Well it's time for another Daytona Beach Bike Week and was wondering if any Savage rider is showing up.
 The event is one of those things that I always attend just because I'm living half way between the Daytona Speedway and the Cabbage Patch on Rt 415.
Let me know, maybe we can ride Main Street together.

2 1/2 acres grass and woods, I even have a 8x10 foot canvas wall tent  used for re-enacting along with a smaller regular pop up tent.
 Didn't pick up on everybody from the board trying to get a trip together for a Bike Week trip.
I've no problems with something like that but my wife is a little leary about nasty dirty bikers hanging out on the property although she's married to one  . Gotta tread gently to get her OK, she always wants to get out of town for these events.

Hey Buckeye, just curious. What made you never want to go back to the Dragon? I've only been once but I thoroughly enjoyed it.

As far as Daytona bike week, I have never been, it is a bit far for me, I really do not care for crowds, but I think I would like to try it once just to see what it is like.

Ed L. wrote on 03/10/17 at 12:35:53:


Ed sounds like he is issuing an invite.   Ed, slap some dates and a location on it and we will put it in the list of rides for 2017.

I like getting together with my bike buds !    I like camp-outs.   I like cook-outs .  

I hope my calendar ain't all used up on Bikeober Fest week !  

It is important to understand the "riding style" for each trip -- our normal mountain rides would likely be a mismatch for Piedmont right now as they can go faster than is comfortable for "the casual rider".

A better first trip would be the Santeetlah Exploratory.  The upcoming Santeetlah trip with the various flavors of big bulky oversized chocolate chunkies all running in a row is going to be a slower paced, exploratory style trip.    I for one will be on a Suzuki Barcalounger, a heavier slower much more comfortable bike that needs breaking in to the mountain experience.   Without breaking it, or me preferably  ......

Later on when we go to Kickstand Lodge I will likely trailer in my lighter Savage and go off here and there with the crew in our more normal fashion .... watching MM destroy the local wildlife and mebbe getting in a squirrel or a 'possum of my very own yet again, who knows .....  

Porkchops and cagers will always be on the menu for sure -- you can always count on that, I think.   Tea and Crumpets are a special treat, as is the very rare $40,000 Ducati.

Know your ride ..... know your co-riders

Of the two trips, Piedmont would find more to like with the Santeetlah Exploratory trip as a first experience.

Be warned, we all started out like Piedmont but we all got corrupted by the mountains over time and doing those multiple trips per year.  

MM once believed in double yellow lines and speed limits (and back in his home state there was a good reason for that).   In NC the default speed limit is 55 mph and up in the high mountains you simply can't go that fast, so it is in essence a license to speed to your heart's content, and we learned better and better braking, cornering and riding techniques from the older riders as we went along.    MM and  I learned from Big Zuk, who was our Mountain Riding Yoda daddy.

Corruption of the newbie, part 2



"There is no way in Heck we were going 75 mph around those turns ....."

Someone lays their device on the table and sez "display high speed" and the device says 78.5

"No Way !!!!   My Savage can't go that fast !!!"

yep, it can .....  and it will, especially on a wide downhill Cherohala sweeper curve.


    ..... see the little duckies all in a row ......

Oldfeller--FSO wrote on 03/12/17 at 13:55:34:


Oldfeller says don't worry, you'll catch up with us when we stop.  

Lancer opens his coats displaying a number flashy baubles and says I got something for you...  

Versy leans in, glances both ways... do you want it to?