...any riders in the area? Love to get up on the Blue Ridge Parkway or maybe the Dragon! Let me know.
not me.
I've tried to find people within 100 miles of me and been unsuccessful. Hell I don't know if there are any GSers within 200 or even 300 miles of me.
Good luck to you though.
All the way in Cary, man; but maybe someday Srinath and all the North&South Click GSers can all get up one day.
i'm in greenville for the rest of the semester for my co-op, and will be back again next summer. but i just got my first bike (gs500), so it will be a while before i make any long trips or visit the dragon. so how 'bout next summer?
Sounds great! Don't worry, I'm a noob too. We can learn together!
How close is Asheville to "The Dragon" or just any really good mountain roads?
If you've got a couch I can crash on or are willing to split motel/campsite costs I may be able to make that trip in the spring/summer or '06, Hell I could skip Thanksgiving for it (might be a tit nipply though).
QuoteHow close is Asheville to "The Dragon" or just any really good mountain roads?
about 10 minutes...
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It really is. The Blue Ridge Parkway passes right thru Asheville. I can hop on right next to my house. That goes right to Smoky Mt. National Park. I think that's a pretty awesome, scenic drive. Besides that, there are innumerable country roads and highways through the mountains. Some extremely 'twisty'. I think the 'Dragon' is over by Smoky Mt. Nat. Pk. as well, although I have not been yet. If your ever in the mood to come up just shoot me a PM. If you've never been to Asheville you're in for a treat. Really cool place. Oh, and Asheville is 'in' the mountains.
last summer i rode all the way down the blue ridge from roanoke to the smokys. then, to the dragon. awesome ride all the way.
asheville to the dragon is 100 miles. i would ride to dragon every weekend if i were living in asheville.
I hope you are serious about that invite, cause I'll seriously be up there this summer, if class and graduation don't interfere too much.
If I'm at the Dragon next summer, I will definitely be down for a ride.
We should try to set a date, and try to have a southeast GS rally. I know things like this have been talked about before, but it would be a crap-ton of fun to get a dozen or more of us together for a weekend of riding and post-ride drinking. :cheers:
Sounds good but I sold my GS and I now have a SV650. Hope you won't hold it against me though! ;)
Well as long as you don't think you're too cool to ride with a loser like me, on my busted-ass, air-cooled, no HP, little GS. :cheers:
Ha! I'm sure your you can easily show me a thing or three about riding. I'm just a noob. I just wanted an SV from the start. It's my 'dream' bike. I decided to bite the bullet and buy one even though I should really still be riding my old 'busted-ass' GS at my skill level. Heck, I'm sure you could outride me if I was on a CBR or any of those other fancy bikes out there. LOL. Oh, here's a pic of the new ride....
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I tried the SV board but I like this one better. Hope you guys don't mind. Even though I only had a GS for about a month. :)
Hey oppy00, Do you go to a satellite of Georgia State? Is that what GSU stands for? I lived in Atlanta in the early '90s and had some friends go there. I graduated from Emory in '96. Just wondrin'.
Quote from: pslamp32I tried the SV board but I like this one better. Hope you guys don't mind. Even though I only had a GS for about a month. :)
let us think about that for a while... :)
the svrider forum ain't that bad...i used to hang out there.
No it's cool. It's just that it seems that most people over there get heavily into the 'sportbike\racer' vibe. I'm just a chill guy who just loves to ride. Slow or fast, doesn't matter. I just happen to love the way the SV looks. :) It's why I still check out the Rebel forum occasionally. That was my first bike and those guys/gals were way cool. Just loved the bike, didn't matter that it wasn't exactly 'cool'.
:x GSU = Georgia Southern University :x GET IT RIGHT FOLKS! :x Georgia State is too crappy to even have a football team! We've got 6 National Championships (Division I-AA). All you Damn Yankees from Atlanta need to wake up and smell the cotton, and get out into GA some. :x
Now that the rant is over, :lol: That is one purty SV. :thumb: I've never seen one with that color scheme. I understand the attraction, I've got a bit of a hard-on for the big SVS. I'd like to make it into a sport-tourer w/ bar-risers, and Givi hard bags. Well I'm off to class. :cheers:
wow...division i-aa championships...whoopi doo! :P
this is one sweet ass sv!
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6 time division I-AA champs! By the way take a look one day at how many great NFL players came from small schools.
Oh, and by the by D I-AA has a proper tournament, none of this malarkey with bowl games and polls. You win and you win, you lose you go home. The way it should be.
Quote from: oppy006 time division I-AA champs! By the way take a look one day at how many great NFL players came from small schools.
Oh, and by the by D I-AA has a proper tournament, none of this malarkey with bowl games and polls. You win and you win, you lose you go home. The way it should be.
you're right in that great players are not bound by any external factors.
vast majority of the nfl player now days are from 1-a schools. and it only gets more competitive meaning if you don't make it to 1-a schools, your chance of getting drafted are slim.
here's top 10 schools that have produced the most nfl hall of famers:
Notre Dame (10)
Southern California (10)
Michigan (7)
Alabama (6)
Illinois (6)
Ohio State (6)
Minnesota (5)
Oregon (5)
Penn State (5)
Southern Methodist (5)
Syracuse (5)
the playoff sytem is great but most american just don't care about division 1-aa football. how many people even watch 1-aa championship game, compare to people who watch the national championship bowl game...
HOW 'BOUT THE DRAGON ON NOV. 5TH WEEKEND?
some of my buddies are going to be in a cabin at pigeon forge, tn for that weekend. I was thinking about going to stay with them friday night, then hitting up the dragon on Saturday, Nov. 5 - my 21st birthday.
right now it's just speculation, but would anyone else be interested?
Can't my B-Day is the 3rd. I"ll be 25, so my insurance goes down :cheers: I've gotta go see my folks, not to mention school is a Buddha Loves You right now. I don't have enough time for school work, let alone a trip. Of course I still make time for GSTwin, maybe that is why it is taking me so long to graduate. :dunno:
if nobody is up for tail of the dragon, how about a mid-week caesar's head run sometime? i know we have some clemson/greenville/anderson people around here.
i just did caesar's head for the first time yesterday. AMAZING. traffic was nil, being a weekday and nearing dusk (i ran into some problems getting up there... like running out of gas). weather was perfect, the turns were amazing, and the scenery was beautiful. and it taught me exactly how much I DON'T know about my skills and bike. i'd really like to have someone to ride with and critique me.
where is caesar's head?
caesar's head is on the nc/sc border, about 45 minutes north-northwest of greenville, sc. google maps shows it if you scroll around and find it, but you can't type it in directly. the closest 'cities' are rosman, nc and traveler's rest, sc.
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it's a spectacular view, especially when leaves start turning. the fun part is about 7 miles one way, i think.
is it on this map?
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yep, that's it. i did the road coming in from the south to right where the "1" on the map is. got out, enjoyed the view for a few minutes, and rode back to greenville. if there was more light i would have explored the roads around there more.
just got my GS500f .. was in canton,nc for a few months .. wish i was up there with it now .. i love them curving roads :) ... maybe when i go up there i can get me a small trailer and pull the bike up there with the eclipse :P
If you want a really twisty experience (short of the Dragon of course) look on the map at Rosman, NC. See 215 going north off 64? Just south of Balsam Grove, NC is where I turn off to do volunteer work at PARI (//www.pari.edu).
From the PARI turn back south to 64 there are about 92 "steering transitions."
Most of the outside transitions do not have guard rails so if you run off the road...gravity effects are amplified. :o
215 connects to the Blue Ridge Parkway at Balsam Grove, BTW.
ill have to find a stock swingarm to play with you guys.
What's wrong with your swingarm? (Assuming you have one :roll: )
ill post pics when its done and yes i have one there,tito :roll:
i'm in fayetteville & would love any weekend rides that may come up as long as they aren't 75+ mile away