N Georgia ride April 10th

Joey, where in NC are you? Do you have your bike with you? Or are you going to be coming up from Ga?

 

shoot yea just shoot me a price ill send you a pm with my address. :thumbsup:

 

well yea i know a better spot which way are you coming from??

 

Ill be coming up from cumming, hey that rhymed!! Right now I don't have my bike don't even have my car with me I went on a road trip with some buddies and im way up in nags head,nc at a beach house kinda chilly up here so no swimming

Let me know where/when u want to meet up!

 

Dudes, I can go on Saturday!!!!!!!Yeah!!!! I just have to be back in Atlanta by 4PM or so. Is that doable?
Wrestler

 

hell yea that's do able!!! :thumbsup:

 

cool beans, should be no rain tomorrow!

 

cool shit !, park800 just sent me a message and said he'll be joining us to, :thumbsup:

 

I'll be there too. Let's try to be there a little before 10am so we can get rolling at 10am. Glad Ed can make it! Still meeting in Clayton - at Ingles gas station - right? I'll be coming up I-985 - I'll meet Matt and Joey on 441 if you guys are riding straight up from Matt's house.

Mike

 

so far mike joey, ed, and park800, is meeting me at my house. just send me a pm if you want to meet up.

 

Hey guys, Just wanted to say thanks to everyone who came out for the ride yesterday. My friends and I enjoyed meeting you all and had a good time. We made the best of the weather conditions as it were, too bad it wasn't as nice a they predicted. The ride home was a lot more comfortable with more sun than clouds the further east we went. I hope everyone made it home safely. Stay in touch. :thumbsup:

 

yeah Dan, it was cool seeing you and your gang. Thanks for showing me some new roads, I always like to explore new areas. I gotta check out some of those routes you told me about!

But it sucks about matt crashing his bike. At least it's still rideable and his coke bottle made it. LOL

Ed, next time you come along for a ride I could even slow down and show you some techniques. But my recommendation is to practice a lot preferably solo so you don't feel the pressure to keep up. A great "bunny slope" route is to ride highway 9 in the dawsonville/dahlonega area. It has some decent curves but nothing like the tail of the dragon.

And once you get comfortable with that try US 129 also known as blood mountain up in the cleveland/suches area. It's got some real tight twisties that even challenge veterans.

 

Pictures from April 11 North Ga ride

Pictures from the ride. Once again, I only ended up with parking lot pictures, and no scenic overlooks! Here's a picture of the minor damage to Matt's bike - glad he had on good riding gear. No injuries.

 

Ha ha, thanks for the parking lot pictures. Hey, we can make it up to you by going to the cherohala skyway for the next ride. There are lots of areas to stop and take some gorgeous pictures!

 

yea im sorry guys for ruining the ride with a crash but it was all still fun :thumbsup: i just order all the parts to fix her back up as good as new so when we riding again?

 

Matt you didin't ruin the ride. We were going to turn around anyway cause the mountain was socked in with fog. But you definetly need to stop charging into the corners. If you cant stay in your lane (thru a curve) you're gonna kill yourself. Get your bike sorted out and work on your skills. You'll eventually get faster.

 

Did you guys ride the route that was listed earlier in the thread, or something different. I'm always looking for out of the way routes up around Blood Mountain/ Clayton. I really like 180 from Suches across to 129. If you did some other route, would somebody post up a google maps version to look over? Thanks, Erik (guy that needs to continue riding solo for a while to avoid crashing trying to keep up with the fast guys...:biggrin

 

i see what your talking about keep one line and instead of charging full blast maintain a steady throttle through the corner:thumbsup:

 

Dan,
Thanks for the tips and the care. I am busy about trying to get more seat time and improve by taking MSF stuff. Don't think I wasn't paying attention to you. Au contraire.
It was a great day. Thanks
Ed

 

dropped the tank and the front fairing off at the body shop buddy said ill be looking at about 600.00 bucks for repairs now thats a bummer what did we learn saturday kids? dont crash its cheaper not to crash. lol