SlowCo
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You are really enjoying your bike extensively :thumb:
Great place to ride over there!
Great place to ride over there!
Eternal outskirts of Moscow and beyond (LOTS of pics!)
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Skorohod
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SlowCo said:
Yep, this bike and those dirt roads won't ride itself! So, ride on! 8)
Another day i've went on a ride just before sunset.
This is most definitely not a water in there:
Hello!
Padlocked dirt road? Well, that happens sometimes:
Skorohod
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Industrial railroad station at outskirts of Priyutovo:
The road ultimately bring me to ruins of Priyutovo Reinforced Concrete Constructions Plant:
The road ultimately bring me to ruins of Priyutovo Reinforced Concrete Constructions Plant:
Skorohod
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There some of my childhood memories about this plant: my aunt brings me to work, got me full guided tour through all buildings. I'm seeing how concrete going through tests in laboratory, how it's components being mixed, how mighty vibrators thicken cement mix of entire slab, how those slabs then going through gas ovens and being shipped out afterwards. I've even sit on controls of bridge crane and lifted couple of concrete slabs myself, a big deal for a kid!
Now those giant gas ovens became emitters of peculiar "midday terror" feeling, just white tombs underneath blue skies:
Now those giant gas ovens became emitters of peculiar "midday terror" feeling, just white tombs underneath blue skies:
Skorohod
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This hangar build with standard concrete fence sections:
There was a railroad running through this building, now there some shady metal scrap place:
That's it for today! More Bashkirian photos coming soon.
There was a railroad running through this building, now there some shady metal scrap place:
That's it for today! More Bashkirian photos coming soon.
Skorohod
10 kW
Next time i went to ride exactly at sunset time. Ravines and valleys i've already known was filled with thick shadows:
View to Priyutovo's grain elevator from high bank of Глубокий ручей (literally Deep creek):
View to Priyutovo's grain elevator from high bank of Глубокий ручей (literally Deep creek):
Skorohod
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Sun is setting fast:
Outskirts of Priyutovo also had a good view from here:
That's it! Sun is gone under horizont:
Fields around Gas Refinery again, but in literally different colors!
Outskirts of Priyutovo also had a good view from here:
That's it! Sun is gone under horizont:
Fields around Gas Refinery again, but in literally different colors!
Skorohod
10 kW
It's a shame those gas flares didn't lit. Good for environment, though:
Only one flare is burning bright under a blood-red skies:
I've set a tripod and start waiting to industrial, light and magic:
There it goes:
Only one flare is burning bright under a blood-red skies:
I've set a tripod and start waiting to industrial, light and magic:
There it goes:
Skorohod
10 kW
Tank cars with a LNG ready to go:
Dusk come and go, night was coming:
Grain fields and grain elevator:
Dirt roads under the light of a headlamp became mysterious:
From the shade of windbreak i've suddenly went to an open space:
Dusk come and go, night was coming:
Grain fields and grain elevator:
Dirt roads under the light of a headlamp became mysterious:
From the shade of windbreak i've suddenly went to an open space:
Skorohod
10 kW
Just me, my bike and Cosmos:
Then i've went to the woods:
From the fields, where air warm like a milk i've begun descent to rivine of Deep creek. As darkness thickened around me and air got colder an colder some primordial gut feeling told me: "don't go there, THEY gonna eat you!". But hey, what am i to afraid of mosquito bites? Nothing happend to me:
That's it for today, but more photos of Bashkiria to come!
Then i've went to the woods:
From the fields, where air warm like a milk i've begun descent to rivine of Deep creek. As darkness thickened around me and air got colder an colder some primordial gut feeling told me: "don't go there, THEY gonna eat you!". But hey, what am i to afraid of mosquito bites? Nothing happend to me:
That's it for today, but more photos of Bashkiria to come!
Skorohod
10 kW
A trip from Priyutovo to little settelment Islam-Backhtyee... Backhty? Backhtee? Something like that. It's Bashkir language, so i can't pronounce it correct eather.
Local oilmens use easy approach to build dirt highways. They just plow their way through rocks like it's nothing:
"Куст скважин" literally translates as " a bush of [oil] wells". What it means is "cluster of oil wells":
Local oilmens use easy approach to build dirt highways. They just plow their way through rocks like it's nothing:
"Куст скважин" literally translates as " a bush of [oil] wells". What it means is "cluster of oil wells":
Skorohod
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Local terrain gives you a gorgeous sights:
У:
У:
Skorohod
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I'm on a high bank of a river Ик. It's pronounced like Eek, which in russian language means a hiccup, which is funny. Of course, the name of the river is bashkirian and means just a "running water", a perfectly normal hydronym:
A little settlement named Islam-Backhty is below me:
A steep road down to the settlement. The mighty regenerative brake is perfect for that kind of terrain, i've barely used mechanical brake at all:
There must be some small creek, a tributary to the Eek, but this summer so hot and dry it cant be seen. Just a much greener colors of the grass gives it away:
Enter to the settlement:
A Eek river:
A little settlement named Islam-Backhty is below me:
A steep road down to the settlement. The mighty regenerative brake is perfect for that kind of terrain, i've barely used mechanical brake at all:
There must be some small creek, a tributary to the Eek, but this summer so hot and dry it cant be seen. Just a much greener colors of the grass gives it away:
Enter to the settlement:
A Eek river:
Skorohod
10 kW
У:
A don't have a slightest idea what that means. Letters are cyrillic based, that's all i can say:
Skorohod
10 kW
It's time to say goodbuy to little cosy Islam-Backhtyee and go up to the plateau:
There is no horisont up in these steppes, just a heady wind:
The steppes had a strong effect on my face:
That communication tower is 10 kilometers far from me, in another region of Russia (a town named Abdulino, Orenburg oblast). So i'm literally standing on a far end of Bashkiria:
There is no horisont up in these steppes, just a heady wind:
The steppes had a strong effect on my face:
That communication tower is 10 kilometers far from me, in another region of Russia (a town named Abdulino, Orenburg oblast). So i'm literally standing on a far end of Bashkiria:
Skorohod
10 kW
Take me home, country roads:
Some rusting piece of petroleum machinery:
A closed oil wells:
A sunset:
Some rusting piece of petroleum machinery:
A closed oil wells:
A sunset:
Skorohod
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After a sunset all around became purple:
These dirt roads all covered with powder, which is makes them very soft to ride. But if you add some water to that powder - that's it, better stay at home, unless you want to ride over a piece of melting butter:
Suddenly, a miracle! A moving car with actual people in it! That is only vehicle i've met for all this hours of my ride:
Sun sleeps just behind this sunflower field:
That's it for this day, more photos of Bashkiria to come later!
These dirt roads all covered with powder, which is makes them very soft to ride. But if you add some water to that powder - that's it, better stay at home, unless you want to ride over a piece of melting butter:
Suddenly, a miracle! A moving car with actual people in it! That is only vehicle i've met for all this hours of my ride:
Sun sleeps just behind this sunflower field:
That's it for this day, more photos of Bashkiria to come later!
minde28383
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Nice, very nice.
video of some slow ride in silence plz. Film little bit around and your bike too. I see your slow wound motor and big tire to shine on these lands.
video of some slow ride in silence plz. Film little bit around and your bike too. I see your slow wound motor and big tire to shine on these lands.
Skorohod
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minde28383 said:
Thanks! Yep, i've defenetly should shot some videos, i just realised - i never shot anything ebike related on video since i've switch MTB frame to Teleport!
It would not be tomorrow... around september or october, i guess.
Skorohod
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Today i'll show you around Priyutovo settlement.
This settlement got its growth spurt in 1950's, when new oil reservoirs was discovered around. Oilsmen decided to use patch of forest to set a amusement park (just a lighted trails and outdoor dance floor). Now it's just a forest with barely visible trails and stumps of lampposts:
This little bridge over creek made of little concrete slabs looks exactly as i remember it from childhood (when my aunt used to brought me to reinforced concrete constructions plant):
Creek became more swampy and grass mauch taller and wild, though:
When you out of the forest, there is industrial zone at settlement west outskirt. Concrete plant (which is destroyed to rubble) i've showed you before, but there is still life out there, this oilsmen transportation facility for instance:
This settlement got its growth spurt in 1950's, when new oil reservoirs was discovered around. Oilsmen decided to use patch of forest to set a amusement park (just a lighted trails and outdoor dance floor). Now it's just a forest with barely visible trails and stumps of lampposts:
This little bridge over creek made of little concrete slabs looks exactly as i remember it from childhood (when my aunt used to brought me to reinforced concrete constructions plant):
Creek became more swampy and grass mauch taller and wild, though:
When you out of the forest, there is industrial zone at settlement west outskirt. Concrete plant (which is destroyed to rubble) i've showed you before, but there is still life out there, this oilsmen transportation facility for instance:
Skorohod
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A little trip through the streets of settlement at sunset:
A view to Priyutovo from fields west of settlement. Thanks to telephoto lens and NG refinery - looks like huge industrial compound!
Those garages were abandoned in the middle of building process, so they always looked that creepy:
A view to Priyutovo from fields west of settlement. Thanks to telephoto lens and NG refinery - looks like huge industrial compound!
Those garages were abandoned in the middle of building process, so they always looked that creepy:
Skorohod
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Abandoned gas station in a middle of a prolific petroleum reservoir. Go figure!
Sun is finally set:
Priyutovo after sunset:
Abandoned house stays like this for years and nobody dares to grab a construction materials:
And there is abandoned "сельпо". It's from "countryside consumers society", an very old soviet thing nobody remembered. A local little universal stores from that society was named after abbreviation of full society name and became eponymous:
Sun is finally set:
Priyutovo after sunset:
Abandoned house stays like this for years and nobody dares to grab a construction materials:
And there is abandoned "сельпо". It's from "countryside consumers society", an very old soviet thing nobody remembered. A local little universal stores from that society was named after abbreviation of full society name and became eponymous:
Skorohod
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There was a huge garage for oilsmen transportation department. Now it's still a garage, just for some other enterprise:
This swing exactly like i remember them!
And there was a mighty "МТС", which stands for "машинно-тракторная станция" - "automobile and tractor depot". In soviet times those depots provided centralised services and tractors, trucks and all sorts of agricultural machinery to collective farms all around. Now here just a wasteland. This three poplar trees - the only thing remained from old MTS:
And another abandoned place! There was a "свеклопункт" - a special facility to collect, weight, process and ship beetroots. Yep, dedicated facility for those dark-red taproot vegetables. A vast wasteland covered with concrete slabs, some rubble and some lighting masts is only remainings of "BeetStation":
Huge grain elevator on a background is still working:
Time to park my bike in a raspberry bushes and go to sleep:
This swing exactly like i remember them!
And there was a mighty "МТС", which stands for "машинно-тракторная станция" - "automobile and tractor depot". In soviet times those depots provided centralised services and tractors, trucks and all sorts of agricultural machinery to collective farms all around. Now here just a wasteland. This three poplar trees - the only thing remained from old MTS:
And another abandoned place! There was a "свеклопункт" - a special facility to collect, weight, process and ship beetroots. Yep, dedicated facility for those dark-red taproot vegetables. A vast wasteland covered with concrete slabs, some rubble and some lighting masts is only remainings of "BeetStation":
Huge grain elevator on a background is still working:
Time to park my bike in a raspberry bushes and go to sleep:
Skorohod
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This sign greets drivers who enter settlement from north. It's bilingual, left side in Bashkirian, roughly transliterated as "Priyut Casabakhy". Never heard it out loud, but i bet it sounds badass:
It's early morning, settlement is still sleeps:
Those strange rows of vents (or chimneys for gas stoves?) reminds me of stereotypical roofs of some old european town:
A grain elevator - local architectural dominant:
Some old houses of first oilmen settlers are up to be demolished:
And some are not:
Causeway over railroad, i wonder if this lamp posts are genuine old lamp posts from 50's:
Priyutovo train station (NG refinery can be seen in a right upper corner of photo):
That's it for today, but there are still some photos of Bashkiria left, stay tuned!
It's early morning, settlement is still sleeps:
Those strange rows of vents (or chimneys for gas stoves?) reminds me of stereotypical roofs of some old european town:
A grain elevator - local architectural dominant:
Some old houses of first oilmen settlers are up to be demolished:
And some are not:
Causeway over railroad, i wonder if this lamp posts are genuine old lamp posts from 50's:
Priyutovo train station (NG refinery can be seen in a right upper corner of photo):
That's it for today, but there are still some photos of Bashkiria left, stay tuned!
Skorohod
10 kW
One morning i decided to ride before sunrise. I've set an alarm clock, got up in dark and got off.
Took one look away and saw how a solid blanket of clouds catching me up!
Since this dirt roads so slippery when wet i decided to reach a nearest hard surface just in case.
Eneter to small village New-Turayevo:
An old arch-shaped culver hidden beside the road:
Despite thick cover of clouds over sky Bashkiria is still beautiful:
Just an empty open road and me again:
Small oil pre-tratment facility:
Took one look away and saw how a solid blanket of clouds catching me up!
Since this dirt roads so slippery when wet i decided to reach a nearest hard surface just in case.
Eneter to small village New-Turayevo:
An old arch-shaped culver hidden beside the road:
Despite thick cover of clouds over sky Bashkiria is still beautiful:
Just an empty open road and me again:
Small oil pre-tratment facility: