sure it was a crow.

Thanks for the simple ride report, not of enough of that any more.

[Smokinjoe-VRCCDS#0005]

My bet the farmer is feeding the cows corn and the birds are there to pick it out of the poop... Saw wild turkey do this as well.

[rainman]

My bet the farmer is feeding the cows corn and the birds are there to pick it out of the poop... Saw wild turkey do this as well.

[hubcapsc]

My bet the farmer is feeding the cows corn and the birds are there to pick it out of the poop... Saw wild turkey do this as well.

You'd win. That cinder block wall looking thing behind Chewie is a
feed station. The birds are all in the dirt behind it, they take off when
you go by... the crows swarm around like bees as they leave, and
the (pigeons?) all fly off in formation.  I hoped they'd come back for
the picture, but I don't guess they liked me standing there... a couple of
buzzards were sitting on the fence this morning, and hawks have been
in the mix too the last week or so.

Right around the corner there is (was) a giant corn field. Last week
a harvester machine went through there chopping off the stalks about
four inches high, corn and all, and it came blowing out the back of the
harvester into a tow-behind bin.

One of the many good parts about coming through here most every
day is seeing how everything changes from planting to harvest...

-Mike

[hubcapsc]

Chewy is looking downright respectable 

I'm beginning to appreciate Chewie more and more. I rolled it on
in fourth today while I thought I was in fifth... Chewie can move out 

-Mike

[G-Man]

Used to love riding to work, now I never do.  The roads I ride to work are nice, curvey roads and I go against traffic so I fly for the 35 miles each way.  But the roads have gotten real bad over the years.  I can only recall one 3 mile section being completely repaved over the 10 years I've been working there.  But, I couldn't resist riding last week because the day was just so beautiful.  So I rolled out the chopped shadow and headed out.  About 8 miles in, I hit a unavoidable bump (was like a speed bump across both lanes of a 2 lane pkwy).  It slammed the bars into my right hand which is still sore today.  I had to hold the bars tight in order to avoid it happening again, but that's no way to ride.  So, now I drive in on the 2 days I have to be in the office.  Oh well.   

[cookiedough]

Gman,  complain to the county or largest district who services your area for road repairs.  Roads should not be that bumpy that it causes unsafe driving issues.

I had to do that in my small town when they fill pot holes usually in the spring and let them go until about 1 month ago after I hit one with my Valk dam near loosing control and almost bottoming out my bike was about 6 inches deep and 1 foot in diameter almost.   I marched right on down and talked to village clerk and told them I want all these holes over 2-3" in size patched IMMEDIATELY on this and that street and meant it or the next bill this village sees is a repair bill for my cycle.  They got it done the next day as it should have been.  What about all the kids on bicycles riding around town could easily flip a kid off their bikes and injur them as well.

My ride to work is good as well, but coming home at night in the dark is sketchy like last night a large coyote trotted right in front of me and almost hit some LIVE bigger animal I thought was dead right in front of me doing 55 mph both would've done some damage I would imagine.

[hubcapsc]

Used to love riding to work, now I never do.

Bummer.

My possible routes to work are governed by where the bridges over Lake
Hartwell are. The last straw for me on my old route was when the old JP
Stevens cotton plant on 400 acres of the lake was bought by a developer,
and is now turning into 400 densely packed acres of houses and condos.
The condo side is student housing and they check the frat boy's IDs
when they turn in. At the beginning and end of the semester when they
are moving in, they back up for blocks on the main road as each driver's
ID is checked. That's my "speed bump".

There were some of these in the cow field on the way in this morning:



-Mike

[The emperor has no clothes]

Egret ?

[hubcapsc]

Egret ?

Yep... I flushed one out of a ditch once, they seem big on the wing if
you almost hit them...

-Mike

[The emperor has no clothes]

Egret ?

Yep... I flushed one out of a ditch once, they seem big on the wing if
you almost hit them...

-Mike

I know what you mean. A turkey buzzard tried to make me s#*t my pants once. 

[cookiedough]

Egret ?

Yep... I flushed one out of a ditch once, they seem big on the wing if
you almost hit them...

-Mike

I know what you mean. A turkey buzzard tried to make me s#*t my pants once. 

 

Darn geese in our small pond crossing the main hwy. are all over as well, plus nearly clipped a big turkey as well once flying right in front of me heard it's wings flapping it was that close by in front.   I figure a goose or turkey would sting just a tad?