Mar. 30th, 2024

Catch up

Mar. 30th, 2024 09:20 am
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I've spent a lot of the last 3 or so weeks working on the new (/old) motorcycle. I'm pretty happy with it. It's an old bike (1980) with carburetors, so it can be a little finicky but I really like riding it. I have one more thing to do (new exhaust system) and then I'm going to shoot a "final form" video. Last night I did some wiring modifications that added hazard signals (bikes didn't come with them back then) that will run in "park" mode (which you can remove the key from - for parking by the side of the road at night while you walk somewhere for gas I guess - so the bike doesn't get hit).
Earlier this week when it warmed up sufficiently I started working on the Chelsea Trail Challenge, a Chamber of Commerce thing intended to get people to realize that there are some very nice trails in the area. I started with some I've been on before but maybe not for a long time. First Park Lyndon, then the DNR Discovery center, then I went on to new ones - three forest preserves with short-ish trails all yesterday. Probably 5 to 6 miles total. AllTrails didn't have them as listed trails, so I mapped them in the app and suggested them to the editors. If accepted that could get more people on them.
A couple of them have a bunch of vernal pools in them. Tons of noisy wood frogs, in addition to chorus frogs making noise.

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