[novcadetshotz]

Took a jaunt down the Blue Ridge Parkway over the last two weeks, stopping at The Gap "along" the route. .. Ride report from that coming whenever I finish unpacking!

I was checking out Killboy to see if my pictures had been posted and spotted myself on the weekly highlight reel! :banana

Killboy Blog

My pic!

Personally, I'd have picked on of my other pictures if they were really looking at showing off the bike ... like THIS ONE! ... but ohh well!

Anyways, just saw this and felt like throwing up an update! Ride report with plenty of pictures to come!


EDIT - Wavex, that's the KMP fairing I bought off of you a while back and wrecked myself last year. It's almost completely fiberglass now, and painted with truck bed liner! It made it to The Gap and back with no incident!

 

[fadlan12]

Nice bike

 

[inpayne]

I wanna go there, drag some elbowz. heh

 

[Stick N Move]

haha saw you...camera whore!

 

[Zumina]

I like the headlight, what is it?

 

[novcadetshotz]

off of a wrecked 2004 GSXR w/ a mini-fairing made in France by a company called KMP (I believe).

Wavex originally bought it (the mini fairing) and had it on his Fz6 naked conversion till he ate it .. he had a buddy fiberglass it up and re-paint it and I bought it. I got cracked by a cell-phone laden, GMC Yukon driving, not paying attention soccer-mom last October and it was busted all to hell again. By now ... it's pretty much 100% bondo

 

[aTahmission]

Veni vidi vici...almost. That's an area I'm dying to ride, not to leave prodigious amounts of rubber in corners so much (I can't imagine I can learn the entire road on one pass) but just to see what's to be seen. There's a lot of good riding to be had in this region of the country (a surprising amount, in fact) but that particular part of the Appalachians holds a mystique that's exclusive to that particular area.

 

[NattyDrez]

I scrolled down to 'chickonabike' and then lost interest.

 

[novcadetshotz]

Veni vidi vici...almost. That's an area I'm dying to ride, not to leave prodigious amounts of rubber in corners so much (I can't imagine I can learn the entire road on one pass) but just to see what's to be seen. There's a lot of good riding to be had in this region of the country (a surprising amount, in fact) but that particular part of the Appalachians holds a mystique that's exclusive to that particular area.

I've been tainted by the roads of the Great Smokey Mountains... nothing seems to come close now that I'm home again!

I can't even begin to tell you how correct you are in your thinking.

The trip is worth it, and the roads are amazing. If you do it, my advice is to hit The Gap mid-week .. there was virtually no traffic, and not a single LEO. Also, leave yourself plenty of time to ride other roads around there; we found SEVERAL that were BETTER than The Dragon.

 

[bush]

I've been tainted by the roads of the Great Smokey Mountains... nothing seems to come close now that I'm home again!

I can't even begin to tell you how correct you are in your thinking.

The trip is worth it, and the roads are amazing. If you do it, my advice is to hit The Gap mid-week .. there was virtually no traffic, and not a single LEO. Also, leave yourself plenty of time to ride other roads around there; we found SEVERAL that were BETTER than The Dragon.

Hellbender?

I rode that shit in the rain last year, very unnerving. The dragon was mostly dry by the time I got my luggage unpacked at the resort, still managed to surprise myself a few times.

Only got to ride the dragon once, did the Cherahola Skyway loop and only got back to the resort in time to order dinner and get some maintenance done.

 

[RuggedRadios]

Nice pics and Clean Bike!

 

[novcadetshotz]

Hellbender?

One of the roads in the area that I considered to be "better" than the Dragon section of 129.

Also, check out Rt. 80 near Marion, NC as well as Rt. 226 .. WOW!

Nice pics and Clean Bike!

Thanks! She was actually COVERED in nastiness. She looks clean because all of the black parts are coated in truck-bed liner!

She's STILL covered in nastiness I'll get around to washing her here in a couple of days. Still coming down from the "high" of riding those roads."

 

[Optimus Leo]

Really nice bike man. Looks sick!

Loved the Lego Man XD