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Re: 2012 Tail of the Dragon Trip (6/25-7/1)
Reply #840 - 07/05/12 at 08:20:08

MM, Mysterious fixed the picture post bar that is right under where you type in your posts.

Just browse over to your picture and click on it.

Example: I put the gun pic on my desktop and browsed to it with the little bar right below where I am typing in this post.

It works, but for my main informational posts where you stick pic stuff inside the text so it pertains to what is written about it, that requires the old pic posting techniques and outside hosting.

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MMRanch Serious Thumper Offline Evil flourishes if Good Men do Nothing. Posts: 5836 LYNCHBURG TN Gender:	Re: 2012 Tail of the Dragon Trip (6/25-7/1) Reply #841 - 07/05/12 at 09:17:23 How about this Bird ! Perty good trick OldFeller
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serenity3743 Serious Thumper Offline Striving to better, oft we mar what's well Posts: 778 Black Mountain, NC Gender:	Re: 2012 Tail of the Dragon Trip (6/25-7/1) Reply #842 - 07/05/12 at 11:07:44 Does the Bird DO anything or is he just an artistic conglomeration? Looks like his "quills" could be for generating electricity when the wind blows 'em?
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ALfromN.H. FSO Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Dragon Slayer Posts: 1421 Rochester, New Hampshire Gender:	Re: 2012 Tail of the Dragon Trip (6/25-7/1) Reply #843 - 07/05/12 at 15:48:15 Here's a pic of my bike with one of the bigger bikes at the dragon last week.
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Southpaw Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline This ol' dog ain't staying on the porch! Posts: 920 Missouri Gender:	Re: 2012 Tail of the Dragon Trip (6/25-7/1) Reply #844 - 07/05/12 at 18:01:08 That was somewhere just west of Topton wasn't it? Its been so long I barely remember. I like what you did to your paint job Al!
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Re: 2012 Tail of the Dragon Trip (6/25-7/1)
Reply #845 - 07/05/12 at 20:44:18

SouthPaw

I wish you could have been there too. , We didn't get so wild this year ... well except for a few times .... .

BigZuk , brought Jill his trusty guide along so no mater how we tried ,, we couldn't get lost. She lead us on some adventuresom roads and most of them had 55mph speed limits , but , we still ran up behind a lot of folks running 40 on them.

We had two guitars and a banjo this year , You would have loved it. We didn't get near enough time to play them. But what little we did was fun. Senerity knows how to play perty good. You come next year and I'll bring a My travel Martin.

Here's where we had lunch one day. Kinda like getting refreshed in more ways than one !

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MMRanch Serious Thumper Offline Evil flourishes if Good Men do Nothing. Posts: 5836 LYNCHBURG TN Gender:	Re: 2012 Tail of the Dragon Trip (6/25-7/1) Reply #846 - 07/05/12 at 21:11:11 Senerity I though the "Bird" could have been some sort of antana for a top secrect bird watchers group or something ... or better yet !!!!! That would be a "GREAT' scavenger hunt item !!!
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Re: 2012 Tail of the Dragon Trip (6/25-7/1)
Reply #847 - 07/06/12 at 09:08:22

If ....

If we were to do a short Sat (ride in) -Sun-Mon-Tuesday (ride home) exploration trip up to do the Boone area (say all the mountains between Boone on the north and Mt. Mitchell on the south) in the two weeks AFTER Labor Day (cooler but still warm in the days weather) ....

If the format was Hotwire.com cheapie rooms with say 2-3 people in the room ....

We have never been in this area, so we don't know if the roads are worthy of a main Dragon style trip.

Who would be up for such a thing?

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MMRanch Serious Thumper Offline Evil flourishes if Good Men do Nothing. Posts: 5836 LYNCHBURG TN Gender:	Re: 2012 Tail of the Dragon Trip (6/25-7/1) Reply #848 - 07/06/12 at 20:14:06 Uaaaaa Let me ask the boss about that one ???? Closer to Labor Day.... I suppect it will be OK . Go hunt-up some of thoes 55mph black lines . So pencil me in. 85%
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Re: 2012 Tail of the Dragon Trip (6/25-7/1)
Reply #849 - 07/06/12 at 22:15:32

I'm thinking week or two PAST Labor day, just to get rid of the Labor day crowds and yet still be way too early for leaf season -- still fully warm during the days but not killing hot like it has been.

Just find out if she is good for it as a general sort of idea, I still have to swap the tires on both ends of my bike and do me a valve adjustment (this gives me enough piddle time to do all that with no strain).

Start thinking about where you want to go that is in the area -- you got Grandfather mountain, Mt. Mitchell, every ski resort (all 5-6 of them) in the world, Boone NC (got to eat at the Daniel Boone Inn if we go there).

You know, places to go, things to do. Check out the roads for when them Dragon boys get all bored doing the same things time after time.

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LANCER Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Savage Beast Performance Parts Posts: 10663 Oklahoma Gender:	Re: 2012 Tail of the Dragon Trip (6/25-7/1) Reply #850 - 07/07/12 at 05:04:49 I am seriously interested but will have to hold until I know how this fits into other requirements. I'm penciled in for minor surgery to fix a hernia but don't have a hard date yet.
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MMRanch Serious Thumper Offline Evil flourishes if Good Men do Nothing. Posts: 5836 LYNCHBURG TN Gender:	Re: 2012 Tail of the Dragon Trip (6/25-7/1) Reply #852 - 07/08/12 at 20:40:50 I'm penciled in for minor surgery to fix a hernia Ua That will get ya right in the saddle ! You gona be able to ride after that ?
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MMRanch Serious Thumper Offline Evil flourishes if Good Men do Nothing. Posts: 5836 LYNCHBURG TN Gender:	Re: 2012 Tail of the Dragon Trip (6/25-7/1) Reply #853 - 07/08/12 at 20:44:44 I know ... nothing to do with the subject matter ... how about this one
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Re: 2012 Tail of the Dragon Trip (6/25-7/1)
Reply #854 - 07/09/12 at 09:16:33

Anybody notice how hard it is when you come back from the Dragon to ride at a normal city speed limit pace?

Neighborhood street turns that you do every day want to become "corner cut sweepers" and you start sizing up cars for passing just as soon as you come up on them?

How your bike wants to be cut loose to RUN, now that it knows what running really is? How it wants to goes into Dragon mode when nobody else is around and the road suddenly gets curvy?

Jest how long does it take for you to return to normal --- and is that normal state exactly like it used to be (or is it slightly different now)?

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