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What bike did you ride today?

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I wasn't on the bikes today but this is from yesterday.

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Over 100 degrees, but potential buyers are looking at the house, so I decided to ride, just slower. The third fort visited by the USAAF bike. Fort Pickering, Winter Island, Salem, MA. Most people only know the place for the witch trials and kitschy shops, haunted houses, and the like, but there's a lot of maritime history and a world class art museum, as well.

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Old ammo storage.
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Looking back on the fort from the outer ridge.
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The small lighthouse from the ridge of the fort.
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Hangar where Coast Guard PBY Catalina flying boats were stationed during WW2.
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Administrative building? Barracks? I don't know, but they don't use it anymore. When I was a kid, we would sneak inside. That viney-bush thing eating the building face-first was probably just a sprout then.

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Just liked the look of this.
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I also spent some time hanging out with a wild rabbit that sat about ten feet from me eating and resting. I almost offered him some cool water from the thermos, but didn't want to scare him. Or her, I don't actually know its gender and it seems rude to ask. Either way, I enjoyed its quiet company.
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Absolutely amazing
 
To commemorate todays 200th. anniversary of Karl Drais and his first ever bike ride went out early with my Rochester.
Had to drop my car off at the repair shop early and took the bicycle along for a lovely ride to work before 6am, down roads I haven't ridden in a few years.
For a machine that's around 118 years old it rides beautifully......View attachment 480281
At the little road bridge over the River Thame, near Drayton St. Leonard (that's not a typo, there really is a River Thame, as well as the more well known Thames).....View attachment 480282 View attachment 480283
Near the old 17th. century gateposts in the hamlet of Ascot. There are 3 pairs of these, all that remains of a grand country house that "mysteriously" burnt down on the eve of its completion during the English civil war.....View attachment 480284
The sun broke through the clouds and really made the ride a little more special, a gorgeous day for riding our machines.....View attachment 480285
Ride on Baron!

Beautiful shots! Love the last one! @dnc1
 
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