Was this the weekend for the "Mountain Ride"?
Regardless, I will try once again to post a picture...have not been very successful lately but here goes:


LANCER & Savage


Little Mountain Center (center of what?  I do not know)


Mountain & Mountain X-Roads


The very peak of "Little Mountain"

8)Well, seeing as I'm 4000 miles away from the Savage Run to Mount St. Helen's, I did the next best thing ... a wee run to Mount Pearl, Nfld. ... where I spent my formative years learning the finer points of juevenile delinquentcy.

Here's a pic taken this morning of my Savage in front of Mount Pearl City Hall
Another one of my stops today, was to check out a piece of aviation history ... billionaire/adventurer Steve Fossit is in town with his replica WW1 Vickers Vimy biplane to re-create the 1919 flight from St. John's, Nfld. to Ireland ... the first non-stop trans-atlantic powered flight by Englishmen Alcaulk and Brown ...

I was thinking to be at least 6 hours ahead of you'r guys and gals. But no.
Here's the picture I took withe the selftimer and the camera  balancing on my helmet.


The translation "MountainCorner".   It's a little place about 40 km from my house.


Greetz
Kropatchek

Thunder showers here   We were actually under Tornado watch yesterday, which is rare for this part of Canada.


This was also supposed to be my 40th birthday celebration, (which is actually on Tuesday) which would have consisted of a camping trip with a couple of buddies  to kierstead Mountain, about 50 miles from where I live.

Been very few sunny days this spring....Only had 3 in may..........this sucks, big time.

I spent 3 hours Friday night, washing and waxing the bike, for the trip.  :'(

here is my forecast as verification...........Remember..it updates several times a day, so look quick.....LOL


cheers


Michael

http://ca.weather.yahoo.com/CAXX/CAXX0419/index_f.html

They were predicting rain all day - and it cleared up.  I got to do the ride, then I got all happy about the weather staying clear, rode around some more, and ran out of gas.    At least now I know the fuel lever works.  

So anyway.  Here's why I left Brooklyn for Georgia -- this is around the corner from my house.  Not a mountain, but foothills deserve some love too.


And then, because I doubt it counts as a ride if you don't actually go anywhere, I rode into Auburn.  This one's down the street from the city hall, on Mt. Moriah Road.

Call me a Yenta, but I figured the worser and better halves should be together:

Okay, here's my effort.  About 100 miles E/NE of Dallas is a little town called Mount Vernon.  It was a nice ride, even if it was 95+ degrees.

Well have I got a story for you. Saturday was forecasted Thunderstorms most of the day. I had to work so I got up and checked the radar before heading out. A large mass of storms heading my way but they where about 30 miles out and moving 40-50mph so that gave me 45-50mins to get to work. It normally takes about 35mins to get there and I need to add 10mins to get gas. So I knew from the get-go it would be tight. I said the H#&& with it I got to do it for Sluggo and the rest. I hoped on the bike and went. I was about 15mins from work riding directly toward the approaching storm when it appeared. Before me rose the biggest rainbow I have ever seen in my life. IT WAS AMAZING. It was like a sign from God saying its ok. Until then I was worried that I would be stuck at work or be riding home in a thunderstorm. That is something you don’t do in Oklahoma where hail falls from the sky more often than bird poo and 60mph gust are the norm 80 are common and 130 are heard of (during a storm). Tulsa is Twister city after all. Anyway I pulled under the awning at work right as it started to rain. I walked into work to the usual comments “are you nucking futs” and what the H#&& are you thinking. A taunting chorus of your going to get wet and all that. With a smile I replied I’ll bet you all a dollar this blows over by 11:00 am which was 4hrs away. Need less to say the guys at work bought my lunch and gas to drive to lookout mountain in Tulsa. There is no sign so I didn’t get any pic of the sign but I did get the following does that count? Look how pretty the sky looks!! this was around 12:30 pm



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