daddyfriedrich
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Seriously trying to visit Deals Gap. Anyone else interested? I got a kitchen pass, gotta use it for something big!!!
June 25-26 Dragon
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D-Zum
My 13 year old is faster than your President
Like a nice fat speeding ticket from a cop waiting for you in a speed trap, or wrecking your bike and maybe yourself because you low-side and you and your bike both hit trees.....
Pass
Defer your Marital Emancipation Proclamation for an upcoming May weekend at Summit Point.
Yeah...I know it's Mother's Day weekend...I'll take my wife out to dinner when I get home Sunday night.
I'll tell her that's my early Father's Day present.
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Defer your Marital Emancipation Proclamation for an upcoming May weekend at Summit Point.
Yeah...I know it's Mother's Day weekend...I'll take my wife out to dinner when I get home Sunday night.
I'll tell her that's my early Father's Day present.
j_fuggin_t
Member
been there many times, the track trumps an entire week at the gap..
noobinacan
Member
Dragon is over rated...its honestly crap compared to some of the other stuff around there.D-Zum;177456 wrote: Like a nice fat speeding ticket from a cop waiting for you in a speed trap, or wrecking your bike and maybe yourself because you low-side and you and your bike both hit trees.....
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Defer your Marital Emancipation Proclamation for an upcoming May weekend at Summit Point.
Yeah...I know it's Mother's Day weekend...I'll take my wife out to dinner when I get home Sunday night.
I'll tell her that's my early Father's Day present.
and should I mention crowded by slow poke arley trains who get mad at you if you go around them,...Guess how I know ?
anyways...cancel the dragon trip and do Cherohala skyway
and parts of hwy 64 are awesome...just fun fun with easy riding no brakes touched Bunch of wimps! If Deals Gap is such crap, why do ALL the locals continue to go up there, when there is "so much better stuff around"? Why does Jarrod Barnes practice on the hill? Why do many other track guys practice on the hill? Because its NOT crap. Go around 5 o'clock in the afternoon on a weekday, and you can make all the trips back and forth non stop you want until you cant walk anymore. The fuzz is gone by then and so are the tourons. Now, its not as "fast and no brakes touched" as some other roads, but it is by no means crap, and it is very difficult to nail it, but it is a VERY technical road. Tons of off camber, increasing / decreasing radius stuff, etc....hell if you want to practice a specific "type" of turn, a lot of us go hit a certain section of the road and turn around and do it again back and forth...you can run a 3-4 min section of it a few times and learn a lot.
I may be partial because Im a local, but I AM a local and know the roads around here better than most that arent. And the Gap is an awesome road worth a trip if you have a bike for it. I personally dont have a legal street bike so I cant make it. But I would HIGHLY recommend it. Just dont get in over your head
Although I have yet to do a track day (25 days to go!) so I honestly cant compare. But even so, if you are going to make a trip for a road, the Gap is it.
If Deals Gap is such crap, why do ALL the locals continue to go up there, when there is "so much better stuff around"? Why does Jarrod Barnes practice on the hill? Why do many other track guys practice on the hill? Because its NOT crap. Go around 5 o'clock in the afternoon on a weekday, and you can make all the trips back and forth non stop you want until you cant walk anymore. The fuzz is gone by then and so are the tourons. Now, its not as "fast and no brakes touched" as some other roads, but it is by no means crap, and it is very difficult to nail it, but it is a VERY technical road. Tons of off camber, increasing / decreasing radius stuff, etc....hell if you want to practice a specific "type" of turn, a lot of us go hit a certain section of the road and turn around and do it again back and forth...you can run a 3-4 min section of it a few times and learn a lot.I may be partial because Im a local, but I AM a local and know the roads around here better than most that arent. And the Gap is an awesome road worth a trip if you have a bike for it. I personally dont have a legal street bike so I cant make it. But I would HIGHLY recommend it. Just dont get in over your head
Although I have yet to do a track day (25 days to go!) so I honestly cant compare. But even so, if you are going to make a trip for a road, the Gap is it.
Bubba Zanetti
Member
Once you take a hit off the "track pipe" you will amend your statementLean.In.;177508 wrote: Bunch of wimps!
I may be partial because Im a local, but I AM a local and know the roads around here better than most that arent. And the Gap is an awesome road worth a trip if you have a bike for it. I personally dont have a legal street bike so I cant make it. But I would HIGHLY recommend it. Just dont get in over your head
Although I have yet to do a track day (25 days to go!) so I honestly cant compare. But even so, if you are going to make a trip for a road, the Gap is it.
.BZ
daddyfriedrich
Member
Possibly a moot idea anyway, the road trip my wife is taking looks like it's being rescheduled to a weekday kind of thing. I am certainly going to look at doing Summit anyway. Thanks guys. Even you, Darren, you sentimental old cuss . . .
Hitman954
New Member
Well I've done trackdays and all the sort
The dragon is really cool to me, love TN so much. He's right about going in the evening, Thursday is the best, around 5ish. Lots of great riders and it is really dead by then. Also no semis in the evenings. Really there is barely anyone there after 5.
The track is ultimatly the best place to be though. Practicing your turns lap after lap and then chillin afterwards with some of the coolest people I've meet. For me the track is a drug I can't get enough of, and with that said. You wont dare catch me in a cage in TN enless I'm just showin up, or just leaving. Some of my best times have been in TN with friends and the mountains and my bike.
Dont hate just cause you think its dumb.
The dragon is really cool to me, love TN so much. He's right about going in the evening, Thursday is the best, around 5ish. Lots of great riders and it is really dead by then. Also no semis in the evenings. Really there is barely anyone there after 5.
The track is ultimatly the best place to be though. Practicing your turns lap after lap and then chillin afterwards with some of the coolest people I've meet. For me the track is a drug I can't get enough of, and with that said. You wont dare catch me in a cage in TN enless I'm just showin up, or just leaving. Some of my best times have been in TN with friends and the mountains and my bike.
Dont hate just cause you think its dumb.
BigKid
New Member
I have made many pilgrimages to the dragon. The last one got me on speed channel and 2 very expensive tickets in 24 hours. The locals law enforcement does not like you and does not want you coming down no matter how good the tourism is good for the county. They will show you what hillbilly justice really means. Imagine 16 tickets written for a group of bikes because someone in the pack of bikes was going 4 miles over the speed limit. Everyone gets tickets and if they want to fight the ticket they are welcome to come back in 30 days at the trial date. BTW 5 different trial dates are set for everyone in the group so no chance that you can all go down as a group to fight the ticket AND the day before trial your trial date postponement letter shows up in the mail about the time you are flying down to Knoxville. Yes, deals gap is the sport bike mecca of the world, unfortunately hillbilly's have a different idea how the justice system in their neck of the woods should be run. But if you enjoy riding ate 35 MPH or less everywhere you go by all means enjoy, Ill be at the track where the only place I go 35 is the hot pit lane.
fitz
New Member
Man you guys are super serious!
All he asked was if anyone wanted meet up and go riding on the street (GASP!) how terrible, at Deals gap no less.
I know this is crazy talk in a track forum, but just getting out there on two wheels, out in the country, on a beautiful summer day, and even obeying the speed limit (GASP!) many good times can be had.
OK I’m outa hereuttahere:
fitz
All he asked was if anyone wanted meet up and go riding on the street (GASP!) how terrible, at Deals gap no less.
I know this is crazy talk in a track forum, but just getting out there on two wheels, out in the country, on a beautiful summer day, and even obeying the speed limit (GASP!) many good times can be had.
OK I’m outa here
uttahere:fitz
Hillbillies? Its not 1920. Your group probably wasnt doing "4" over either. You knw what, I retract my staement earlier...please stay away...we will take the road all to ourselves. Haha.
And head on into semis?? Its not an interstate....few and far between.
Fitz and Hitman, "yalls" welcome to my hillbilly redneck town anytime! Ha
And head on into semis?? Its not an interstate....few and far between.
Fitz and Hitman, "yalls" welcome to my hillbilly redneck town anytime! Ha
noobinacan
Member
Lean IN...you can be official NESBA hillbilly
HAHAHAor is that title already taken ?
Hey you'uns, what's you call tham fandangled shiny contraptions on your feets? We alls just run burfoot round here.
That's me, the NESBA redneck.. Does it matter that I have all my teeth? I really want to be a good redneck mascot. Since this thread is so far off topic, who's goin to Road ATL?!!?? That will be my first NESBA TD evah!
That's me, the NESBA redneck.
. Does it matter that I have all my teeth? I really want to be a good redneck mascot. Since this thread is so far off topic, who's goin to Road ATL?!!?? That will be my first NESBA TD evah!