See a cannon while out riding? Show it with your bike!

How about pics of a cannon with your bike?

Photo taken at Shilo Battlefield in TN. Really interesting story of the significance and the relating of it to the railroad in Corinth, MS just south of this location.

I almost bought one last year. 42" length overall, with a two inch bore. Loud as crap! The plan was to let loose late at night if our neighbor (Trapp Family Lodge) allowed their outdoor music to continue too long into the night. It was a good plan, and the thought of launching flaming wads of toilet paper in their general direction filled my soul with warm feelings, but the price was a bit steep

I keep a small cannon in my saddlebag.

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There are many of these old cannons here and there in Quebec city facing the St. Lawrence River.

Cannon powershot

Mike

All of mine also taken with a Canon

Cool fort down the road with lots of great ole cannons.

You got us!

My first thought - wait, can't post it. This is serious cannon! Good-lookin' bike too.

Back to the Titans and Steelers.

I'll try to add a black powder variety as well at some point

OOOOhhh an 8"! Nice.

Here's a self-propelled 155mm at a fire support base in South Vietnam. I took this photo while serving with the 1st Infantry Division in 1969:


This is a battery of Katyusha 122mm rockets. While not cannons, they still packed a heck of a bunch if they landed near you. Our patrol came upon the Viet Cong/NVA unit while they were setting up.


Mike

This is a shot of an 8 inch disappearing gun on Mount Victoria, Devonport, overlooking Auckland. It was installed during the 1870s when there were fears of a Russian invasion. Its sister gun on nearby North Head was fired once, breaking many windows in the suburbs, so it was never fired again.

The North Head gun was found buried under a rose garden in the middle of the road in the mid 1970s after a painstaking search by an amateur historian called Paul Titichener - the gun was repatriated to North Head. The Mt Victoria gun was found, still in place, under the tarseal of the carpark. It had been "lost" for decades.

The guns had been hidden during World War 2 because it was feared they would be a target of air strikes. Other guns were cut up and scrapped.

No bike visible (like I was going to park it downrange?!), but I did take the pic: