ROAD TRIP!!!

[tommys67]

We're in Roanoke, VA this morning - on our way back to NYC by this afternoon / evening.

Everyone is great, I took about 900 pictures and we shot HOURS of  video.

However, one bike is out of commission - maybe permanently ....

A couple of quick highlights:

1 - The Blue Ridge Parkway is quite possibly the most beautiful road in the country.  AND it's incredibly fun to ride - even right at the speed limit!!

2 - The Dragon...  We didn't so much "Slay the Dragon" as give it a hand-job.  Between the cops, the fear of cops and the ludicrous speed limit, the guys rarely topped 30MPH the whole way.  Totally anti-climactic.

3 - Take the Dragon and the movies from "The Snake" and we have a NEW RULE - If a road has a nickname - AVOID IT!!!

4 - The discovery of the trip is remaining a secret - but I will post a teaser video in a day or two.

5 - My car was vital to this trip.

[GLantern]

Can't wait to see that video tommy, you guys get home safe!

[tommys67]

OK everyone, I'll have a new video and a few pictures posted by midnight tonight.

As I said in another post, we found a road we're keeping secret for a few reasons.

1 - It's pretty unknown and
2 - It's intimidating and dangerous.
3 - It has no nickname - and it NEEDS to stay that way.

I can't overstate how important it is for everyone to AVOID roads with nicknames.  The Dragon was not slayed - rather it was given a hand-job, possibly with it's balls being cupped and massaged.  The Snake saw goldenchild get pulled over and ticketed ON THE MOUNTAIN.

Couple other thoughts:
Pigeon Forge,TN is the tackiest, most god-awful place on earth.
Asheville, NC - fun, but not THAT fun.

The incident:

Dizzle lowsided on this road and his bike suffered severe front end damage.  Whether the forks, frame or other parts are still straight is an issue for the professionals, but it's UGLY.

Thankfully he lowsided on a super-tight left hand turn and even MORE thankfully his leg caught the guardrail - otherwise he would have fallen over 100 feet down a wooded cliff .  Three cheers for Arai helmets, Knox armor and for Teknic leathers!!! .  Only a bruise on his left elbow!!

More to come...

[CDawg]

Dizzle lowsided on this road ...Only a bruise on his left elbow!!

Damn man.  Glad you are okay!

[Got Duc]

Phhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!

I was worried about something bad for a while.

Don't wnat to see something bad happen to my NY peeps!

one good thing though, Tommy would have company in the car.

[GLantern]

Wow dizz glad you are alright!!! That would have scared me shitless!!

[tommys67]

one good thing though, Tommy would have company in the car.

Actually, Dizz's accident effectively ended the trip.  We picked up a U-haul that night and drove home yesterday.  Me and Dizz in my car, goldenchild and Cru Jones in the U-haul.

The supreme irony is we had only 5 miles of "fun" riding left to go  before some serious commuting on highways and freeways.  All three bikes basically rode about 1,500 miles over 7 days.  The final mileage on my car was 2,172 miles!

I'm assuming the other guys will be posting ride reports soon.

[Pakhan]

Glad to hear Dizz is ok, hope the bike isn't too beat up. 

[goldenchild]

I'm assuming the other guys will be posting ride reports soon.

Well, we made it home. I'm tired, both mentally and physically. I'm currently uploading a ton of pics and will be posting them and a trip report later on.

My initial fears have already come true... all of the roads that we ride - up in the 'Skills, around PJ, eastern and central PA... they will all now PALE in comparison compared to some of the roads we've ridden in the past week. Shit, even The Dragon doesn't compare to some of these other roads. I'm afraid our 500+ mile rides just won't be good enough anymore.

[univox]

Glad to hear Dizz is relatively unharmed

Shit, even The Dragon doesn't compare to some of these other roads.

That's what I've always heard, incredibly overrated, swamped and generally pales in comparison to other roads in the immediate vicinity.

[Howie]

Sorry to hear of the accident and ticket.  Glad you are OK, Dizzle, hope the bike isn't too bad.

[FLSTFI_E46]

Glad to know Dizzle came out ok after the mishap , and the rest of the US for that matter. I hope it all works out and you'll be back on the saddle soon. 

[goldenchild]

Ok, finally finished uploading some of the pics except  now I'm too tired to post anything further, but I'll give you a few fine examples of what our trip was like...

This ones for Tommy, he'll know what I'm talking about -



The sodomy of poor old St.Nick -



Poor Daytona. The upside is that Dizz walked away with barely a scratch even after smacking into the guardrail -



Hopefully I'll have a full report complete with more pics up by tomorrow. Great to see you tonight Pat!!!

[tommys67]

Here we go...

This is it.

From my YouTube Description:
"We rode this route twice.

It is possibly the most insane piece of road on the east coast. I will not reveal where it is for everyone's safety. In part 2 of this video, you will briefly see a van parked in the apex of a turn.

There are three riders in this video - the leader (GC), the video taker (Cru) and Dizzle is in third. Dizz lowsided right in front of the people with the van.

In the first part you can barely see me behind a guardrail taking pictures. In the second part, my little black family sedan gets schooled by my friends' bikes! "

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caY0WN8ieTc

[Beattie_Yoo]

video no worky??