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Mntnmike
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No riding for awhile here in the Sierra Nevada.
dmonkey
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Is that an Aerostich seat saver cover, or what cover is that? 
Mntnmike
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Is that an Aerostich seat saver cover, or what cover is that?
I got this one from Amazon and it works really well: Motorcycle Cover Waterproof for... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D9QRN8RT
It is snug but covers well, going over the front disk brake assembly.
Kuro Neko
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I love exploring spaces like that...
Wow, that's some snow!
This is as much as we got this year:
Now all gone, so I can get out exploring again...
This lined tunnel is just down our street.
I had just passed a Jimny, who was unable to come up this trail any further.
The local trails hold all sorts of stuff to look at.
Coming down one trail on the weekend, I saw a curious shape plowed into a tanbo, and sure enough on the satellite view a local farmer has gone all out...
KiwiGravelRoadieRick
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Poor baby should be inside
No riding for awhile here in the Sierra Nevada.
Mntnmike
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Poor baby should be inside
Already cleaned off, dry and run for a bit!
(Don’t have an inside, just a solid cover.)
Kuro Neko
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First job this time was to replace my GP-22 rear, with a new K950.
I'd spotted a side track, and knew it was going to need some traction.
Yet more rindo tunnels.
One had an alcove, I assume for an old shrine or similar.
Nearby, an old pre-refrigeration cool-store cut into the rock.
These are quite common across our area.
Up one trail, a lost Toyota MkII.
Forest trail markers.
Sorry, no gas today.
Back home in the barn...
Oldfatguy
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Really enjoy your pictures. Any reason why there are so many tunnels where you ride?
OFG
Kuro Neko
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Ha, great question!
Central Boso Hanto is mountainous and a lot of the rock in the area is tuff - easily mined, carved, and to work with in general.
With many mountain villages, some needing fortification or protection from marauders, tunnels were an easy thing to dig in lieu of climbing up and over a ridge or similar.
One of the reasons I like exploring the roads that connect our old mountain villages, is because the tunnels often give an other worldly feeling when you pop out the other side into a new valley, or an old village area.
Many tunnels to divert river water for rice have also been dug, and some a quite spectacular too (even if not navigable on a Hunter Cub):
Near a local monkey park.
A few 100m down our street.
A bit further down our main road.
Someone has documented the location of some more river tunnels (we live off the yellow road, bottom left), but I've not looked for them yet...
Oldfatguy
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Kuro Neko
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The trail tunnels date back to at least the Edo-era (1600 through to the late 1800s), and represent the stability of settling down under one roof and a local daimyo's protection.
Some notable ones (like the shield shaped one above), have signs noting their dates.
The water tunnels in our area were dug with Showa-era government sponsored irrigation initiatives, and most date from 1930 through to 1950.
Solrac77
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The photo's are quite stunning, and I have enjoyed traveling through your eyes ! Thank you !
Kuro Neko
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Glad you enjoy... one day I should stop photographing tunnels, and move to bridges...
Rindo and river tunnel, side-by-side.
Road, above, and river path.
The road now joins the river, and you ride up stream accordingly.
Side track to the right, up the muddy slope.
No issues with either on the Hunter Cub.
One of the many villages up this rindo.
AZ-1, hopefully one day to see the touge again.
While hitting an enoshishi in a car can make a mess, not sure I want to hit one on the Cub.
Tire change week for Honda.
New wheels as well.
Borrowing our friend's Acty for those heavier jobs...
DeadguyAle
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@Kuro Neko really enjoing you trip posts!
Bit behind with my updates.
Headed out for fossil creek on New Year's eve
Beautiful day, cool but lots of blue sky and sunshine.
Little further up the road came across a couple Bald Eagles fishing.
Caught this one taking off.
Stopped on top of one of my favorite viewpoints, Pacific Ocean in view to the west beyond Clatsop spit and Youngs bay.
Lots of water still draining out of woods from the last couple of stormy wet weeks.
Got enough elevation to find some leftover snow.
End of the trail for this trip, series of downed trees blocking the path. Turned around and headed back home. Will try again in a few weeks after the state or one of the timber companies comes in and clears the path.
Bit behind with my updates.
Headed out for fossil creek on New Year's eve
Beautiful day, cool but lots of blue sky and sunshine.
Little further up the road came across a couple Bald Eagles fishing.
Caught this one taking off.
Stopped on top of one of my favorite viewpoints, Pacific Ocean in view to the west beyond Clatsop spit and Youngs bay.
Lots of water still draining out of woods from the last couple of stormy wet weeks.
Got enough elevation to find some leftover snow.
End of the trail for this trip, series of downed trees blocking the path. Turned around and headed back home. Will try again in a few weeks after the state or one of the timber companies comes in and clears the path.
Kuro Neko
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Some great views there.
That's an awesome pic of the eagle... we've tombi (black kites) in our area, and we enjoy watching and feeding.
They're a bit like forest seagulls, so not as exotic as a full-sized eagle.
I've contemplated both carrying a collapsible shark-saw, or going back with my chain saw, for similarly blocked trails...
Crazy Morgan
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I do like my CT due to its configurations.
With or without box on the rack, I can change mood from work to being chill.
With or without box on the rack, I can change mood from work to being chill.
Kuro Neko
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That's a nice color, and with the blacked out exhaust, it looks great!
Nice tunnel too...
Crazy Morgan
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It's a some kind of color-matched OCD I guess.
These six tunnels are located in the area of the Eighteen Arhats Mountain, parallel to Provincial Highway 27甲 in Kaohsiung, TW. Riding through it, I felt myself so small.
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Kuro Neko
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It's a some kind of color-matched OCD I guess.
These six tunnels are located in the area of the Eighteen Arhats Mountain, parallel to Provincial Highway 27甲 in Kaohsiung, TW. Riding through it, I felt myself so small.
Wow, that's some glorious looking scenery!
Love that vista, and the tunnels look totally awesome... thanks for posting.
Most of my time in Taiwan was just in Taipei, but I did get to Sanzhi once for some Polaroid shooting (no Hunter Cub unfortunately):
