Ohio Ride.... SUNDAY FEB 29th!

[TreAdidas]

Alright here it is... the maiden Hypercycles Ohio ride... so far we got two fellas.... myself and pnut.....

We are gonna troll on down into the backwoods of Kentucky for a 200 mile journey through the foothills of the Smokey Mountains...

Meeting Place:

United Dairy Farmers
At the corner of Anderson Ferry Road and River Road (US Route 50)... this is towards the west side of Cincinnati...

I have never personally ridden this route... I honestly picked it off of a map... so we'll see this is more a scouting ride than anything.... but nonetheless it is a ride and it is takign place in Ohio.... yeah that's right Ohio

:rockon:

Map:

[pulse]

haha, ohio ride......better take some pics, should be nice out there hopefully. have a good ride chuck:cool: . you got your bike all ready to ride?

[TreAdidas]

YEah got together with pnut todya and did some maintenance action... oil chance... chain lube and tension adjustment.... and put about 30 miles on the bike just putting around town just to remember how it feels and what not.... that is terrible I know....

I am thinking my preload may need to ocme down... I am considerably lighter than when I got my suspension set up... so I am going to see if I can't ge tmy little bro's hand in helping me with it...

[TreAdidas]

OK so I hav e no pics because my digital camera decided to act how it looks and it is brokeden... Anyways... this route was really somethign else...

I must admit I have a new guilty pleasure.... roads with no double yellows... we were seriously in the back country on this one... the roads had no side lines no double yellows no nothing.

Obstacles we encountered included sheep.

Best comment of the day.... "OK that is about the twelfth Baptist Church I have seen and I haven't seen a gas station for over 45 minutes," "Maybe we should just go pray for some gas." I dipped further into my reserve tank than I ever had in the past... I was crapping... I'ma do most of this route again soon though.... pnut... fun stuff my mang :)

[GPTECHMAN]

Chuck no pics....?

OK so if chuck goes on a "ride" and there are no pics....did it really ever happen?

[deno]

Originally posted by GPTECHMAN
Chuck no pics....?

OK so if chuck goes on a "ride" and there are no pics....did it really ever happen?

many a wise men have been baffled for centuries my son... we may never know...

[TreAdidas]

Dude that's like that if a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it fall does it make a sound question... the answer is yes, so did I go on a ride... you bet your arse I did... 282 miles long.... and I almost hit a sheep, and was about 4 miles from running out of gas.... so ha!.... psh no love.... :rolleyes: I need a new camera... but I think I want those sick tail lights first ::laughs::

[deno]

Originally posted by TreAdidas
I need a new camera... but I think I want those sick tail lights first ::laughs::

oh no chuck. How could any self respecting electronics guru pick some hokey tail light over the latest and greatest digital camera! c'mon now. You gotta prove you went riding somehow.:D

[TreAdidas]

Originally posted by deno
oh no chuck. How could any self respecting electronics guru pick some hokey tail light over the latest and greatest digital camera! c'mon now. You gotta prove you went riding somehow.:D

Dammit he's right... frig... I want one that is capable of doing good aciton shots... sony?

[GPTECHMAN]

If you want action....Im maybe sony? something wiht an adjustable shutter speed....I was looking at the olympus with a 10x optical zoom for things like trackday and other applications...I dont know seems kinda handy when you dont want to be the next thing to target fixate on...

[TreAdidas]

Originally posted by GPTECHMAN
when you dont want to be the next thing to target fixate on...

True dat... this happens up atop paly sometimes... some of these people I am like DUDE! You're blowing my mojo here...

[deno]

it all depends... ya know what I'm $aying.

I'm actually not the guy to talk to about digital cameras. I still have an affair with film and slides (mmm Fuji Velvia mmmmm) from back in the day.

I broke down and finally bought a Sony DSC 717. It was cool and convenient and all but it just didn't have that 'pop' on the images that I was looking for. Everything seemed a little too flat, almost like a childs paint by numbers kit. It didn't look like it could achieve the color gradient that I was looking for. Maybe in a couple years I can afford a high end digicam when they come down in price a little.

but that's just me... check out www.dpreview.com for good model comparisons.

.... and that's a good amount of bastardization for your thread. lol.

[TreAdidas]

Hey that's what I was looking for... a little bastardization and a link to go look at more sh!t I can't afford... SWEET!

[deno]

may I suggest the Sony DSC 828;)

[TreAdidas]

Originally posted by deno
may I suggest the Sony DSC 828;)

For $1000

no you may not :-p

[pulse]

chuck i am truly let down that you have no pics, i was really looking forward to it. and i will stick to having squirls running in front of me here in SD, i odnt want to have ot worry about a sheep being in my way when i come around a turn:-p

glad you guys had a good ride, were there any turns in this 282 miles or road:lol:

[MatrixChick04]

chuck can you take some pic of the areas around you? i want to see what you were riding.

[h2o-girl]

Girl, thats gonna be hard since he said his cameras broken

[TreAdidas]

Originally posted by h2o-girl
Girl, thats gonna be hard since he said his cameras broken

THis is true... hrm... I will see if I can't borrow one just to put into perspective what this place looks like.... I serioulsy had my camera with me and bought batteris at United Dairy Farmers (where we met) and no go... I was like :cry:


and as far as turns... yes there were turns... I had to troll all the wya down into Kentucky... which puts you in the foothills of the smokey mountains... so we had soem nic eturns... but it was weird riding on roads that were essentially just a slab of blacktop with no painted lines or anything... luckily traffic is a sparse occurence down der in Kentuck...

[h2o-girl]

you bought batteries at united dairy farmers. ohio seems stranger and stranger every time I hear about it!!

[p_nut0543]

I, the second rider in the ohio ride, will confirm my boy chuck's truthfulness. it was a great time, a nice long ride, and yes, we almost hit some freaking sheep (not to mention those damn farm dogs that are free to roam the streets). I felt like we were touring through pete's petting zoo, but it was a good time WE NEED MORE RIDERS NEXT TIME THOUGH. So for Chuck's sake I will confirm the country ride (which included wood plank, one lane bridges) even though we had no pictures

P_nut

[TreAdidas]

OH SMACK!... the wood plank one lane bridge forgot about that.... I was riding up to that and thought to myself... are you serious?

[dre_2k2_f4i]

Yeah, at least break out a pencil and paper or something!

[Arnold_R1]

Originally posted by dre_2k2_f4i
Yeah, at least break out a pencil and paper or something!

LOL Dre! Only in Ohio, do you risk the chance of running into a freakin sheep!

[TreAdidas]

Originally posted by dre_2k2_f4i
Yeah, at least break out a pencil and paper or something!


LOL... dre you crack me up

[TreAdidas]

Oh yeah just bought me a digi cam... so we won't have this issue again ;)

[Arnold_R1]

Originally posted by TreAdidas
Oh yeah just bought me a digi cam... so we won't have this issue again ;)

:clap: Congrads! What kind did you get?

[Ikazuchi]

Originally posted by dre_2k2_f4i
Yeah, at least break out a pencil and paper or something!

That's classic! lol