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Old 07-07-2009, 05:08 PM
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On Monday the wife and I spent the day hitting up the dragon, hellbender (US 28), and cherohola skyway. I had an absolute blast and will be back for sure. There really were not to many people on any of the roads at all, a few bikes and some tourists. I could have pushed it harder on the dragon, but it seemed to me that if something happened on that road the chances of me harming a biker were more than I wanted to risk, so I took it easy, plus it had rained so there were some wet spots in the road, and I had the wife in the car . Cherohola skyway was more open and dry, so I did push it a bit more on that road, but still kept in mind that I was on a public road (it was hard .)

It would have been a blast to hook up with someone else and drive it, to bad I did not take my computer and had no idea there was actually another member out there until I past him heading to Cherohola skyway, he was heading the other direction .

Here are a couple of photos and a video. The video turned out pretty nice considering my wife was holding are digital camera (photo with a video option) in her hand.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_qhatZvbdI [/media]

A picture of a car that we came across halfway through hellbender, he was pussy footing it through, so I was glad when he turned off into the shop before I got on the dragon .


A couple more on hellbender and the dragon, the one looks like I am across the yellow line, but trust me I am not, it must have been the angle and where we were in the corner when it was taken. There was this old guy and his wife (tourists) infront of me in their Lexus sedan who even though he was going 10 mph felt the need to cross the yellow on almost every corner






The S2000 taking a break on the way there
Old 07-07-2009, 05:47 PM
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Sorry pics will be back up in a second, I tried to make some changes and it will not let me put any videos or pics up now

Edit: back up, guess it does not like it when you edit with a youtube video linked.
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Looks like you had a good time. Nice job of staying in your lane from what I can see. Come join us in the Fall.
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Originally Posted by SheDrivesIt,Jul 7 2009, 10:37 PM
Nice job of staying in your lane from what I can see.
Thanks, I will admit that I crossed the yellow line one time, heading up there was a corner that took a weird turn that I did not expect and I had to go over by a foot or so. The only other issue I almost had was that I apexed a corner a bit to tight and dropped a back tire luckly it was at one of the few spots were I could get away with it.
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Originally Posted by bgoetz,Jul 7 2009, 11:59 PM
Thanks, I will admit that I crossed the yellow line one time, heading up there was a corner that took a weird turn that I did not expect and I had to go over by a foot or so. The only other issue I almost had was that I apexed a corner a bit to tight and dropped a back tire luckly it was at one of the few spots were I could get away with it.
The Dragon can bite you in the a*s real quick!
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Amen brother, amen!
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