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Anyone here ever rode or drove on the tail of the dragon (US 129)?
Posted on 5/5/14 at 8:01 pm
Posted on 5/5/14 at 8:01 pm
Did it last Thursday for the first time. Was always on my bucket list. Now that I've done it, don't really care if I ever do it again. But glad I did it.
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Posted on 5/5/14 at 8:01 pm to BabyrayS2k
cool
Posted on 5/5/14 at 8:02 pm to BabyrayS2k
Huh?
Posted on 5/5/14 at 8:04 pm to upgrayedd
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Huh?
318 turns in 11 miles.
Posted on 5/5/14 at 8:05 pm to BabyrayS2k
Posted on 5/5/14 at 8:05 pm to BabyrayS2k
This is in nc right
Posted on 5/5/14 at 8:06 pm to BabyrayS2k
Oh Hawaii? Did it. Won't do it again. Just takes too long
Posted on 5/5/14 at 8:06 pm to J311slx
Tennessee/North Carolina line.
Posted on 5/5/14 at 8:08 pm to BabyrayS2k
Oh. Well nvm then 
Posted on 5/5/14 at 8:08 pm to BabyrayS2k
Posted on 5/5/14 at 8:09 pm to BabyrayS2k
Congrats!!
Been Riding Motorcycles for 32 years. I have not been able to make to the "Tail" yet...
Still part of my bucket list....
So.... What kind of bike did you have.... seriously.
Been Riding Motorcycles for 32 years. I have not been able to make to the "Tail" yet...
Still part of my bucket list....
So.... What kind of bike did you have.... seriously.
Posted on 5/5/14 at 8:11 pm to klrstix
st1300
Posted on 5/5/14 at 8:12 pm to BabyrayS2k
dp
This post was edited on 5/5/14 at 8:40 pm
Posted on 5/5/14 at 8:13 pm to klrstix
How about you klrstix? You should ride the tail once in your life.
Posted on 5/5/14 at 8:14 pm to BabyrayS2k
First time I rode it, we just called it Deal's Gap, circa 1988. Great fun back then, just hardcore sport riders and racers, best of all NO cruisers.
These days, it's completely clogged up with "bikers" and squids who think they are fast. I've been twice in the last 10 years, the absolute best time to ride it, is on a week night.
These days, it's completely clogged up with "bikers" and squids who think they are fast. I've been twice in the last 10 years, the absolute best time to ride it, is on a week night.
This post was edited on 5/5/14 at 8:15 pm
Posted on 5/5/14 at 8:17 pm to bgoodwin
So many other great roads in the area, I'd rather not get hit head-on by some black t-shirt wearing, land barge pilot who can't stay on his side of the road.
Posted on 5/5/14 at 8:18 pm to BabyrayS2k
No but I've done Black Bear Pass during the rain. Hours of white knuckles and cursing.
Posted on 5/5/14 at 8:21 pm to bgoodwin
There were lots of squids there. But I hit it at just the right time. Dude on a gold wing was in front of me. He was good and I had no desire to go faster than he was going. He was dragging metal.
Posted on 5/5/14 at 8:22 pm to BabyrayS2k
Did it in a suburban on the way to go meet my best friend who just got helicoptered out of the woods to Knoxville when he broke his neck. Brakes were very hot and smoking when I stopped at the next gas station. Rotors were glowing
Posted on 5/5/14 at 8:25 pm to bgoodwin
September 1989 for me, I lost count of the deer trying not to hit them or drive off the side and be a Spring 1990 discovery.
Cool drive. In the same league as PCH or the Hawai'i Belt Road.
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