Environments
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After a long process, the completion section of the Ashtabula Western Reserve Greenway Trail is now paved -- but not yet open. Maybe an official ribbon-cutting event or something is planned. -- Doesn't that smooth, fresh, almost-liquid pavement make me salivate! -
@s-leon Hold me back I want to ride on it
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@s-leon they are tearing up and repaving the streets and alleys in my neighborhood this summer. it's been needed for at least 50 years, from what my elderly neighbors are saying. our alley is done, and it's glorious. i can't wait until the entire thing is done. soooo smooooothhhh....
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@s-leon said in Environments:
Doesn't that smooth, fresh, almost-liquid pavement make me salivate!
Where's the fresh Hoosier track from the OneDanXR??? Thought you were a rebel!
GT-S > GT > Pint X > XR > +
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@onedangt -- The one rash bicyclist's tracks on the soft, warm asphalt can take the negative approval. Onewheel riders are, or can be, citizen angels!
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Burning a brush pile while riding a Onewheel V1.
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Without ceremony, the traffic cones have been removed and the Greenway connector described above is open! Today I bicycled it -- tomorrow I Onewheel it!
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XR's got what plants crave!
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@notsure -- The story behind my bicycling the Greenway is that after a fall from my Onewheel in March my sister won't ride with me if I am Onewheeling -- so, to keep up our weekly ride together I join her on a bicycle.
And here's a sweet story: A year ago or more when while riding together I pushed my V1 too hard, it cut out, and I got to test my freewheel brakes, falling after laying down black skid marks -- in the same moment in sympathy (and no other apparent cause) my sister took a fall off her bicycle. I am very glad neither of us were hurt. And while that experience did not keep her from riding with me as I Onewheeled, shattering my collarbone in a Onewheel fall in March --while not with her -- has.
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The freshly-laid asphalt is a pleasure for sure, but to go around the industrial facility made for three blind curves.
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@s-leon said in Environments:
three blind curves
Reminds me: the other day came around a blind left hand curve at my usual ~19 mph speed to see a young deer buck, maybe 5 or 6 points on each antler, just standing in my right hand lane. I instinctively hit the brakes and veered left to avoid him and, luckily, he turned around and darted off to the right into the forest! Whew!!!
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Critters, snakes, spiders (the usual trail stuff) but most importantly, falling branches! After it storms, I'm extra careful and when it's windy, I stay out of the woods completely. In the forestry service they're called "widow makers".
This is the newest one out of sooo many lol:
Haven't removed it yet, just cut and pushed it out of the way but you can see it was directly on the trail:
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Finally got some measurable rain here in Sacramento after 5 or 6 dry months. Came upon this small water hazard and thought, hmmm WWLD?
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Throwback to some of @lia's first vids on the old forum (IYKYK). I promise the OneDanGT was not harmed during the photoshoot.
GT-S > GT > Pint X > XR > +
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@onedangt said in Environments:
Throwback to some of @lia's first vids on the old forum (IYKYK)
I was young and naive ;)
That puddle has "go for it" written all over it. Although I'd be tempted to check it first... you know just in case.
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Walnuts are my new enemy this time of year. They hit the ground pretty hard and they're everywhere. Not uncommon for one to fall pretty close, have been lucky thus far.
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@blkdout said in Environments:
Walnuts are my new enemy
Looks like it would be like riding on big marbles!
GT-S > GT > Pint X > XR > +
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@onedangt Yeah, you definitely know when you hit one... or five! lol. I don't want to know what it's like when one hits me though. Sometimes they fall in clusters too. Yikes.
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@blkdout said in Environments:
Walnuts are my new enemy this time of year.
id turn them into brownies.
XR's got what plants crave!
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@notsure lol nice Portlandia reference.
I was thinking about tapping the trees this year for some walnut syrup but making brownies is a great idea too.
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@blkdout -- I had heard of black walnut syrup, although I have never tried any. It tastes a lot like maple syrup, they say. I do harvest black walnuts from my trees, crush the hulls down a gutter to under the wheel of a slightly jacked-up DR Powerwagon, clean the nuts in a cement mixer, store them in hardware cloth tubes, crack them with a Hunt's electric black walnut cracker, and snip the quarters out with Plato wire shears. Last year here was a great year for black walnuts -- this year not. Heavy falling nuts are another good reason to wear a helmet.
