Bikescapes (Photo Thread - see 1st post.)

[owen426]

A place to share photos of your bike with artwork, sculptures, murals, buildings, architecture, landscapes, sweeping vistas or any other interesting background.

I was going to go down town and take a quick snap to start us off but a dead battery has stopped that, so someone else can have the honour. Take it away folks...

[Rynglieder]

Define art 

[Rynglieder]

And although you did not include architecture or ancient monuments, sod it, here's my Z1300 at Pershore Abbey:

[Rynglieder]

And the Z1000 at Croxden Abbey:

[Rynglieder]

And finally my GTR at Runcorn Bridge.

That's it, I have run out of bikes now.

[owen426]

And although you did not include architecture or ancient monuments,

Ok added them too. And that is a nice collection of bikes 

[Red Biker]

Out and about today in Lincoln👍

[Tony Nitrous]

[owen426]

Right a new battery in the bike so now I can join in. A wall outside our old train station.

[Andre]

I like decrepit buildings but hope my big lady will never look like this one in this background. This is by Sippenaeken in north-east Belgium. It belonged to Limburg which included territory of The Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany.

The Belgians in this region have german as their first language and the Dutch here speak the same dialect as I (german) do. As for many places in the world, politics tore us apart over the centuries. Belgian chocolate is better than swiss and belgian beer is better than german beer. And the people on the dutch side of the border are some of the nicest people in the world!

The modern term for or region is Euregio. A very positive example of cross-border cooperation on many levels. Can still be improved though.

[Andre]

Another one of the landscape. This one from the dutch side. Most pics are without my 14 but this one qualifies.

[owen426]

Nice. It's always amazing to me how much history you Europeans have in such small areas. My nearest town is 50km away and I live in a populated area!

[Kiwifruit]

Barely 200 years of history here. I look at some stone cottage with a thatched roof and someone says its 350 years old.
Must have been a real bind to get building consent and deal with all the health and safety regulations back then.....what did they use for road cones ??

[Andre]

The landscape today is so nice because the american artillery and bombs made it that way in 1944. Prior to this it was mostly forest.

The mom of an american family, with which I stayed just about every weekend for two years, told me that she was afraid that I would resent her because her brother flew 25 bombing missions over Germany.  No reason for that! Her brother did his duty as so many did on both sides. After surviving the 25 he went back to the states and died in a crash while training bomber pilots.

I enjoyed the desert when living over there for 14 years. I had actually planned to move from there to Australia but got stuck in Germany while visiting my parents. Couldn't bring my heart to leave them again. Maybe some time in the future...!?

[Gra Har]

I like decrepit buildings but hope my big lady will never look like this one in this background. This is by Sippenaeken in north-east Belgium. It belonged to Limburg which included territory of The Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany.

The Belgians in this region have german as their first language and the Dutch here speak the same dialect as I (german) do. As for many places in the world, politics tore us apart over the centuries. Belgian chocolate is better than swiss and belgian beer is better than german beer. And the people on the dutch side of the border are some of the nicest people in the world!

The modern term for or region is Euregio. A very positive example of cross-border cooperation on many levels. Can still be improved though.

Hi Andre, I am a retired tradesman (carpenter) and I'm fascinated by that building (and your bike of course) Never have I seen bricks laid on timber before, most likely why it is falling down Some of the buildings in Tasmania built by the convicts are still standing and still in use. Thanks for sharing the pictures.