Well, that's honest feedback ....
We always try to tell folks the truth of what it is like up on the Dragon, but we all tend to bullshit so much I think they discount it strongly as being all "unbelievable" and "all exaggerated" ... people have wrecks every day up there and people do get killed every summer.
We lost Ed to a wreck in year #1 because of an increasing radius turn on the Blue Ridge Parkway ....
(he panicked and mashed his rear brake hard)
Southpaw tells us that flatlanders really don't feel comfortable at all playing speed racer up on the Skyway .... (where sweep speeds get high and the geography gets interesting at times)
and even when toned down a bunch they get left behind by the group and aren't really sure how to find their way home.
Maps of the area are recommended to be given to new riders.
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Southpaw, I was afraid of that and was kinda expecting it, too.
Natural selection puts the fastest riders up in the front and unless you have a dedicated person like Toymaker to intentionally play sweep man at the end of everyone a long long travel loop like the Skyway will separate the group into 2-3 speed based subgroups fairly quickly and separate them by miles and lots of minutes by the end of it.
I am glad you weren't hurt and here's my bet -- you'll forget all the bad stuff by next year and you'll want to go again as it was a lot of fun (in a terrifying kind of way).
And yeah, when I get home I thank God I didn't get killed doing all the stupid things I did do
and I promise I won't go again -- then I do go again anyway.
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Next time I'm carrying the bike in on a truck or a trailer though -- give me an extra day of real riding and a chance to rest some on the way back instead of beating myself to death riding on them tilted concrete slabs.
And you will all notice, that as per my promise the nasty green frog was GONE by the time you woke up Friday morning.
The nasty green frog killed no one, maimed no one -- didn't even skin up a shin or an elbow of any newperson who showed up on the "safe days" of Friday Saturday and Sunday. Didn't even skeer them any, either.
And, irony of ironies, 'ol Mr. Evil was the only one that kissed the pavement/grass this time
(and he did it on a "safe day" too
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OK, oh you pinky finger a stickin' in the corner of your mouth, that's 2 fer 3 with you going down while rolling on these here little mountain excursions don't 'cha know it?
Me, I don't go down when rolling (so far anyway) I only roll over stationary bikes when crawing off them with the sidestand not properly locked back & down at them solitary & isolated overlooks, so still, I can't be saying all that very much about any of it, now can I?
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