Just got back from Deals Gap/ Tail of the Dragon
#16
That's a pretty good write up. I just saw your Green Machine parked in the corner Yesterday. How the heck do you keep it so clean without a cover? Has the 2010 sibling delivered yet?
Here is an article I wrote about it in Autoweek a few years ago......
http://www.autoweek.com/article/20061026/FREE/61026014
http://www.autoweek.com/article/20061027/FREE/61026015
http://www.autoweek.com/article/20061026/FREE/61026014
http://www.autoweek.com/article/20061027/FREE/61026015
#17
Great run huh... You should have been running it back in the 80's and 90's before the state troopers took it over. I suppose it was for the best, during nice weather; the radio reports a wreck at the Gap about every other day.
#18
Contacting the web master of the Tail of the Dragon site, I found out that there aren't 318 "full" turns.
As Ron Johnson of the Tail of the Dragon web site put it in an e-mail to me "A curve is counted every time the steering changes. Some corners might have three or more curves if the turn tightens while in the corner."
#19
I'd hate to be on it on my bike or 993 only to have some 2 or 4 wheeled clown go sliding into me.
There is even a Tree Of Shame, a tree with bits 'n pieces of motorcycles hanging from it by those who really didn't know what they were doing.
Tree Of Shame