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[dbikers]

i just got back an hour ago from a trip i've always wanted to take...a friend and i took a week off work and headed to the tail of the dragon friday night. got to dayton (needmore rd, ugh!) around 11p friday night and rear wheel/axle bearing exploded.

we have a (really, really) good friend in cincinnati with a 1 ton so he came and picked us up around 1a and went to his place. we waited at a wafflehouse with an armed security guard...and i'm 100% positive his .40 wasn't the only one in 'da house.

 

spent all day saturday getting parts (back up to dayton and then over to springfield before getting back to cincinnati). had everything back together around 5 but the weather was real bad and ws even worse down south.

 

so we took off at 530 or so and headed east to my college roommate's farm in lost creek, wv. we rode thru some heavy rain and got there around 1130p saturday night.....got up sunday morning to even more rain so we decided to stay and hoped that monday would be better.

 

we left monday morning around 8a and headed east toward seneca rocks ....more rain, soaked thru to the bone. then south and west to white sulfur springs (checked out the greenbriar)...then to asheville nc monday night (got to hotel around 10p).

 

woke to fog tuesday am and picked up another friend in cherokee and then down to the tail. what a ride!!!! nc is by far the best mc riding i have found yet. it was absolutely beautiful. we ran the tail 2 times tuesday and drove all around the lakes there...totally awesome!

 

around 6 or so we drove back to cherokee to drop off the friend and caught alot more rain...decided to leave tuesday night luckily the rain let up some. we went back and ran the dragon at about 10p (a little foggy, we never got out of 2nd gear) to get over the mountain and up to knoxville where we stayed at a sleep-inn...we didn't see a single vehicle of any kind on the dragon that night....it was a little creepy but still very cool.

 

got up yesterday and headed home...got in downtown cincinnati and the heavens opened and dumped on us (bad traffic to boot)....we'd seen enough rain and radar / forecast looked bad all the way to toledo so we ended up going back to our friend's place on the north side of town to dry out and try to warm up.

 

got up this am at 6a and headed home...got here at 1230. just a hair over 2000 miles, was a good ride...vista-cruise, new seat, shield, and pegs made the ride relatively painless though would love to take that trip on a bigger bike...the bikes ran ok

 

i unloaded, rinsed the pig down, and here i sit with a beer trying to get my ears to quit ringing/buzzing and preparing for the weekend ..saturday and sunday will be spent doing guess what? yup, motorcycle riding...son and i are going to meet a couple of friends up in st. helen and then gladwin to do a l'il trail biking. after this weekend i think i will take a little break from 2-wheels (at least til mid-next week)

 

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Edited July 11, 2013 by dbikers

[hubbsfd]

I was just there last week. Wonderful riding in the Smokey's. Did you do the Moonshiner 28 run? I loved it even better then Tail of the Dragon.

[dbikers]

yes, we ran 28......all of the roads down there are fantastic. between wv and nc i could ride the roads forever...just beautiful

[reddevilmedic]

great riding! just came back from a trip to florida. went through indy, 64 east, to blue ridge, then south. a little different on the way back. im near st.helen in Roscommon. Saturday is a charity ride..."ashleys ride" in Mancelona. google it.