Deal's Gap - Memorial day weekend

[jantarek]

Trip to the Deal's Gap - short story and pictures

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05/19/2009 6pm
First I had to help some friends to load their bikes on trailer and than I left to meet my bud Adam in NJ
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05/20/2009 7:00 am
Stayed over night at his house and early in the morning we were ready to rock
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first stop skyline drive Adams friend Pit and his wife
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05/21/2009
meet up with the rest of the crew in Roanoke VA
so now we had 6 bikes and 8 people total.
Time to hit the Blue ridge parkway

We had to stop often as they were working on the road
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good timing for a smoke
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some nice flora along the way
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and break for lunch
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it was dark when we got to Deal's but luckly I've called ahead and the keys to the rooms were waiting for us

ok some dragon taming coming up next

[jantarek]

05/22/2009 6am
No sleepy at the dragon, someone always has some nice way of waking people up with a ride up the hill on bike with loud pipes, o well

line up infront of Motel
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some people brought some serious stuff
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my shirt from 2 years ago was up
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so we had some food and of we go to tame that beast
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full respect my friend you rock
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Pit was quick to hit the road
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Mario on his Bandit

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Adam with his wife on his cow
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Darek on 650 GS
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and me and Adam chasing eachother around some corners
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few more mix pictures
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TBC

[Visian]

nice looking crew and bikes. great pics.

you sure were brave to do the dragon on memorial day weekend!

thanks for posting.

ian

[terham]

Great pictures and story. Thanks.

[jantarek]

Thank you

Next was Cherohala Skyway were soon after Adam and Darek had to hed back home

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anyone that have not seen C.S. you should next time you are there its a super fun ride
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and Views are very nice
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05/23/2009
Pit and Angelica left in the the morning so 4 of us hit the dragon 10 more times, and left for the Smokies through Foothill parkway

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Smoky mountains park is awesome but it got us hungry so break for lunch

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the burgers were great
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but somewhat filling, my half is packed, Adam is working on last bite
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aaaaaaannnnddddd done
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and back to the park
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back in resort the was a bad news waiting
"Don't ride faster than your guardian Angel can fly"
I hope the guy is ok
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I guess more parts for the tree, what a shame
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TBC

[TexanRT]

Great report -- those were some great photos. We rode through about a week before your group did and had a great time. :thumb

[jantarek]

thank you

05/24/2009
after coffee we said good buy to the Deal's Gap
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this was 2 years ago
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And hed for BRP to slowly make our way back to VA
well it was - nice
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We stayed in the same Hotel in VA and it the morning those guys left and the trailer and I spend 11 hours and 620 miles of working on making my tires flat

ps. got ticked in PA " for not following a properly posted speed limit sign" those guys didn't even knew how fast was it, and I was following the traffic o well 109 bucks down the drain,

I hope it wasn't to boring

Jerry