Wassup from Deals Gap.

[NONE_too_SOFT]

Originally Posted by DLIT

So just a bad line choice/not knowing the road was the reason?

i donno. i studied my line, the road, the angles, everything for a while and i think it was just a wrong place wrong time type of thing. I'll post the pics of the wreck scene tomorrow and you can see that i had a perfect line (from my feeler scraping), same as trips. But that was part of the problem, i remember my feeler hitting before my puck touched, so i know i had bad body position.

If i had to stick it to something, it would probably be that i was focusing too much on trying to work on what trip told me earlier instead of just focusing on the ride.

[DLIT]

Maybe it's too technical a place to try to focus stuff. I like to use sweepers with breaks between 'em. It's all good, you're alive and so is the bike. I really can't suggest anything having never ridden there, but I'm trying to learn as much as I can for when I do ride there.

[NONE_too_SOFT]

Originally Posted by DLIT

Maybe it's too technical a place to try to focus stuff. I like to use sweepers with breaks between 'em. It's all good, you're alive and so is the bike. I really can't suggest anything having never ridden there, but I'm trying to learn as much as I can for when I do ride there.

xactly. Im psyched about heading down to mid ohio next week with some people i met to play pit bitch at a track day. hopefully will end up on the track within the next month or two.

[Trip]

I think it was a serious of unfortunate events. I carried too much speed into that corner as well, but got lucky. I was not expecting a decreasing radius turn like that and was not even off the bike because I was in cruise mode and not really pushing it. The roads down here can bite you easily and I didn't expect turns like that for another mile or two, but I don't ride 28 often so I was unfamiliar with where I was on the road. This was probably due to fatigue because we were in the final leg of that day's ride. Combine that with a section of road with transitions in pavement and you got the recipe for disaster.

[DLIT]

Originally Posted by Trip

I was not expecting a decreasing radius turn like that

What, you haven't memorized all 318 turns yet? Slacker.

[Trip]

Originally Posted by DLIT

What, you haven't memorized all 318 turns yet? Slacker.

I know the road by memory. BTW, here is an interesting little tidbit, there isn't 318 turns, that is the size of the engine in the guy's truck that decided to make that the advertising campaign. No one knows how many turns there are because no one cares to count and if they did, no one would agree on the criteria for what is a turn on that road.

This didn't happen on the dragon anyway, it was on another highway.

[NONE_too_SOFT]

Originally Posted by Trip

I know the road by memory. BTW, here is an interesting little tidbit, there isn't 318 turns, that is the size of the engine in the guy's truck that decided to make that the advertising campaign. No one knows how many turns there are because no one cares to count and if they did, no one would agree on the criteria for what is a turn on that road.

This didn't happen on the dragon anyway, it was on another highway.

i feel like my world has been turned upside down... black is white, down is up, left is right.

So he had a 3.18 liter truck?

i still got a 129 body surfer sticker out of it though... its gracing the back of my helmet as we speak.

[DLIT]

Originally Posted by Trip

I know the road by memory. BTW, here is an interesting little tidbit, there isn't 318 turns, that is the size of the engine in the guy's truck that decided to make that the advertising campaign. No one knows how many turns there are because no one cares to count and if they did, no one would agree on the criteria for what is a turn on that road.

This didn't happen on the dragon anyway, it was on another highway.

Count 'em and get back to me.

[Trip]

Originally Posted by DLIT

Count 'em and get back to me.

no thanks

That would be a nightmare. I would have to come up with what defines a turn and then I would have to come up with what is actually the dragon that I need to count. There is from tabcat bridge to cheoah dam bridge as the original, tabcat to the state line as the advertised, overlook to store as the most commonly run, overlook to state line, tabcat to store, the entire highway of 129 as reported by the media, and endless other combinations.

It's less than 318 and I will leave it at that.

[NONE_too_SOFT]

its only one turn. and it never ends for 11 miles.