CB1100 Monthly Photo Challenge

[zbillster_imp]

I've shared this before ...

 

[zbillster_imp]

It's time again for my midnight weekday stir-the-fluids ride while most of the world is sleeping. Tonight's topical sign spotting ...

Does it have to be on a post?

And because ... Texas!

 

[Ben70_imp]

Nice snaps, zbillster. Probably a fine line between midnite quiet and saloon traffic going home, but probably no mail vans.

Ben

 

[zbillster_imp]

Nice snaps, zbillster. Probably a fine line between midnite quiet and saloon traffic going home, but probably no mail vans.

Ben

It's the 'burbs ... empty of hipsters ... everyone's drinking at home.
I was crawling like an old lady through some of the more rural sections on this run ... watching for animals.

 

[Gone in 60]

You want warning signs? My office complex has plenty of 'em. The second pic is a close up of the stack of warnings on the post behind my bike. The Observatory Theater is across the street - usually punk and alternative bands, and they don't want their patrons using our lot for free at night.

 

[GoldOxide_imp]

" ... do this, don't do that, can't you read the sign?"

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The CB is the best lookin' vehicle in that pic Gin60.

 

[Chuckk_imp]

G.O. I can almost picture you singing that.. we need audio ..

 

[GoldOxide_imp]

G.O. I can almost picture you singing that.. we need audio ..

lol ... some ol' 1970 song released by a Canadian Ottawa band who were in California and thought that there was too many signs, and divisive signs.

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[Nortoon_imp]

G.O. I can almost picture you singing that.. we need audio ..

lol ... some ol' 1970 song released by a Canadian Ottawa band who were in California and thought that there was too many signs, and divisive signs.

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The Five Man Electrical Band were just one of many fine bands in the Ottawa area. As a young bachelor in the 60s I frequented many clubs that featured live bands on the weekends. The most notorious was the Chaudiere's Green Door. Good music and cheap quarts of beer. But when the band finished their last song and the girls left with their boy friends, it could get rough with the bunch of drunken frustrated males left behind.

 

[emptysea]

Campground Road in Des Plaines, IL is a short road, a half-mile long if that, which was originally an access road for a now-dilapidated Methodist campground. Opposite the campground is a maintenance building for the City of Des Plaines and, further along, the commuter rail line linking the downtown Chicago with its northwest suburbs. It connects Algonquin Rd. to Miner Street. It's not much of a road but it has a couple of redeeming features: It's not well-traveled and it is the closest road to my home that has a legitimate curve. It has two curves, really. The first is a left that brings you around the back of the campground and the second is a sharp right that goes under the train tracks and up hill to a stop sign on Miner. This last turn is not as much fun as it could be because you have to stop on a steep incline immediately after it. I use the road as part of my circuitous commuting route when I turn what could be a 1.5 mile ride to work into something like 10 miles.

Campground Road takes this last hard right to keep it from running directly into the Des Plaines River. The road bed is just a tiny bit higher than the banks of the river. When it rains hard to the north, Campground Road floods. When Campground Road floods, I get detoured off of my route and miss two opportunities to lean my bike over.

So...when I see this....

I miss this...

Addendum: Sometimes I sneak around the barrier and ride down to where the water crosses the road then turn around and ride back. That lets me hit the first turn once each way; some small consolation for the detour.

 

[the Ferret]

Man that's a lot of work for one curve, but... .......I understand.

 

[Gone in 60]

Dang, no kidding, but you gotta do what you gotta do. Looks like the curve outside my condo complex, and it snags a car or a bike at least once a month.

 

[Mtneers]

One of the roads I frequently ride.

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[the Ferret]

Ahh my favorite warning sign

 

[Cormanus]

Hardly correct to call it a ‘warning’ sign.

 

[Chuckk_imp]

warning.. warning.. do not attempt to slow your vehicle.. stay alert !! ..

 

[suhawk305]

Went on a 90 mile ride Monday and got this picture not far from my home.

 

[GoldOxide_imp]

95

 

[Gone in 60]

How's this for a warning.

I was riding home from a meeting in Palos Verdes yesterday, and decided to take the scenic route along the cliffs over the ocean. Palos Verdes Drive takes you through Portuguese Bend. This is an area where the land has been shifting constantly since before I lived near here as a kid. For about a half mile, the pavement is perpetually patched and repaved over the undulating landscape, making it a vehicular roller coaster.

 

[Chuckk_imp]

How's this for a warning.

I was riding home from a meeting in Palos Verdes yesterday, and decided to take the scenic route along the cliffs over the ocean. Palos Verdes Drive takes you through Portuguese Bend. This is an area where the land has been shifting constantly since before I lived near here as a kid. For about a half mile, the pavement is perpetually patched and repaved over the undulating landscape, making it a vehicular roller coaster.

good one !! ..