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Good day, Inmates, and welcome to Photos of the Week no. 43. We start this week with a watery shot taken a week or two ago by @Old Queenslander on a ride to, or maybe from, the 2022 SR500 annual rally at Bethanga near the Hume Weir in Victoria, Australia. Our correspondent was riding a 1978 Yamaha SR500 on the Bylong Valley Way, and we chose this photo for its unusual angle, which makes it look as if the road is simply disappearing into the waters of Australia.
Old Queenslander submitted two photos, and the shot below was taken on the Murray Valley Highway and features the Wedgetail Eagle sculpture.
Mountain views
The 2021 Honda CRF300L Rally in the photo below was enjoying the road from Leymibamba to Celendin in northern Peru when is was photographed, says @amol, who shot the picture just a week or so ago. Amol says the road is “iconic among riders going south” in that area. “High up, along the side of mountains with steep drops on one side almost the entire way. It is narrow in places, but perfectly safe as long as you’re careful.” Here, we’re at 11,000 feet altitude, and the views, as amol tells us “are magnificent.”
Lessons hot and cold
@KennyBooBear shot the two photos below on the way home from the Flying Monkey 250 Rally a few months ago. The bike is a 2022 Aprilia Tuareg.
I decided to take the coast instead of the stifling hot central valley of California. Stumbled upon a few sights along the way and quickly learned that riding Big Sur in a mesh summer jacket when it’s 53°F out is almost worse than the valley at 112°F. Lesson learned.
Big storm
A viewing spot of Lake Powell in Arizona captured @Ronvdp’s attention a couple of weeks ago as he was riding the 2018 BMW R1200 GSA in the photo below. “Pic taken a couple hours before worst thunder storm I’ve ever seen!”
And below, a Boulder, Utah, lakeside camp in a “pretty frosty evening.” Ronvdp says it was “beautiful, nonetheless.” The two photos were taken on a 2500 mile trip to Colorado.
Local sights
@ScotsFire says he “didn’t travel as much this summer as is normal,” but enjoyed his backyard “with the new-to-me 500.” That’s the 2016 KTM EXC-F Six Days in the third and fourth photos below. “Riding around southeast of Wallace, just off the IDBDR.” That would be in Idaho.
Radio active
@Veeblefetzer’s plans to ride from California to Manitoba, Maine, and back “got kiboshed” in 2020 by the pandemic, so he “heated up the HAM radio hobby” and installed a radio on his Honda Africa Twin. The photo immediately below as taken at Dalty City in California, “where I made my first contact on the High Frequency bands . . . all of 10 miles up the coast in San Francisco.” He says the top case contains a 100 watt all-band radio, a LiFePo4 battery, and an antenna tuner. “The antennae are mounted to the pannier racks, HF on the left, VHFUHF on the right.”
The shot below is “of me operating at a picnic table on Mount Diablo, talking on UHF just before switching to HF to make contact with a scheduled radio net. An antenna in Corinne, Utah, was able to pick me up transmitting from Geyserville, California.”
The four bikes photographed by Veeblefetzer on the Pacific Coast Highway in Mendocino County last June “are a KTM 950 Adventure, an Aprilia Caponord, a BMW R1200R and my Honda Africa Twin. We were supposed to spend a week around Mt Shasta but it was 110 degrees out there, so we relocated to Mendocino/Humboldt coast.”
The sweeping vista is of the Ruth Lake area taken after I split from the KTM, BMW and Aprilia. From where I took it on the Ruth-Zenia Road you can see a wee slice of the lake right in the middle of the burn scar from the 2020 August Complex Fire.
Viewpoints galore
@Nordicbiker says Sweden “might not be as spectacular mountainous as our neighbor’s country in the west (Norway) but still there are many nice viewpoints.” That’s a 2015 WR250R enjoying the Swedish viewscape.
Räkaklitt with its 488m above sea level in the Hälsingland province is a good example. Once you made it to the top—which is not too much of a challenge even for an average rider like me on a light bike—the view stretches far over woods and lakes with hardly any house or village visible! The triangle on the lift must be the foundation of some sort of tower or antenna.
Speaking of cold
Yikes! That’s one frosty road that @MrBob is riding on his 1995 Kawasaki Concours. “When is the best time to travel? Whenever you can. A late season visit to Crater Lake proved to be challenging. Signs pointed to the lake, but I never saw it as the weather closed in.” Crater Lake is in Oregon.
Riding the Cub
@Tjilpi says he is “done with ‘big bikes’ for a while,” and is enjoying “dawdling around northern Thailand” on his Super Cub, “all 110 pulsating ccs of it.”
In early November Thailand celebrates Loy Krathong (Google search) when lanterns are released into the night sky and floats released into the nearest water source. It is a spectacular occasion.
These pics were taken at a lake in Doi Saket near Chiang Mai.
And with that, we’ll call it a day, Inmates. Thanks for stopping in and be sure to come back next week! And please, remember to submit photos. You responded well to our call for more pics last week, so keep ’em coming!
Cheers, and have a great week!
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