The weather was looking to be promising on Saturday so one of the riders in my normal posse set up and posted a breakfast run on our statewide forum to the Chappell Hill Cafe in Chappell Hill, Texas. With the weather forecast and the bad weather we have had the past couple weeks we knew we would have a good turn out and might have to split in to two or more groups. All we needed was for Saturday to arrive and we would get into the wind.
Well as luck would have it, the weather was PERFECT and the forecast was even better than when Ed posted the ride info on Monday. Only thing that didn't happen was the large group, only 4 of us showed up and to make things easier on the new guy, half of the riders that showed up were named Tony.
Well 8:10 rolled around and there was only three of us at the designated KSU location.
Chuck, the new guy on the RC-51, me on the best looking bike of the bunch and Ed on the Fugly V-Strom.
At 8:15 Tony decided to join up with us on his Blackbird
I keep asking him how that can be a Blackbird, it's RED but he keeps saying something about it being special, the only year it was available in red.
Well the KSU time was 8:30 and a quick check of the local forum showed that no others has posted they would meet us here so we decided to hit the road a few minutes early.
Instead of using the GoPro for a video I decided to try the photo mode. I really did this because I'm having problems with my video editing software and didn't want another video I couldn't edit and post on Vimeo and then post it here. What I ended up with was almost 4000 photos from the ride. So sit back and enjoy, this might take awhile to view.
Ok, I won't try to post all 4000.
A few months ago a photo from this location showed the smoke and flames rising from the Tri-County Wild Fire but today it's nice and clear. You can still smell the burnt timber at times and sometimes it smells like it is still burning but no flames have erupted in a few months. We are still listed as being in a sever drought, down from the extreme drought we were in back in the fall. We still need a lot of rain to to move out of the drought but hopefully we are on our way to full recovery.
Moving along the eastern edge of the wild fire. There are a few burn areas to our right but most of them were to the left (west) of this Farm To Market road, FM 1774.
Some of the trees avoided the wild fire and ones or groups of trees right next to them show they were burnt. We saw several areas where there was a bunch of burnt trees and right in the middle of them was one or two that showed no evidence of having even gotten a little hot. Amazing sight to see.
Well as luck would have it, the weather was PERFECT and the forecast was even better than when Ed posted the ride info on Monday. Only thing that didn't happen was the large group, only 4 of us showed up and to make things easier on the new guy, half of the riders that showed up were named Tony.
Well 8:10 rolled around and there was only three of us at the designated KSU location.
Chuck, the new guy on the RC-51, me on the best looking bike of the bunch and Ed on the Fugly V-Strom.
At 8:15 Tony decided to join up with us on his Blackbird
I keep asking him how that can be a Blackbird, it's RED but he keeps saying something about it being special, the only year it was available in red.
Well the KSU time was 8:30 and a quick check of the local forum showed that no others has posted they would meet us here so we decided to hit the road a few minutes early.
Instead of using the GoPro for a video I decided to try the photo mode. I really did this because I'm having problems with my video editing software and didn't want another video I couldn't edit and post on Vimeo and then post it here. What I ended up with was almost 4000 photos from the ride. So sit back and enjoy, this might take awhile to view.
Ok, I won't try to post all 4000.A few months ago a photo from this location showed the smoke and flames rising from the Tri-County Wild Fire but today it's nice and clear. You can still smell the burnt timber at times and sometimes it smells like it is still burning but no flames have erupted in a few months. We are still listed as being in a sever drought, down from the extreme drought we were in back in the fall. We still need a lot of rain to to move out of the drought but hopefully we are on our way to full recovery.
Moving along the eastern edge of the wild fire. There are a few burn areas to our right but most of them were to the left (west) of this Farm To Market road, FM 1774.
Some of the trees avoided the wild fire and ones or groups of trees right next to them show they were burnt. We saw several areas where there was a bunch of burnt trees and right in the middle of them was one or two that showed no evidence of having even gotten a little hot. Amazing sight to see.
