Oldfeller--FSO wrote on 03/13/16 at 07:19:50:

or smeared across the scenery
I lowsided on the sisters at about 1.5x the posted speed for that corner
Target fixation and ham fisted braking  

Seriously now are you going to have a starting spot and a starting date/time and a planned duration so people can put in for vacation?

If it is a carry a tent and bag and Camp wherever we find trip you need to say that and simply get the start Point tied down good.

It's yours, you pack the tent and tell me where/when to meet up with you.    

Pick a spot to leave a car and a trailer ...... could be your house, you know.

I solemnly promise not to terrorize Jeb if your bring him, nor anybody else for that matter.

I am now just a little old slow poky old geezer any more.

I am cleared to go back to work on the 21st of this month and am already driving a car and riding my motorcycle.

My ticker is just that -- it clicks and ticks along jest fine.   All my holes are at the scabbed over and shrinking to pimple sized stage.

Need a start date/time, meet point and duration time.

Worry about your Texas trip first -- lots of time to plan another trip after the Texas trip is over.

Here's an idea (just a thought) -- pick at it all you want, its free to pick at all you want.    

Dave likes to start on Wednesday afternoons since that works well for his job stuff.

Dave will likely ride his bike to his most likely Join Up Spot since he is going to break off at some point in time and head for home.   I expect to see a big comfortable Honda show up (with lots of bag space).

MM is going to load up a tent and ride his Sporster up the Parkway to the Join Up Spots anyway.   [color=#0000ff][b]He can ride to the start portion of the Blue Ridge Parkway and come up the Parkway to the first Join Up Spot and pick up Dave.

Skyline Drive used to be the name of the Blue Ridge Parkway once it got up into Virginia.  Now the whole thing is the Blue Ridge Parkway all the way up to just about at Washington DC.   The Shenandoah Skyline portion used to require a fee to get on it, I am not sure about that any more.   This stuff changes from year to year.

You got over 469 miles of very pretty 45 mph road to oggle at.    People claim that the Virginia portion gets to be very very mild compared to the higher steeper NC portions.

Dave and I will break off at some point to ride back for home.  Likely we will get to Friday sometimes and talk about heading on back.   Dave will bust out on to an interstate at that point in time and make him some better time heading home.   I doubt I'd ride the parkway all the way back, but might pick some faster secondary roads that led back quicker to my house.

Can we do the whole length in 2 days one way?  Yes, it will be low traffic weekdays and we can go faster than the speed limit in some of the sections.  If we do that, the trip will be more risky, but would be a much more satisfying ride.

Issue really is that the whole enchilada is a two way trip of at least 4-5 days from the way MM is looking at it.

The rub is that when it gets all flatter up in Virginia Shenandoah hills area -- you have to ask yourself "Whats the point?"

The Shenandoah Skyline wasn't ever noted as being a real motorcycle road anyway ('cept mebbe for a big Hurley group ride).


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I will ride my Savage straight up north to the Roanoke area and pick the up group up there at my designated Join Up Spot and just ride the bike north for a few days, then back South and exit at Roanoke again.   My open road miles will be perfectly doable that way.  

So, around Roanoke area pick a Join Up Spot and name a time span for me to be there and I will be kicked back reading a paperback book when you get there.

Dave, where do you see the best spot for you to meet up with MM?

Realize it needs to be a spot where you can wait comfortably since that is likely from what has happened in year's past on these roving type trips ......