Wassup from Deals Gap.

[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.

[t-homo]

So is that just like a really big decreasing radius spiral or what?