Popular Post meepmeepmayer Posted September 23, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted September 23, 2018 Some photos from today. Gorgeous late afternoon ride. Wonderful mellow and cool-warm, pleasantly humid weather, and fantastic lighting From tomorrow on it will get much colder. -- Short break in a forest, sun shining in. Views of the mountains along the way. Much better in reality than the limited dynamic range phone photos. Sun shining in sideways looked wonderful. Deer enclosure. Bavarian scenery. Going up a hill. Church hidden behind the tree on the right. Gorgeous view into the mountains from up there. Somehow the colors were extra nice today. Fun path through the forest, roots and everything. A bit further. The view! The colors! Just lovely Some time later. Moon was huge! Moon over the bike path along the river. The thing my ACM shines on is a pumpkin I picked up from a field along the way (there are pay boxes). The lower right light is the moon's reflection on the water. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meepmeepmayer Posted September 23, 2018 Share Posted September 23, 2018 5 minutes ago, Marty Backe said: An early Sunday morning ride with the Monster. Early mornings can be the best time to ride. The side light makes things look nice. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty Backe Posted September 23, 2018 Share Posted September 23, 2018 37 minutes ago, meepmeepmayer said: Gorgeous view into the mountains from up there. Somehow the colors were extra nice today. Moon over the bike path along the river. The thing my ACM shines on is a pumpkin I picked up from a field along the way (there are pay boxes). The lower right light is the moon's reflection on the water. If I ever come to Germany somehow I'm going to get you to take me on this ride. Beautiful And we'll take a trip into those mountains in the distance 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ED209 Posted September 23, 2018 Share Posted September 23, 2018 @meepmeepmayer, beautiful Country, when I visited Germany I passed through the Black Forest in Baden württemberg, Freiberg. So much quality & character. It is good that no one bothers you about your wheel, they just let you be ? 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meepmeepmayer Posted September 23, 2018 Share Posted September 23, 2018 52 minutes ago, Marty Backe said: If I ever come to Germany somehow I'm going to get you to take me on this ride. Beautiful And we'll take a trip into those mountains in the distance Won't need any convincing at all. Just another wheel, because I only have one. Or two more wheels for these mountains, can't take my old-cabling ACM up there too well. TO-247 mosfet wheels on the other hand... And it is a great ride, though no special route, just circling around. What you see is the picture is the Inn river valley exiting the Alps (and the decorative ranges along the valley). Because the river used to be an ice age glacier, it pushed up some moraines in some distance from the mountains with my home city in a basin (used to be a lake after the ice age) at the mouth of the valley. So there are these elevated viewing spots in basically all directions 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tbx Nicolas Posted September 24, 2018 Share Posted September 24, 2018 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Wheel Plug Posted September 24, 2018 Share Posted September 24, 2018 3 minutes ago, Tbx Nicolas said: Do you have a thread that shows more information about your custom LED setup? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post winterwheel Posted September 25, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted September 25, 2018 From our recent evening-night ride. We stopped after this for a coffee, and returned home in the dark. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fat Unicyclist Posted September 25, 2018 Share Posted September 25, 2018 3 hours ago, winterwheel said: We stopped after this for a coffee, and returned home in the dark. And by "coffee", I hope you mean rum / beer / wine? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winterwheel Posted September 25, 2018 Share Posted September 25, 2018 (edited) 5 hours ago, The Fat Unicyclist said: And by "coffee", I hope you mean rum / beer / wine? Sadly no, but that's why I'm on this forum -- to learn the right way to do things. Edited September 25, 2018 by winterwheel 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Bob Eisenman Posted September 26, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted September 26, 2018 I feel really lucky to see and enjoy Meep's Alps pictures, the posted pics of people enjoying their rides with friends, etc. I ride alone and recently have added a tech aspect to my rides on the Monster. Both Monster and I are in this 'tiny planet' from my last ride. Between crepe skin, lessening muscle mass and slower and less enthusiastic recovery from a fall, I find the tech addition to be a welcome diversion from life in EUC balance while just above the moving pavement. 10,000 + miles and counting 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winterwheel Posted September 27, 2018 Share Posted September 27, 2018 From our group ride last evening, on what may be one of the last, nicest nights of 2018 for us in Edmonton. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meepmeepmayer Posted September 27, 2018 Share Posted September 27, 2018 On 9/26/2018 at 5:59 AM, Bob Eisenman said: 10,000 + miles and counting You must be nearing 10000km on the Monster. Did you know that Eisenmann translates to iron man in German? You've got more range accumulated on your much newer Monster than I have on my ACM, so that often motivates me to get out and ride. Nice photo. Your piece of coast is quite spectacular, but I wonder how well accessible and developed the bike paths and other EUC-suitable side routes are in the area. Hoping you don't have to use the main (car) highway too often. Do you have a new drone that can make these 360 photos? I recall you said (in the latest Marty+Duf stream chat) your trusty Yuneec fell into the sea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post The Fat Unicyclist Posted September 28, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted September 28, 2018 (edited) From the local newspaper... Edited September 28, 2018 by The Fat Unicyclist 6 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Eisenman Posted September 28, 2018 Share Posted September 28, 2018 (edited) @meepmeepmayer On 9/27/2018 at 10:32 AM, meepmeepmayer said: You must be nearing 10000km on the Monster More like 8k km On 9/27/2018 at 10:32 AM, meepmeepmayer said: main (car) highway Most motorists on the less heavily used roads are fairly accommodating. On 9/27/2018 at 10:32 AM, meepmeepmayer said: wonder how well accessible and developed the bike paths and other EUC-suitable side routes are in the area In this state (Massachusetts) and other states the conversion of old unused railroad beds to resurfaced bike trail is a big deal ongoing. In the case of the 'Border to Boston's trail which when finished connects bikers by trail from Boston to Newburyport https://www.google.com/amp/s/bikenewengland.com/2016/04/20/border-to-boston-trail/amp/ The use of the existing unused MBTA (Mass. Bay Transit Authority) owned (still by lease agreement) has some issues with motorized vehicles of any sort. An email response to an authority figure reads "Motorized vehicles of any type are not allowed on the trail. This is both to meet MBTA regulations (part the MBTA lease agreement for using their rail bed) and safety reasons on a narrow shared-use path." On 9/27/2018 at 10:32 AM, meepmeepmayer said: Did you know that Eisenmann translates to iron man in German? Ja...Na sicher.. On 9/27/2018 at 10:32 AM, meepmeepmayer said: new drone On the Yuneec pilots forum one pilot uses his in journey mode to take his fishing line out over 100 feet from shore, drop the line and bait and return. Yeah...I bought a DJI Spark (+crash insurance). The latest firmware update to the 'DJU Go 4' app has an in flight 360 sphere creation function. After taking 46 pictures from a position in the air the app's playback tells the drone to stitch them together into a sphere and download. Windy days seem to create more mismatched areas in spheres when stitched. Probably the physically larger DJI drones with three axis camera gimbale take better spheres (when windy) than the smaller two axis camera gimbal Spark. The 'tiny planet' I posted with the lighthouse sticking up above is a computer manipulation of a sphere stitch using Microsoft's image composite editor. https://youtu.be/EWQAMTMpKCs A 'real sphere' is this one. It's really cool to view with VR goggles and fun to pan in Sphere phone apps like 'VR Media Player'. On 9/27/2018 at 10:32 AM, meepmeepmayer said: Your piece of coast is quite spectacular Surf comes with windy weather and the local geology is rocky with intrusions that often have weathered and washed away. Extensive sand like Cape Cod is read to be glacial outwash. There are places like Rockport (Dogtown) which have extensive strewn loose and large rock/boulder areas....left atop the land after their source inclusion in glaciers melted away. The cold war and wwii structures on/ near the now Northeastern University's oceanographic studies center sit on some spectacular oceanside real estate. The WWII observation tower(left) + old Nike missle bunker site (right) once guarded Boston harbor Edited September 29, 2018 by Bob Eisenman 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Eisenman Posted September 28, 2018 Share Posted September 28, 2018 (edited) @meepmeepmayer This is my grandmother's cemetery. I remember the funeral.... (Sort of but not in the adult viewing sense). John her husband died of bladder cancer before I was born and was a Marine (stateside - rank private on Parris island) in wwi. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/58113162/catherine-b.-eisenmann Edited September 28, 2018 by Bob Eisenman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esper Posted October 1, 2018 Share Posted October 1, 2018 (edited) I've got my new wheel back with its finished paint job. Edited October 1, 2018 by Esper 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meepmeepmayer Posted October 1, 2018 Share Posted October 1, 2018 @Esper Pics don't show for me. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esper Posted October 1, 2018 Share Posted October 1, 2018 1 hour ago, meepmeepmayer said: @Esper Pics don't show for me. Swapped to imgur. it should help. I was posting directly from google photos before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Eisenman Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 (edited) Sort of off topic other than I rode my Monster along the road below (seen in the photo sphere ) and am standing there somewhere along the road directly below (280 ish feet) in a hard to see place but if you download and view the odd looking picture posted here and view with a sphere viewing app: Android: VR Media Player (from Google Play Store) Windows: FSP viewer http://www.fsoft.it/FSPViewer/ you'll see an interesting coastline. I tend to ride along the coast in areas where property owners craft the coastline to their own design. Other than the road I have no connection with the local area. Photo sphere's are easy for the Spark drone to create …… new tech....not much skill required...full of things to look at.....really a wow with VR goggles if you have a set...… otherwise app view or software view suffices. I took a scuba diving course (1990s) in the water along the beach below (and left of) the jet streak in the sky. The wreck of the USS New Hampshire....not much left but timbers and nails ..... seen on a wreck diver course.... 42°34'18"N 70°44'41"W is on the bigger island off the beach and to the south (right). http://wikimapia.org/1887248/Graves-Island-and-wreck-of-USS-New-Hampshire Edited October 2, 2018 by Bob Eisenman 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Wheel Plug Posted October 3, 2018 Share Posted October 3, 2018 BEWARE OF DOG This is the first frame of the video i caught when i started my camera.... only a split second later i found myself BOLTING away haha 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meepmeepmayer Posted October 3, 2018 Share Posted October 3, 2018 On first sight, looks like BEWARE OF RAT 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Wheel Plug Posted October 4, 2018 Share Posted October 4, 2018 Solid little ride to catch some sunset vibes tonight ?? going for a ride is an amazing way to clear the mind 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Eisenman Posted October 4, 2018 Share Posted October 4, 2018 (edited) On 10/1/2018 at 9:50 PM, Bob Eisenman said: Photo spheres are easy for the Spark drone to create But this Instagram post really captures something closer to weight bearing flight. Helmets for everyone....maybe earplugs too. Edited October 4, 2018 by Bob Eisenman 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Unventor Posted October 4, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted October 4, 2018 So I guess I extended my EUC season a few weeks at autumn and spring. Bought a MC traffic jacket. It isn't waterproof but I don't expect to ride in heavy rain so doesn't matter so much. As for protection I use my POC DH jacket underneath. The trouser have hip and knee d30 pads build in. Both are Kevlar enforced. No I don't feel as naked if I should experience wet leaves on asphalt. And it blocks out the windchill too. It was only 4 degree Celsius when I rode in to work this morning. This is when I just arrived and a colleague took my picture on my request. 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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