Ha ha.  Ditto that!

I have the light on the VR1 set to 5500, and yes I've lit it a few times.
Did it hit 6 grand, maybe.  It's kinda hard to read at full tilt, but against the beotch pad, feet trying to grab the pegs and shift.  And if you ever seen a chinaman grin, even though I'm not chineese, I do a pretty good impression at full grin.

What?   You chide me for a' teasing Diamond Jim into his own self destruction with my dual spark plug moddie bike and you are planning to go be riding yours?  

Where is that fancy sounding "hippo" something word when you want to use it?   Gee, I hate getting old and not being able to think any more.

Jest teasing ....  I wouldn't call Toymaker no hippie crate -- he hasn't been a hippie for some scores and decades of years now.    Me, I still have a VW van tire on my bike, so mebbe I am the one with the hippie crate complex.

Actually, I guess I am still planning to drive up in a car -- pending Serenity still wanting to donate his old engine to the "fix for the head bearings" cause I need to have me a car to haul it back.

Do we still have a pickumup truck coming to Toymaker's house?   Is the rest of the group willing to kick in some gas money to have a "follow truck" to carry ice chests and tool boxes to follow you around to pick up your pieces when you fall over?  

Do you even want to have a nursemaid truck following you around?   It kinda implies a lack of confidence in the group riding skills that may not be warranted.

    (hee hee hee, right ...)

I guess it is time to re-ask these basic sorts of questions before I lay in a plan to go do something nobody actually wants.

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Another thought -- if I have the backside, who is going to be up front waving the corner rate baton and calling the pitstops?

Now Kel,  one of the unsung advantages of the follow truck idea is that it can carry that mass of stuff up to the Gap for you so you can be riding up all unencumbered by that ton of stuff hanging off the back of your bike.   You will look much more Joe Cool that way.

As well as carry you, laid out all neck and spine damaged "flat straight and comfy" in the bed of the truck on the way to the emergency room.

Or used for scraping up the pieces of your busted up bike after getting you all fixed up at the emergency room.

Plus, it can carry an ice chest or two full of beverages and some food for eating when we get hungry and don't want to pay $15 again for a hamburger and fries at the Gap Cafe.

  (hee hee hee)

Reality Check....FYI

Monday's Daily Update from "dealsgap.com":

Saturday night, a Knoxville rider took off out of the parking lot and never made it past the first turn. He low sided and ended up going off road down into the ditch, breaking his back and a couple more things. It didnt end there though. We were all on the wreck scene when the rider said he daughter just went down 28 in her car, so I sent a couple of riders down to catch up with her. They found her, and told her to come back to the scene, and on their way back one of the riders wrecked on #28. He was ok, but it was a wreck none the less. During that time, it seems that another Z car had put itself in the ditch on #28 as well. But the strangest part of it all was the fact that the first rider that wrecked needed air ambulance for transport...

Sunday's Post:
Well, as a follow up to my initial statement regarding the car clubs, I feel the need to say that the groups here totaled out at least one car a day since Thursday. Kind of scary when you think about it. FIrst there was a bike on car wreck Thursday(which is inexcusable), then another crash out Friday, and then last night there were two that had issues on # 28. Seems all the drivers were in over their heads, and didnt want to admit that they could tone it down just a bit. Testosterone is a powerful thing.... Maybe next years Z Days will be less stressful comparative to the last few years...

Countdown 18 days till I head twards the Toymaker Lodge and resort

Here is my proposed rout. I am supposed to be meeting MMranch in Blue Ridge on Friday morning any others that are coming from The SW are welcome......... the more the merrier.

Should be about 273 miles one way from my house.

Ill holler when we get close