Not really my last ride, just the last ride before I went on vacation. Vacation is the reason I haven’t made any posts recently. Will talk about that in the next post. This ride was fun and comfortable with temperature perfect and a bright sun shiny day with short periods of cloud cover.
Ride happened on May 21, 2021 and the destination was Enterprise, Alabama. Actually there was no real purpose for this ride, just a place to go. In other words an excuse to get out and ride. It was a ninety six mile round trip, just enough to keep me fresh and happy honing my riding skills.
Did shoot some video of which I will share a few of them below since the scenery was pretty good and some place that I had never ridden on a motorcycle. Also tracked the ride on “My Ride” phone app. Traveled through the town of Samson, Alabama and then on to Enterprise, not much in between but open two lane roads with a few curves to make it interesting.
I do have a connection to Samson, Alabama since that is the place my Mother lived once and have a brother that still lives there. It is also home to Samson V-Twin motorcycle shop which I highly recommend should you ever be in the area and need some repairs done or even something customized. They are so busy right now however that they have had to stop taking new jobs until the current load is diminished some.
Have been to Enterprise, Alabama a few times, they have a great movie Theater and even a bowling alley. Bowling alley’s are rare in these small towns around here, seems most have closed up permanently for whatever reason and most of these small towns never had one. No, the Covid thing had nothing to do with this, they were closed before that. Not sure I can bowl anyway with this leg in it’s current condition.
Enterprise is also home to Rucker’s Motorcycle and Auto Sales where I purchased the Yamaha that is no longer with us. Read some of my previous posts to know why. Went by to visit while there but he is closed now, shows his inventory by appointment only. Did chat with him on the phone, but he is so busy selling motorcycles all over that he has to do appointments at the store. Seems it’s now a sellers market if you have any interest in selling your motorcycle. Might not be the best time to buy since it appears the prices have gone up significantly in the last few months. Sounds like the real estate market is following that same path also, along with many other things. 😦
Following video is my ride into and most of the way through Samson, Alabama. As you can see not a large town, but only rode through the middle of downtown, there are lot’s of side streets and I understand the population is only approximately two thousand people. What most city slickers don’t understand about small towns is that the major population around them does not live in the city limits and therefore do not get counted as part of the population. Most of these small towns there are more people living outside the city limits than in the city itself.
For better viewing you should watch these video’s on YouTube, just click to start the video here and then click the button to watch on YouTube, much much better in my opinion. 🙂
The following video is after leaving Samson on the way to Enterprise riding the county two lane roads. 🙂
Didn’t get any video riding into Enterprise but the next video is leaving for the return trip home. All these video’s are approximately five minutes each so hope you enjoy.
And finally the last video is some of what I thought was nice scenery on the return trip home since I usually find a different route than the one I took getting there. Enjoy!
Total video shot that day was around 1 1/2 hours but since I don’t have editing software or knowledge to do so, I just split my video’s up in 5 minute intervals and then choose what I think are the most interesting or at least the best ones that capture the ride that I’ve taken.
Below is a screen shot of the “My Ride” app showing the route taken and some other sorta of interesting data.
Hope you found this interesting. Thanks for reading and hopefully following. Not an “Old Biker” by definition, just an old man that loves to ride motorcycles. Not really a Biker “motorcyclists” fits better.
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