Wassup from Deals Gap.
 

made it down here about 2 1/2 hours ago. It was a long 600 miles, the weather is gorgeous, and not a single cop to be spotted on 129. Only been through once, with all my 30 Lbs of luggage, and even though i thought i was takin it easy i still got my edges scrubbed in nicely.

waiting for rae and her friend as i sit here, then we're off to wheelers (if we can get there before they close).



Tapoco has a t1 connection now, so it wont be a problem keeping in touch with you guys. Wish more of you could have made it down.

Rae's friend a girl?

negatory. Fuckin A.

What time are they getting there and why aren't you out riding? :lol:

keep us posted.

where're the pics?

Nice! damn I wish I could be there! (september... september...)

hope it stays nice for ya'll!

Hope you have fun. Wish I could have made it but money wouldn't allow.

hey give me a call if you get back online, I have to stick around knoxville tonight, but will be up at 8am in the morning.

You would need over 100 pounds of luggage to get near my Suzuki's weight, and probably 200 pounds to get near my CBR's weight (600 pounds).

Welll the difference is... those bikes were meant to handle that weight.

R they riding two up??:panic:

no... her friend mike rides... wonder why he hasn't joined up here though

Make a run for me... wish I could make it.

lookin forward to a rally at zoomies track :rockout:

Fuck you and everyone else that is there.

I'm coming down next week, after you asshats leave.

Bad ass riding
 

This is Woody, the little guy with the black R6 and the white & silver leathers. It was great riding with y'all out on the Cherohala. I hope to get some good riding in after I get back from Iraq....too bad it'll be Christmas.

Great meeting you guys. Keep the shiny side up!

good ill be there

wtf drewpy, why arent werent you on your way at 6. Ghey.

Awesome meeting you!! It was great riding with ya and make it back safe so we can do it again!!!

woody wassup. I was on the yellow rr.

I went pavement surfing today, unfortunatly, it was good riding with you. Hope the mrs wasnt bent out of shape about you bein out all day.

I guess we are going to have to wait till the end of the weekend to hear this story. Everything good to keep going at least?

Hmmm...at what point do you come to the realization that maybe you are pushing too hard on public road?

Your new bike :no:

Yeah, what he said. He was trying to impress Rae.

I have no doubt about that.

maybe he was trying to impress rae's friend

:whistle:

about the time my ass hit the pavement, why?

I still got to ride some sweet roads and had a blast. hows the weather up on that pedestal fellas?

nah, we were just cruising on the way back and misjudged a decreasing radius that surprised me as well and the pavement on that road is suspect because it had a lot of transitions. Wrecks are going to happen anywhere especially down here. The road has bitten great riders down here.

Damn NtS... sorry to hear that... I take from your tone that it was just a little off and nothings (too) fucked up.

If you can't negotiate a turn you are riding out of your skill level. Period.

someone got the drewpy award & it wasnt me this time

:lol: drewpy... you gotta show up to win the award!

i had a great day today, found some amazing roads 30 miles from the apt, met some interesting riders, and caught some nice panfish, wished for trout but sunfish work

nice... fucking gorgeous day here... man... this is gonna be a long summer...

Two words. Banana spiders. Motherfuckers get huge, especially towards August and September. They're everywhere. Spiders in general are everywhere towards the middle of summer to the end.

thanks.. it isn't enough I have fuck'n centipedes crawling everyfuckingwhere... I got banana spiders to look forward to!

have I said FUCK KOREA yet?

arent the poisonous too?

have I called you an asshole today?

nope, just biologist will do...

The Banana Spider is known to hide among bananas shipped to the US These spiders are aggressive and very venomous and not intimidated by size (can attack people when threatened).

Despite the Banana Spider’s reputation as the world’s deadliest spider

On the other hand, there are other studies suggesting that the Banana Spider is indeed the most toxic spider in the world based upon toxicology studies. One of the most notable and thorough studies is presented in the book “Venomous Animals and their Venoms Vol. III” by Wolfgang Bucheral and Eleanor Buckley.

All they do is just sit in their webs. You talking about those big ass centipedes with big arms and shit, dark brown color? I think they're called cave scorpions.

Don't get too excited dude, the fuckin' award was named after your dumbass... :lol:

And I hear we have nanner spiders here in FL too... I fuckin' hate spiders.

ASSHOLE

yeah... found one crawling on me the other night... at first I thought it was just one of those phantom bugs you think you feel but isn't really there... but when my hand hit it... I woke up like... WTF!

fuck... gives me chills now

I'm all itchy now.

Drewpy had to change the names of the spiders around, that shit aint true.

much respect to all that serve, its not the assholes with guns that scare the shit out of me its the fucking creepy crawlers

BUSTED!!!!

uh... you mean assholes with GUNS... right? :lol:

still an ASSHOLE

The biggest spiders I have ever seen were in Ohio...we have some ugly bugs around here but nothing seems to compare to what I have seen out there. :panic::panic::panic::panic::panic::panic:

The only big spiders we have are wolf spiders... like the one that was in my tent... you know, just chillin' next to my head while I slept...

Kinda like this one...
http://www.petbugs.com/caresheets/ga...rolinensis.jpg

Yeah, I just killed one a little bit smaller than that in my garage last week. I hate those fucking things.

They don't do anything, but they give me the heebie-jeebies anyway...

Understandable. Im not scared of spiders, they just piss me off for some reason. I think theyre basically gross to the point that it angers me and makes me need to kill them.

They scare me and my me cry like a 5 year old girl.

Then why are you posting pictures of them!?!?!?!? :tt:

I knew pictures were coming so I turned off images...yes, the pictures scare me too. :leaving:

Hey ebbs, want a banana? :nana:

nope... but I'll be sure to bring a couple boxes with me to ND for ya.... fucker

:lol:

1. Ebbs, you will think you are in some shitty sci-fi channel movie in a couple of months. Those fuckin spiders are everywhere... Big fuckers too.... seriously always give the shitter a good once over before you sit down. when I was there there was a guy that got bitten by one on the shitter, came runnin out with pants around his ankles screaming....

2. I once responed to a 911 call at the commissary, seems an 69 year old retired chief was picking out a bunch of bananas and was bitten by as spider.. Long story short It was a banana spider who had hitchhiked with the produce delivery... Oh and this store is in Illinois

fuck you all

now now Ebbs, I think you really need to channel your anger to your recruiter....

:lol:

I remember when I first got here back in 2000, I was taking the trash out and there was a huge Tarantula(sp) just chilling behind the trash can and when I moved it, it came crawling out. Bitch was fast, too. I had to kill it with the trash can because there's no way in hell I'm stepping on a huge spider.

fuck that I hate spiders... not to the point that I go screaming like a girl... but then again... I've never seen one bigger than a small camel spider... and that was "only" about 4" long x 2.5" wide

I had one of those on my fucking arm at work here a few years back. I thought I just had an itch and looked on my left forearm and that shit was like "Yo, I'm big and I'm on your arm". I swatted it off and took some breathes to cool out before I cut it's wounded head off and put it in a Gatorade bottle.

:lol: yeah and they're fast as FUCK! but I guess they're not really a spider... they're actually scorpions...

An accident can happen without riding anywhere near your skill level, a simple mistake when you are just cruising at a slow pace can bite the shit out of you on these roads. Ask Drewpy, he went down after he backed it off to just chill and cruise through the gap.

We were all tired after a long hot day of riding and were cruising back to the lodge to hop in the pool. One misjudged corner and wham. Simple mistake that anyone could of made.

Misjudged = out of skill level. I just don't buy the excuses. I know shit happens. It happens to everyone. But you've got to be honest with yourself.

Well then don't ever go to the track or ride twisties, because they are out of your skill level.

I didn't crash at the track. And I haven't crashed on a twistie road.

Yes, but a mistake or misjudging something could lead to that, so it's best for you to just safe at home because you are out of your skill level. Damn those Moto GP riders for riding out of their skill levels.

Whatever gets you to sleep at night, guy.

Ambly went down this weekend as well. Why don't you jump on his case about riding beyond his skill level too.

Probly was.

not true... you can be caught off guard... doesn't mean you don't have the SKILL to handle it...

the only way you ever improve is to move closer and closer to the limit of your skill level... with out pushing that... we'd all still be in the parking lot.

If you ever go to a STT track day, they talk about when a majority of their accidents happen. It's towards the end of the segments when everyone is getting tired. It's not that they don't have the skill to handle the situations, it's fatigue that gets them and that has nothing to do with skill level.

glad to hear they were both minor downs... and everyone is ok.

now commence with the picture share'n!

They have all the pics and they are probably not home yet. I wonder if NtS is even on the road yet. Wheeler was still working on his bike when I saw it last night.

Andrea took some, but she took off last night to go visit her grandparents in another part of TN.

ill prepared mother fuckers.


so what all happened to NtS's bike

I rarely finsh a full session because of this. I can tell when I'm getting close to being not fully attentive (lack of better words) and I tell myself it's the last lap, usually a few minutes short of the 20 minute session. And the GP guys go 110% for 40-50 minutes during a race, that's crazy.

I'm sure any one of us could be conditioned enough to do that... That's all they do is condition themselves and ride...

Yup, it's just time and money...lots of it.

WHAT HAPPENED TO NTS' BIKE??

Yeah I will pull off if I start feeling tired and I almost always go in on the white flag lap if I stay out til the end. STT started doing a white flag lap and they say it's helped with late crashes.

The side he laid down was fine, the side that hit the guard rail took a beating. radiator resi is leaking, right front caliper broke off the fork, rotor bent, rear brake banjo is leaking, and a bunch of fairing damage.

see above

NtS needs to avoid corners with guard rails :lol: he's 2 for 2

No shit... Now how pissed is NtS?

He is really pissed because apparently wheeler is closed on sundays and he is stuck in robbinsville with no way to get his bike.

He could always just buy a new bike... I mean, another one.

fuck... that sucks ass! how fucked up was the bike?

enough, not as bad as ceo's but bad enough. It was almost back together as of 4:30 yesterday.

Damn that sucks. I was really hoping it was just cosmetic and he was still riding.

Damn that sucks. I was really hoping it was just cosmetic and he was still riding.

You really were hoping huh? :lol:

just got off the phone with nts, he is taking it nicely, lol

lol, where is he staying in robbinsville?

some motel, wheeler called and he had to click over so who knows if he can get it tonight or not

90 bucks & its all done, wheeler got it back together(ish)

not too bad for what he had to do to it

We are talking warped rotor straightened, caliper welded, no telling to the rad resi, and ziptie everything together to remotely work all for 90 where as they did nothing to OSPs bike for how much. :zowned:

yeah he got a steal of a deal on the repair costs, I finally had to leave him so I could get home...didnt want to, but work never stops for vacation time...wheeler left a note on the window for us but never called back till very late, but well, sometimes thats how it goes...

he sweet talked some nice lady and got dinner outta it, and he took it VERY well actually...

Get off the subject. I never made an excuse for why i crashed. Marko doesnt like me, i shed a tear over it and go on with my life, thats great. if he wants to dwell on that let him go.

Thanks for stickin up for me trip, but honestly, its just a crash. we all go down, and its always avoidable. I took a lot from this wreck, and it was like an epiphany. It told me i really cant learn much more on the street, and thats something i think i already knew anyways.

I hear SBG is having a rally this month, marko, if you really want to get to know some riders that never take risks and dont push themselves.

thx rae.

on a side note, she also gave me a free room and a ride to wheelers in the morning.

Reba, at philips motel, will be one of my first stops next year. I was overwhelmed by her generosity.

Try to get someone following you with a tank cam next time, NTS. Post it for critiquing purposes.

heres a pic of me from killboy.

http://img110.imageshack.us/img110/1681/killboybf3.jpg

and another.

http://img104.imageshack.us/img104/9226/killboy2xt9.jpg

damn it! ATTACH! :panic:

Looks fine to me. You ride with a finger covering the brake and clutch? Got a knee down yet?

Dick weed.

you pretty much have to at the gap, you don't get much of a break in the action and you always have to be wary of lane crossers.