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Me somewhere on Deals Gap | First stop on Thursday. The rain never stopped. |
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| nice room |
Let's see if I can take a picture and blind myself. ah ha! success! |
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| stats for first night. I rode all of this in the rain Serious rain. I-80 through IL and IN was very bad. |
I made it to Lafayette, Indiana the first night |
This is Thursday night. It kept raining all night. |
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| Now a look at the radar Friday morning It rained 3 inches over the night and it was still raining when I woke up. |
Welcome to TN rest stop on I-75 The rain had cleared up back near Cincinnati and it got hotter and hotter mile after mile. |
Finally made it to the overlook at Deal's Gap |
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| pic from the overlook | Friday night FZ1 riders meet, greet and eat | Mike (PJFZ1) with Roo (and booze) |
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| Saturday Morning at Deal's Gap When I got there not many people were there. I rode up to the overlook and back and the CROT was packed! |
Our FZ1's at an overlook on the Cherohala Skyway FZ1 owners left to right - Paige(motominx), Matt (FZ1 Matt), Miles (FZ1eh) |
There was a lizard at the overlook also Here lizard lizard lizard. He didn't have a chance. He didn't want his picture taken but 3 humans put their brain power together and herded him into a corner and began taking pictures. |
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| Another pic from the Cherohala | Paige in the lead and Miles in 2nd | Chris (Macx) going around the corner |
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| Another pic of the leaders | Cooter007 and Manx | More leader pics |
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| Cooter007 | Stop driving Ride a motorcycle I would have to agree with that |
I just noticed someone stole the North129 sign in the background |
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| Deal's gap | Somewhere on Deal's Gap | |
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| right peg |
It reminded me of someone I know |
He had ridden his Wing all over the country. He has over 150,000 miles on this 2 year old wing if I remember correctly |
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| right passenger peg |
The rubber part of the peg fell off on his previous Deal's Gap run I think |
Hwy 28 near Fontana Village |
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| Hwy 28 again | yet again | It's just wonderful out |
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| 100_0740.jpg | My room at the Fontana village Room number 129. Hmm, I'll be able to remember that number |
Fizzy Fall down |
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| This one fell down too | It was really raining at the Cookout on Saturday night I mean really, really raining. |
Shredders friend decided he was already wet so he was going for a ride |
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You'd swear we were in a tropical rain forest |
The sun came out and it was STILL raining Wow! this Pic turned out nice |
Bob's (Canyon Dancer) Honda Pacific Coast He will smoke you without even trying. Bob's a great guy and a very fast rider.
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| Cookout Saturday night | Lot's of nice LEDs on this Fizzy Note to self: turn off flash for next pic, dumbass. Also, notice the fake puddle of oil under his bike! I think he fell for it! |
Ok I turned the flash off |
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| hwy 129 heading toward the Cherohala Skyway | beautiful mountains | The Cherohala Skyway Sunday morning |
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| It got foggy and rainy above 5000 ft | 100_0761.jpg | 100_0762.jpg |
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| This bird was a beautiful singer I stopped up at the Cherohala Skyway for 1/2 hour and just sat and enjoyed the sights and sounds |
didn't turn out too good though |
another bird |
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After this I gassed up and wandered my way to I-75 to attempt to get home to WI |
First pic of the crazy Mountain road I found This is the road I mentioned at the top of the page |
another angle |
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| more from Mountain Rd | I stopped to smell the flowers My riding style is classified as "Power Sniffer" |
more Mountain Rd |
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What you don't see is the house that is directly to the left of me. People are sitting on their porch and watching me taking this picture. I waved to them after I took the picture and they smiled and waved. They were quite happy people. |
more scenery |
There is a huge drop off just to the right of my bike. |
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I think that was 116?! It turned out to be an outstanding road! Nobody was on it and it parts of it reminded me of Deal's Gap while others reminded me of the Cherohala Skyway |
Gas stop after I found I-75 again I was glad I found the interstate. I was starting to get worried that I'd be trapped in the middle of nowhere, TN |
Rest stop 10 miles South of Cincinatti, OH That there's gonna be a big storm. I'm really tired of riding through thunder storms at this point. I wait here for a bit then head out again. I later found out that I I managed to ride between 2 strong storm cells instead of riding through one. I was lucky. From here I rode all the way to Lebanon, IN. The skys cleared up pretty good after I waited out 1more passing strong storm somewhere in Central Indiana. I got a motel in Lebanon, IN. It was about 11:30pm |
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| Rest stop on I-65 on Monday morning This is about 110 miles north of the hotel. I stayed at Sunday night. I knew I'd hit this one since I studied the weather channel forcasts before leaving the hotel. I actually got to this rest stop before the serious rain and lightning started |
sitting at a picnic table just watching the rain fall Lots of lightning too. It all cleared up in about 45 minutes. After this, I rode the rest of the 175 miles home without a problem. |
I left some peg scrapings on the dragon. |
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| Right peg |
hmm, I must have touched this down on one of those right handers |
That twisty mountain road I was mentioning previously You can see that I have the start of the Gravel switchbacks as a waypoint. I went from right to left on this map
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