I've covered the Blue Ridge Parkway and Skyline Drive from Cherokee, NC to
Front Royal, VA a dozen times, on bikes, in sports cars, even in the OM-4Runner
in the winter. Great ride through magnificant, photogenic scenery -- much of
it within 500 yards, or at least visible from there. :-)
But to really get the heart pumping, you need to ride the Tail of the Dragon: a
two-lane mountain road with 318 curves in 11 miles. We were riding this
stretch of US 129 back in the '70s, before it became so popular that it now
attracts enough folks some weekends to cause traffic jams. I guarantee, if you
ride it fast and survive, you'll want to do it again. And again.
http://www.tailofthedragon.com/
Walt, still crazy after all these years
--
"Anything more than 500 yards from
the car just isn't photogenic." --
Edward Weston
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Bob Whitmire" <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Was bikeless for a few years before buying a 900CC
> BMW, which was so quiet I couldn't hear it run, and so smooth I thought I
> was on a magic carpet. My wife and I used to take off early Sunday mornings
> and do a hundred fifty miles or so on a big loop that included the Blue
> Ridge Parkway past Mt. Pisgah above Asheville, N.C. That Beemer was one
> sweet bike. Never a moment's trouble in all the time I owned it. Finally
> sold it when No. 1 son was born and used the money to buy a white four-door
> sedan. Arrrrgggggg!
>
> --Bob
>
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