Motorcycle Picture Challenge....

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ReconLdr

Discussion Starter · Aug 30, 2011

We did this on another bike forum and it was fun. The intent is to get out and ride to complete the challenge before someone else does. All you need to do is take a picture of your bike with the challenge item in the background.

The rules here are simple. Be sure to note them before creating the next challenge for the rest of us.

1 - Has to be YOUR motorcycle.
2 - Picture has to be taken after challenge is made.
3 - Challenge is good for 2 weeks, if it is not met, the previous picture poster picks a new challenge.
4 - Nothing illegal to be challenged.
5 - Keep comments to a minimum, if you comment, post the current challenge after your comment. In Bold Italics
6 - No repeat challenges.
7 - All challenges must be of your bike and a landmark, something most people can ride to or find in their area.
8 - No other bikes can be used in a challenge, ie. your bike next to a Ducati. Some exceptions allowed, ie. you bike next to a bike cop.
9 - All challenges can be removed by moderators. At which point the postee of the challenge will be asked to change his current challenge. After being asked once and there is no change or challenger posts another crapy challenge then the prior challenge winner will pick a new one.

Examples - "Your motorcycle in a garage", "Your motorcycle crossing a river", "Your motorcycle with no engine", "Your motorcycle next to a firetruck" etc. Doesn't need to be a fancy picture, cell phones, whatever works.

Thanks guys. Remember, this thread is supposed to get guys to WANT to go ride right away and beat your friend to the picture challenge, be creative, but have limits. Thanks.

First Challenge:

Your bike in front of a sporting goods store.

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Christine

· #2,441 · Mar 2, 2015

Metaldoc said:
Here ya go... If this is acceptable, next challenge is your bike in front of a Caterpillar piece of equipment... has to be Caterpillar brand.

Cool! It's really tall.

Christine

· #2,442 · Mar 2, 2015

Dodsfall said:
You have to scroll down a bit, but it's the Manage Attachments button found under the Additional Options.

You're right. I didn't look below the "submit" button.

Metaldoc

· #2,443 · Mar 2, 2015

Christine said:
Cool! It's really tall.

The tower is 50 feet tall... built it myself to match Aermotor specs, so that part is only about ten years old... a little less than a few centuries.

Christine

· #2,444 · Mar 2, 2015

Metaldoc said:
The tower is 50 feet tall... built it myself to match Aermotor specs, so that part is only about ten years old... a little less than a few centuries.

It's different from modern windmills that energy companies build, but it looks very much like the mills that the Dutch have been using for ages to pump water out of our polders. A lot of these mills for pumping the water out of the small canals into bigger canals, and one big mill to pump the water out of the polder.

Eye_m_no_angel

· #2,445 · Mar 2, 2015

I was thinking of the windmills used to grind grain. I never considered the electricity wind turbines or the windmills used to pump water for cattle and such. Yeah, we have thousands of those kinds.

Christine

· #2,446 · Mar 2, 2015

Eye_m_no_angel said:
I was thinking of the windmills used to grind grain. I never considered the electricity wind turbines or the windmills used to pump water for cattle and such. Yeah, we have thousands of those kinds.

Windmills in the Netherlands, the old ones, serve two purposes. Some grind grain, others pump water. The water pumping is not for cattle, they don't pump the water up. Water is only a foot deep, some places only inches, so no need for pumping. The mills pump the water out of the areas that are below sea level. Or they used to, now there are modern engines doing the same. If they switch off the pumps, a lot of our country would gradually flood because of the water that slowly comes through the dikes.

Then we have tons of modern windmills, that all generate electricity.

Critter

· #2,447 · Mar 2, 2015

Don't know if there are other dummies like me out there. I had to look it up so I figured I would share:

Polder

A polder is a low-lying tract of land enclosed by embankments (barriers) known as dikes that forms an artificial hydrological entity, meaning it has no connection with outside water other than through manually operated devices. There are three types of polder:
Land reclaimed from a body of water, such as a lake or the sea bed
Flood plains separated from the sea or river by a dike
Marshes separated from the surrounding water by a dike and subsequently drained

The entire link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polder

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Christine

· #2,448 · Mar 2, 2015

Sorry about that. "Polder" is a word we use a lot. I didn't realize it needs explanation.

On Google Maps, when you type "Haarlemmermeer Netherlands" you'll see an area reddened that is the "Haarlemmer meer polder". It used to be just Haarlemmermeer, where "meer" means "lake". with a number of steam engines, they pumped the water out, now it's land. The red line around the area is a canal, into which the water from inside the lake was pumped, and into which the water from the small canals in the polder is pumped now. The water level in the canal is higher than the land.
The north-east edge of this polder is about three miles from my home.

Critter

· #2,449 · Mar 2, 2015

Any day I learn something is a good day so no apology needed Christine. It may have even been something I might have known at one time and forgotten.

MONI

· #2,450 · Mar 3, 2015

If I would have known you were going to give me the definition, Critter I would have kept on reading. I had to look it up too. Thanks Christine for giving us something to look up.

Metaldoc

· #2,451 · Mar 3, 2015

Metaldoc said:
Here ya go... If this is acceptable, next challenge is your bike in front of a Caterpillar piece of equipment... has to be Caterpillar brand.

So, no one is able to find some Caterpillar heavy iron? :icon_cool:

Eye_m_no_angel

· #2,452 · Mar 3, 2015

Metaldoc said:
So, no one is able to find some Caterpillar heavy iron? :icon_cool:

Give them more then one day, dude.

Metaldoc

· #2,453 · Mar 3, 2015

I was just used to the fast pace of earlier responses...

I do realize this messed up extended winter has put constraints on many of us.

I'll try to be patient. :smiley_drinkcoffee:

Muggs

· #2,454 · Mar 3, 2015

Well I went to every construction site I could find but no Cats all Japanese stuff so I dropped back to the Coffee shop with a little extra

In the background above the white pickup you see the word JOINT, that's a pot shop, If I walk out to the street I can see 4 more, its crazy here.

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Strom

· #2,455 · Mar 5, 2015

Metaldoc said:
So, no one is able to find some Caterpillar heavy iron? :icon_cool:

I don't have any tires or wheels on my bike right now, otherwise I would knock this one out. Changed the tires and took them down to the bike shop but their spin balance machine was down. If this challenge is still here when I get them back, consider this one done:icon_cool:

BTW nice pic of the coffee shop Muggs!

Saint Mucus

· #2,456 · Mar 5, 2015

Muggs said:
In the background above the white pickup you see the word JOINT, that's a pot shop, If I walk out to the street I can see 4 more, its crazy here.

Cant help but notice there are no empty parking spots.

mightytunacan

· #2,457 · Mar 6, 2015

Man! This sucks! I'm still snowed in! I know TONS of spots out here that I could get that picture. Can we revist this one in May? lol

DYNALOW72

· #2,458 · Mar 8, 2015

I actually use a few pieces of CAT equipment at work but two are down for service (d-5 and d-8) and our CAT lift won't make it through the deep snow to get into the storage building my bike is in.

mightytunacan

· #2,459 · Mar 8, 2015

Gixxer that's a pretty neat idea. At the reg't I'm working at we have a
D-7 dozer. I wonder how much $#!T I would get in if I tried to steal it and drive it up to my garage. lol

PORKY!

· #2,460 · Mar 8, 2015

With 50-60 degree weather in MN this week, I think it's time to get back into the game! It's been a long winter!

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