Bikes and Historic Sites

[rickpaulos]

Hampton Illinois multi-war memorial. Missing most of the brass plaques. (they were in the town hall next door).
inscriptions on the corners to several wars including the Blackhawk indian war. The monument faces the Mississippi river and is right next to the Mississippi River Trail (MRT). Great place to ride. Very scenic and flat (Pft). Oh I got I got a flat about 10 miles later. Blew a hole in the tire. Ring, ring, Mom?

The bike is a Schwinn Prelude in red, white and blue.

 

[us56456712]

 

[whitecoyote]

 

[Ulu]

“In a moldy old hall in Detroit that they call the Maritime sailor’s Cathedral….”

Edmund Fitzgerald went down the year after we moved away from Minnesota.

 

[Sting Ray Lover]

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Birthplace of Dale Earnhardt

15 minutes (in a car) from my doorstep.

 

[Captain Awesome]

15 minutes (in a car) from my doorstep.

Used to be 15 minutes from my old house by bike

 

[Karate Chicken Industries]

15 minutes (in a car) from my doorstep.

Used to be 15 minutes from my old house by bike

Not far from this area that has some good dirt: https://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/nfsnc/recarea/?recid=49870

Before the Wood Run trails were put in, I rode around there a bunch.

 

[Captain Awesome]

Not far from this area that has some good dirt: https://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/nfsnc/recarea/?recid=49870

Before the Wood Run trails were put in, I rode around there a bunch.

Love me some Uwharrie

 

[Son of Kradus]

Mork wasn't home when I rolled by his place today.

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OMG, please dont tell us thats mork n mindys house!~........WOW! if that is so then its very cool that you can ride past it, loved robin williams!

 

[Ulu]

We have a cool old place like that in downtown Fresno but it is not a very great place to ride to on a bicycle.


They have been fixing this place up for over 50 years now since I moved to California. There’s a higher rez image if you click on it, but just go to their website.

 

[Cruiserdude94]

 

[whitecoyote]

 

[Ulu]

Wow. That post office is younger than my mother. Either I have gotten old, or history has gotten younger.

 

[whitecoyote]

 

[user 35233]

There are no markers for the most important sights in New York as it's all been erased by development but this is Gravesend Bay, shores of the first major conflict of 1776 known as The Battle of Long Island. Liberty far left dwarfed by Jersey's ever growing skyline.

Good morning from up east!