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Re: Dragon Run #1, Summer, 2015
Reply #150 - 05/01/15 at 03:26:12

My trailer is the Challenger series made by Homesteader, it is 8 foot long and 4 feet wide, with a 4 foot ceiling height. It is good for one bike and a place to sleep next to the bike....but it is small. I did have two bikes in it once....it was really tight and as a precaution I took the tanks off both bikes. Crawling around in between the bikes to get them tied down was really difficult - with a single bike it is easy. For the stock Savage the 4 foot height work fine once you take the mirrors off - but for a bike with a windshield it would be too short.
http://homesteadertrailer.info/challenger-enclosed-cargo-trailers/

Since you have a truck to pull the trailer - you could get a larger trailer than I can pull with my little car. The good thing about my little trailer is I can still get 24 mpg with the car, bike and trailer.

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Re: Dragon Run #1, Summer, 2015
Reply #151 - 05/01/15 at 10:16:04

MM butt burn is the only way I can describe it
I can go 500 miles easily in a car or truck, but on a bike it's a killer
I'd really like to try an airhawk, maybe once I get my sheild and throttle cable replaced, get my carb sorted (versy says I need to rejet badly) and get a few bux I'll get one
Hate to spend 70 bux on something I haven't tried, though

I wonder if my Ranger would be up to making the trip?
Not sure but I think she gets about 20 on the highway
you got a hill I could back up to for unloading MM?
or a ditch? or a big hole? Grin

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Re: Dragon Run #1, Summer, 2015
Reply #152 - 05/01/15 at 21:10:50

Dude I've got Ramps and a place for unloading ! Wink

If it wasn't late tonight already I'd go take some pictures for ya.

Don't "Break the Bank" to get here , but if it will work-out for ya (and I hope it does) come on to TN. then NC. with us ! Cheesy

Look-up the Cherohala Sky Way on the net ... thats the bridge from Telico Plains TN. to Robinsville NC.(Dragon Country). Its on the way from my house to our campsite (not the shortest way but the most fun way) Grin

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MMRanch Serious Thumper Offline Evil flourishes if Good Men do Nothing. Posts: 5837 LYNCHBURG TN Gender:	Re: Dragon Run #1, Summer, 2015 Reply #153 - 05/01/15 at 21:14:50 Again ! Ain't nothing like Texas in the Spring time ... but ... not to bad either ! Just noticed ! This "Person" isn't staying in (his/her) lane --- BAD,BAD,BAD ! .... Probably a "FLAT-LANDER" that has never met some body on a blind curve who couldn't stay on their own side either !
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Re: Dragon Run #1, Summer, 2015
Reply #154 - 05/02/15 at 06:57:13

We'll see MMR
Last night I found a wet spot where the bolt that used to hold the chrome cover on is, and below there, too, near the exhaust pipe
I hope it just needs to be tightened, and this isn't the dreaded 'plug cap leak' I'd be a bit upset to see that at less than 6k miles
really don't want to pull the head, or head cover, or whatever
also, my bars are loose again Sad

I tightened them where Versy said to, and they loosened again.
maybe the crash did something there

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Re: Dragon Run #1, Summer, 2015
Reply #155 - 05/02/15 at 17:14:11

Hey Art, don't feel bad. I would love to go on this trip also but just cannot make it this time. Maybe September or else maybe next year. I really do hope the hill country ride becomes an annual event. I think everybody had a great time and I am sure anybody else that decides to show up in the future will love it also specially as long as youzguys continues to be the ride leader. All hail youzguys!!!

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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28886 L.A. California Gender:	Re: Dragon Run #1, Summer, 2015 Reply #157 - 05/02/15 at 18:37:02 springman wrote on 05/02/15 at 17:15:37: Hey MM, are you sure that isn't a picture of the Aussie outback? too small to tell, could be aussie or harriet.
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Re: Dragon Run #1, Summer, 2015
Reply #158 - 05/02/15 at 21:09:37

Springman wrote: Hey MM, are you sure that isn't a picture of the Aussie outback?

Nope , strait off the Cherohala Sky Way search. Roll Eyes

From Lynchburg follow hwy 55 North to the Hwy 30 junction , turn east and go all the way to Tellico Plains , then get on the sky way all the way to the Dragon. A ride on Hwy 30 will get ya ready to Slay-The-Dragon with no problem ! Grin

... There is a NC. Hwy 30 that is about the same. Wink

I rode part of Tn.30 today (up and over Spencer Mountain) ... its about like the Dragon but with a 45mph speed limit

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Re: Dragon Run #1, Summer, 2015
Reply #159 - 05/03/15 at 05:34:06

WE ARE STILL TOO FAR OUT FOR ANY FORM OF ACCURACY .... it is all just noise right now.

We've been through this before so you will get a 10 day out cancellation warning in case of fairly well predicted bad weather (in time to get your money back on a cabin reservation). If you are tenting, you will get cold at night and a bit dew wet each morning -- count on it. So bring a bag and a blanket or two.

http://www.accuweather.com/en/us/cruso-nc/28716/month/2096614?monyr=6/01/2015

..... and count on it, you will meet up with a rain cloud at least once during the trip. Stop and eat lunch or dinner, the road will be drying by the time you are done.

Or ride on and get soaked, we have done it both ways. (you dry out in an hour or so anyway)

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Re: Dragon Run #1, Summer, 2015
Reply #161 - 05/07/15 at 07:41:31

Hey guys (and gals). Just checking in to note that I am still tentatively planning on coming up late Friday to ride on Saturday, may ride Sunday morning or drive home late Saturday night.

Been a little detached lately due to just being busy with the home and garden and losing my father-in-law a couple of weeks ago...so I am trying to balance family as well as pleasure, and when duty calls family of course has to take precedence should anything come up.

But...since I was planning to rest in the truck anyway, I shouldn't be missed if I have to duck out at the last minute.

I'll keep in touch as time draws near.

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Re: Dragon Run #1, Summer, 2015
Reply #162 - 05/07/15 at 09:15:13

Stewmills,

We have a spot planned for you inside a tent or on the floor inside a cabin.

We cook our final plans according to who is coming on the week before we actually go, that way we only have to do it two, mebbe 3 times .....

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Art is still waffling in his heart, he WANTS to go but he can't justify the cost unless he picks up somebody to truck up with and split the gas costs.

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Re: Dragon Run #1, Summer, 2015
Reply #163 - 05/07/15 at 11:28:28

If weather supports it.....I most likely will be driving down on Wednesday, June 10th after work. This will be the first time in several years that I don't have a late City Council meeting on the Wednesday night....so I am apt to arrive in the area before dark. I will not unpack anything and just sleep in my trailer on Wednesday night, and be at the Blue Ridge Campground early on Thursday ready to go riding.

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PS.....Somebody needs to whack that weather forecaster upside the head. At the moment is shows the week before and after our trip to be dry - but a whole lot of rain the days we are supposed to be riding.

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