This is the same crew that has already been on them unexpected dirt road jaunts before, eaten them high flying lawnmower grass discharge flows and ridden over the little surprised forest friends in their squeaking splatting little multiples.
We
knows what we is signing up fer. Everybody else has read about it fer years now, so it isn't a surprise to anybody.
Only requirement is everybody MUST PACK a real NC & Tennessee road map in their saddle bags in case of separation anxiety (so you can make it back to the Gap Hotel at night).
I get anxious sometimes, when I wait for an hour and nobody makes it to the logical next gas station stop at the end of the Skyway --- I have ridden back up the road over 1/4 way expecting to see some parked bikes by an overview type outside turn with all the people missing "gone off down the hill" a lookin'.
I do get anxious sometimes .....
Lancer knows what I mean -- he had to come back once "trying to find everybody" only to find " one bike sideways on the grass" with strange bystanders stopped and gathered around it with his people laying out on the grass (the visual puckered him up pretty good I suspect).
We wuz all napping, waiting fer the epoxy to come back with Toymaker.
Toymaker's been there, Lancer's been there, BigZuk and MM and Oldfeller have observed and band-aided and epoxied up the various splits and cracks as needed so we have been there. We all tend to make it through well enough despite blown tires and all sorts of stuff.
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We has all been there and done that -- the Dragon trip is still too much fun to resist.
Given a whole week to work with, I think we can get into all sorts of trouble jest going at it one day at a time all civilized like.
I do see one real mebbe possible sort of problem for Bigzuk -- he still looks a lot like me.
.... honest Officer, my bike is painted yellow and always has been. I dunno who that old silver granny biker wuz, honest.
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