FIZZER6
The Angry Blue Mantis
For those of you who have never ridden the Tail of the Dragon I can tell you from experience (been there 7 times) that it draws scores of squids, and cruiser dudes, many of which have never ridden anything but flat Florida roads and the Dragon is one of the most difficult roads to ride fast for an inexperienced rider. My first time on it was about 18 months after I started riding and I had to take it super slow, letting other bikes and cars pass me the first time through! It is a lot of dips, banked curves, decreasing radius curves, people parked on the shoulders around blind curves, no guard rails, lot of steep drop offs and lots of oncoming idiots in your lane! In other words the perfect recipe for crashes!
The only way to really enjoy it is to ride it at 8am or on a weekday, NOT on Saturday or Sunday. I actually think it's 10X more fun in my sport car than on the bike because the curves are simply too fast to ride quick on a bike when you may have to deal with an oncoming truck in your lane leaned over!
I will be going back to the Smoky's on the FZ6 this September but not for the Dragon...for Hwy 26 and the Cherohala Skyway! :rockon:
The only way to really enjoy it is to ride it at 8am or on a weekday, NOT on Saturday or Sunday. I actually think it's 10X more fun in my sport car than on the bike because the curves are simply too fast to ride quick on a bike when you may have to deal with an oncoming truck in your lane leaned over!
I will be going back to the Smoky's on the FZ6 this September but not for the Dragon...for Hwy 26 and the Cherohala Skyway! :rockon: