First ride of 2010...The Dragon

Took off on a rare solo ride today with The Dragon on my mind. I had planned to do a over-night to Mount Mitchell , North Carolina for the annual " Kiss My Ice Ride " but the weather would not allow with bitter cold and snow expected on the mountain last night and tonight.Temps was in the low 30's at Deals Gap and I finally got to meet a few riders from this site ( Good meeting y'all and hope to ride with you someday ) . First picture's are from the over-look on the Tennessee side.

The Dragon was wet in many of the 318 curves but I still got in a decent ( 2 ) runs at it. I saw a police officer at Deals Gap but he was'nt nowhere to be found on the way back out of North Carolina.



Picture of the group I met at Deal's Gap...Pretty sure ( 3 ) of them are members of this site.



Took a picture of this bike I like the way he made the mounting hardware for his trunk.



DarkSide on a Kawasaki Vulcan

Made my way back into Tennessee with a few stops for photo op's. This is about mid-way through The Dragon at two different locations.





Took this last one down by the lake on US 129 ...No Doubt

Nice pics, Joe. We all had a great ride and I met some great people for the first time, including yourself. Life is good and great to share it with friends. I wish for you all and your families a safe and healthy New Year and look forward to the next time we can share some winding roads together. Semper-fi MIke

Hi joe it was nice meeting you. we finally got home.marine mp nice meeting you to

Good Pics Joe thanks for sharing.

Jerry

Someday

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Yall are men of many words Thanks again Joe for sharing.

See you out there
Smokey

Joe it was GREAT to finally meet you! And also to get to see that SWEET Val of yours, she's a beaut! Anyway hope you don't mind I'm gonna post a couple of pictures on here as well.


2010 Poar Bear Riders


Gett'n ready to pull-out for the Skyway


Re-grouping after we hit Ice at 3000ft mark and (1) laid his bike over trying to turn it around!


My Buddies Kingpin parked on some of the Ice.


Temp on Mike (Marine-MP's) Wing, Was great running into him on the ride.

Ice on the front of Charles' Trike.


Well look who we ran into up at the Dragon, Is that Smokin-Joe?(Left) Mike/Marine-MP(Right)


Had to get picture of the Nad by the Dragon sign.


Picture of the Mountain from over in Robbisville.

Goose,
Some great pictures. Truly enjoyed the ride and meeting everybody. Looking forward to April at the Gathering!!!!! Semper-fi mIke

Great pictures ...WOW...After seeing what it looked like on Cherohala Skyline I'm glad I made the call not to come in that way. I took this one picture as y'all rode by the over-look....Good to meet you folks and I look forward to the next time.

the rest of us was way behind those two

you boyz must have iron for blood ridin in those conditions.