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Re: WildGuzzi Tag-O-Rama
« Reply #570 on: October 05, 2020, 07:46:54 PM »
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Re: WildGuzzi Tag-O-Rama
« Reply #571 on: October 05, 2020, 08:14:04 PM »
We have the William Henry Harrison home in Indy, but I don't think he was born there. Tough one.

Let's just make it, birthplace or home then?
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Re: WildGuzzi Tag-O-Rama
« Reply #572 on: October 06, 2020, 08:34:49 AM »
I'd have to ride to Plains, Georgia for this one so I'm out.
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Re: WildGuzzi Tag-O-Rama
« Reply #573 on: October 06, 2020, 08:41:14 AM »
I'd have to ride to Plains, Georgia for this one so I'm out.
I was just looking at that ride. I would, however wife is leaving for a few days. Have to keep my dog.
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Re: WildGuzzi Tag-O-Rama
« Reply #573 on: October 06, 2020, 08:41:14 AM »

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Re: WildGuzzi Tag-O-Rama
« Reply #574 on: October 07, 2020, 03:28:12 PM »
Hmmmmm, hate to be an innerwebs lawyer but the man never said United States of America president.
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Re: WildGuzzi Tag-O-Rama
« Reply #575 on: October 07, 2020, 04:58:21 PM »
Alternative tag:
"Industrial wasteland". Once thriving industry, now closed and decaying or being demolished.

This is the W.D Byron Tannery in Williamsport, MD, or what's left of it.




 
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Re: WildGuzzi Tag-O-Rama
« Reply #576 on: October 07, 2020, 05:44:28 PM »
Hmmmmm, hate to be an innerwebs lawyer but the man never said United States of America president.

I was looking for the the local college president as an option but evidently none of them was worth a statue.
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Re: WildGuzzi Tag-O-Rama
« Reply #577 on: October 07, 2020, 06:21:07 PM »
I was looking for the the local college president as an option but evidently none of them was worth a statue.

Yeah, I was wondering where the local college president's house is.  :) 
A real epic find would be a garage for a Studebaker President.

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Re: WildGuzzi Tag-O-Rama
« Reply #578 on: October 11, 2020, 09:59:45 AM »
Alternative tag #2: Feed mill.




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Re: WildGuzzi Tag-O-Rama
« Reply #579 on: October 12, 2020, 10:20:28 AM »
Rain grab.







Edit because it's hard for me to type on the phone.  The grab was Industrial Wasteland.  That picture is the old plant in Morgantown West Virginia that was tasked with producing "heavy water".  From Wiki:

The P-9 Project was the codename given during World War II to the Manhattan Project's heavy water production program. The Cominco plant at Trail, British Columbia, was upgraded to produce heavy water. DuPont built three plants in the United States: at the Morgantown Ordnance Works, near Morgantown, West Virginia; at the Wabash River Ordnance Works, near Dana and Newport, Indiana; and at the Alabama Ordnance Works, near Childersburg and Sylacauga, Alabama. The American plants operated from 1943 until 1945. The Canadian plant at Trail continued in operation until 1956. Three nuclear reactors were built using the heavy water produced by the P-9 Project: Chicago Pile 3 at Argonne, and ZEEP and NRX at the Chalk River Laboratories in Canada.
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The Morgantown Ordnance Works (MOW) began as an 826-acre (334 ha) chemical production facility operated by DuPont during the Second World War, with construction on the main facility starting in the summer of 1940.[19] Originally producing ammonia for use in the manufacture of explosives, the MOW also produced alcohol, hexamine, and formaldehyde before being expanded to produce heavy water for use in the P-9 Project.[20] Works at Morgantown were undertaken by DuPont under a cost-plus fixed fee contract, as was the works at Wabash and Alabama. Construction commenced on 7 January 1943, and was substantially completed ahead of the 1 September scheduled date. The facilities were progressively brought into operation between 29 May and 28 August 1943. The cost was $3,490,069. DuPont's fixed fee was originally $154,882, but this was voluntarily reduced to $88,588 because the cost of construction was considerably less than the $6,034,000 originally estimated.[21]

The electrolytic finishing plant was established at Morgantown because that plant was under the control of DuPont's Ammonia Division. At this plant the output from the distillation plants, which was about 90% heavy water, was broken down by electrolysis into hydrogen and oxygen. The light hydrogen tends to be drawn off first, leaving the heavy water behind. This process was repeated through several stages to yield a finished product that was 99.75% heavy water.[22] After the water reached a concentration of 99.75%, the heavy water was then transported by rail to the University of Chicago where it was used as a potential moderator for the first nuclear reactors constructed in the United States.[20]

Following the end of the war, DuPont ended their operations at the MOW and the site was leased to various chemical companies until the early 1950s before standing vacant until 1962 when the area was purchased from the United States General Services Administration for the price of $1.25 million by the Morgantown Community Association. The property was then conveyed to the newly created Morgantown Ordnance Works, Inc., owned by local industrialist J.W. Ruby, who began converting the site into an industrial park.[19] In 1984, part of the site was formally proposed to be added to the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Superfund National Priorities List and was added to the list two years later in 1986. Remedy construction began in 2001 and included the consolidation of contaminated materials into an on-site landfill which was covered with a multi-layer cap. The remedy also included long-term monitoring and institutional controls and was completed in 2003.[23] On 21 August 2018, the EPA removed the Ordnance Works Disposal Areas from the Superfund National Priorities List along with eight other sites.[24]

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Re: WildGuzzi Tag-O-Rama
« Reply #580 on: October 12, 2020, 12:30:28 PM »
New tag. Coffee/sandwich shack.



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OK, so tag is one of these little drive by places.  No indoor seating. 

This place is in Hundred, WV.  Very nice lady in an interesting little town.  Some excellent roads converge there, too, including Route 7 West which goes over to Ohio.  It's about 27 miles of nice curves and not one stop sign or stop light.  :)
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Re: WildGuzzi Tag-O-Rama
« Reply #581 on: October 12, 2020, 12:31:28 PM »
So, what was it? I'm out for a while, it's getting too painful to use the clutch. Went to see the cutter this morning.
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Re: WildGuzzi Tag-O-Rama
« Reply #582 on: October 12, 2020, 01:03:58 PM »
So, what was it? I'm out for a while, it's getting too painful to use the clutch. Went to see the cutter this morning.

Need to trade that G5 for a Convert.  :wink:
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Re: WildGuzzi Tag-O-Rama
« Reply #583 on: October 12, 2020, 01:46:34 PM »
So, what was it? I'm out for a while, it's getting too painful to use the clutch. Went to see the cutter this morning.

Industrial wasteland.  I edited the photo with a little history.

Hope your hand is feeling better soon, Chuck.  Roper is awfully fond of the Aprilia Mana but I don't think even he would say that it has the same heart as any Guzzi.
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Re: WildGuzzi Tag-O-Rama
« Reply #584 on: October 12, 2020, 03:52:19 PM »
Need to trade that G5 for a Convert.  :wink:
Convert. The answer to the question nobody asked.. :evil:  :smiley:
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thanks for the explanation, Mr. Fish. I thought it looked sort of hi tech industrial wasteland.
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Re: WildGuzzi Tag-O-Rama
« Reply #585 on: October 15, 2020, 03:11:14 PM »
Sandwich shack:


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Re: WildGuzzi Tag-O-Rama
« Reply #586 on: October 15, 2020, 05:38:08 PM »
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Re: WildGuzzi Tag-O-Rama
« Reply #587 on: October 18, 2020, 06:33:59 PM »
Grab: Patsy Cline house in Winchester, VA.










New tag: Race track, raceway, speedway, drag strip.


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Re: WildGuzzi Tag-O-Rama
« Reply #588 on: October 19, 2020, 12:28:42 AM »
If it could be the land that very famous tracks were at without a sign, I could bag two of them. Lion's and Ascot. Maybe I'll go up to Porsche learning track??

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Re: WildGuzzi Tag-O-Rama
« Reply #589 on: October 23, 2020, 01:35:34 PM »
Passed this on the way to Old Man Biker Lunch today. Grab:





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Re: WildGuzzi Tag-O-Rama
« Reply #590 on: October 23, 2020, 01:38:59 PM »
And new tag.  Damn. Any dam. Beaver.  Stone. Coulee. Not dental. This is a family site.








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Re: WildGuzzi Tag-O-Rama
« Reply #591 on: October 27, 2020, 01:20:33 PM »
Grab: Dam #4 on the Potomac River. https://www.canaltrust.org/pyv/dam-4/ From the MD side, I really couldn't get the dam and Guzzi in the same photo. Maybe when the leaves are off the tress, but not right now.




So, I rode over in WV and shot it from that side too. Much better.






Since Halloween is in a few days, a cemetery is the new Tag:





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Re: WildGuzzi Tag-O-Rama
« Reply #592 on: October 27, 2020, 02:47:21 PM »
Got it. One cemetery in Long Beach ca.







New tag sthortly.

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Re: WildGuzzi Tag-O-Rama
« Reply #593 on: October 27, 2020, 03:00:56 PM »
How about a real hard one since some of you like those.

A Guzzi shop! We all know how rare those are to find :evil: :whip2:






For extra fun. Where is this one?

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Re: WildGuzzi Tag-O-Rama
« Reply #594 on: October 27, 2020, 04:29:26 PM »
Looks like Mark's shop (Moto Guzzi Classics). I could just wander outside and shoot a photo of my Convert in front of my own shop, but I don't do just Guzzi.  :wink:
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Re: WildGuzzi Tag-O-Rama
« Reply #595 on: October 27, 2020, 05:02:49 PM »
It doesn't have to be Guzzi only, just a mainly Guzzi shop with a decent Guzzi logo.

Charlie, that would be way too easy :wink:

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Re: WildGuzzi Tag-O-Rama
« Reply #596 on: November 05, 2020, 09:52:39 AM »
Thought about riding up to... nope they're closed. Then, maybe... nope they've dropped Guzzi. Guess I could ride out to Xtreme Powersports in Accident, MD (only 150 miles away).
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Re: WildGuzzi Tag-O-Rama
« Reply #597 on: November 05, 2020, 11:07:03 AM »
Alright. I don't want to be a thread killer.

Let's open this up to an old school motorcycle shop. Like something that's been around since before dirt. Whatever brand. Prefer it not to be a mega store.

Charlie, yes it's Guzzi Classics.

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Re: WildGuzzi Tag-O-Rama
« Reply #598 on: November 08, 2020, 06:10:20 PM »
No worries, Tom.  Someone will get it.  I'm on three different tag threads and they've all stalled lately for some reason.  I hope to ride this week, so I'll look around.
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Re: WildGuzzi Tag-O-Rama
« Reply #599 on: November 08, 2020, 08:30:26 PM »
I was torn between going out to Accident to grab it or going up to Gallitzin Tunnels & Horseshoe Curve. I chose the latter and am glad I did.
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