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Finally got out for ride on this beautiful spring day..
It was around 4 this evening before I could get some wind and it works out that I couldn't have picked a better time. The bike was running smooth and strong as usual despite the unusually long hibernation this year.
The road was all mine as I laid into the big sweepers of hwy 19 winding my way north. I got behind a mini somewhere up the mountain but luckily he had come to play so we had a great run all the way to Wolf Pen.
I got behind a van just as I turned west but he soon flagged me around him so I was running open highway again. Lot's o' gravel on Wolf pens eastern end.. remnants of the abundance of nasty precipitation this winter but it was much better on the western end,
Hwy 60 was all mine as I turned left so I let her roll... note: cold tar snakes equal traction.... Man! I needed that.. what a great ride! Clear and open running all the way back home...
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Learned Hand
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Awesome! I have been twice this year through the twisties on 75 climbing out of Helen... but both times I was driving a 34 foot motor home. Not as much fun, but surely interesting.
Glad you got out and looking forward to getting up that way more, now that the weather seems to be breaking the right way.
Thom
I might be wrong, I sometimes am.
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i remember a mini rally, one year while we were having our GA gathering.
sure were a lot of them little ankle biters roaming the roads.
where were we? RRP? Hiawassee?
allhailthefrenchpress
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I remember the year that all the mini Coopers were there too. They were all racing up/down the dragon. Over and over and over and over...kinda like the other Bonnie group. Ride a zillion miles to ride the same stretch a hundred times? Doesn't seem like a very exciting time to me.
That was the second GA rally for me, first for Wojo as we hooked up on the way. Man, that was moons ago now eh?
A word to the wise is not necessary. It is the stupid ones who need the advice.
Pat
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Now you tell me, but its ok, I did get out myself, west on 53 and up thru Jasper back east on 136 to Burnt Top Mtn over to 52, then to 9 and back home, pretty good but not Wolf Pen, but that will change soon. You are right a fantastic day to ride and like you been way too long out of the saddle.
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Went through there on the way to British in the Blue Ridge a couple of years ago. Great road.
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