OK...I have a couple of really intense weeks here at work.  I could go any weekend starting August 15th and beyond.  If we stayed on a Friday/Saturday nights....I could leave Thursday evening and camp overnight in my trailer - and be at the Dragon for an all day ride on Friday.

The weather for August and September looks to be just a bit drier than the July period that we usually ride.

Anybody ready to pick a date?

Yep, I was planning on making the drive down on Thursday night - so I can ride all day on Friday.  I can just sleep in my trailer anywhere, and use the Dragon Inn public restroom to shave and/or shower.  If the weather gets iffy - there is no reason we could not change the weekend as I don't think they have any big penalties for changing weekends for folks that are tent camping.

Yep, the Dragon Inn is a circus - but once in a while it is fun to go to the Circus and see the "Clowns".  

On Friday, August 22nd is the 9th "Fiddies" race - evidently they set up a small track and race 50cc motorcycles around the parking lot.  If we went that weekend.....it looks like it would be tough to get in and out of the camping area while the race is going on.

MMRanch wrote on 07/23/14 at 12:48:22:


Well, it might work out fine.  I looked at the 'Fiddies" website, and the race is actually on Saturday, August 23rd at 8:00 PM.  We would already have our camp set up, and we could most likely get our bikes parked somewhere.  It might just be a fun thing to watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euriwtkZBFo

Anybody want to start planning the weekend for August 22, 23 & 24th?

Dave

Well  

The weekend of the 22nd is the State Rally of CMA for TN.  We are meeting at Montgomery Bell State Park (Ya'll come),   its $11.oo / night and includes showers and such.  

So

The weekend of the 29th works best for me at the Dragon campground.   I'll bring a 7'x7' two man tent (same one I brought befor).   Its a nice tent but I cant stand-up in it , it does have doors on both end and storage area on both ends.   I'd like to get a stand-up-in-it  tent , but haven't done it yet.    I think the wife might do some of these rides with me if there was room for a cot in the tent ?  

I've got it penciled-in on the calendar      Is everybody else missing out ?  

Local CMA group

Odds are REALLY SLIM of my wife ridding for more than One Hour at a time, and even slimmer of her going on a Dragon run .  
She'll most likely go visit her mom while I take a "Three-Day-Cruise"

If our son was gone for the weekend , she might do something like a Natchez Trace ride with a campground overnighter .   But dinner wouldn't be on the campfire !    it would have to part of the plan going in --- somewhere that really sounded good.    


Dave ,
One time I put a narrow tire on the rear of my Yamaha RD250 , It didn't work out too good.   It drifted on the corners too much , was a little scarry best I remember !    So be really careful with it , at least at first.  
I went from a 150/80Dunlap to a 140/90 Commander II on the back of the harley and you've seen how much it drifts when it's bent-over --But -- I think it worked out to be a better match to the front 100/90Commander II , (and it's taller too). .    It also seems the Michelin Commander II tire is "Big" for its size tire.   The 140/90 Commander II  and 100/90 is the same combo I'm running on the S-40.  Speedometer is off about 7 or 8 % on the low side of ground speed now.

OldFeller
If you'd rather get a room instead of cot in a tent thats OK.     It doesn't madder to much to me.   The weather might be cool enough to use a heater instead of an AC.  (higher elevation + late August) ?  Think I'll bring a real jacket just in case!  

Sounds like I'm bring the S-40 out for a ride !    

This sounds really kinda petty, but after trying to book a room with the Dragon Lodge today their comments dug up all those memories of all those years of the screwing around me and Lancer took over the room costs for this and that ....

Heck it is petty --- the place has been sold twice since we started staying there but the screw-overs for weekend room charges for their various rules stuff have never really changed any at all.    When you check out, they slap it to you.  Last time they clipped Lancer for over $60 and I vowed I'd never stay there again it made me so mad.


Camping at the Dragon Lodge ....  

Thanks MM,

As always, you are a very nice person (see, I told your wife that too).

The Dragon circus doesn't hold the appeal for me it once did, and my zipping isn't as zippy as it used to be either.   That particular area is hard on old achy bones and good Lord knows I have a few of those.

You guys have fun and maybe we can go do a little exploring in some odd directions next year in the late spring or early summer.


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PS, on a whimsy I gave Big Zuk a call on his cell phone -- the cell number goes to somebody else now.   Called his house phone -- he has the answering machine turned on to answer on the first ring, so I left him a few calls to see if he wanted to talk to any of us.    

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