+1 on the summer Dragon run sorta getting to be like a "well done" burger to me.
Smaller, more specific more adventurous runs with fewer people tend to be more fun anyway.
Riding in a line with a "line Captain" and having lots of rools to follow would give me the pip, I think.
MMRanch can't even do it any more -- he gets throttleitus and rips up the line and says "got a call, gotta go !!" and whumppppp he's over the horizon. And that's on his Hurley too.
Plus, they would all be slow fat Hurlies with pork chops a hanging off on every side, and I ride a certified "bad to the bone" pork chop eating Savage.
Me, I'd wait until they were deep deep in the double yellow line curlies and rip them off by the 2-3 at a lick plus whatever panel vans and cars were interspersed into the traffic.
..... the look of absolute shock & terror on shotgun momma's face is too too precious as they get passed to the inside when they are "cranked over all the way" and going "as fast as you can possibly go" and are waggling all fat in the turns from all the G forces being generated by nearly a ton of Hurley power.
Wuuppppp !!!Timing, week after Labor day is jest about perfect for temperature and leaf drop.
We actually were a week or so too deep into leaf season this year as we had leaves on the road (which for us Rumpelstiltskin types is a bad thing as we go around corners way to fast and when you hit a leaf you slip over 3-4 inches on that tire instantly).