tattoofizz said:
Great pics! Deals Gap is on my short list of roads to ride in this great country. Is that green bike a Kawi Z1000? It's the only bike I know of that has those mad pipes. How did the FZ do compared to it?
Yeah that's my friends bike. The FZ did pretty good. Usually he eats me up on the straights because of the displacement advantage but there are very little straights on the dragon so I stayed out in front of him a pretty good distance. To his credit, he's still getting used to the Z1K and he was always getting caught behind someone. The only thing I would really complain about on the FZ was the brakes got a little spongy. Some braided brake lines and fluid would probably take care of it but I'm waiting to do the R6 front fork mod and do it all at once.
Only seen one person down on the dragon. We were headed back to my sisters place on Sunday afternoon and one guy lowsided, he had the bike picked back up and was dusting himself off by the time we got there. Stopped to make sure he was ok. He was and the bike still ran. Also had an incounter with a semi on the dragon. It's the Aqua Glass truck on
www.tailofthedragon.com I met him shortly before that picture was taken. When I met him I still had some lane to work with. When my friend passed him, he had very little lane to work with and almost got ran off the road. Gotta watch out for those. We ended up doing 188 mi. on Sun. and just over 300 on Mon. All in all a pretty good trip and I'll definitely be going back before the end of the year. One word of advice is to take it easy the first couple of times through and get a feel for it before you attempt to "slay the dragon" I would also highly recomend the Cherohala Skyway and the Blue Ridge Parkway but one piece of advice take a sweatshirt to wear underneath your gear. It was in the 90's at my sisters house but by the time you get up over 4 or 5000 feet it felt nice so if it's 80 degrees or below it could get pretty cool up there
