Elvis statue on Beale St.



Next up.  Your bike at a famous/infamous crime location.

So I can just take a picture of my bike over looking Las Vegas?

New target?

Pick a site that your town is famous for instead.

I try to not go to the welfare office...

catching up..

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I THINK crimes were committed here. Or else it would be called the "Goodlands"?


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Oh shoot. Now I see it is NEW pictures. Solly. When it stops raining, I'll play.

Tag.  Got my bike running again so I'll play soon.

Txl

I rode again today...should be able to get one of these on the way home through Porkland:
1. STRIP CLUBS
2. WEIRD PEOPLE/HOMELESS PEOPLE
3. RAIN
4. POWELL'S BOOK STORE/THE ROSE GARDEN

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@Enzo300

Pick a new target foo!

Congrats on your new football team! I have family in LV.

What is the new target?

Is that my job now? Oh sheesh..  Dicey neighborhood?

@Enzo300 pick a new target the rule is 3 days usually

OK, sorry. Dicey neighborhood isn't much of a target. How about a shot with the PoPo? Cop shop or patrol. :)

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Let's keep it going.

Your bike and a large body of water.

Bonus points if Amy Schumer is on the back? in both seats? Nice pic, officer. Your sweet bike matchy matchy with that squad car.

Me and my brother's bike and the Missouri River.



Next up, your bike and a carnival ride/theme park.

Nothing in my AOR that fits the criteria
From today's ride. My bike with Tucson in the background.

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New-to-me 2014 CB500F for a first bike.  These are both kinda half-assed, but they're the best I can do in my area.  And I'm in the "any excuse to ride" phase, so I decided to get both.  



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New target is a water treatment plant.

Had to go try out the new windshield. Not very effective until 45+mph, but at 70+ it makes a big difference in the amount of pressure hitting my chest. Prolly keep it, although I like the looks better without it.

Ann Arbor waste water treatment:
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New target is a historical marker.

From last nights ride. It was dark so not the greatest pictures.

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Epes Randolph
August 16, 1856 – August 22, 1921

Southern Pacific Railroad Map
Epes commanded the "Randolph Lines" that connected Phoenix and southern Arizona's outlying communities with Tucson. He also headed the Southern Pacific railroad's push through the rough barranca country south of Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico toward Guadalajara. Randolph envisioned a great agricultural and mineral bonanza along Mexico's western coast, but Revolution (1910-1917) destroyed his dream. At his death, all the wheels on the two railroads he controlled, the Arizona Eastern and Ferrocarril Sud-Pacifico de Mexico, stopped for one minute in tribute. Randolph's caring and generous spirit spurred his employees to honor the faith and love he built in the hearts of his fellow men for more than a quarter-century after he died, August 22, 1921.

Closing the Colorado River Breach
Thundering Colorado River floodwaters swamped California's Imperial Valley in 1905, and southern Pacific head E. H. Harriman summoned Epes Randolph. Deemed a "desperate situation and one without engineering parallel," the flood endangered 2,500 settlers and one-hundred thousand cultivated acres. When none of the almost fifty celebrated engineers he consulted could agree upon a solution, Randolph ordered dumping thousands of tons of rock into the river's half-mile breach. From the sick-bed of his private car, the Pocahontas, he directed work crews of four hundred Pima, Yuma, Maricopa, Cocopa, Diegueno, and Tohono O'odham men, who finally closed the gash in the Colorado's bank on February 10, 1907.

Santa Rita Hotel
"Forty-five years I have labored. The laboring man, whoever he may be and however he may labor, with head or hands, has my sincerest sympathies and utmost goodwill." – Epes Randolph, August 1921.

Epes Randolph financed Tucson's premier hostelry, the Santa Rita Hotel (above) with Levi H. Manning in 1903. He also invested in banks, railroads, and mines across Arizona and Mexico, including the rich King of Arizona (KofA) gold mine near Yuma. A member of the state Board of Regents from 1919 to 1921, Randolph rose to honorary 33rd degree Mason and presided over Tucson's Old Pueblo Club.

Epes Randolph – Bridge Builder
A whirlwind of power and energy, Epes Randolph completed construction of C & O Bridge (above) between Cincinnati, Ohio and Covington , Kentucky in 1888. It proved a crowning glory of his career in the East. Born in Lunenburg County, Virginia in 1856, the dynamic railroad leader and civil engineer built several other bridges in the region and earned professional acclaim.

Epes and his wife, Eleanor, moved to Tucson in 1895, when lung damage forced him to adopt a dry climate. Local superintendent of the Southern Pacific Railroad, Randolph gathered around him a host of bright, influential friends and soon dominated industry,, mining, and politics in Arizona. The couple grew to love Tucson and called it home for the rest of their lives.

Next target your bike at a dam

Best view I could get of Buford Dam.

Let's try your bike and an old town main street.

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Forgive the pic from the saddle, our towns mainstreet is undergoing some construction and I had to go around a road closed sign so I didn't want to stay very long lol.

Next your bike and a firehouse, bonus points for a fire truck in the frame.

DCFD Engine 20
Original building built around 1907ish.





Engine 19 in southeast DC.  Those of you who know DC know that this also fits the criterion for the earlier "dicey neighborhood".  Built in either 1910 or 1911, so of course we're going to go with 1911 the year of our Lord.



In honor of this "May the Fourth" and tomorrow's "Revenge of the Fifth", the next target is a movie theater.

That is the coolest fire station I've seen. Glad it was raining here.

Glad to see you're back up.

Thanks. Was a long healing process still some soreness in my right wrist. Lesson learned

Nothing wrong with that for a first bike. Looks like a fun little scooter.

Thanks, I thought so.  For all the nonsense, DC still at least has some cool history.



Man, it's worse than any BRD.  In one month I've put almost 900 miles on it.  
It'd be nice to have a little more on tap at highway speeds, but it's been the perfect bike to learn on.

My first bike was one of those.  It was fun in the twisties and in the city.  Tried to get it up to 100 mph once, but could not go faster than 98.  Course, I am rather large, so the bike was doing more work than it was designed for.

Been 4 days someone get a movie theatre QUICK otherwise a New target needs to be picked..

Alright, fine
Apparently mundane shit doesn't inspire people to get out and ride.  At least I know DC better.  




Warner Brothers theater built in 1936- one screen, 1300 seats.  

New target...I'm open to suggestions

Pick a target....

Yes! I work tonight, so wouldn't mind getting in a ride before it.

@Prime pick something

Or someone else grab a theater and pick a target. I will do it in the next hour if nothing shows up.

Alright, let's see a barn.

Not many barns here in Vegas. I'll have to wait for the next target.

Were the last couple of these threads in GD? Seems like we aren't getting shit for traffic in here. Maybe worth a move??

I think your right

too far down the line

Pretty sure they were in Cars & Bikes. It has been monsoon season here. My bike emerged from the basement recently to immediately get stuck in the muddy yard and I had to get help dragging it towards the driveway. Seems like it's been raining most days since. It's sunny today though so maybe I'll go looking for a barn this afternoon if no one else gets one.

I'd be doing more but ain't no damn barn in Tucson.

Ain't no horses in Tucson? Really?

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Next target is in every state. Your bike with roadkill..

I was wondering if we had one of these going this year

Looks like I got beat, but here it is anyways.

No barns I know of. Not within riding distance for a grom lol