random pictures whatcha got?

[hubcapsc]

I looked around on my computer for jpegs in an out-of-any-logical-order
fashion and came up with these...

South Carolina back roads... this is bales of cotton that is picked and ready
to haul off...



Sometimes there's a drought, sometimes not...



A whole bunch of us rode to Gettysburg once... me and Stanley Steamer rode
over to The East Cavalry Field which is separate from the main
battlefield area. Wade Hampton was seriously wounded here...



Gordon is a natural for pictures...





But he's not the only one...



Somewhere in North Georgia, I think, back before everyone traded in their Valkyries for
Goldwings  ...



Ahhhh....



One of the West Virginia rides...



Gorton's of Gloucester fisherman...



Us motorcycle riders got soaked, but at least this feller remembered to roll his window up!



It is fun to imagine what Britman might be thinking...



-Mike

[bill-jr]

Heres a few of my bikes. . . .

[..]

Fall Color Ride 2015

[f6john]

Which brings to mind, where is Steamer these days!

[The emperor has no clothes]

Always enjoy your pics Mike   I wish I was better at capturing good pics.

This was our first ride with some VRCC guys and gals. I was a little apprehensive that we wouldn't fit in. They welcomed us warmly, and felt part of the group after that ride to Utah.

This was on a ride Oss put on a few years back. After flying all night, picking up a Goldwing rental, riding thru NYC , errantly following some random GW riders instead of OSS's group, we equally felt welcome.

This was part of Mark's "hill climb" ride. After the initial wonder if the Southerners were leading the Yankees to slaughter, equally felt at home.

Well, this one speaks for itself.




The VRCC has been good to us.  

[hubcapsc]

Which brings to mind, where is Steamer these days!

He stays busy, but still loves his Valkyrie and was at the Fall Color ride...



-Mike "Steamer fixing my driveway..."

[John Schmidt]

I remember as a kid standing on one of those things. Big difference is I held the reins while staring at a mule's butt, all the while yelling gee or haw....in hopes the mule would do my beckoning.

For you city slickers....haw is left, gee is right. 

[Skinhead]

I never learnt to speak mule.  Thanks for the lesson.

[bill-jr]

Hey skinhead you lookin for a timing cover ?
The whole thing?

[John Schmidt]

I never learnt to speak mule.  Thanks for the lesson.

  I didn't learn to speak mule, they learned to speak english. It's not only used for horses and mules, also used by dog sled owners and many other applications of the sort.

[Pappy!]

Well....you did say random!

"Hope" Our little non-releasable squirrel that is an amazing and loving little gal.


She likes to turn on and off the ceiling fans too!


Hope says Merry Christmas to all good humans!

[hubcapsc]

That's a great looking squirrel and Merry Christmas back at her 

-Mike

[Smokinjoe-VRCCDS#0005]

My grand-daughter gave me this hug bug in 2007 its been there ever since.



D Block cell # 28 home to James Earl Ray at Historic Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary .



This place and the city next door to my hometown ( Oak Ridge, TN ) has a lot in common. What I thought was crazy if you come into this town on one end its got guard shacks you must go through. If you come in from the other end no guard's anywhere. I'm thinking if I was a terrorist I'd come into town on the end with no armed guards.




Crazyhouse . I'd bet anyone alive today will never see this completed.




Pretty random pictures I have hundreds.

[f6john]

I visited Oak Ridge as a teenager in the 1960's on a school field trip. It was pretty impressive for a country boy from Kentucky. At the time the roads were fairly primitive (no interstate) from my hometown to Oak Ridge, it seemed to take forever to get there and back. Best part of the whole thing was that my new high school sweetheart was on the bus with me which made the trip more memorable.

[Smokinjoe-VRCCDS#0005]

Land Between The Lakes Ride. Four in this picture are nolonger with us    4th from left standing Charlie ( Land Elephant ) 7th from L standing Gary ( Painter ) 8th from L  standing Eric ( Little Buddy ) 2nd from left kneeling Paul ( Thumper )

[Smokinjoe-VRCCDS#0005]

Not a good ride on this day. I made it through the ice Gordon ( Lucky 13 ) and Paul ( Wimp ) did not. No one got hurt when the bikes when down however Wimp fell on the ice and at one point we thought we would call him ambulance. It was a bitch getting those heavy bikes up while standing on solid ice.

[Oss]

T-bird's helmet. took the pic on the way back from GOTF



Looking south from the top of Perkins Drive towards NYC  There are only a few days a year that you can capture this pic

  Riding north on 550 Million Dollar Highway

[Oldfishguy]

[98 T]

Always check the weather forecast before you ride  through a mountain pass,  even in late June!!



Riding around on a rented Goldwing near Las Vegas



2003 on a rented Harley on Maui-  Who is that young dude on the bike???




AH - Memories!!

[Jess from VA]

I did exactly one ride just like this.

We went up a cold WVa mountain and stopped for some coffee, and it snowed 8 inches while we watched.

When it slowed down, we went out and shoveled the snow off the bikes, and went down the mountain.

Slow and easy and in some muddy dump truck tracks.  

I couldn't stop laughing, and easily the most cruddy my bike ever was.



Everyone lived.  

[John Schmidt]

Well....you did say random!

"Hope" Our little non-releasable squirrel that is an amazing and loving little gal.


She likes to turn on and off the ceiling fans too!


Hope says Merry Christmas to all good humans!

Dang Pappy, you've aged.    Cute pics of the squirrel, a couple that hung around our house in Wtr. Pk. were more tame than the other 4,000. I could sit on the front porch and make a screeching noise with my lips into cupped hands and all but those 2 would scatter. They'd sit up and look at me so I'd toss them some crackers or peanuts, whatever I was snacking on. They'd come over and eat right in front of me just a couple feet away. A local hawk got one and Rita saw it happen, I think she would have blown him out of the sky if she had a gun about then. Kinda funny, the other squirrel just sat there eating my treats and watching his buddy get carried away. Guess he figured more for me. 

[Smokinjoe-VRCCDS#0005]

Motley Crue.... Ol' Big Al is still eat up with if you're not Harley you're not sh!t .... Sad really I've known him most of my life not talked to him in a couple years or more.




Well at least on this one we was smart enough to know it was only going to get worse the higher we went . Cherohala Skyline





I sure miss riding with my friend T-Bird I've said it before I'll say it again he is one of the best riders I've ever shared the wind with. Get in the twisties with him you better have your A game going on. Picture taken at The Valkyrie Brewing Company in Dallas , Wisconsin on a InZane Ride.




Was hoping more would participate in this thread ... I like looking at pictures of bikes , friends and rides . Sure beats the political BS a lot on here want to talk about.

[The emperor has no clothes]

My riding buddies in Zion

My grandson a few years back

Rainmaker, Speedo, Dennis from Blythe, Brenda and myself, in Mt. Airy

Somewhere in southern Tennessee

My little sister and I on my badass Suzuki 90 (she passed almost exactly 1 year ago)

[bill-jr]

A couple from this years DRU


A group of valkyrie riders trying to talk a harley cop into a race. . .


Brushy mountain after the sign had been stolen . . .

[msb]

Great thread! I agree, best thing about this forum is seeing and reading about other members, their bikes, and places they ride

Harrison Lake, about 10 minutes down the hill from my house. 37 miles long and 5.5 miles long...it's a big'n


Just some random shots of sites from local rides around my neck of the woods...





Actually one of my favorite days riding in recent memory...16 hours in the saddle solo of mostly straight, flat two-laners through the heart of ND and MT. Mountains and twisties are great, but there's something to be said for the peacefulness of riding through a whole lot of nothin'!


Enderby, BC


Hwy 12 from Lytton to Lillooet BC


Somewhere in ID... a single Valk stands out in a crowd...a pack of 'em REALLY stands out


So many photos of rides over the years...one day I'll have to sit down and organize them somewhat. Aside from the places we've been and things we've seen, it's the people we've met that really stands out. Some of these folks have become lifelong friends...all of them have been fantastic individuals and a pleasure to share the wind or spend time with...

Following BikerBoy up Hurricane Ridge on his home turf of Port Angeles WA


Meeting up for a ride with some of the fine folks from Florida while in Tampa on a work trip...that was a good day! RIP Steve /Tourus (second from Right)


Arriving in Morgantown for 2016 Inzane with Michael/97blackvlk, Mark, and Brad/Bikerboy1951. They answered my call looking for riding partners to IZ that year and invited me to join up with them in Fargo ND....one of my more memorable rides in many years


Hangin' out at the K Diamond K guest ranch in Republic WA with my brothers SteveH and "cuz" Dave/ChromeDragon


Best ride leader I've ever had the pleasure of riding behind...SteveH from Kelowna BC


The Valhalla Boys...gentlemen all, and pretty snappy dressers too


My co-pilot for 38 years...very first night we met she hopped on the back of my bike. Been there ever since

[hubcapsc]

[f6gal]

Here are some from Laughlin River Run in 2002

Not sure what I'm sayin' here... but it musta been interesting.


BigBF, me, oZ


In Oatman, AZ


BigBF


LaMonster


Random Black and Teal shot


I guess I'm saying something interesting again (on the right)


Uh-oh... what's Rob up to?



Lining up for Valkyries on the Strip

[Smokinjoe-VRCCDS#0005]

Ozone Falls.




My Goldwing and my woman back in the day.




We went around the barricade at The Road To Nowhere . The Park Ranger Bernard " Barney " Fife was not happy about us doing that.

[hubcapsc]

The passage of time...

When I first got my 1500 and started exploring the backroads around my house:



Eventually the pines were harvested and it looks like the old house burned...



Looks like someone's gonna build back in there now...



-Mike

[The emperor has no clothes]

Damn ! Those trees grew in pretty quick !

[Alberta Patriot]

Highway 97 Scenic Heading to Harrison ID    Valhalla Meet June/17


Harrison ID Pub...Click on a thumbnail to view

[NewValker]

Cool old sign at The Steaming Tender Restaurant in Palmer, Ma. It's a done over railroad station where the CSX east/west cross the New England Central north/south line.

Craig

[..]

At my home a few months ago








View from Blackrock Mountain State Park







Bald River Falls






Fall Color Ride 2018



Booth Western Art Museum, Cartersville, GA










On the way to the FCR 2017




My buddy down the road. Jack the donkey.




Crazy people jumping off Bell Mtn, GA




Total eclipse 2017







Deals Gap

[klb]

Caldwell County Railroad GP-16 in the background at their yard
in Hickory. 


On Hwy 80 at the Continental Divide parked next to a Ducati Diavel.
Wicked bike.


Grayson Highlands State Park.


Watauga Lake.


On a closed down bridge that goes across the Pacolet River in
South Carolina.


My son got me this Zippo Lighter a couple years ago with the bike on it.

[Oss]

2016 Columbus Day ride  A great group ride that day thru the Catskills


Missoula Montana,  a very friendly town.  Probably helped that I let the gals sit on the Valkyrie


Valkyries lined up from the last Powwow ride put on by
Rick Nay.  RIP to 3W's trike, glad he got something even nicer in his opinion



Stan's bike at the Croton Dam


Made a U turn while on the WV ride to take a pic of this beauty

spent a good amount of time speaking with the owner and the fellas at the gas station it was parked at  Amazing that if you ASK for permission to take a pic 1st the positive reactions you get, whether of a car or a prospective secretary  And ALWAYS let em approve the pic before you leave and send it to their phone

[hubcapsc]

what's the deal with putting the passenger window up? Coincidence? Is it a wind thing?





-Mike

[Oss]

Yes I have wondered that as well Mike

ALso I LOVE the little vent windows. Shame Detroit got rid of those, they move more air than the bakers for sure   

[Jess from VA]

I had a '69 droptop Corvette, and the passenger window was up all the time.  

Women passengers don't like their hair getting blown into a rat's nest (which happens over 35mph, even with the windshield).

Sometimes it's chilly enough, you can have the top down but keep the door windows up to keep it a little warmer in the car.  No electric windows, so the driver rolls his down when he gets out, but not the other side.  And with no surrounding frame (and the top down), you don't want to be slamming the door with the window up.

It's one or the other.

March AFB CA.  (base housing 159 Gilley Street)


But after she laid both legs in shorts on the hot Hooker side pipes, she didn't like the car much after that.

About 1990.

[3fan4life]

OK, Here's a few PICS that I've collected over the years:




No Riding Today



Ginger and I on the Dragon (This is the Bike that Serk has now)



Passenger on my ST1300 (This was Serk's bike)



Old Gas Station near Lexington, VA



Same Station in a scene from "The War of The World's" with Tom Cruise



3 PHAT GURLS



Dino Cowboy



Catallochie Valley, NC



VDOT does have a sense of humor



Smith Mtn Lake



Originally an old roadside diner



I once Rented a Harley



From Oss' Fall Color Ride 2017



Oss gets a shooting lesson



DDT and Ali reunite  



FL Keys





I love this Ghost image



Meems Bottom Bridge is the only covered bridge in VA that you can drive through



Bob White Covered Bridge (washed away by a flood a few years ago)





Other VA Covered Bridges



Mabry Mill on the Blue Ridge Parkway





Ginger's first time seeing an Elk



Daytona Beach



In Green Bank, WV with Wolf



USS North Carolina





Some Rides with my son



Kuwait 1991



Checking out a funny looking bike (Smokin' Joe's BRP ride 2008)



A Motley Crew (Smokin' Joe's BRP Ride 2008)



Smokin' Joe has a dream (Smokin' Joe's BRP Ride 2008)








Smokin' Joe's BRP Ride 2008



Another Motley Crew (Meet in The Middle Ride 2011)







Meet in The Middle 2011



Yet Another Motley Crew (Meet in The Middle Ride 2012)



Gig, Skinhead and Gig's "Sister" (Meet in The Middle Ride 2012)



I think that Gig may be in trouble with his "Sister" (Meet in The Middle 2012)



Can you spot the Corvette?

Raining Cats and Dogs (Meet in The Middle Ride 2012)



Yet another Motley Crew (Meet in The Middle Ride 2015)













Thumper's Last Ride





Hillbilly Highway's Scouting Ride





Pocahontas Exhibition Coal Mine (Hillbilly Highways II)





Hillbilly Highways II





Santa wins the 50/50 drawing and promptly donates it back to the charity (Hillbilly Highways II)




Three Musketeers (Hillbilly Highways II)



The Tallest and the Shortest (Hillbilly Highways II)



Dingess Tunnel (Hillbilly Highways III)








Hillbilly Highways III







Tour of Bristol Speedway Inzane VIII





F6 Gal wins Hula Hoop Competition (Inzane VIII)

[Jess from VA]

But did he hit anybody?  


Mark, a ton of the Photobucket shots did not come through (much).

Merry Christmas to you buddy.