Let's start us a thread to discuss the next Dragon trip.  Toymaker is up for hosting it and I am going to stop hijacking a RPM limiter thread holding a side conversation talking about it.

Time frame is June-August with some thoughts floated around the 4th of July weekend as most folks have an extended weekend for that one since the 4th of July falls on a Sunday this year.

Last year we did mostly Savages and we realized that folks were having to trailer them up from Florida and such.  Lancer rode his Sportster (he's an old crip like me, lemme tell you we wuz a sight the two of us getting on and off them bikes at the end of a long ride) and I realized that folks riding a long distance might want to ride their open road cruiser simply for comfort reasons.  I have no problem with that, the idea is to get together in person and have some fun, not so much what you find comfortable to ride on for a long distance.

What do you folks think about the idea?  Given enough time we can plan out a decent trip complete with reservations for those who want to sleep in a bed (me !!).

As far as Me...I'm fexible as Gumby...We have the pool and the missus is very understanding.  We'll have and extra bedroom this year...cuz the boy leaves Dec 16 for Great Lakes.

Im going to be there from June 27 till July 4.  Have been in contact with seviersavage to find out where to get a bike to rent.  Now I just have to decide what to get and set that up.  We will be staying in Gatlinburg @ westgate resorts.

As much as I would enjoy riding down to the Carolina's, which I love by the way, I'll have to pass on this run. It's not just "thick, chewy holiday traffic" but more of a mass of lunatic drivers who would just as soon run you off the road without looking back to get to their destination. You would have to live here to understand what I mean. 12 hours riding in that isn't what I consider fun.

I'll hang for the Maryland/Virginia run in the spring before Memorial Day, and the 2nd annual Pa. run in September. For those of you who make this run, enjoy it, ride safe and have a blast!

Actually we have worked it down to a couple of days somewhere around June 27 to July 4th, with photojoe now declining because of traffic of all things.

Yeah Joe, there is traffic -- that sluggishly moving stuff we wind in and out of all the time.  Actually, I park my bike about one foot inside the yellow line when I'm riding rear and nobody generally passes a line of bikes unless they pull way over in their lane to give us lots of clearance.  I also do lane blocking during our pass maneuvers so everyone can pass as a group all nice and neat like.

You see, we are a group wearing big ol' dragon tee shirts of all things and by definition we are "dangerous and surly bikers".  They don't mess with us.  

And if they do, why then they are nuts.  Most of our bikes are blatting and whapping like a Harley and some of us look positively nasty mean when seen at 65-70 mph.

And when we cut loose, why we imitate a small swarm of hornets going 80-85 mph and we just pass everybody.

('cept the crotch rocket boys and they are gone by so fast you hardly even get to catch the color of their helmets as they snarl on by)

Oldfeller--FSO wrote on 11/29/08 at 18:37:01:

Thanks for the lesson and sermon OF. I'll bookmark it, and file it along with the rest of the useless knowledge I'll need when I want to learn how to ride like the old timers. For now, I'll continue to ride every day through urban traffic, and look for advice from the people who ride in the same conditions.

Be sure to add some "useless knowledge" to it, something like a saying or a credo to it to add true insult to the injury of the folks having to read it as we go past them on the road.  

What is our credo, anyway?

Oldfeller--FSO wrote on 11/29/08 at 21:37:14:

It's "Ride it like you stole it"