Duc followers salivated like Pavlov’s canines over this sanitary basic Desmo Ducati 907 i.e.
We lately advised you about a few occasions right here in Wisconsin to kick off Wisconsin’s fall using season, one in every of which was the distinctive Farm/Artwork DTour.A 3rd occasion that helps open fall using in The Dairy State is the October Slimey Crud Motorbike Gang Café Racer Run. The forecast for spectacular sunny climate for the entire weekend introduced out an enormous variety of motorcyclists on nearly any sort of bike you may think about.
Not like a few of the latest Crud Runs, this occasion introduced nice climate and an enormous crowd of riders.
A giant plus for me was becoming a member of a few my long-time using buddies—Dean Massoglia, who lives in Michigan’s Higher Peninsula, and southwest Wisconsin native Tony Fransen. The three of us received some nice using in on Saturday, October 1, and Sunday’s Crud Run.
We confirmed you this artwork set up referred to as the Curious Erratic of the Driftless when it was nonetheless below building in our protection of the Farm/Artwork DTour. Now full for the DTour, Dean and Tony take a look.
On Saturday, we hit the again roads of Sauk County, taking in a few of the installations of the outside Farm/Artwork DTour. We stopped at Delaney’s Surplus, one in every of our favourite shops for instruments and absolutely anything else you may consider. We even did some mountaineering, an exercise we typically don’t embrace in our bike outings.
Tony and Dean absorb a spectacular view of the Wisconsin River from excessive atop Cactus Bluff west of Sauk Metropolis.
The hike’s spotlight (pun meant) was reaching the scenic overlook atop Cactus Bluff, about 300 ft above the Wisconsin River. It may be reached by way of Ferry Bluff Highway south on a gravel observe off State Trunk Freeway 60, about six miles west of Sauk Metropolis. That takes you on a brief drive to a small parking space on the riverfront. From there, it’s a hike of about 800 yards to the bluff overlook and interpretive web site. The final 200 yards of the path are steep sufficient to depend for every week of your cardio exercise.Sky situations had been extreme clear. With that excellent cover of blue overhead and near-zero wind making the river an ideal mirror, the huge panorama to the south was a research in blue, inexperienced, and pure magnificence, with only a trace of fall colours seen within the early-turning Sugar Maples within the river valley. Absorbing some early fall sunshine so excessive up, we may look the raptors hovering above the river proper within the eye. It was the right strategy to finish the day.
Regardless of the flat-iron seat on this hardtail Triumph, the bike has my vote for the perfect customized of the Crud Run.
Sunday dawned cool and partly cloudy for the Crud Run. Dean and I met Tony in the beginning level in Pine Bluff in Dane County. Almost each piece of floor large enough to park a motorbike was occupied by about 10:30 a.m., as the nice climate introduced out even probably the most rain-averse fair-weather riders.Dean, Tony, and I am going again greater than 40 years, after we all labored within the Engineering Division of Wick Properties in Mazomanie, Wisc. One other of our buddies from these days, Dan Petersen and his spouse Sandy, lately constructed a brand new home just a few miles from Pine Bluff. Being the type of sentimental bike bums we’re, we included a cease on the new Petersen residence to say howdy. For Dean and Tony, it had been a few years since they’d been in contact with Dan, so it was a reunion lengthy overdue.
This immaculate BSA greatest captured the café racer spirit of the Slimey Crud Motorbike Gang Café Racer Run. Certainly, it might have been the perfect bike total!
From there, it was nearly lunchtime. Because it occurred, Rookie’s Meals and Spirits, simply east of Mazomanie, was on one of many routes to the endpoint of the Crud Run in Leland, over in Sauk County.
The Crud Run is open to all manufacturers and kinds, together with this Allis-Chalmers Mannequin C seen in Leland; it’s farm nation, in any case.
After an ideal lunch, we rolled north into Sauk County and made it to North Freedom in time to have some chilly Sprecher Root Beer within the ancestral endpoint of the Crud Run—Sprechers Bar. Previous buddies, outdated bikes—for us, anyway—and plenty of them, plus nice climate, outside artwork, and the timeless fantastic thing about the Driftless Space, multi functional improbable weekend. It doesn’t get a lot better than that!
ST CROIX FALLS, WI — DrydenWire.com — Susan Badtke is a Senior Planner with the West Central Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission. She assisted in the completion of the 2020 Polk County Housing Needs Assessment, a housing study seeking to understand the current housing challenges and help municipalities address population growth and future housing needs.
The host, Kirk Anderson, is the Mayor of St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin, and has for the past 4 years has tried to encourage the development of new housing for seniors, families, and the workforce, both at market rate and affordable costs. Joined by Susan Badtke, WCWRPC, together they talk about the challenges we face in the housing market, projections for future growth/needs, and how municipalities can work with developers and state government better to facilitate a more comprehensive focus on housing than what is typical in many cities, towns, and villages.
Focus: Housing Shortages & Affordability.
What does the future look like for the next generation of homeowners in West Central Wisconsin?
The entire wide-ranging chat was live-streamed at 8:30a (CST) on DrydenWire’sFacebook page Thursday, May 16, 2024.
ICYMI: You can watch the recording on Facebook Watch (here), on YouTube (here), or stream below.
The Wisconsin Badgers football team offered N’Kye Wynn, a three-star interior offensive lineman from Muskegon, Michigan, on Tuesday. The 6-foot-5, 277-pound athlete is a junior in high school and still has one more year before making the jump to the collegiate level.
Wynn has now picked up 25 Division 1 offers, including from Michigan State, Rutgers, Indiana, Minnesota and Wisconsin. The Wolverines have yet to offer from within his home state, but Eastern Michigan, Western Michigan and Central Michigan have also joined the Spartans in extending scholarships to the offensive lineman.
Wisconsin is entering its first season with new offensive line coach AJ Blazek, who ultimately offered Wynn, looking to reestablish the program’s identity as an elite producer of talent on the offensive line.
So far in class of 2025, the Badgers have received commitments from three-star offensive tackles Michael Roeske (Wautoma, WI) and Cam Clark (Dexter, MI) on the offensive line.
I tend to be naive. When I stop at a motel, I assume everything is fine. I’ve learned that I am often very very wrong as there are a whopping 404 Wisconsin bed bug reports right now.
If you’re planning a vacation or stay-cation in Wisconsin anytime soon, you might want to look at the website Bed Bug Reports. You can do a search for virtually every Wisconsin town to see if motels in that city or town has any recent visitor reports of bed bugs. I was shocked to see this total number current as of this writing in Wisconsin.
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I decided to look at motels in Madison just for giggles. Since I can’t 100% verify that these reports are accurate, I won’t keep the hotel info hidden, but here are a couple of incidents reported:
Anonymous – “I stayed at this hotel on ******* for one night. The hotel is very average in terms of cleanliness, room size, staff friendliness, etc. On Monday, I noticed some bites in clusters around my feet and ankles. I was immediately concerned about the possibility of bed bugs.”
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Anonymous – “We stayed at the ******** ******** ****** prior to UW Madison winter graduation…After checking in our teenage daughters found bedbugs in their bed”
Then there’s this one from a motel in Milwaukee:
Anonymous – “Woke up today with about 15 bed bug bites across my ankles and lower legs.”
On second thought, maybe don’t read the Milwaukee motel reviews if you like to sleep at night.
I found these unfiltered visitor incidents very helpful in determining potential trouble spots at Wisconsin motels. If it’s any consolation, it appears Wisconsin places to stay have less problems with bed bugs overall compared to other states.
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