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Bella Vista, AR | rdbudd - 2013-04-25 10:27 AM
The Smokies are awesome. I love 'em. It's really pretty in the Fall. We don't get colors that vibrant in the Ozarks. If you can, ride Deal's Gap during the week. The maniacs are there on the weekends. I've ridden it on a Friday and it wasn't very crowded. On the weekends, all the boy racers are out. There are lots of great roads in that area, and some of them are more entertaining than the "Dragon". You can pick up area maps at any motel around there.
Have you been up on Mt. Nebo at Dardenell (across the river from Russellville)? The start of that road intimidates the flatlanders and the view from the top is great. Often, there will be hanggliders launching from there. How about the side road coming down off of Rich Mountain at Mena? You can scare yourself pretty good on either one if you get too frisky.
Ronnie
I intend to hit the Deals area on a Wednesday afternoon, then spend Thursday riding the area. I've been up Mt. Magazine a couple times, but haven't been to Nebo yet. It's on my list though, and will hopefully happen soon. |
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Jasper, MO | fish51 - 2013-04-25 8:55 PM
I intend to hit the Deals area on a Wednesday afternoon, then spend Thursday riding the area. I've been up Mt. Magazine a couple times, but haven't been to Nebo yet. It's on my list though, and will hopefully happen soon.
Good plan. You'll enjoy the Smokies. Be sure to go up into the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Check out the Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest. It's the only part of the Smokies that has never been cut for lumber and there's some big trees in there. http://main.nc.us/graham/hiking/joycekil.html
You'll also enjoy Mt Nebo in Arkansas. Have you ever ridden the Talimena National Scenic Byway? http://www.talimenascenicdrive.com/ The lodge is closed for renovation until this Fall, but it's a great place to ride to and eat (or stay) when it's open. You can go right down I540 to Highway 71 to Mena, which is the fastest way to get there from Bella Vista, but it's more fun to go over to Eureka Springs and go all the way down the Pig Trail to 71.
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The old 71 highway over the Boston Mountains is still a pretty ride too, and another great ride from Bella Vista to Mena. Get on it around West Fork and follow it all the way down to Mena.
We'll often take the scenic routes down and then superslab it back home at the end of the day.
One of our favorite weekend rides is to go down to Mt. Nebo, then run over to Mena and stay the night, riding the area the next day and then back home. It's about a 500 to 600 mile weekend for us, with lots of stops to smell the roses.
Sometimes, we drag the Vision 
Ronnie
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Bella Vista, AR | I like Talimena. A buddy and I took off on sport bikes years ago and rode down OK 59 to Talihena, across Talimena to Mena, and then east to Mt. Magazine. After riding Magazine, we brought Hwy. 23 back up into Fayetteville. That was a great ride, but a really long day on those crotch rockets. |
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| If your running to dragon, make sure you get in the Cherahola skyway. Everyone I have taken there thought it blows away the dragon, the dragon is a PR success. 30 of the cherahola's 44 miles are on reservation land, no cops..... Rip it up!
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| jeffmack - 2013-04-26 10:03 AM
If your running to dragon, make sure you get in the Cherahola skyway. Everyone I have taken there thought it blows away the dragon, the dragon is a PR success. 30 of the cherahola's 44 miles are on reservation land, no cops..... Rip it up!
Enjoy
You didnt drag a floorboard did you? It seems as though that is mathematically impossible, according to this thread.... Right?
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Bullhead City, AZ | You're kidding me.... that bike is either lowered, or has the bash plate on the bottom (which is what you probably actually hear scraping) or both. My bike leans much further over than that before it hit's the tip overs. That's nothing in that clip.
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I have seen Bill (the rider in the video ) do this with a Vision right off the demo truck in Laughlin made about 3 circles on each board stopped the bike and just let it drop. Nothing draws a crowd like the sound of a Vision hitting the tipovers. |
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Bullhead City, AZ | I have seen Bill ,the guy is the video, do circle after circle on both sides with a demo bike off the truck. Made marks in the Laughlin Riverside parking lot that looked like a figure 8. I have heard Bill called lots of things but never a poor rider. He can ride the hell out a Vision and if you wanted he could do the same with yours. Does it look lowered when he goes over the sidewalk. I scrape 1-2 x a week on the same corner coming home, I even lift my foot off the board just before I think it is going to hit and according to some posters my VV shouldn't corner as well because I run a car tire. |
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Rancho Cucamonga, CA | loren2 - 2013-04-30 12:45 AM
You're kidding me.... that bike is either lowered, or has the bash plate on the bottom (which is what you probably actually hear scraping) or both.
Bash plate does not drag, even on a 1" lowered bike. It's more for speed bumps and rocks. |
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Iron Butt
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| loren2 - 2013-04-30 2:45 AM
I have seen Bill (the rider in the video ) do this with a Vision right off the demo truck in Laughlin made about 3 circles on each board stopped the bike and just let it drop. Nothing draws a crowd like the sound of a Vision hitting the tipovers.
First of all, no one said he was a bad driver by any stretch.... I went back and looked. What was said was that he wasn't dragging the tip overs at a 45 degree lean. They don't touch that early, mine certainly don't anyway. You basically acknowledge and agree with me when you say that he goes in circles then just lets it drop over on the tip overs. Clearly, if he's scraping something, and can still let it drop further over onto the tip overs, then whatever was scraping just before that, couldn't have possibly been the tips.
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| Nozzledog - 2013-05-06 12:17 AM
loren2 - 2013-04-30 12:45 AM
You're kidding me.... that bike is either lowered, or has the bash plate on the bottom (which is what you probably actually hear scraping) or both.
Bash plate does not drag, even on a 1" lowered bike. It's more for speed bumps and rocks.
It can doing parking lots maneuvers. I'll have to take a pic of mine for you. And no, my bike is NOT lowered.
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