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Well…… not sure how many bikers we have here:) I rode 43 miles or 69 kilometers on this setup yesterday. A few factors that affected my range are a strong wind to fight in one direction, and mud most of the way. I was at about 15% battery when I arrived home. The extra battery greatly extended range and made for no range anxiety for me. I’ll post a few pics of my filthy bike. I was one muddy dude afterwards:)

Thanks Deb.

Thankfully things are beginning to thaw now. We are now in the 20's F. Good to see ypou drop by lpt.

This is a video I made with some really cool tools.The video takes us into the near future where there will still be plenty of "eating and drinking and marrying" under the domination of an evil leader. Need I say more?

I have not been out on the trail since this video as it became sub zero cold briefly and when the snow freezes it becomes more like cement, so I decided to ride a few of the roads around here.

Not the outcome I expected.

This is my first AI video. The character is a believer fighting the invisible battle, but of course I had to make it visible to see it so there's that:) The beginning is darker, but the end is a much better outcome. I feel our world is now stuck in that dark phase and we are to be beacons of light shining the love of Christ. And yet sometimes we have to fight that other battle that often ties into this world real in very real ways.

A Bunch of white stuff showed up here. How about you?

I don’t think it’s up to anyone else to tell us about the person we might be ministering to. Everyone is different. One of the fruits of the Spirit is patience. I am really beginning to dislike the hovering mentality we have here which may have served to ruin one recent situation. If a lost person is talking and asking, then keep talking, even if they are critical. And the way forums work isn’t condusive usually to focus unless there are only a few responders. The more responders there are the more splintered thoughts generally become which really just undermines some conversations. Now instead of one thought, they have to respond to multiple things which is a lot like multiple threads. God is the one who saves them and who brings them to that place and we are each led in how God wants us to do that. This is the problem with these things, everyone makes up a rule when there are different ways for different situations. And I haven’t had the same amount of time to be here, so I chose to focus on one task. Now I feel as if I can’t even do that anymore.

Good ideas Deb, thanks! I am attempting to use tags the algorithm recognizes. I have Amish neighbors but I don’t want to be creeping on them. I get some video here and there. The best time is when they go to church because more of their buggies are out:)

Thanks Deb. So far the rest of my body has proven to be as hard as my head:) lol! I’m not sure it’s possible to copy noobs brain, at least I hope not. One is enough. Being a southerner living in a place where it never snowed to this took me embracing and enjoying it to a point. Volcanic eruptions and other extreme events I leave off that list. :) Yes, slowly moving. Still I think it’s going to take awhile. My stats show the most interest in the video where I dropped my motorcycle, and the how to videos. In short, they don’t much care for my ride videos as much.

A few things I’ve learned about riding in the “snow”. When it gets below a certain temperature it’s no longer that soft fluffy stuff. It gets as hard as a rock. And on a bike trail that hasn’t been smoothed off it’s like riding over small rocks. So I was a little Sssssshhhhaken on this ride. 17 miles 27.36 kilometers mostly all in snow. On another recent ride my front wheel got caught in a frozen rut and I went down. The fall messed with my shifting linkage and I had a tough time making it back due to my shifting. Fixed now. Look for a future video where I will add another battery to the bike for more range;) Battery already ordered. I’ll void my warranty by hacking into the wiring to add a battery balancer:)

I recently wrote this music and decided to make a video of it.

I made this one on a ride last week.As I type this we are getting buried in snow here, so you might have guessed what’s next :) In this ride it was more casual. I didn’t push myself a lot. I experimented with some video effects. Look for a name change on my channels to more closely reflect the content and ‘hopefully’ pull in more listeners. Currently the algorithm has no idea what to do with me because content isn’t located to those looking. YouTube can be a lot of work to get right. The opening image is AI generated.

Thanks so much for this video Deb!

Yeas that was my dog under the table that made me jump :) Happy New Year! Thanks for joining the discussion with viole. I think we needed a woman's perspective. Well many thanks Deb!! I've been studying some analytics and realized I have been doing everything wrong. I am gradually getting it. I know what I need to do. I imagine there will still be some trial and error involved.

Great video!

Thoughts on the New Year, along with some of my original music at the end which I thought to be applicable.

Good point. Channels can be divided within one channel into sections. My thinking was that each channel would be dedicated to each subject. One channel, "The Beacon", I dedicated to theological and deep thought issues that hopefully people like to discuss, and some silly stuff too that ties into it. For instance I planned to put up a video up for post new year thoughts. My other channel could be considered a channel for the things some people like to do, like biking, camping and motorcycle riding, hiking among other things. There is already some cross pollination though. Then I planned a music space, The thing I learned from my podcast was that it's mostly secular musicians who might have an interest in it if I offer to post their music of all types, which from a Christian standpoint could be a conflict of interest, and if I have an interest that is interested in me putting up their music who is told no when I put up other secular music, it won't bode well. I could just make it my personal music channel, I already have a music channel I never bothered to squeeze to it's full potential, A plan for 2025. It needs some serious house cleaning and connecting to other social media. I need to establish a tiktok, a reddit. and others. I sometimes post to facebook, but FB isn't really a niche place. . Putting video to my music would give it another dimension, if I can do it well. I always made music but never thought about selling any of it. I made an acoustic guitar album awhile back and got some money from it which surprised me. At that point I had never monetized YouTube for anything. YouTube generally amounts to pennies and most successful YouTubers are hawking something for someone. And of course, if I monetize anything it should not be here. I only wanted to post to local friends here with no intention to piggy back this site, so I might be doing things you won't necessarily see here.

Happy New Year to all of you. Yep I think YouTube seen from the message board counts as one IP address or one viewer looking multiple times. My numbers are all over the place. Not that numbers mean a lot other than they boost my vids to other viewers. A lot of people need to see it in order for more people to see it? Kinda odd. I plan a few more vids on more serious Christian subject matter on my other channel. And since I can have multiple accounts I may start a music channel for musicians. I would put my work up in addition to others, but a new channel isn’t likely to generate much coverage, at least for awhile. I had a podcast called “Recording Hound” where I cut my teeth on some of that. I interviewed some big names and artists in the biz. That was not YouTube driven. Here’s my old logo. I still have a Facebook account for it.

I didn’t plan to be riding in the dark for long, but so much for plans sometimes:) I really want to be super fit. One younger guy at church has talked with me about riding. He has a high end mountain bike and is at least 30 years younger than me. We’ll see.JC is the nick name of my friend I rode with. He is very knowledgeable about local and even distant trails. He pretty much knows about and has ridden them all. There was a railway where that trail is and some of the railroad relics have been preserved, like that rail car. Just below this trail closer to the river there is a functioning set of rail tracks. Hope you are well.

Yes they are known for lights year round :)

Thank you!

This video is a combination of two much longer rides I took last week on different days. I wanted to give the experience of riding along with me. It's getting dark here before 5pm. Yesterday sunset was 4:48pm. So to set out at 2pm is sometimes pushing it to get back before dark. No worries. I have headlights :)