The Photo Thread

[Vik's]

17 hours ago, Dingfelder said:

That path by the water is beautiful.  Looks like it would make for a wonderful ride.

It is! Too bad I didn't pack my mavic with me this time. Oh well, there will be more sunny days I hope

[Maximus]

Thought I'd share a few pics from our recent family trip playing a round of disc golf.  First time we've brought the EUCs onto a course and it was awesome!  It was literally worth the price of admission to have access to riding on such beautiful trails.  What could be better than chucking frisbees and riding on electric unicycles?

 

[Dingfelder]

I didn't know that was enough of  a thing to have a course for it.

[Maximus]

15 minutes ago, Dingfelder said:

I didn't know that was enough of  a thing to have a course for it.

Oh yeah, courses are everywhere!  Best of all, if they are maintained well enough the trails are perfect for EUC riding.  I had a great conversation with the course owner who was all about me riding on his course.  His view was that, if you could ride one of those machines on his course, that it spoke to the quality of the course and how well it had been maintained, to which I promptly agreed !

[Dingfelder]

1 hour ago, Maximus said:

Oh yeah, courses are everywhere!  Best of all, if they are maintained well enough the trails are perfect for EUC riding.  I had a great conversation with the course owner who was all about me riding on his course.  His view was that, if you could ride one of those machines on his course, that it spoke to the quality of the course and how well it had been maintained, to which I promptly agreed !

Very cool!  I had never even thought to look for a course like that, but now I'll keep them in mind.

[meepmeepmayer]

(As usual, if not all pictures load, reload [F5] until they're there, or use a better browser)

Did a 73 km night ride including 700m mountain climb and mountain ride today. Northern foothill of the Bavarian Alps.

5:45h overall, 4h of ride time. Awesome! Barely got home with my 1300Wh ACM, maxed it out. Love these big batteries, but they could be even bigger I pity <1000Wh people

Picture of the route.

Start at the pin, always go clockwise. First part (to where the path meets itself) is mostly flat, through forest and meadows and farm villages and stuff. Meeting point is where the mountain part starts. Going straight southwards is about 8% average incline. Then going north/northwest, you can see some narrow serpentines, after 2 km is the highest point (1250m, start of the ride is at 475m, mountain part starts at 525m or so), steepest incline is going up there. The rest is along the mountain ridge, slightly downhills but more or less flat, til you go east again then it's steep downhills, til you get back to the start of the mountain part (meeting point). The final western route back home is flat meadows and stuff again.

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So the idea was an evening/night ride including a mountain ride I did already some earlier day. It got delayed a bit due to rain and lightning. Weather was wonderfully warm and mellow, though. I started shortly after 8pm, and I was going towards the storms and hoping they would have passed once I got to the mountains.

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View of the target, around 9 pm or a little later. You see the tallest, rocky mountain in the background? The forested ridge to its right is a part of it. Route is going left in front of the ridge (starting behind the big tree, up a creek valley, the 8% incline part) until you're right below that high mountain. Then steeply up to the ridge, along it, and back down the right side.

Forested mountain to the center-left is the one that killed my first ACM

Hid under this tree (you can see it in the previous picture, on the right border) for 20 minutes from sudden rain while the last storm cloud passed over me. Rain, lightning, thunder aplenty downwind. But the target mountain was clear now.

Nice sunset colors.

Mountain parts starts here (going left). It was about 10pm and quite dark (full moon though, but that's not enough for my phone) so no landscape pictures from now on.

ACM light in the darkness. This is where going south ends and the steepest serpentine part begins.

Flash picture along the way, to give you an impression.

Night rides let you see quite some animals. Frogs, hedgehogs, bunnies, deer, foxes, always cool to see these.

This route, there were a ton of frogs/toads on the road. But I didn't run any over, they could be seen well enough in the ACM's front light. But nice game of "rock or frog" (it rhymes) to be had.

Picked two up for photos. This is Mr. (Mrs.?) Frog #1. He played dead. No idea why my fingers look so strange/distorted in these photos.

Mr. Frog #2. Tried to jump away, but my distraction ACM light show worked and I caught it. They feel nice and soft, not slimy at all. Neat!

GTFOing after being placed down.

Quick break before the steep downhill part begins. Full moon, smell of forest and recent rain and cut wood, still wonderfully mellow temperature, very pleasant! ACM is at 40% battery now (was around 75% at the start of the mountain part).

Halfway down, an Alm (alp?) with great views of the flat valley below, lights and everything. Hard to make a picture of.

Around midnight or so. Inside, a lot of drunk people singing to music, Lederhosen, Dirndl, etc; you get the idea

Valley lights.

Panorama. You have to imagine you see something House on the left, valley lights on the right.

Back down. ACM still at 40%. You never lose battery going downhills, but also don't gain too much if it's steep because the wheel has to brake. Flatter declines give you quite some battery back though (for example the 8% part would have done that going downhill).

The rest was more or less flat, going home. Some confused looking hedgehogs were passed (they lift their heads and seem to listen intently while you quickly pass them, if they don't run away the last second). No photos possible though. But cute nonetheless.

With 2 or 3 km left, the ACM started beeping at me as soon as I went faster than a snail. It's a very agressive with that as soon as it falls below 20% or so. So 20% is 0% in reality, not much use after this point. Also, with the summer temperatures I get almost 1km per % battery, so you'd think 20% means 20 km left in snail mode. Not at all, 5 km max, then you get ultra tiltback. I carried the thing the last few hundred meters because it was beeping and tiltbacking so badly. Would have woken up half of the street.

The end. Hope you enjoyed. Was very fun. 70 km is what you can reliably expect from the 1300Wh ACM in summer temperatures (also don't forget there was a huge elevation included in the route) with (my) 80kg weight. And 20% battery means the end is very close, don't think it will give you much after that point.

It's amazing how much energy is in 2 bricks of battery cells. Over 70 km plus going up a mountain!

I want a 3000Wh wheel now... also better pedals. Apart from the battery, the one thing stopping you from going for longer duration rides are the uncomfortable flat hard unsuspended pedals.

Edited July 9, 2017 by meepmeepmayer

[Hunka Hunka Burning Love]

Got inspired to do some late night riding by meep (well not that late), and I had a chance to use my Velcro attached Ninebot headlight and red rear blinking light which worked well.  That's the moon back there.

[Rehab1]

5 hours ago, Hunka Hunka Burning Love said:

Got inspired to do some late night riding by meep (well not that late), and I had a chance to use my Velcro attached Ninebot headlight and red rear blinking light which worked well.  That's the moon back there.

There's the Beast! The graphics appear to be holding up well! Beautiful! I now miss mine!

[meepmeepmayer]

10 hours ago, Hunka Hunka Burning Love said:

Got inspired to do some late night riding by meep (well not that late)

Good A big part of my rides were from reading the forum and suddenly thinking "Why am I sitting here instead of riding?" and before you know it you did 50 km. Nice to hear I inspired someone else too

[Bob Eisenman]

20 hours ago, meepmeepmayer said:

It's amazing how much energy is in 2 bricks of battery cells.

Awesome night ride starting and ending in the Rosenheim area. ☺

I was reading about Rosenheim on Wikipedia and noticed a church photo strongly resembling one in a previous post of yours. Some more map searching and Googl'ing said it is 'St John the Baptist' in Westerndorf (west of Pang). The Wikipedia says it is a very old church and one of the largest 'onion domes'.

"Small village with big church (looking back, came from down there)."

St John the Baptist Church (Westerndorf)
https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Johann_Baptist_und_Heilig_Kreuz

Rosenheim (Wikipedia has a photo)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenheim

 

[meepmeepmayer]

@Bob Eisenman Nice detective work! You're absolutely correct. It's the same church that I mentioned and posted a photo of. Good memory

I come by this church often as it is on the shortest EUC route to these mountains, and it's quite scenic as well.

On the map picture, right below the 15a icon, my (blue) route is along the (white) main road for a short bit. That's where the church is.

[Minus some minor details because it won't just work 100%] I recreated the first part of the ride (flat to mountains, right part of the upper loop in the original map picture) in Google Maps, the third waypoint is the church. Unfortunately there's no Street View here for you to see.

https://www.google.de/maps/dir/47.8398152,12.1055661/47.8323713,12.0760764/47.8222397,12.0786325/47.7706106,12.0772412/47.7678786,12.0301185/47.7629276,12.0150787/@47.8000735,12.0357093,14790m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!4m1!3e1

With the 3D mode you can see quite well where the mountains start at the southern end of this part.

edit: reposting photo with church and wheel (which makes it better than without wheel)

Edited July 10, 2017 by meepmeepmayer

[Rehab1]

The last time I visited this cemetery was 40 years ago. I decided to ride there tonight. I snuck through a side gate as it was after hours and the main gate was closed.

Established in 1876, it sits on 160 acres and consists of 65,000 interments. It is so big that I got lost!  The deer were certainly surprised to see me and my wheel!

[radial]

Cool ride!  I kind of want to take a ride through Arlington National Cemetery, but I'm not sure they would allow it.  

[MaxLinux]

On 6/18/2017 at 9:44 AM, KingSong69 said:

Coming from my "Month May" Asia trip in Thailand....the guys of KS Thailand there are ONLY doing night trips...

Thats mostly because of the heat in the days and that you can not exist in the sun on the day! These night drives are the best i ever experienced....so much to show , the lights are fantastic and BKK at all is a great city a t night ;-)

I love the night rides from KS Thailand and Carpark!

I wonder if Carpark is currently active though. Looks like most of their videos are at least a year old.

[Bob Eisenman]

I went out on the causeway connecting Marblehead with Marblehead Neck. The ride was fun and the weather was great. On the return ride to the next town the sidewalk route ends near Salem Harbor with a four inch curb drop to continue near the end of a bend in the road where cars park to take bikes along the Rail trail. I debated hopping off the curb on the euc but all things considered I brought the EUC to a halt, bent over to turn it off and looked to my left as I prepared to step off the curb with the EUC by the handle. About four feet from my face and inches from the curb was a small postal truck , driven by a postal worker who made clear eye contact with me as she rolled quietly past before bringing the vehicle to a stop and continue making some deliveries.

All is fair, as they say and the postal worker was both paid and insured. It makes me wonder why a utilities truck honked once last fall as I rode along a sidewalk in the same town.

Can you imagine being a home owner carrying a mortgage worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, paying tens of thousands of dollars annually to expensive schools and colleges for your kids , owning a four wheeled luxury car parked in your driveway when one day you look out your window and see an EUC (value < $1k ) rider with one hand on your picket fence because the lumpy sidewalk (decades old tree roots) in front of your home caused the EUC rider to come to a stop , grab your fence and decide how to navigate the obstruction?

Bicycles (ridden by kids) handle the same terrain ripples with no problems.

 

[Bob Eisenman]

On ‎7‎/‎8‎/‎2017 at 10:58 PM, meepmeepmayer said:

Did a 73 km night ride including 700m mountain climb and mountain ride today

meepmeep sent me her path files for Google Earth. I made a Google Earth 'tour' of the ride which shows the surrounding alps terrain. 

Import each of the three Google Earth files (after importing the data files be sure they are check marked to display) and double click the 'tour file' to start the moving terrain map video tour.

This process patterns after a previous post by Marty Backe who made a tour file of a long EUC ride in California.

 

20170711101950-65177-data.kmz

20170711102233-65177-data.kmz

 

meepmeepmayer - alps tour-rev1.kmz

Edited July 11, 2017 by Bob Eisenman

[Hunka Hunka Burning Love]

1 hour ago, Bob Eisenman said:

meepmeep sent me her path files for Google Earth.

meepmeep's a "her?"    I thought we were all pretty much dudes here on the forum.    So how you doin'?  

 

Edited July 11, 2017 by Hunka Hunka Burning Love

[Bob Eisenman]

14 minutes ago, Hunka Hunka Burning Love said:

meepmeep's a "her?"    I thought we were all pretty much dudes here on the forum.    So how you doin'?  

meepmeepmayer sent THE files

[Rehab1]

20 minutes ago, Hunka Hunka Burning Love said:

meepmeep's a "her?"    I thought we were all pretty much dudes here on the forum.    So how you doin'?  

At one time you were a 'her'! Brokebacke Mountain must have changed that!

Edited July 11, 2017 by Rehab1

[Hunka Hunka Burning Love]

21 minutes ago, Bob Eisenman said:

meepmeepmayer sent THE files

17 minutes ago, Rehab1 said:

At one time you were a 'her'! Brokebacke Mountain must have changed that!

Avatar Transitioning is the new black!  (For those not in the know - I originally had Shandi Finnissey  as my avatar pic, well, until it caused a lot of confusion amongst the dudes here.    

Edited July 11, 2017 by Hunka Hunka Burning Love

[meepmeepmayer]

Sorry Hunka, you can put your pants on again

1 hour ago, Bob Eisenman said:

I made a Google Earth 'tour' of the ride which shows the surrounding alps terrain.

Neat. Never used the Google Earth program but now I'm going to see how this looks. Thanks!

[meepmeepmayer]

@Bob Eisenman It worked, pretty neat! The overflight makes it look less steep than it sometimes is, but if you change perspective you can see the terrain quite well. Cool!

[meepmeepmayer]

Found this tour description (German site) of the mountain part route I took.

https://www.mtbsepp.de/touren/breitenstein-wirtsalm-tregleralm

[Bob Eisenman]

1 hour ago, meepmeepmayer said:

Never used the Google Earth program

From the path segments

1-re-create a 'path' of waypoints and save the path file,

2-in properties (right click) for the path file - select altitude ('above sea level' for the forum posted tour) and enter a value

3-next to (just left of) the lower left corner of the terrain map hover above the icon and  press 'play tour', (with the path file icon is selected)

4-save the file (to Google Earth My Places) as 'tour' as kmz by pressing on the icon seen on the right of  playback strip

 

 

 

[Bob Eisenman]

2 hours ago, Hunka Hunka Burning Love said:

Avatar Transitioning is the new black!  (For those not in the know - I originally had Shandi Finnissey  as my avatar pic, well, until it caused a lot of confusion amongst the dudes here.    

she looks like a model from the threads of 'Tumblr' and 'apprec8beauty' but with more clothing.