Dave, when he takes it into his head to open the throttle on his café Savage up all the way, yes, Dave can run away from me.

Sometimes, that is ......

Cold weather? Don't want to scare piedmontbuckeye on his first trip, but sounds like there may be some snuggling going on in those tents

piedmontbuckeye, you'll have a good time. I ride with this group as well as a big Harley veteran's group (not a veteran but a supporter) and although the veterans group is fun and great people I enjoy this type of riding better.  It is smaller groups which means you have more fun not doing too much waiting around and you are all on comparable bikes that like the twisties.

As far as the camping thing, we mainly use the tents for sleeping and pop-up canopies for the "motorcycle garage". Bring a snack if you want, but we mainly source meals out so we don't have to fool with bringing food and accessories and cooking up a mess by the campfire.

Dave hauls his bike as do I so we try to listen out for those that are biking in and carry whatever we can to help minimize their load (tents, cots, etc.).

MM, you need a sheath to go over your axe head, makes for a very Multi-purpose get up crutch.

Keeps them Dolly Partons off of you while you are sleeping, too.    

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Take a lookie at the 40 degree night temps and consider you are hoping to get up to a 68 degree high for the day.

Cold camping,  cold riding in other words.    Really chills the interest level, don't you know.  

Us old people, we likes to get pneumonia and die, you know.


How about later on in the current month of August?    Still warm weather ....

Does it have to over the weekend ?

The 21st (Aug.) is the eclipse .
I'm committed on the 26th (Aug.)  

I'll attend as best I can , on what ya'll working folks need to schedule .  

but , I'm bring the Savage .      there won't be no wrestling the Harley through the Wolf-Pen !  

A weekend is necessary for us working guys - if you retired fellows want to stay and ride into the workweek that is OK by me.

I have a City Council meeting on Wednesday, August 16th, and the 8 hour drive to Suches is too far for me to drive after the meeting.  I could drive most of the way and then stop when I am beat....then drive the rest of the way on Thursday morning.  This would allow me to ride most of Thursday, all of Friday/Saturday, and I would have to leave on Sunday morning to make the 8 hour drive home.  The eclipse happens around 2 PM on Monday....I won't hang around for it.

If you want to try for that weekend - we can just arrive/leave as it works out best for everyone.

The current weather forecast shows rain for that weekend....but who knows at this point.  Wolf Pen Gap is not a road to be ridden when it is wet.....and MM and Stew said they were sliding around in the curves on 129 when it was wet.  The roads we are going there to explore are road that should be ridden when they are dry.

https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/suches-ga/30572/month/2153437?monyr=8/01/2017  

Although I am not retired......I am pretty flexible on which weekend in August.  It is a bit late to plan on this weekend (Aug 3,4,5) - but I could go any of the other weekends.

Sorry Oldfeller - sometimes work sucks!

OK......Stew, MM, anybody else want to try for the next "good weather weekend" at Suches?

The 10/11/12 forecast looks acceptable at this point...the later weeks are currently forecast to be a bit wetter - but we all know that can (will) change.

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