Covered Bridge Photos

[blrfjr]

I know this type of thread exists on other forums so i thought I would start one here. Anyway, if you have any pics of you and/or your bike with a covered bridge post up. This one was taken yesterday at Shades State Park in Indiana.

 

[blrfjr]

I know this type of thread exists on other forums so i thought I would start one here. Anyway, if you have any pics of you and/or your bike with a covered bridge post up. This one was taken yesterday at Shades State Park in Indiana.

The high temp for this ride was 39 degrees but we still rode 200 miles.

 

[PhilJet09]

We used to do this ride every year in eastern Ohio.

 

[dcarver]

 

[Fred W]

Covered Bridges? What the heck are those? We don't have any of those things around here...

We have too many other covered bridges photos to make it fair. Every fall we run a short ride in Southern NH that goes through a dozen authentic historical (not boutique) bridges, and then at the FJR NERDS gathering in Vermont we have a ride route that hits 17 of them, though it does use a number of dirt and gravel roads to do it.

Covered Bridges are pretty cool.

 

[clocklaw]

 

[Enn]

Sorry for a dumb question, but why were these bridges covered in first place? To protect the wooden construction from rain? Never seen anything like that before ...

 

[ionbeam]

Sorry for a dumb question, but why were these bridges covered in first place? To protect the wooden construction from rain? Never seen anything like that before ...

Back in the days before steel girders and I-beams most longer bridges were constructed with wood. An exposed wooden bridge had a life expectancy of 10 - 15 years; a covered bridge is protected from weather and could have a life of more than 100 years. The area of the United States were I live has a whole lot of natural lumber (trees) and very little iron making wood a common construction material.

 

[blrfjr]

Sorry for a dumb question, but why were these bridges covered in first place? To protect the wooden construction from rain? Never seen anything like that before ...

Back in the days before steel girders and I-beams most longer bridges were constructed with wood. An exposed wooden bridge had a life expectancy of 10 - 15 years; a covered bridge is protected from weather and could have a life of more than 100 years. The area of the United States were I live has a whole lot of natural lumber (trees) and very little iron making wood a common construction material.

I like those bridges that have TWO walking lanes and ONE driving lane. I guess when they built it they had more walkers than drivers/riders.

 

[Mizz Bustanut]

Covered Bridges are pretty cool.

+1. One of my dreams is to see the majority of the bridges out east.

 

[Fred W]

Covered Bridges are pretty cool.

+1. One of my dreams is to see the majority of the bridges out east.

You'd better plan on taking a good long vacation to do that. There are 53 historical (i.e. not-fake) Covered bridges in New Hampshire and 118 of them in VT.

BTW - I can host the GPS POI files for all of these if anyone that would like to download them.

 

[blrfjr]

There are 98 historic covered bridges in Indiana. Park county has a covered bridge festival every october.

 

[Bugnatr]

We always do things bigger out west...

Bridgeport bridge over the Yuba River in Northern Ca

But we have the little ones too.

Man law says - pull a wheelie through the bridge.

 

[BikerGeek99]

The scene: NERDS 2011.

The players: The Geeks, BustanutJoker, and dcarver.

Carver: "Ya know - I have never seen a covered bridge. I wanna do the Covered Bridges route."

The Geeks: "Really? OK - we'll ride with ya."

Bust: "Hey, guys - c'mere and check out this growth in my navel! I think it's a new life form - see?"

A few pictures.

We could tell Carver was pretty stoked.

As philjet mentioned, we gots some in Ohio, too.

Some are pretty good sized.

Others, not so much.

 

[yamafitter]

At the 2011 CFR in New Brunswick you could get two covered bridges in one photo.....