I’m a sap for photographing alligators is pass on my rides in the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge. Here is one from today: Here are a few from past rides:
See original here:
Alligator photos from my rides
Archive - Past Rides
RSS Feed
Alligator photos from my rides
Riding the streets of Detroit with Charlie Z
By George Ingram
Last fall Tony shared a link to Charlie Z’s blog (http://bbandm.wordpress.com/author/chasbo1/) and I subscribed to it. All of you should check it out.
Late last fall, after being so impressed by Charlie’s photographs, knowledge of downtown Detroit and well articulated descriptions of what he experienced, I e-mailed him and asked if I could join him for a ride this spring. He agreed and I added him to the distribution list of my ride reports this spring.
We met the other morning at Campus Martius and went to several places that I requested to see. I found Charlie to be a great guy and fun to be with. He, like a lot of us, was in a job related to the automobile industry. Charlie is now working at Macomb Community College in Purchasing but was previously developing advertising for the Saturn vehicles until the US gov’t told GM to kill the Saturn brand.
The photographs below are Continue Reading…
July 4th Trails and Gravel Ride
Rode with Pat Benson and Tina Laurie today, celebrating the fourth with a 31 miler that took us through two parks, a bunch of mountain bike and nature trails and some fine gravel backroads. There were lots of hills on a perfect July day, with sunny skies and temps in the upper 70′s.
Here’s the video, as shot from my GoPro Hero helmet-mounted camera, followed by a map of the route as recorded by my Garmin. I cal the route the Texas shapped Tralis and Gravel route because of the way the route looks when plotted out on a map.
Here’s the video:
Here’s the route:
Don’t use front brakes on a downhill
Or… this is the result. I dislocated that finger on a downhill on the trails at the Orion Oaks Park in Orion Township, MI yesterday.
I should have known better but wasn’t paying attention.
I went over the handlebars. The helmet proteced my head, though I goit some pretty good road rash from the impact.
Collarbone was okay. Right side pretty brused. The finger? Not so good.
Doc at hospital said it would have been better to have broken it. Dislocated fingers take 12-14 months to heal.
The bike was okay. And I’ll be back on it tomorrow.
Hot and humid
We had a great 43 miler this Saturday, joined by two new riders – Matt and Larry. Larry rode a recumbent, the rest an assortment of road bikes and crossovers.
Water was welcome today, with temps on their way to 90, humidity levels high, the wind stiff and challenging and lots of sunshine. I went through four bottles.
Our route was out the Macomb Orchard Trail to the end of the pavement and then back to Shelby Road, into and around Stony Creek Metro Park with side trips most of the picnic areas and then back out of the park to the Macomb Orchard Trail, finishing where we started in the parking lot of the Ice Areana,
Here’s today’s group:
We’ll post details on next Saturday’s ride later in the week.
Another Bloody Saturday
Back in the wilds of Bloomer Parks single track
Keeping our “if we ride dirt, there must be blood” rule intact, we had lots of fun on our tour of three parks (Stony Creek, Bloomer and Bear Creek) and three trails (Paint Creek, Clinton River and Macomb Orchard).
Thanks to Tim “Free Fall Sausch” there was blood from two of his limbs after a fall off a wooden contraption back in the Mountain Bike skills area at Stony Creek. You can see the video below.
Here’s the route we took, a 27.5 mile ride for me, as uploaded from my Garmin Edge. Click the play button to see the route animated.
Joining us for the first time today was Amy, who proved to be as crazy as the rest of us as we rode in and out of single track, up hills, through mosquito-infested woods and on the teeter totter at Stony.
The weather was perfect, with temps in the seventies.
We rode Paint Creek Trail to Clinton River Trail, took a loop through Boomer and into Stony after a short stretch on the Macomb Orchard Trail.
Terry guided us to the skill practice area of the Mountain Bike trails at Stony where we had a lot of fun. Terry and Amy hit the teeter totter the first time. I didn’t have enough momentum to get up and down the first time, but made it fine the second. I definitely want to come back there and practice my skills.
Opps. Terry goes down
There were several spills, besides “Free Fall Fausch.” Here’s a still of Terry off the Teeter Totter. A dab of blood on his elbow was all he had to show for it. Hmm, come to think of it, I think he also fell back in Bloomer. Guess we’ll call him “Terry Tumbles.”
Pat and Tina wisely watched.
We rode rthe Mountain Bike Trails in the park to Sheldon Road and then took that to Snell and from there rode several single and double tracks and grassy paths in the Bear Creek Nature Park.
Great day. Great people. Just a dab of blood. Though “Free Fall Fausch” should have some impressively nastly looking scabs on his knees for a few weeks.
Here’s the video:
