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Pic of the week game

Thanks for the kudos guys and I as I have worked strictly from my photo archives since the start of this thread I was really stuck for a theme until DaveR suggested this, thanks Dave. Anyway it's deterioration of something equally as ugly. This is of my beloved (now sold) 750EF when it was loaded in the truck for the trip to a better life.



by soates50, on Flickr

Im confused...yes it doesn?t take much. Lol... what?s the theme?
 
Is the theme deterioration or something equally as ugly (which I could see as 'something bad or ugly about your bike)

or

deterioration of something equally as ugly (which I don't quite understand... something bad gone worse?)
 
Hey all,
Sorry I missed the vote. Family trip. Left Wednesday night, got home last night after midnight.
Touring colleges with the older son who is winding down his junior year in HS...
 
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Hopefully some of you in other time zones headed out early to ride this morning. ...............
.... or got up late to go for ride to breakfast .......

THanks for the compilation, Bob.
Thanks for vote tally, Roger & Kerry (no problem, but yall missed one.)
 
Dang, should've waited till the coffee hit my bloodstream before counting, LOL. Sorry about that.
 
Is the theme deterioration or something equally as ugly (which I could see as 'something bad or ugly about your bike)

or

deterioration of something equally as ugly (which I don't quite understand... something bad gone worse?)

Yeah, I missed the typo and yes, it should have say or. So the theme is basically deterioration or how time and wear and tear has not been a friend to your motorcycle. Garth, I know time has not been a friend to many of us but as long as there's a part of one of your motorcycles and the picture it's really very open to interpretation. LOL.
 
So when I bought my GS in 2010, this is one area the PO did not bother to prevent from happening

left footpegs mount by Scott Baker, on Flickr

Side cover has since been replaced and mount bracket cleaned up/painted over though I'll have to find a better way. Pipes were also cleaned up and ultimately ceramic coated
 
Sorry, Dave. Click --> HERE <-- for a manly apology bouquet.

THIS IS NOT A SUBMISSION
But this happened in 2009... I was about to go for a ride, so I took my glasses off so I could put my helmet on. I set the glasses on the stepped passenger seat. And forgot to put them back on. I rode ten miles to my destination, flipped my visor up so I could remove my glasses and take my helmet off. No glasses. Didn't take me too long to figure out where they were. By the time I got back close to home, I was able to find these few pieces.

 
Worn tires, broken drag bike parts, crashed bikes.....I have so many files to look through...

(Of course new photos are out of the question, as all my stuff is perfect now :D)
 
I think this is about as ugly as it can get. Especially when you get to watch it happen in front of you.

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I think this is about as ugly as it can get. Especially when you get to watch it happen in front of you.
Or you're on it...
But I've used my crash pictures twice at least, so not this time. Who's bike was that Steve?
 
Use your imagination Baatfam. Deterioration need not be limited to that found on a bike.
Dilapidated buildings, rundown businesses, crumbling roads, old vehicles, boats, junkyards, etc. in the fore or background?
No doubt neglected, abandoned and discarded elements are in everyones area.
 
Use your imagination Baatfam.

Of course....always try to....:topsy_turvy:

It just looks like I am going to be stuck with using file photos this week...
So far I've not come up with much except crash pictures and broken drag bike parts.
 
Who's bike was that Steve?
That is my 850. It was mine at the time, too.

That was back in 2011, when we had about 15-20 bikes on a "Triple Nickel" ride on oHIo's Route 555.

Cowboyup (Scott) was on my 850, I was following on my Wing. He made it mostly around the turn (which was at the top of a hill).

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If the shoulder had been a little wider, or at least not so dramatic, it might have been different. Where the gravel turns to grass, there was a steep drop-off into a ditch that was about a foot deep. The left footpeg got caught on the edge of the drop-off and it was all over (literally).

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