What do you smell when you ride?

[GLC1968]

You haven't lived until you ride by 4 of these in a row, all sitting out there baking in the hot sunshine.

Karen (lives by Tyson)

*shudder* And THAT my friends is why I no longer buy chicken from a grocery store!

[newfsmith]

I smell a lot of what has already been posted as well. Lately, I keep smelling this weird but pleasant woody cinnamon smell. It reminds of the taste of cinnamon flavored toothpicks. I have no idea what plant it is, but I've smelled it in a ton of different rural locations, so I think it's some type of wild plant.

If you lived here in the Northeast, I would guess you were smelling Sweet Fern, Comptonia peregrina. This time of year that is what I smell on my way home from work.

[arielmoon]

I would love to say I smelled lovely flowers on my rides but more often than naught I smell roadkill and skunk.

[beccaB]

people grilling stuff for dinner. Why wasn't I invited-I'm hungry! The smells of summer= Americana!

[bmccasland]

I smell the willows growing along the Mississippi River on the flood side of the levee. Willows (and cottonwoods) smell different to me than other trees - more of a musty smell.

BEER! The levee path goes under two graineries.

There's a funny smell that sometimes drifts over from the shipyards where a Navy ship is currently under construction. Not really a paint smell, not sure what it is - I can see them welding. Does welding metal give off a smell?

[TrekTheKaty]

Our new hill route has been dubbed "road kill" road. Our new game is (I can't believe I'm saying this) name the road kill...............snake, racoon, squirrel, and once A WHOLE DEER across the bike path. Unfortunately, it was an out and back