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anyone go for a ride today? Pics?
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Morning ride..... and photo excursion
.... and end up at coffee shop (no photo of that) ......
a good Friday morning.
Nice to see the GK out!
I rode the "Thumb Loop" today with my neighbor. I live near Flint so it's easy to head NE to the tip of the thumb then down the east coastline and back across to the west. Beautiful day for a ride, weather couldn't have been better! Unfortunately I couldn't take any pictures. My neighbor had an obligation this afternoon so we had to keep moving. Several good views of lake Huron shoreline, and I saw a bald eagle! Don't see those very often, so that was really cool. 289 miles round trip and my rear is sore. Still working on getting that iron butt certificate haha.
Mr gtem, nice pics. Hey, lunch at a general store sounds like a good idea.
and having a bike available on a week visit to finger lakes area is good idea too.
About lunch time I ended up at local coffee/sandwich shop. Parked outside and went in. GOt my sandwich and sat down, then they opened the big side door . . . . .
Speaking of the local coffee/sandwhich shop... it opened a couple years ago on this end of town, away from all the more tourist places downtown, so I have been going there often.
Is operated by A newly retired guy and his son. I have fun chatting with him about retiring and then doing something like this.
ANyway, he has been saying that we should go for a ride together, so a couple weekends ago we did.
Was out for about 4 hours, including lunch stop. About 125 miles.
THis road is one that somewhat follows Muskegon River.
Stopping for a roadside pic was something new to him har har har
GOt downtown early enough the other day to get parking spot next to the channell, so could get bike in a shot. Had low sun right at me, so not so good a pic, but only recent pic of ship and bike.
THis is a 128ft tug boat in the "notch" of a barge. Are seeing only a small portion of the barge. (not all barges are flat, some are more like a ship, in fact many were previously ships).
THEn I went down to the piers to catch it again.
No, could not get bike out on the piers.... well, suppose I could have, but didnt.
THis barge is about 500ft. Some of the others are 600 or 700ft. Some of the ships here are 700- 800.
(the 900-1000 footers cant make the turns in the channell here.)
In the distance can see lights of an other ship comming in. So I hung around for that too.
…Haven’t had RT out for couple weeks for various reasons (been using GK for more local rides), but did take RT this morning. Just misc riding around, breakfast with my brother, and rode around seeing what was to see.had heavy rain recently after weeks of not much, so dirt out on the road and puddles in places was something different.
Is About 6 blocks of downtown closed off to traffic except bikes, and the big HD dealer that just it looks like a small suburban mall.
ROde thru the crazyness, found a place to park,
found a place to park, found something for dinner at food vendor, found a place in a park to sit and eat somewhat away from all the noise, walked around just a little bit, then rode out.
They got to the house here as was starting to rain. We waited around at the house here for about 45 minutes waiting for blob of heavy rain to pass.
Here we are about to depart, still a sprinkle now and then,
We went up to Muskegon, rain stopped about time that got there, and we visited the LST393 (Landing Ship Tank), a WWII landing craft, 328 foot, that could carry dozens of tanks and trucks and lots of jeeps and thier crews, and/or troops. Over a thousand of these were built in a couple years. THis one used in invasion of Sisily and then Italy, and then D-Day. There only remains two of them, and this one is sinking and in need of a new home.
My uncle (that I am named after) was one of the troops in the invasion of Sicily from Africa, and then invasion of Italy from Sicily, likely in one of these., or at least next to one of these in a troop landing craft. (Note: KIA Nov 1943)
Us on upper deck. Jeeps and small trucks could be raised up to there with elevator (can see where elevator was behind me). Tanks were in the lower deck. Elevator and all the ventilation fans and all the guns were removed when was converted into a Lake Fright hauler. Some other guns have been found and installed.
(I'll stop before I yammer on more.)
LST 393 - Home
US LST Association - History
After that we stopped at Muskegon Bike Time big loud mess for lunch, then went for more of a ride.
Great Rich! Any further updates?
Mostly the updates are in this thread. New exhaust, new throttle cable, etc.
https://www.thegsresources.com/_for...-new-exhaust-for-the-kid’s-chinese-dual-sport
After getting everything back together, his turn signals didn’t work. After pulling the left hand control apart and finding nothing obvious, I ordered him a $5 generic 2-pin Turn signal relay, not sure if that would fix it. Relay came today. Swapped it in. Signals work now. Good to go again. He just got back from a short ride. We’re going to go out together after supper.
Maybe I’ll get it inspected this week. Tomorrow is his College orientation. Time is flying by.
Wow, Whata Dad.
Your son must think you can do anything, and he hasnt seen any evidence otherwize.
3 evening rides this week.
THis evenings ride included stop at beach. Had threaten rain on and off all day, so not too busy at the beach, found parking spot close to beach.
And I walked to find a bench to see how sunset developed.
Saw that a GSXR parked next to the GK
I was gonna walk back and ask the guy if 1982 was a significant year for him. BUt then I thought, naw, he looks maybe 25, so, um, er, uh, gee, maybe 1982 might be significant year ....for..... his parents. Maybe 1982 his parents were in elementary school. So I just watched from a distance as he walked other way.
Wasnt much of any sunset, sun went behind clouds on horizon about half hour before sunset time.
so went for ride a few miles outa town then home.
https://www.thegsresources.com/_for...811-random-photo-thread?p=1728203#post1728203
sun at low angle, and by the river caused moisture to condense on windscreen.....
Also had some further adventure later on in the morning ride
https://www.thegsresources.com/_for...at-i-like-about-my-gs-gk-actually#post1728207
