CB1100 Monthly Photo Challenge

[Gone in 60]

Since my inner child is my only riding buddy, here's the best I could do.

 

[emptysea]

lol! Nice

 

[Finkaire925_imp]

The Challenge: A user (the first one will be yours truly) will pick a location, landmark, geographical feature, etc. to serve as the backdrop for your photo. Users will then post photos meeting the requirement in this thread for our ogling pleasure. The first user to submit a qualifying photo chooses the backdrop for the following month's challenge.

The goal: To encourage users to get out and ride and to document those rides with photos and, most of all, to have a little fun with the whole process.

The Rules:
1. The CB1100 must be the featured bike in the photo. Caption the photo with the date and the location.
2. Feel free to alter your photo to make it look better, but don't cut and paste into another photo just to qualify.
3. The photos should be new photos, not something you had on file and especially not something you posted elsewhere in this forum.
4. You may post multiple qualifying pictures in a month, but the background has to be different (ex. you can post two pictures of your bike in front of a train station, but they have to show two different stations)
5. Not really a rule, but don't stop trying to get a picture for a particular month just because someone beat you to the first post for that month. We want to see lots of pictures.
6. The same user cannot pick the photo subject on consecutive months. If the first photo comes from the same user that posted the first photo in the prior month, the second user posting a photo will get to pick the next background subject.

Truly, 6 rules are probably 5 too many. Just go with the spirit of this challenge and get out and ride your motorcycle!
January Challenge (from EmptySea):

Let's see your CB1100 in front of a statue. Ready? Go!

Canyon School Moraga

 

[emptysea]

I was only on my CB1100 once in September. However, I did get to ride with a few riding buddies this month.

Somewhere north of Inverness

Huge traffic jam/road closure due to multi-vehicle, head-on crash. Near Pitlochry

Looks like Ferret gets the choice for October. Going to try really hard to contribute this month.

 

[the Ferret]

welcome home Sea .. I'll give it some thought and post up later tonight. Be nice if more people participated.

 

[the Ferret]

OK gave it some thought and since it's October that means Halloween so a pic of your bike with something Halloween related..skeletons, ghosts, pumpkins, old grave yards someone yard display etc. Use your imaginatioin.

some examples from today's ride

and one I took for fun in my yard before taking off

"They can have my CB when they pry my cold dead fingers off the handlebars"

HAVE FUN AND POST EM UP!

 

[emptysea]

i think you meant "ghosts" not "hosts", but then again.....

 

[the Ferret]

lol yep..fixed now thanks

 

[Gone in 60]

I love Halloween in my town. The city council gives out awards for different categories and there’s always a lot of competition. The major players take quite a long time to set up and weren’t ready for photos yet, but some houses in the nearby neighborhoods were quite festive this early in the month.

 

[the Ferret]

WOW..great pics Gone! Those are some nice displays!

 

[pdedse]

Nice 'ween shots! I went into Home Depot yesterday and a family with 3 kids had their car stuffed with inflatables, skeletons and other 31st items. Kids' faces showed they were pretty jacked about it all.

 

[Gone in 60]

I rode past the three houses that are always the leading competitors for awards, but they are very intricate and aren't ready yet.
One house recreates the entire Pirates of the Caribbean in their yard, with skeletons for all of the characters, and a pirate ship firing at a fortress. Everything moves, and it's caught the attention of retired Disney folks who have donated actual parts of the Disneyland ride to the display.

Another guy goes nuts with a Disney Haunted Mansion theme, complete with horse-drawn hearse, the entire soundtrack and lots of animation. The third house is a vine-covered Victorian and looks creepy enough already, but the theme changes each year. Last year he had a pipe organ in his front yard and staged a full skeleton wedding. So far, he's got a lot of weirdly shaped blue things in his front yard... no idea what the theme will be so far...

 

[Nachodaddy]

Those are great, Gone. Thanks. Fun stuff.
:worship:

 

[peterbaron]

I saw a lot of skeletons during today 200 mile ride, none of them was moving

 

[Cormanus]

You'd be concerned if they were, wouldn't you? :-/

 

[spechg]

I took the bike to Kilbarrack cemetery in Dublin today to get a spooky photo for the challenge:



This cemetery was the location for a ghost story published in a Dublin magazine in 1892. If anyone feels like reading it, here's the link:

A Kilbarrack Ghost Story

Personally, I think the gentleman had obviously had a few too many pints on his way home.

 

[Gone in 60]

Nice! I was just hoping we'd see more submissions as Halloween gets closer. Very artistic take on the subject!
I'm hoping to check out the progress in my neighborhood.

 

[the Ferret]

Very spooky cool pic spechg!

 

[Frulk_imp]

Spechg….your picture brings back good memories. On our last trip to Ireland we spent 2-3 nights at an AirB&B about 1.5 miles west of the cemetery on Dublin Road. While the wife and kids went to see Dublin on one of those days I decided to walk to Howth Harbor on foot along the strand by the water. Walked right past the front of the cemetery in your picture. Beautiful, partly cloudy walk to the pier. Ate at one restaurant and had a pint and watched the trawlers unload their catch and employees from the restaurants walking over and selecting the seafood they wanted for their kitchens. Decided I would try the other restaurant and walked 50 feet and ordered only seafood appetizers and another pint. Nobody rushed me to move along. Spent about an hour there and then decided to move to a third restaurant out on the pier and had one more seafood appetizer, desert, coffee and possibly another pint. Was a great way to spend a few hours.

On the way back I called an Uber. Gentleman pulled up in a spotless black 7 series BMW. Said he was normally employed to bring the bankers/executives that lived in Howth into Dublin for work and decided to respond to my call on a lark. Made small talk and I mentioned I just ate some of the best seafood of my live on that pier. He responded with something like …if you can’t find good seafood in Howth, you can’t find it anywhere in Ireland.

 

[Cormanus]

From reading the story Spechg posted, it’s as well you didn’t walk home, Frulk.