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  • TWTN Fondo Series
    • prep for long rides
  • photo collections
    • Barrie street art
    • great graffiti
    • paddles
    • shoe gazer
    • six feet under
    • sky gazer
    • summer sunrise rides
    • the Moon
    • trains
    • two wheels to good people
  • who the hell do I think I am?
    • famous (and not-so-famous) quotes
  • Mikayla’s face here perfectly expresses how I feel when I get on a bike. #feelgoodย Leah, make sure she keeps riding (it’s the secret to happiness)

    Eric vW

    July 9, 2021
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  • a-lc01: ๐Ÿ’™

    Eric vW

    July 2, 2021
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  • wonders-of-the-cosmos: Details of the pillars of creation – a stellar nursery Credit: NASA/ESA, Hubble

    Eric vW

    July 2, 2021
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  • humansofnewyork: โ€œIt all began when my Grandpa Moe made a wrong turn. He was 93 years old, but he was still driving to and from his butcher shop. And one night he missed his turn in the dark. Thatโ€™s when I offered to start driving him home. But I think he misunderstood me. Because the…

    Eric vW

    June 25, 2021
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  • wonders-of-the-cosmos: Saturn and two of its moons, Tethys (above) and Dione, were photographed by Voyager 1 on November 3, 1980, from 13 million kilometers. The shadows of Saturn’s three bright rings and Tethys are cast onto the cloud tops. The limb of the planet can be seen easily through the 3,500-kilometer-wide Cassini Division, which separates…

    Eric vW

    June 25, 2021
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  • wonders-of-the-cosmos: Coronal mass ejection A coronal mass ejection (CME) is a significant release of plasma and magnetic field from the solar corona. They often follow solar flares and are normally present during a solar prominence eruption. The plasma is released into the solar wind, and can be observed in coronagraph imagery. Coronal mass ejections are…

    Eric vW

    June 25, 2021
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  • Kempenfelt Bay Sun Ups & Sun Downs

    Eric vW

    June 10, 2021
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  • Motherโ€™s Day Stroll, May 9 ~ Mom and I drove up from Barrie to Tiny Marsh, one of her favourite places around here. Mom and Dad spent lots of time on these trails, hiking, biking and skiing and also paddling in the Marsh. Since it was also his favourite place to be, Dadโ€™s ashes were…

    Eric vW

    June 8, 2021
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  • un-cerebro-hambriento: Fotos famosas, y las cรกmaras que las tomaron.

    Eric vW

    June 6, 2021
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  • beatchya: Stevie Nicks, 1977.

    Eric vW

    May 28, 2021
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  • Eric vW

    May 24, 2021
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  • discoursesofthewithered: โ€œAs I work, I have an image of a bicycle in my mind (โ€ฆ) and thatโ€™s the foundation of everythingโ€ – Yoshiaki Nagasawa. See the video hereย โ–ย dscrswthrd

    Eric vW

    May 24, 2021
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    May 24, 2021
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  • Meaford Mixed Roads ~ An adventure today on my Iron Horse on trails, boardwalk, dirt and pavement and everything in between. Barrie, Stayner, Collingwood, Thornbury, Meaford, Heathcote, Kolapore Uplands, Rob Roy/Pretty River, Duntroon Highlands, Glen Huron, Creemore, Angus, Barrie. Collingwood’s waterfront is spectacular; we are so fortunate to live amongst the Great Lakes. Gravel roads…

    Eric vW

    May 16, 2021
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  • May is looking pretty good so far. I hope you all have a spectacular Spring!

    Eric vW

    May 9, 2021
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  • eastsidepatina: bicycleart: Thanks Outside is Fred! You are Despicable! Bugs and Daffy.

    Eric vW

    May 4, 2021
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  • british-animals: A swan, as you have never seen photographed before by Gerald Robinson

    Eric vW

    May 2, 2021
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  • Pandemic Pondering ~ It’s interesting how this pandemic and related restrictions are wearing on me. It may, in part, be my age, too. I think I have less energy now. To work all day and still have something left over to focus on reading in the evening doesn’t happen very often, for me. My brain…

    Eric vW

    May 1, 2021
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  • juliusavendano: I prefer Pantani or Back down. Weighing 195 pounds helps too.

    Eric vW

    April 26, 2021
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  • Escaping virtual meetings, mobile apps, platforms, portals, websites and webinars for some Fresh Air and Sunshine.

    Eric vW

    April 23, 2021
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  • humanoidhistory: Behold our beautiful Moon as seen from lunar orbit during the Apollo 15 mission, August 2, 1971. Wow, fifty years ago.

    Eric vW

    April 20, 2021
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  • visual-poetry: ยปlanguage must speak for itselfยซ by joseph kosuth (+)

    Eric vW

    April 18, 2021
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  • Wow, an incredible photograph.

    Eric vW

    April 11, 2021
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  • wonders-of-the-cosmos: Venus, Mars and moon. Image credit:ย Peter Barvoets

    Eric vW

    April 3, 2021
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  • wonders-of-the-cosmos: Bioluminescent Plankton Scientists have only recently discovered that this type of plankton glows when they are moved because of stress – ironic when you consider how relaxing the sight of the shimmering waves are in the dark night. Bioluminescence is used as a defence mechanism to draw predators towards the creature trying to eat…

    Eric vW

    April 3, 2021
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  • hammers

    Eric vW

    April 3, 2021
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  • The Spring heat is elusive however the Sunny, longer days are an undeniable sign of Spring this weekend. Despite the biting North wind, we got out on a few walks and even a bike ride before the Sun set on Saturday. The clocks arbitrarily jumping forward this morning will mess with my Circadian rhythm for…

    Eric vW

    March 15, 2021
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  • Re-tired ~ New rubber on the old Marinoni. I figure as long as you can see those little rubber bits sticking up from the tread, it’s a new tire. When they’re gone, it’s just a tire. When you see threads, it’s an old tire. Then it’s time to re-tire.

    Eric vW

    March 6, 2021
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  • Some random February Fotos ~ Doing whatever it takes to get through these last few weeks of the deep Winter weather. I rode my bike today for the first time this month, so Spring must be close, right?

    Eric vW

    March 1, 2021
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  • Kempenfelt Klassic Kruise ~ Busted out my XC skis to catch the Sunrise on the Bay. I wasn’t the only one out there. Tons of people fishing but still remarkably still! Almost zero wind and no snowmobiles running for the first hour after Sunrise. Simply spectacular skiing. I was surprised by how many large wet…

    Eric vW

    February 22, 2021
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  • visual-poetry: by the falcon king

    Eric vW

    February 10, 2021
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  • Moonlit backyard. G’nite.

    Eric vW

    January 30, 2021
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  • Trifecta! Sun. Sundogs. Full Moon. All in a day’s commute.

    Eric vW

    January 28, 2021
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  • Bernie sitting in the Led Zep II album cover

    doctorqueensanatomy: I am once again asking if you’ll bring it on home

    Eric vW

    January 23, 2021
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  • almost a week late but still worth it

    Eric vW

    January 23, 2021
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    Youtube
  • ~ Hairshirt North – July 11, 2021 ~ Pandemic permitting, let’s get together for the 2nd annual Hairshirt North ride! Let me know if you’re interested in this 320 km spectacularly scenic ride through Lake Country on cycling friendly roads. **Set it firmly into your schedules now**… and start training. Same plan as last year…

    Eric vW

    January 18, 2021
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  • Phantom Ship (island), Crater Lake, Oregon ~ Photographed during a 2016 cycling circumnavigation of the lake atop Mt. Mazama. My brother, Ian and I rode the scenic route around the lake with thousands of other riders and no vehicles during the Ride the Rim event. A whole day of breathtaking mountain scenery atop the volcano…

    Eric vW

    January 15, 2021
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  • girlofthemoon75: Happy 77th Birthday Jimmy, stay safe ๐Ÿ–ค๐Ÿ‰ ๐Ÿ“ท By Marco Grob Twentieth century virtuoso. A living legend.

    Eric vW

    January 9, 2021
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  • Eric vW

    January 3, 2021
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  • โ€œThe future is unwritten.โ€ ~ Joe Strummer A statement so simple, it almost seems ridiculous. However, it reflects pragmatism, forward-thinking, a little stoicism and most importantly, *hope*. All this from the disillusioned punk who sang, “Cold water in the face; Brings you back to this awful place” Write yourself a wonderful 2021.

    Eric vW

    January 2, 2021
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  • visual-poetry: by fred eerdekens (+)

    Eric vW

    December 31, 2020
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  • Urban XC ~ It is so cool that I can escape so easily into a beautiful outdoor environment without leaving the City limits. Easy access to skiing is one of the many great features of this small town. The City of Barrie

    Eric vW

    December 29, 2020
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    barrie
  • 501 hours… imagine all of the actually useful shit I could have accomplished in that time. Yikes.

    Eric vW

    December 24, 2020
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  • Each year, from late Winter onward, I spending countless hours riding a bicycle around the countryside and each time, as I finish a ride, I am already plotting out my next two-wheeled adventure. By September, I am starting to grow a little weary of the bike and by late Fall it is a time for…

    Eric vW

    December 19, 2020
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  • December brings cold to my extremities but warmth to my core.

    Eric vW

    December 8, 2020
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  • redarts: ~4 December 1980~ โ€œWe wish it to be known that the loss of our dear friend and the deep respect we have for his family, together with the sense of undivided harmony felt by ourselves and our manager, have led us to decide that we could not continue as we were.โ€ ~ Led Zeppelin…

    Eric vW

    December 5, 2020
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  • Michael Collins’ (Apollo 11 astronaut) thoughts while reflecting on his view of a fragile and very finite Earth from his lunar orbit in July 1969. Our economic model of infinite growth with finite resources is not sustainable. What will give first?

    Eric vW

    November 22, 2020
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  • Mikayla means โ€œwho is like God?โ€ (from Hebrew โ€œMikhaโ€™el/ืžึดื™ื›ึธืึตืœโ€ or โ€œmikha/ืžึดื™ื›ึธโ€ = who is like + โ€œel/ืึตืœโ€ = God). To us she means new life, a growing family and the spawning of the next generation. It is an incredibly special feeling to see your baby raising a child of their own! Mikayla is such a…

    Eric vW

    November 14, 2020
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  • Simcoe County Loop Trail ft. Jeslyn and Steve ~ An early October rip around this spectacular route with *very* capable riders. In spite of a couple of crashes, we made it around the entire 160 kilometres with high spirits the whole way! A memorable day on two wheels to nowhere.

    Eric vW

    November 13, 2020
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  • inneroptics: Icarus, 1970 – ADGER COWANS

    Eric vW

    October 25, 2020
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