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Offline Pipes

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Tale of the Dragon
« on: January 26, 2012, 05:36:17 PM »
Tail of the Dragon was featured on a show on Discovery.  The show was called Hell Roads and should be replayed this weekend I think.
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Re: Tale of the Dragon
« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2012, 05:41:44 PM »
Hell Roads - Tail of the Dragon



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Re: Tale of the Dragon
« Reply #2 on: January 26, 2012, 06:32:38 PM »
Cool!  Thanks for the linky.
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Re: Tale of the Dragon
« Reply #3 on: January 26, 2012, 07:03:52 PM »
Hell... here's a road for you.  Enjoy the whole video, and don't worry, you'll see the road I'm talking about!  I'd love to ride it!  (it's at 1:45 for you impatient types)

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Re: Tale of the Dragon
« Reply #4 on: February 02, 2012, 10:36:48 PM »
that was a cool clip! I haven't ever seen video of the tail before
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Re: Tale of the Dragon
« Reply #5 on: February 08, 2012, 07:51:15 AM »
I'm hauling down to the TOD in early April for a week of riding and have room for 3-4 bikes right now.  Want to get away?  Give me a hollar.
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Re: Tale of the Dragon
« Reply #6 on: February 08, 2012, 02:56:11 PM »
I wonder if TOD has the most crashes and near misses of any road in the US.  There is a thread over on ADVrider which has some amazing examples of bad riding culled from Killboy and others.   The road ceratinly gets a fair number of fatalities.   I don't have any urge to ride TOD when there are less popular roads nearby.
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Re: Tale of the Dragon
« Reply #7 on: February 08, 2012, 03:16:48 PM »
TOD is a neat road (from what I've heard), but I have to agree with Ian. It isn't the "end all be all" of great roads. I've lead a rich "twistie-loving" life just fine without it.
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Re: Tale of the Dragon
« Reply #8 on: February 08, 2012, 03:57:28 PM »
I just checked the thread I mentioned and it just hit ........500........PAGES!
http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=454662
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Re: Tale of the Dragon
« Reply #9 on: February 08, 2012, 04:42:14 PM »
I'm pretty sure that Chris isn't going to be riding ONLY the Tail of the Dragon... As we all know, there are many, many good roads in the area and I'm sure he's going to incorporate most of them in this trip. 

I'm pretty sure the title of this thread only means that area of the country and that particular attraction. 
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Re: Tale of the Dragon
« Reply #10 on: February 08, 2012, 04:56:37 PM »
TOD= Tail of the Dragon. How about "Six Gap"? or "Devil's Triangle". All parts of the pleasure within the Chatahoochi National Forest, overlapping the corners of Tennessee, Georgia and the Carolinas. And were doing all this and more in April.    If you have 6 days to ride that region, there are few twisties that you'd leave untouched... or ADV trails adventures you could do.  The sky is the limit.
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Re: Tale of the Dragon
« Reply #11 on: February 08, 2012, 05:52:18 PM »
Forrest and I try to get out there a couple times a year. The tail is like stugis or bike week, it's more about the spectical than anything else, but it is a great road just too many people. Endless places to ride out there, each road is like the next, way too many to do in one lifetime.
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Re: Tale of the Dragon
« Reply #12 on: February 08, 2012, 07:50:27 PM »
lol I got sucked into that ADV thread Ian and started looking at killboy's pics and found this guy.  Kind of the opposite of the original thread but also humorous.


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Re: Tale of the Dragon
« Reply #13 on: February 08, 2012, 08:09:42 PM »
Here's a bunch of routes we road last year, you have to ride Wayah road if you haven't, its awesome, all kinds of different things in one stretch of road. These are based out of Knoxville, as that is where we stayed.

Devils Triangle
http://g.co/maps/hk5kc
Diamondback Loop
http://g.co/maps/bvmrb
Harrogate loop
http://g.co/maps/955b5
Wheels thru time loop (Wayah Road is awesome)
http://g.co/maps/wkuy6
Caesarhead Loop
http://g.co/maps/8xhw7
Blue Ridge/Diamondback
http://g.co/maps/u8jtm
Greasy Creek loop
http://g.co/maps/b7hwr

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Re: Tale of the Dragon
« Reply #14 on: February 12, 2012, 04:30:43 PM »
RCD I wanna go....
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