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A blue motorcycle is parked in front of a vibrant mural featuring the word "SUNNY" in large yellow letters, surrounded by pink hibiscus and green floral designs. The sky is clear and blue.

🎶All the leaves are brown, but the sky is blue...

Two motorcycles at the Burnt Mountain overlook in North Georgia. It's a scenic vista with hazy blue sky, and the bikes are backlit silhouettes

I went to an event last night and the Upper Etowah River Keepers had a table set up with a large banner of this map on it.
As I was talking the woman to learn about the group, I kept looking at the map and realized that the Etowah River basin is everywhere that I love to ride... I feel so lucky living close to this and was able to get out today to snap some pics💕

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The aquamarine BMW motorcycle on the banks of the river. Behind it is a bright blue sky and rail bridge spanning over the river.

The aquamarine BMW motorcycle on the banks of the river. If you zoom in above the river you can see a flock of geese squawking in the background

A colorful map of the Wtowah River basin calling out various notable creeks that feed into it.

Mysterious forces at work in the universe that I cannot fully comprehend have placed me in the position of caretaker for this lovely late model R nineT 🏁

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A late model BMW R nine T motorcycle with the aquamarine color scheme. It has a small windscreen mounted and the original single round headlight has been replaced with a pair of smaller round lights one of which is amber colored, while the other is clear.

Last week, heading up to the mountains, I took a short detour down to the local Caffeine & Octane car show that always attracts a corral of motorcycles

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A Honda CBR1000RR sport bike motorcycle with the Repsol livery. The pic is taken from a lower angle with the background artfully out if focus

I went out for a ride tonight and the full moon rising was A-OK 👌
I spent the rest of the evening obsessively riding around looking for photogenic spots with the moon rising in in the background. It was tough with a potato cam phone but I think they're alright nonetheless

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Bayport's Kawasaki Z900rs-cafe motorcycle parked in front of an elementary school drop-off zone with a moon rising just above the school in the background. The motorcycle and building are in sharp focus, but the moon is blurry and bright and kind looks like a sun except that sky is darker and the tree line behind the school are black silhouettes

A grainy pic of bayport's motorbike in the parking lot of Marietta Station. The photo is over exposed and the bike is a little grainy and shadowy. In the background the full moon is rising above a heavy trussed foot bridge. The moon is bright and almost looks like a sun or bright street like. But the sky is darkish.

Yet another pic of the bike, except this time I gave up trying to capture the moon when I found an old brick bank drive-through with brick arches so the bike is posing in front of the arches

The last night pic of the bike after giving up on the moon. This one is parked in front of a hypnotic black and white spiral with a huge koi fish. There have always been cars parked blocking the view at this spot so I was stoked to find the parking spot empty tonight and snap this pic

I got a One Eyed Willie bike trailer thing to drag my bike up to the mountains. This year I'm doing the Distinguished Gentleman's Ride up in a small mountain town not too far from home and got here a day early for the win!

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Bayport's Kawaski Z900rs-cafe motorcycle rigged up on a goofy looking trailer that only carries the front wheel and drags it on the motorcycles rear wheel. It doesn't look very safe, but it works.

Bayport's bike in front of a U.S. Forest Service Park Sign for Woody Gap Recreation Area in the Chattahoochee National Forest.

Bayport's bike at the scenic overlook at Woody's Gap.

Yet another pic of Bayport's bike, this time parked at dock of a small mountain lake.

I trekked back down into the city today, this time to actually check out the museum exhibit called "Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys". And it did not disappoint. Way cooler than I expected and these two paintings by Amy Sherald were literally larger than life. Totally worth risking getting a parking ticket.

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The two motorbike paintings by Amy Sherald taken from a slight angle standing left of the two pieces.
Description of Amy's work is in the alt text of the 3rd pic attached.

The two motorbike paintings by Amy Sherald taken from a slight angle standing right of the two pieces. The piece on the left is a yellow dirtbike popping wheelie and the piece on the left is a red dirtbike popping a wheelie. The two bikes are facing each other with a symmetrical arrangement.
Description of Amy's work is in the alt text of the 3rd pic attached.

Description of the motorbike/dirtbike paintings from the High Museum of Art's website:

Amy Sherald paints “Black people doing stuff.” Her commitment to uplifting the everyday experiences of Black communities is seen in Deliverance, in which she paints Baltimore-based figures on dirt bikes in the manner of lofty equestrian portraits. The artist appropriates a style of portraiture historically reserved for elite White sitters to glorify the bike culture of her chosen home. Caught in midair, her subjects lean back as if on a rearing horse, defying the laws of physics.

Amy Sherald (American, born 1973), Deliverance, 2022, oil on linen, The Dean Collection, courtesy of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys. © Amy Sherald. Courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo by Joseph Hyde.

Yet another pic of bayport's Kawasaki parked on the street in front of the fancy art museum.

Got a smug sense of satisfaction parking my iconic bike in front of the fancy art museum down in the city last week in a corner "non-spot" and not paying for parking.
I walked away wondering if I would get a ticket, or even if it would get stolen and just shrugged it off. But alas it was still there looking pretty as a picture when I returned.

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A green and black Kawasaki z900rs-cafe parked on a city street in front of art museum. The art museum has a large banner advertising a collection called Giants featuring a yellow motorbike/dirtbike popping a wheelie. Bayport did not visit the museum on this day so not quite sure what that image is about but pretty sure that the Giants exhibit is not about motorcycles.
The street is lined with trees changing with fall foliage and further in the background is an old brick church.

I made it out and up a southern ridge of the Cumberland Plateau today on an absolutely beautiful sunny but cold day.
Watched some friends rock climb the craggy ridge walls with turkey vultures circling overhead hoping that we would become snacks 😅
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Bayport's Kawasaki z900rs-cafe parked on a ridge overlooking a lake and mountains off in the distance.

Bayport's Kawasaki z900rs-cafe parked in front of some out cropping of large boulders.

Bayport's friend rock climbing topping out at the top of a cliff. In the sky to the left of the climber is a turkey vulture with wide, out stretched wings, circling above. The angle of the photo makes it look like the vulture is swooping down towards the top of cliff

It was a foggy morning ride out this morning

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Bayport's green and black Kawasaki z900rs-cafe parked on the shoulder of a forest road. In the background is a road sign indicating a curve ahead and the forest is shrouded in foggy fog.

Autumn colors out this morning.

We took a scenic ride out on the cafe out to a cafe about 3 towns over, and upon arriving, I spotted this restored cherry red Stingray at far end of the parking lot. I rode over to park next to it so I could snap a pic while my pillion rolled her eyes at me

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A beautifully classic Corvette Stingray painted cherry red with chrome trim. Bayport's black and green Kawasaki z900rs-cafe parked in front of it.

Dang it's so hard to capture the curviness of a road from ground level with a mobile phone camera... but I think I managed to capture hints of it with this one

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An idyllic photograph of Bayport's Kawasaki Z900rs motorcycle parked along the side of a twisty curvy road nestled among grassy green hills with picket fences. Beyond the hills a forested woods can be seen along with wispy clouds among the blue sky.

Final pic in my camera roll from our trip up into the mountains last week. Looking at it now there's a lot going on in it, the alt text is gonna take some work

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Bayport's green and black 2020 Kawasaki Z900rs-cafe motorcycle parked in front of the the Cooper's Creek Store in Suches, GA (USA). Right behind the bike is half a barrel with three bright yellow sunflowers in it. Behind that is Ms. Bayport sitting at a picnic table still wearing her purple helmet. The table has a big sun umbrella that is closed up. Behind her on the wall of the store is a big round thermometer that reads 80°F and 55% relative humidity. Just above that is a big trout fish made out of a wooden plank. The store has two glass doors covered in advertising for free wi-fi and ice cream sandwiches along with the store hours. Just to the left of the doors is a large carved wooden black bear statue commonly found outside of store fronts and restaurants in small mountain villages across the USA. Above the doors is the store front sign that reads "Cooper's Creek Store Suches, GA" and featuring silhouette of the mountains and a river creek. On the right bank of the creek is a silhouette of a man fly fishing and on the left side is large trout jumping out of the stream hooked by the fisherman's cast lure. It is notable that the trout is not a silhouette while the rest of the images are.

a beautiful day, don't let it get away

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A motorcycle rider in purple helmet taking a rest at the Cooper's Creek Store near Suches GA

A short rest at Woody Gap pass.
And I learned, per the Wikipedia entry:
Woody Gap is a mountain ridge gap in northern Georgia where the Appalachian Trail crosses State Highway 60. Perched at 3,160 ft altitude, the gap affords scenic vistas of Yahoola Valley below. The trailhead is open to the public year-round.
The mountain pass is named in honor of Arthur Woody, an early conservationist.
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