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this past week was bonus pie run week and man the great smoky mountains was the perfect spot!
the trip started out with departure from the may pie run in Cushing. due to the distance involved and after watching the youtube vids of death and destruction, and reports of the dangers on the dragon I decided it would be best to be prepared and trailer up, not knowing that I would in fact need a trailer to get back home!
the drive up was long but interesting as east of Marshal the road gets curvy and hilly.
after a overnight stop in Tuscaloosa Alabama we rolled in to the kick stand lodge 11 miles east of Robbinsville on NC hwy 28 at around 4pm
and quickly set up camp.
three feet from the opening of my tent there was what they call a creek, but in most of Texas we call it a roaring river!
it took us a hour to get set up and the bikes unloaded for our first run up 28 to 129 and through the dragon. we were a bit worried it being memorial day weekend we expected it to be packed and when we arrived at the cross roads of time store (Deals gap resort) the parking lot was packed with bikes, but out on the dragon it was not bad at all.
after a whole bunch of curves we arrived at the tail of the dragon over look for the required pictures.
while up there, we saw a group shooting video and pictures of three guys doing stunts on BMX bikes, they were sponsored by red bull and are criss crossing the country on Victory's and doing bike stunts along the way.
the bike you can just see the rear of on the right was a genuine Arlen ness edition Victory!
we followed them a ways down the dragon before they moved over and let us pass so we could run into Robbinsville and get some dinner.
we will have to watch for the video, we may be in it and David should be in it for sure, but I will let him tell you why!
the trip started out with departure from the may pie run in Cushing. due to the distance involved and after watching the youtube vids of death and destruction, and reports of the dangers on the dragon I decided it would be best to be prepared and trailer up, not knowing that I would in fact need a trailer to get back home!
the drive up was long but interesting as east of Marshal the road gets curvy and hilly.
after a overnight stop in Tuscaloosa Alabama we rolled in to the kick stand lodge 11 miles east of Robbinsville on NC hwy 28 at around 4pm
and quickly set up camp.
three feet from the opening of my tent there was what they call a creek, but in most of Texas we call it a roaring river!
it took us a hour to get set up and the bikes unloaded for our first run up 28 to 129 and through the dragon. we were a bit worried it being memorial day weekend we expected it to be packed and when we arrived at the cross roads of time store (Deals gap resort) the parking lot was packed with bikes, but out on the dragon it was not bad at all.
after a whole bunch of curves we arrived at the tail of the dragon over look for the required pictures.
while up there, we saw a group shooting video and pictures of three guys doing stunts on BMX bikes, they were sponsored by red bull and are criss crossing the country on Victory's and doing bike stunts along the way.
the bike you can just see the rear of on the right was a genuine Arlen ness edition Victory!
we followed them a ways down the dragon before they moved over and let us pass so we could run into Robbinsville and get some dinner.
we will have to watch for the video, we may be in it and David should be in it for sure, but I will let him tell you why!