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FBS posted:I had definitely heard of the rabbit fence before but I wasn't sure it was different from the netting fence. Like, long government funded fences for pest control? Six that I know of: four for rabbits (No.1 and No.2 fence in WA, Netting Fence in victoria, Rabbit Board Fence in Queensland), one for dingoes in queensland, and one for cane toads in the northern territory.
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Elector_Nerdlingen posted:Pretty sure that was based on the cane beetle > cane toad thing, which happened about 60 years later in a completely different part of the country and still regularly produces the occasional nutcase who wants to introduce another animal to fix it, or feed small toads to lizards so they build an immunity to the poison and will then be able to eat bigger toads without dying, or whatever other obviously insane scheme. It's worked in exactly one instance I know of, everywhere invasive Ragweed has been introduced, Cinnabar Moths have been introduced, they don't bother nobody, and just like to eat Ragweed.
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Elector_Nerdlingen posted:Like, long government funded fences for pest control? Six that I know of: four for rabbits (No.1 and No.2 fence in WA, Netting Fence in victoria, Rabbit Board Fence in Queensland), one for dingoes in queensland, and one for cane toads in the northern territory. Picturing a huge fenced off area in Queensland with signs every so often saying NO BABIES PAST THIS POINT
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Elector_Nerdlingen posted:Like, long government funded fences for pest control? Six that I know of: four for rabbits (No.1 and No.2 fence in WA, Netting Fence in victoria, Rabbit Board Fence in Queensland), one for dingoes in queensland, and one for cane toads in the northern territory. WA built three fences. And New Zealand dug a huge trench to keep the Australians out. So that brings the total to 8
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FBS posted:This is the World's Littlest Skyscraper, in Wichita Falls, Texas. It is, if anything, even smaller than it looks in the picture. Lol this is awesome
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Sep 13, 2020 01:38
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My phone photography skills are poo poo, but here we go: This is Union Terminal Center, built in 1933 to consolidate five separate railroad stations owned by the various lines that ran through town (The B&O, Clevelanad, C&O, Chicago & St. Louis, and several others). It's still a functioning train station today, albeit of vastly reduced capacity; you can catch Amtrak trains here. There's a giant CSX freight rail yard not far from here, too. The building currently houses the Cincinnati Museum Center, including an IMAX theater and children's museum. The half dome is the largest in the western hemisphere (woo hoo?), and the complex is a national historic landmark. When you walk inside, you feel like you've walked onto the set of the Rocketeer - everything is brushed stainless steel and tile and neon, straight out of the art deco period. The "legend" angle here is a bit of a stretch, but if you read DC comics as a kid or remember the Justice League cartoons, Union Terminal might look familiar - it was supposedly the design inspiration for the Hall of Justice.  Some Groms hanging out in the parking lot:  Here's a softball for the next poster: post your bike somewhere with a great view - nature, your city skyline, the shore, you name it. We're all tired of being stuck inside!
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Jazzzzz posted:The "legend" angle here is a bit of a stretch, but if you read DC comics as a kid or remember the Justice League cartoons, Union Terminal might look familiar - it was supposedly the design inspiration for the Hall of Justice. That's awesome. I recognized it right away.
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Jazzzzz posted:Here's a softball for the next poster: post your bike somewhere with a great view - nature, your city skyline, the shore, you name it. We're all tired of being stuck inside!  Here's the best view of 'the country' I've found inside the M25. Just to the right out of frame is what is probably going to be yet another Amazon warehouse. Next Poster: Another softball. Lets see your bike on your favorite road.
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Horse Clocks posted:Next Poster: It was great weather today and I finally had some free time, so I rode one of my favorite routes along the Snake River and up the Spiral Highway. This picture is at the top of the Spiral Highway, with a few corners visible in the background.  Has 64 curves in about 7 miles, gaining 1982 feet in altitude. Not exactly the Tail of the Dragon, but definitely one of the best roads in the area. Was built in 1916-17, making it an impressive project for the time. The upper portion has a lot of tar snakes so you do have to be careful when picking your lines, but it's still a good time even when going slow. Post your bike next to an interesting public works project, like a bridge, tunnel, sewage treatment plant, or whatever goes for public works in your area.
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This is my bike next to a windy public road near Glencoe in Scotland! Post a picture of your bike next to something cool and old and possibly rusty or decaying.
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syzygy86 posted:Post your bike next to an interesting public works project, like a bridge, tunnel, sewage treatment plant, or whatever goes for public works in your area. Steakandchips posted:Post a picture of your bike next to something cool and old and possibly rusty or decaying. Two birds, one stone - a cool old, rusty and decaying bridge!  That is the John A. Roebling suspension bridge, as the handy sign in the photo below explains. It was a prototype for the Brooklyn Bridge in New York, and still carries car, bike, and foot traffic across the Ohio River today. Occasionally you can buy tickets for a guided tour that includes walking up the suspension cables to the top of one tower, across to the other, and back down. There are observation decks at the tops of the towers that you can get to from the pedestrian walkways, but they're closed most of the time because the bridge is old and falling apart, like you asked for. I rode across this metal-grate motherfucker for y'all, right past the signs warning motorcyclists to watch your rear end. Had it been raining, I would've gone around on one of the 6 other bridges in the vicinity, although only 4 carry vehicle traffic - see pics below.  "This thing is old (for the US)"  Facing west from the Roebling bridge, we have the Brent Spence bridge - farthest from the camera - that carries I-75 and I-71, and the CXO Railroad Bridge, nearer to the camera. For those of you not from the US or who have never been east of the Rockies, I-75 is the main north-south interstate highway artery for both cars and truck shipping from the South to the Midwest, and runs south from Michigan down through Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, and Florida, with lovely traffic and crap road conditions most of the way. That bridge, like the Roebling bridge I parked next to, is falling apart and needs to be replaced. The current plans call for building a new bridge next to it and then cutting traffic over to it once it's built, to the tune of a few hundred million bucks. No one can find the money though, and the feds won't pony up for the whole thing because they have $100 million F-35s to buy.  Facing east from the Roebling Bridge, we have from closest to farthest, the Taylor Southbank Bridge (that's Great American Ballpark where the Reds play just out of frame at the northern end of it), the Purple People bridge for pedestrian traffic (real name: Newport Southbank Bridge), and the Daniel Carter Beard bridge, known as the Big Mac bridge because of its yellow supporting arches. Note the B&B Riverboat, a paddle-wheeled tourist trap, heading under the Purple People bridge, and the lonely broken Bird scooter waiting to be carried off the next time the river floods. Next up! Show me your bike next to some grimy industrial stuff in your area. Run down manufacturing sites. Broken-windowed warehouses covered in graffiti. Serious rust belt poo poo straight out of Robocop! Jazzzzz fucked around with this message at 23:07 on Oct 17, 2020 |
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Jazzzzz posted:Next up! Show me your bike next to some grimy industrial stuff in your area. Run down manufacturing sites. Broken-windowed warehouses covered in graffiti. Serious rust belt poo poo straight out of Robocop! Rust belt poo poo, you say? What a merry coincidence, I spent this afternoon checking out downtown Rockford!     Since I just moved here I don't know anything about any of these buildings except the first one, which had a sign on the front that said Illinois National Guard. Wikipedia says the armory building has been empty since at least 1999. This is all in one small area, south of downtown near the river, so it's not like the entire city looks like this. But it's definitely a Rust Belt town. While I was taking these photos I rudely interrupted two turkeys on a date at the art museum:  Next up let's go the other way, show us your bike next to a brand-new building or other construction you've seen recently completed, preferably something architecturally interesting.
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FBS posted:Next up let's go the other way, show us your bike next to a brand-new building or other construction you've seen recently completed, preferably something architecturally interesting. Here is my attempt at ~*art*~  This picture was better in my mind. It's kind of hard to capture the "interesting"ness of the building and also a motorcycle. Here's a picture of the building. It doesn't have a clearly defined edge like typical buildings. It reminds me a little of 8 Spruce St.  It's all right. At least it's something. They're building two high-rises next to me at the moment and they are just nondescript glass-towers. They feel like they were picked out of a catalog. I like buildings, so how about : show us your bike in front of a building you find to be beautiful, for whatever reason! It doesn't have to be new or old or in any particular condition.
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Toe Rag posted:Here is my attempt at ~*art*~ I think it came out pretty well. Taking photos for this thread is interesting because you have to be framing the photo in your head while you park the bike, and hopefully when you get off and open your camera you didn't screw it up too bad. My approach to photography is to take a million shots and hope a few of them come out decent.
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Toe Rag posted:Here is my attempt at ~*art*~  So while I was there I noticed this cottonwood next to the driveway, which is apparently the second biggest in the county.  New challenge: picture of your bike either at an old piece of civil/municipal infrastructure like my waterworks, or a big fuckin tree. Has to be remarkably big, at least for your area. HenryJLittlefinger fucked around with this message at 23:58 on Nov 3, 2020 |
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:New challenge: picture of your bike ... at ... a big fuckin tree. Has to be remarkably big, at least for your area.  I wish I could say I stumbled across this while wandering rural IL, but what actually happened is I googled "big tree near Rockford" and this popped right up. The tiny gravel parking lot is about half a mile from the tree itself, but since they were pretty serious about 'no motor vehicles' and my bike would never have made it anyway I stomped down the hill in my Alpinestars to check it out. It is a pretty big fuckin tree. 2XL helmet for scale:   And, for any Riding Game sticklers, here's both my bike and the tree in the same shot:  Next: Post your bike at a noteworthy local natural phenomenon, with noteworthiness (or local-ness) determined at your discretion.
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FBS posted:Illinois Stuff I didn't realize you moved out there... I used to live in Aurora Illinois, and in Dubuque Iowa, Rockford is like a halfway point between the two. There are some drat good roads up that way if you don't mind a bunch of day rides.
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Skreemer posted:I didn't realize you moved out there... I used to live in Aurora Illinois, and in Dubuque Iowa, Rockford is like a halfway point between the two. There are some drat good roads up that way if you don't mind a bunch of day rides. Yes I've spent a fair amount of time riding in southwest Wisconsin and found some spectacular roads. The good stuff is ~90 minutes from my place but  hey in DFW it took 45 minutes just to get to the edge of the metroplex. We've been blessed with an unusually mild autumn so I've had a lot more riding time up here than I expected.
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Global warming means that’s sort of the new normal here. There are lots of years I ride deep into November or December. I’ve had my bike out the day after Christmas a few years back. The only months guaranteed not to be rideable are January and February anymore. Not like it’s gonna be perfect in March or December but we’re getting much more rideable weather for more of the year. I guess it’s the one little silver lining to the world eventually lighting on fire
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FBS posted:
I was sure someone would photo a rainbow before I got to the Mississippi river in Natchez, MS.  Next challenge: post your bike next to a statue that can in some way be related to your bike. Ex: this pig statue right next to me at the "Pig Out grill" in Natchez would be great if I owned a Harley.
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Jack B Nimble posted:I was sure someone would photo a rainbow before I got to the Mississippi river in Natchez, MS. That's a great shot of the river. A couple weeks ago I made it to Dubuque IA at the end of a day trip hoping to get a majestic shot but all I found before it got dark was a boat ramp tucked in a meander. My parents are from a river town (Quincy, IL) and my grandparents have a little house on the bluff. It's a boring place to live but I find the Mississippi itself pretty interesting.
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Jack B Nimble posted:I was sure someone would photo a rainbow before I got to the Mississippi river in Natchez, MS. oh hey I live at the northern terminus of the trace 
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Jack B Nimble posted:I was sure someone would photo a rainbow before I got to the Mississippi river in Natchez, MS. drat I’ve been missing the south lately and this does not help. Nice shot. Protip: the Happy Trails OSR racks are a good cheap set that will hold those soft bags off at the perfect angle.
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Haha, I have the happy trails rack, I probably just put the bags on wrong; I force em way back so the passenger pegs are still accessible, that might be it. I'll snap some pics of the bags and racks sometime. It's in my plans to ride up the trace and do some motocamping, I'll have to let you guys know when I'm going up to the northern end.
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Jack B Nimble posted:Haha, I have the happy trails rack, I probably just put the bags on wrong; I force em way back so the passenger pegs are still accessible, that might be it. I'll snap some pics of the bags and racks sometime. Oh yeah, the racks do sit way forward so you have to put them across the pillion seat. Holler if you cross the big river and want some camping/route recs in Arkansas. I don’t live there any more but spent about 30 years there doing a bunch of riding and camping in the Ozarks and Ouachitas.
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Jack B Nimble posted:Next challenge: post your bike next to a statue that can in some way be related to your bike.  My Ducati and Rocky Marciano, the only heavyweight champion to finish his career undefeated. Rocky, like my Ducati, is Italian, but neither were assembled in Italy. Rocky was born in Brockton Massachusetts, and now the entire city is obsessed with him. The high school mascot is the Brockton Boxer (the dog), which is pretty clever. Next: Your bike at a driving range. I was trying to think of something that you wouldn't normally go to on a motorcycle, but bonus points if you can strap some clubs to the back.
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Strife posted:I was trying to think of something that you wouldn't normally go to on a motorcycle, but bonus points if you can strap some clubs to the back. I think HD actually make golf bags, and golf bag racks, to fit on a Harley. They look very very stupid.
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Strife posted:Next: Your bike at a driving range. Sorry, this is boring for me. The only driving range I know of is a 40 minute highway trek, and the place is right next to the highway so its not even in an interesting area. I'm going to cash in my mulligan - FBS posted:Next: Post your bike at a noteworthy local natural phenomenon, with noteworthiness (or local-ness) determined at your discretion.  Being in Colorado, the Rocky Mountains are pretty much the defining natural phenomenon. The picture doesn't do them justice. Although that's a bit of a copout, so lets find something a bit more nuanced.   Red Rocks park and amphitheater. Similar to Garden of the Gods, its a park with some really large rock formations which happen to be uniquely red in color. Popular for hiking/climbing. There is also an outdoor stage (sadly not in range of a bike photo) where a lot of popular concerts are held. Kind of unique setup. So I'm pretty sure I technically violated the rules of the game, which means this post doesn't "count" and the driving range challenge still stands.
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Brigdh posted:(sadly not in range of a bike photo) weird cause it looks like you're riding a sumo
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captainOrbital posted:weird cause it looks like you're riding a sumo In his defense, those stairs are fuckin steep. And there are a lot of them.
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I've never bean (i have no idea where it is), but i did go to Garden of the Gods (and i rode a mountain bike there). That would be a great place to ride around. Maybe when the real world is back, and after i do socal supermoto, I'll fly to Denver and rent a bike for a week.
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captainOrbital posted:I've never bean (i have no idea where it is), but i did go to Garden of the Gods (and i rode a mountain bike there). That would be a great place to ride around. Maybe when the real world is back, and after i do socal supermoto, I'll fly to Denver and rent a bike for a week. https://goo.gl/maps/LZjFq41Zby9x9S8U9
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Graham Harley Jarvis could do it. That looks like a nice spot.
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Strife posted:Next: Your bike at a driving range. It was closed for the season, but that's okay, because I don't golf.  It's the first day of Winter, so next up post your bike near something winter-related.
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FBS posted:It was closed for the season, but that's okay, because I don't golf. This is winter related enough i hope.  i have not seen the sun in like 4 months so someone please post your bike in front of either a sunset or a sunrise, preferably on a beach. pimpbot fucked around with this message at 20:26 on Dec 25, 2020 |
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Holy poo poo that is nuts. Alaska I assume? How often are you riding the scooter up there in winter?
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