LANCER wrote on 02/09/16 at 08:32:54:Art Webb wrote on 02/08/16 at 07:09:52:Not at my skill level, I still remember the Dragon trip
I might go do it on my own someday, but not with a group I ban't keep up with
Art, riding the Blue Ridge Parkway is a much more laid back and easy going ride than the Dragon like roads. I don't think you would have any problem with the ride. Lancer, remember that first trip on the Blue Ridge Parkway, Ed's busted rotor side casing, Ed busting off both of his footpegs off with the arches of his feet, them huge fern root ball dirt chunks he tossed out all over the road using his rear luggage rack as a fern scooper, Ed co-rotating up there in the air with his bike in a slow mo ballet, with his spinning rear tire skinning his jacket up and leaving a very clear tire track mark up his back, and all of the rest of it.
After 10 years, we tend to think of the Parkway as tame (and to us it just means go faster) but to somebody on a new to them scooter/bike, struggling somewhat to keep up with the group, mebbe not so tame to them. Ed was like that, you know.
He got caught out by surprise by a decreasing radius corner set and he simply didn't know how to change his line of attack in mid curve. He only saw the bunch of ferns he was headed towards and he visually locked in on them instead of watching the road like he was always told to do.
..... easy and laid back except for the first 10 miles of it from the southern entrance, that is. That is fairly exciting to do in the rain with the clouds breaking over the ridgeline line crest looking like the bottom side of a surfer's wave curl.And remember,
DO NOT WEAR SUNGLASSES in them unlighted tunnels.
ack !!! It is all black in here .....