Panigales at the Dragon - Meetup on 10/10/13
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Yes, we are going to head home about 1-2ish. We will be there, and others are staying
Shoot me a text about your exact time and we will wait for you at the gas station/resort there at the beginning
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man, was that boring.
hope you got back to your destinations safely!
no further tickets here...
Is there a story here???
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Here's a collection of the best. Link to all I have at the bottom.
Arrival day - Thursday
Florida guys show up.
Evening at the hotel. SoulRider doing leveraged buyout of a 3rd world country. TwoWheel Inn is a very nice place. Glad someone recommended it.
Friday morning fog. Up early waiting for Florida to wake up.
Time to ride! The ..... checking facebook and getting their makeup on...
(L-R) "That guy on the red bike" (Kevin), Evo-L (Logan), Castor Troy (Dimitry)
Quick run up to the gap via 129 and we arrive.
"That guy on the red bike"(i.e. Kevin) checking air pressure
We set off to The Overlook.
Two highly suspicious biker gangsters obviously looking for trouble (L-R , Castor Troy and Evo-L)
Down out of the Gap and going over to Tellico. Biker gang stopping for gas and scaring locals
Lunch at Kat's Deli (on the Tellico river in Tellico). Omega10 (left) acts as Gang lookout while SoulRider (seated) admires DYL-Jim's leathers.
Evo-L (Logan) explaining the finer points of riding a Panigale off-road while "That guy on the Red Bike" (Kevin) and Castor Troy (Dimitry) listen awestruck.
After lunch it was over the Cherahola Skyway and back up to the gap.
Here's the Panigale Biker Gang posing for the locals...
(L-R) "That guy on the red bike", SoulRider(kneeling), Omega10, DYL-Jim, Castor Troy, Evo-L(kneeling), CharlieM90.
(not pictured - Gramps, Philigale)
A lot of red here. Locals were suitably impressed.
Italian Girlfriends. Expensive collection of machinery here.
The end to a perfect day.....
Last to leave. Omega10 contemplates all things Ducati late Saturday afternoon.
Complete pics can be found here.
Panigale Meet Photos by charlieM90 | Photobucket
Good roads. Good Company. Good bikes. Was a great meetup. The rest of you should have showed. You missed a real treat!
Arrival day - Thursday
Florida guys show up.
Evening at the hotel. SoulRider doing leveraged buyout of a 3rd world country. TwoWheel Inn is a very nice place. Glad someone recommended it.
Friday morning fog. Up early waiting for Florida to wake up.
Time to ride! The ..... checking facebook and getting their makeup on...
(L-R) "That guy on the red bike" (Kevin), Evo-L (Logan), Castor Troy (Dimitry)
Quick run up to the gap via 129 and we arrive.
"That guy on the red bike"(i.e. Kevin) checking air pressure
We set off to The Overlook.
Two highly suspicious biker gangsters obviously looking for trouble (L-R , Castor Troy and Evo-L)
Down out of the Gap and going over to Tellico. Biker gang stopping for gas and scaring locals
Lunch at Kat's Deli (on the Tellico river in Tellico). Omega10 (left) acts as Gang lookout while SoulRider (seated) admires DYL-Jim's leathers.
Evo-L (Logan) explaining the finer points of riding a Panigale off-road while "That guy on the Red Bike" (Kevin) and Castor Troy (Dimitry) listen awestruck.
After lunch it was over the Cherahola Skyway and back up to the gap.
Here's the Panigale Biker Gang posing for the locals...
(L-R) "That guy on the red bike", SoulRider(kneeling), Omega10, DYL-Jim, Castor Troy, Evo-L(kneeling), CharlieM90.
(not pictured - Gramps, Philigale)
A lot of red here. Locals were suitably impressed.
Italian Girlfriends. Expensive collection of machinery here.
The end to a perfect day.....
Last to leave. Omega10 contemplates all things Ducati late Saturday afternoon.
Complete pics can be found here.
Panigale Meet Photos by charlieM90 | Photobucket
Good roads. Good Company. Good bikes. Was a great meetup. The rest of you should have showed. You missed a real treat!
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great pics Charlie! You guys had great weather too.
Here's a collection of the best. Link to all I have at the bottom.
Arrival day - Thursday
Florida guys show up.
Evening at the hotel. SoulRider doing leveraged buyout of a 3rd world country. TwoWheel Inn is a very nice place. Glad someone recommended it.
Friday morning fog. Up early waiting for Florida to wake up.
Time to ride! The ..... checking facebook and getting their makeup on...
(L-R) "That guy on the red bike" (Kevin), Evo-L (Logan), Castor Troy (Dimitry)
Quick run up to the gap via 129 and we arrive.
"That guy on the red bike"(i.e. Kevin) checking air pressure
We set off to The Overlook.
Two highly suspicious biker gangsters obviously looking for trouble (L-R , Castor Troy and Evo-L)
Down out of the Gap and going over to Tellico. Biker gang stopping for gas and scaring locals
Lunch at Kat's Deli (on the Tellico river in Tellico). Omega10 (left) acts as Gang lookout while SoulRider (seated) admires DYL-Jim's leathers.
Evo-L (Logan) explaining the finer points of riding a Panigale off-road while "That guy on the Red Bike" (Kevin) and Castor Troy (Dimitry) listen awestruck.
After lunch it was over the Cherahola Skyway and back up to the gap.
Here's the Panigale Biker Gang posing for the locals...
(L-R) "That guy on the red bike", SoulRider(kneeling), Omega10, DYL-Jim, Castor Troy, Evo-L(kneeling), CharlieM90.
(not pictured - Gramps, Philigale)
A lot of red here. Locals were suitably impressed.
Italian Girlfriends. Expensive collection of machinery here.
The end to a perfect day.....
Last to leave. Omega10 contemplates all things Ducati late Saturday afternoon.
Complete pics can be found here.
Panigale Meet Photos by charlieM90 | Photobucket
Good roads. Good Company. Good bikes. Was a great meetup. The rest of you should have showed. You missed a real treat!
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What a great week!
A special thanks to everyone that attended. Jim thanks a ton for everything, and keeping us safe from the police!
I'll get some pics up later. The adventure home was just that with Sky, Logan, and Kevin. Just how many tires can a trailer go through. Story to come from them I'm sure.
Charlie I enjoyed the company while the others were still snoozing.
A special thanks to everyone that attended. Jim thanks a ton for everything, and keeping us safe from the police!
I'll get some pics up later. The adventure home was just that with Sky, Logan, and Kevin. Just how many tires can a trailer go through. Story to come from them I'm sure.
Charlie I enjoyed the company while the others were still snoozing.
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some footage from killboy.com: watch from 7:30
12 Minutes with killboy on the Dragon - Ep. 36 - Oct. 12, 2013 - YouTube
still grinnin'
12 Minutes with killboy on the Dragon - Ep. 36 - Oct. 12, 2013 - YouTube
still grinnin'
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Well here are my pictures from the trip. It was a great time!
3 Panigales on one puny trailer? That seems fine...
The complete rig
Getting closer! We've entered NC at this point.
Arrived, geared up, and met up with everyone at Deals Gap Resort. Let the fun commence!
The tree of shame - Luckily nobody from our group had anything to add. We did see a few Harley riders who could toss some parts to the base of that tree.
After the first pass through the gap. Boy was I out of my element. Florida has nothing compared to this. There isn't a straight road in this county. This is a view from the outlook where most stop and go back to run the gap again. Its about 9 miles in, out of 11 miles total.
Panigales at the Outlook. Here you can see CharlieM90 doing whatever he's doing over there.
(L-R) Don's Bike, Kevin's Bike, My Bike, Jay's Bike, Charlie's bike.
Another shot of most of the crew.
Panorama of the view from the Outlook
We all rode over to the Fontana Dam for a nice group shot. The upside was we got to ride Jay's favorite stretch of road.
Another shot at the top of the Dam
Next we rode down to the bottom of the Dam because we thought we could catch some of the light. Good idea... but the light tucking away behind the mountains.
Another shot from the bottom.
The view from the bottom of the Fontana Dam.
My bike on the left, Kevin's on the right.
Jay, Dimitry, Jim, Charlie (L-R)
A nice fire we built that night. How many Ducati owners does it take to make a fire? 4 is the answer. ... Hey, after all, we're not adventure riders
The next day we met up again at the Deals Gap Resort for another day of infinite twisties.
An unpaid shot of me going around the gap. I like this one, I think Ill buy it. I wonder if they can Photoshop out Kevin???
We ride out to a waterfall of which I forgot the name, but it was very nice!
From the waterfall we took off towards the Cherohala Skyway. Here is a view from a stop off point.
Towards the end of the day we met back up at the Deals Gap Resort and got an official group shot of the Panigales that were there. Another managed to pull up randomly with some CF fairings, I don't remember his name though.
The next day we were back at it. "Phil" joined us and we ran the full gap. Here's a shot at the end of it. Theres "Phil" there on the left, then Jay "SOULRIDER", Sky "Castor Troy", and Don "Omega10".
And another shot at the bottom of the gap.
And on the way home we had more trailer issues. Its just too much weight for this little trailer. We decided to unload Sky's (a.k.a Sapphire) bike and ride it home. We couldn't deal with another trailer issue at that point.
And those were my pictures! Castor Troy (aka Sky, aka Sapphire, aka Dimitry) should have some video to post, as he was the one with the GoPros. I have some cool SloMo footage of some random stuff I can share if anyone is interested. I hope more of you can make it out to the next one we do.
3 Panigales on one puny trailer? That seems fine...
The complete rig
Getting closer! We've entered NC at this point.
Arrived, geared up, and met up with everyone at Deals Gap Resort. Let the fun commence!
The tree of shame - Luckily nobody from our group had anything to add. We did see a few Harley riders who could toss some parts to the base of that tree.
After the first pass through the gap. Boy was I out of my element. Florida has nothing compared to this. There isn't a straight road in this county. This is a view from the outlook where most stop and go back to run the gap again. Its about 9 miles in, out of 11 miles total.
Panigales at the Outlook. Here you can see CharlieM90 doing whatever he's doing over there.
(L-R) Don's Bike, Kevin's Bike, My Bike, Jay's Bike, Charlie's bike.
Another shot of most of the crew.
Panorama of the view from the Outlook
We all rode over to the Fontana Dam for a nice group shot. The upside was we got to ride Jay's favorite stretch of road.
Another shot at the top of the Dam
Next we rode down to the bottom of the Dam because we thought we could catch some of the light. Good idea... but the light tucking away behind the mountains.
Another shot from the bottom.
The view from the bottom of the Fontana Dam.
My bike on the left, Kevin's on the right.
Jay, Dimitry, Jim, Charlie (L-R)
A nice fire we built that night. How many Ducati owners does it take to make a fire? 4 is the answer.
... Hey, after all, we're not adventure riders
The next day we met up again at the Deals Gap Resort for another day of infinite twisties.
An unpaid shot of me going around the gap. I like this one, I think Ill buy it. I wonder if they can Photoshop out Kevin???
We ride out to a waterfall of which I forgot the name, but it was very nice!
From the waterfall we took off towards the Cherohala Skyway. Here is a view from a stop off point.
Towards the end of the day we met back up at the Deals Gap Resort and got an official group shot of the Panigales that were there. Another managed to pull up randomly with some CF fairings, I don't remember his name though.
The next day we were back at it. "Phil" joined us and we ran the full gap. Here's a shot at the end of it. Theres "Phil" there on the left, then Jay "SOULRIDER", Sky "Castor Troy"
, and Don "Omega10".
And another shot at the bottom of the gap.
And on the way home we had more trailer issues. Its just too much weight for this little trailer. We decided to unload Sky's (a.k.a Sapphire) bike and ride it home. We couldn't deal with another trailer issue at that point.
And those were my pictures! Castor Troy (aka Sky, aka Sapphire, aka Dimitry) should have some video to post, as he was the one with the GoPros. I have some cool SloMo footage of some random stuff I can share if anyone is interested. I hope more of you can make it out to the next one we do.
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