Sorry for the delay in my response guys.  Things have been hectic in the Junkie household with the birth of our second.  OF as of right now I am a possible because of my new job situation I do not think I will be able to make it and that truly bums me out.  If I do make it I'll strap a tent to the bike in case there is no ca mebin space for me.

Calling MMRanch....Calling Diamond Jim.....Time to speak up for space in the bunkhouse! And if any of the members are or can be in contact with these guys,let them know we're looking for them.


If we don't here from these guys in another week or so I'll be looking for some one to split a cabin with for Wed and Thurs nights.

We are less than 2 months out and are refining our plans to the real level -- if you are planning on coming and don't see yourself please do speak up right away.    


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THE TRIP:   Wednesday, June 12th arrival day at Blue Ridge Motorcycle Cabins/Campground.  Leaving Sunday AM (Father's day)


OK, We got 4 people good for a Wednesday, June 12th afternoon arrival.  We got two coming "as they are able to come".   We have confirmed rental of one cabin and one tent at this time.   We have a second cabin in the works but the cabin is not actually reserved yet.

Heated Cabin #1
Dave                          staying Weds-Friday/Saturday block,  prepaid
Oldfeller                        staying Weds-Friday/Saturday block,  prepaid

Heated Cabin #2
Zar                               staying Weds-Friday
MMRanch                   staying Weds-Friday

2 man Tent #1
New River Junkie             possibly/mebbe staying Saturday night
Serenity                         staying one night, variable date



Folks we need a current update from (whenever their plans solidify)  Diamond Jim, New River Junkie and Serenity.

You'll get it done, we are still two solid months away from trip time.

Here is a way to make sure it is ridable -- when you are three weeks out, stop changing things and concentrate just on finishing up what you have in motion at that time.  Call it Beta Test version 1.0 in your mind, the proof of concept model, the one that is not expected to be totally complete in all aspects.  Cosmetics be dammed, will it ride OK?

You may not have everything diced the way you finally want it, but let me tell you a secret -- it will NEVER be totally the way you want it because what you want will change on you periodically.

Now, a question .....  if this is a cafe you are building, how did you go about making it comfortable enough to ride hard for 4 hours at a lick?  

Bring it on the trip, definitely, because you need to learn something that the trip will be able to teach you -- before you finish building it all the way to "painted beautiful".  

You see, you gots to build in some ride-ability and some comfort or else you are building another "looks good" garage toy that can only run up to the bar and back before it starts killing your butt/back/wrists/shoulders etc.

Decide which elements aren't going to make the deadline and jest screw them temporarily .... that way you can incorporate more of what you learn on the trip with less wasted redo.

Exhaust will likely be a item that gets missed for this trip, so screw it.   Try to get your padding increase and your raised bars if you can.

Beta units aren't supposed to look pretty ...  we all know that.

You are trial running the crouch riding position, that is enough for this trip.

Hey guys, I'm sorry that I dropped off the face of the earth for the past several weeks.  I got really sick and then I got really into a new line of custom intakes being that me and a buddy of mine are starting to get to market.  

It looks like i won't be able to make the Dragon run.  My apologies to all if this change effects you.  I would love to but I'm just not up for it.  Two things have made me aware of this.  First was a friend coming over and together we tuned his power commander.  In doing so we spent some time hitting a lot of curvy roads in my area.  I normally ride pretty conservative and all around town.  It showed me that the strokes from 2009 have really taken the edge off my ability to ride even semi-aggressively  through curvey roads.  The other was this past weekend.  I drove up to a friends house in Chattanooga (about 3.5 hours away).  That whipped me.  I don't think i could have made it another half hour.  Hopefully in time I can build my endurance and abilities back up to normal.  

Yeah, it's kind of hard to accept it though.