For those of you interested in seeing my pics, here are a few of me and two friends riding the Dragon's Tail in TN
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Love this one for the disappearing curves



Again with the curves.... leaning for the right turn and you see the road to the left again.



You can see the two guys in the background that went with me. They are following me for photo reasons only.... much faster/better riders than I am . But hey... look at the tip of my shoe and you can see our faces.



We stopped and used my camera and the pics turn out good.

Group shot during our ride up




The bikes....




The sign




The "Tree of Shame" parts for wrecked bikes.




Time travel anyone....




Me




Me again...




Still me...




Nice shadow




going...




Gone...




The new look on my tail showing off the dragon decals

 

Where r u riding from??
Nice pix though

 

Nice bikes.

Don, why do you hug the inside line in the first pics, and then in the 2nd set, your real close to that double yellow line. That's scary man.

Looks like real nice roads though, doesn't look like there's a lot of gravel, pretty clean.

 

helps to look...from Va Beach huh

I think i am going up real soon if i can make money this weekend and this coming week

 

damn that place looks NICE. i can't wait to go there!

 

Awesome Delorean, great pics, still cant lean that far. How long did it take you to get comfortable to lean in that far. I guess I just dont trust myself yet.

 

awesome pics don! that place is an absolute sportbike heaven. the daily commute will never be the same again.

 

Nice i wish i could go there... oh is it me or is that girl hott???

 

The pics are taken at Deals Gap, aka The Dragon's Tail. For Reference, look at tailofthedragon.com or dealsgap.com.

North Carolina and Tennessee border in the Smoky Mountains. US route 129 has a famous section of 11 miles with 318 turns. I'm hugging the lines at time because if you can see through the corner.... you use it. The roads are very, very smooth and clean. Cops stay out of the 11 miles until someone crashes and then they only go there for that. BUT!!! On the side with hotel, you have about 9 or 10 miles of long straights around a lake THAT DOES ALWAYS HAVE A COP AT THE BOAT LAUNCHES. I know, I missed him by one mile. I had a Harley Road King crash behind me and I stopped to flag traffic. Once they pulled the 60 year old out from under the Harley and got him to the side, you could tell his shoulder and left leg were in need of some casting. Not to mention his face was cut all up.... go skull caps. Any ways, there is no such thing as cell phone signals in the mountains so I hit the last two mile of the Dragon hard then found the straights (my first time through). There is nothing after the Dragon for 10 miles and I was look for a phone so I could call for help. I was hitting the straights in the 130's and gave up at 8 miles.... 9 miles is where the cop sits. Can you say jail time boys and girls. So freaking lucky. I didn't know how far the nearest phone was on my side so I gave up and went back to the wreck. Other riders went the other way to report the wreck.

Point is... if you go, be carful of the straight after the Dragon, the locals mentioned after the fact that a cop is always waiting at one of the many boat launches after the ride. They give us the Dragon and nothing else.

Awesome week end for a 10 hour drive. Hope to return soon.... I've never had the privilege of riding anything like this before. So many 180 degree turns and great traffic. Everyone moves to the right for faster traffic.

And to answer the question about my lean... I'm a puss compared to the riders here. This place is full of full leather riders dragging there knees all the way through. A lot of pro riders play here on the week-ends. You can find several pull-over areas along the way to stop at. We did so we could take a few pictures and got to watch riders zip by dragging knees with sparks flying. Kind of a humbling feeling. You're doing great (in your own mind).... dragging your boots in corners and then someone comes by putting on a light show with his.... and hers, knees. There are a lot of great riders there, both male and female. And the other thing that puts you in your place.... wait until someone with a pillion passes you ...

 

She is hot... she was a pillion that passed me on an R1