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04-07-2009, 08:22 AM
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this is one of the roads I was supposed to go on in NC this past summer...318 turns in 11 miles from NC to TN crossing the border.*I was down there with a whole group of 70s honda choppers. We decided not to take the choppers on that road...the bikes were just too long for the turns.(mine is exactly 10 feet long) ..listen to these wings scrape through entire turns...every turn... lol...this is totally insane to do on a bike as big as a goldwing...now a CBR???................* 
* This road is known as the "tail of the dragon" or Deals Gap.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nrMQ3QwyPo
* This road is known as the "tail of the dragon" or Deals Gap.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nrMQ3QwyPo
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04-07-2009, 11:14 AM
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Hey Red, www.ridelikeapro.com has a DVD that has Deals Gap on it. It is called Riding the Dragon. The guy who is the fastest rider on Deals Gap rides a Goldwing. The video has him tailgating sports bikes until the sports bike "crashes a burns." The guy who rides the Dragon on the Goldwing rides it 5 -10 times a day, everyday. He shows that it is not the bike (although a 10 foot chopper would be an exception I am sure) that matters, it is the skills of the rider that counts.
Somewhere inside all of us is our threshold to fear. Once we meet that threshold, we either back off or our survival mode takes over. Survival mode is "fight, flight or freeze." Everyone displays one of these conditions in survival mode. It depends on one's training and nature as to which mode one reacts with in survival mode.
Surpassing our survival mode by too much means "tarmac tasting." The way to extend out one's survival mode is to practice pushing the envelope of one's skills just a little further each time. In other words, practice, practice, practice.
The video by Palladino shows that a skillful rider with a large bike can put a "can of whoopass" on a non and semi-skilled riders with a super bike. I think Palladino has a clip on his site of Riding the Dragon.
P.S. Push your luck on the dragon and the parts that survive the crash end up on the Tree of Shame....
P.S.S. I just watched the video you posted from Youtube. Yellow Wolf is the best rider on Deals Gap and is the guy on Palladino's video.
Somewhere inside all of us is our threshold to fear. Once we meet that threshold, we either back off or our survival mode takes over. Survival mode is "fight, flight or freeze." Everyone displays one of these conditions in survival mode. It depends on one's training and nature as to which mode one reacts with in survival mode.
Surpassing our survival mode by too much means "tarmac tasting." The way to extend out one's survival mode is to practice pushing the envelope of one's skills just a little further each time. In other words, practice, practice, practice.
The video by Palladino shows that a skillful rider with a large bike can put a "can of whoopass" on a non and semi-skilled riders with a super bike. I think Palladino has a clip on his site of Riding the Dragon.
P.S. Push your luck on the dragon and the parts that survive the crash end up on the Tree of Shame....
P.S.S. I just watched the video you posted from Youtube. Yellow Wolf is the best rider on Deals Gap and is the guy on Palladino's video.
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hey guys, i live about 5 miles off of the tennessee end of the dragon, and have ridden it exactly twice. the first time was great! second time my buddy downed his gsxr600. he survived, but the bike was in pieces. i haven't been back since purely because every road around here is like that. it's a great area to ride in, and it doesn't really matter what you're riding. anything is fun when the roads aren't ever straight for more than a quarter mile at a time.
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04-07-2009, 05:20 PM
The wife and I on our 1000F just returned from the Smoky Mountain National Park area. We rode the Dragon, south end in the rain 4/2. Foothills Pkwy, nice. TN 360 and the Cherohala Skyway,NC end at 5000ft in freezing fog, super sweepers. TN 73 in SMNP, most scenic with great curves. The whole area is great. I'll be back in October on maybe sooner!
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That's a dangerous bike! No front brakes, how can you even consider taking it on the road? I have nothing against choppers or any bike for that matter, as long as they are street legal. That springer front end is nice but we have the technology today to add at least one disk to the front.
Your Chopper
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