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38 miles

Got up bright and early on Sunday, made sure the weather was going to hold, then Aaron and I picked a random place for breakfast to ride the bikes to, which ended up being the Omelette & Waffle Cafe in downtown Plymouth. We made our way east along Plymouth Road to Ann Arbor Trail, approached the town square area, and discovered that the whole place was blocked off for a chili cook-off and Harley-Davidson show.

Literally hundreds of bikes, mostly Harleys, lined the streets two- and four columns deep. After parking the bikes and getting some cheap but decent food, we wandered the downtown area for an hour or so and looked at all the bikes and displays, but didn't partake of the chili.

During the ride back we got within a mile of home when the rain started coming down, which made for some tense riding for a few minutes, but we pulled into the carport without incident. The bikes handled perfectly, and Aaron reported that his new seat and seat cover were extremely comfortable. I may have to make the same mods to my own seat eventually.

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Dingo says...

A few weeks ago, Harley Davidson announced that they were crowdsourcing the cover of their 2010 motorcycle catalog by having people email in photographs that would be used for a big mosaic on the front of the catalog. A mosaic is formed by assembling thousands of tiny images that - when viewed from a distance - form a larger image. H-D did a good job of running the program, with just a few simple rules around what type of content could be submitted (no kids, only original photos, etc.). Today they released an online version of the 2010 motorcycle catalog cover.


What they got right:
  • It looks like lots of photos did get submitted.
  • They're fun to look at - it's a slice of Americana that's entertaining.
  • The Flash tool for panning and zooming is neat.
  • It reinforces the diverse (and kooky) audience that rides these bikes.
What they got wrong:
  • They didn't actually build a mosaic. A mosaic is formed by cleverly organizing the small images so that their native colors contribute to the larger image. Instead, H-D just threw out a bunch of smaller images and burned colors onto them to get their logo for the larger image. That's cheating. You don't get to modify the contributing images when you're building a mosaic.
  • There are tons of repeats. Most of the images repeat at least once. Some multiple times. That makes it look like they failed to get enough submissions to pull this off. Even my images repeated.
Overall it's a neat marketing effort, though. You can see the result at http://www.harley-davidson-mosaic.com.

I submitted about 10 photos of friends and family, and they appeared in the finished pseudomosaic. Here they are. The little blue rectangle shows where on the bigger image the zoomed view is focused:

                                           

I have to laugh because that first shot of my parents was placed immediately next to the crazy aged queen in the lingerie. It takes all kinds...

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chrisdrinkut says...

A great turn out for the Ride & Rally this past Sunday. Over 2k
registered riders - whoa-hoo! State and local dignitaries and even, yours truly
in attendance (what?).
Seriously, Save Our Plant!!

           
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wickenden says...

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This is a short clip of me riding my Harley that was done for a T.V. piece.  Kinda goofy, but fun.

The second clip was something I did for beer club the other day.  Again, goofy, but fun.  And not my best beer review.  Had already been drinking when we tried doing this one.


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andy says...

Chepstow festival continues this weekend with a Sunday highlight of hundreds of Harley owners decending on the town.

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vip-bb says...

 

Here is another shot from the Goodland, KS Flatlander Fall Festival.

 

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Vincent says...

 

Checking out the new Posterous.com social media posting site.
 
The picture is of the seats of a bunch of Harleys at the Flatlander Street Festival in Goodland, KS.
 
 
 
 

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dex says...

many people are wondering where I've been... why I'm silent... that's not important. God is speaking to me... this might be part of His plan. What do you think His plans are for you?

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