Time is short, again

 I got out for rides twice this past week with Scott, for autumn foliage runs while the weather was unusually warm. It was in the low 70's all this past week, but the cold front comes through on Saturday. It's not unusual to have snow on the Halloween decorations around here, so hoping not this year.

On Monday afternoon we did a 50 miles circuit of eastern Rensselaer County, covering a lot of our old stomping grounds and some roads that have for decades been incorporated into Sunday rides. Found some newly paved areas and avoided some of the places destroyed by flooding last summer, not all of which have been repaired.

Thursday we went north around the east side of Saratoga Lake, and I accumulated about 100 miles. Again, many roads we've used for decades as part of Sunday rides and many others I'd never been on, and at times had no idea at all where we were. My H-D Ride Planner app took copious notes if I want to try and recreate the run.

These were the first longer rides I've done since adding the H-D Police solo seat and it is such an improvement for me, in the way i'm sitting now. I'm hoping to soon have a 2" riser from Ride Masters which will elevate the back of the seat, making the seating surface level, rather than slanting backwards. Harley just can't give up on the default slouch, ever.

Didn't get any leaf pics, 'cause the point was the ride, so we didn't stop for photo shoots along the way. Both days were warm and bright and you picked up the smells of Autumn as you rode. Leaves and apples and occasionally burning wood. Like me, many people around this area would tell you fall is a favorite season. We've been taking these rides for 40 years now and I am hopeful for a few more.

In the two, really non-scenic pics below, take a look at the seats on both bikes. You can see how the seat on the Electra Glide with the riser at the back really raises the seat to a level seating surface, compared with the initial stock install on my Road King, which tilts a bit to the back. Hopefully, I'll get that riser in time to try it this season, and that will be the end of seating modifications. For a while.