New toy - 2006 Honda CB600F aka 599

shawnwhipple · **Joined:** Wed Aug 20, 2003 6:28 pm **Posts:** 603

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Here's where I'm going for a long weekend in May

I was thinking about taking a trip to that neighborhood over the weekend of May 15/16 myself. Tarheel motorcycle trip????

I've been mostly commuting on my bike and it's just as not much fun a riding on the twisties.

Shawn

clinehall · **Posted:** Thu Mar 04, 2010 3:31 pm

I've always thought that a day trip to VIR when something is going on would be fun. Rolex? Nascar testing? Vintage? I wouldn't go when the bikes are there, probably crazy. But lots of hot girls so maybe so.

JasonWatts · **Posted:** Thu Mar 04, 2010 4:01 pm

clinehall wrote:

I've always thought that a day trip to VIR when something is going on would be fun. Rolex? Nascar testing? Vintage? I wouldn't go when the bikes are there, probably crazy. But lots of hot girls so maybe so.

I went from VA Beach to VIR on a motorcycle day, (nothing big, just local type stuff) and it wasnt bad. The gate workers were very nice and let us in for free considering the fact that the day was just about over.

MikeWhitney · **Joined:** Wed Aug 20, 2003 9:15 pm **Posts:** 4724

MikeWhitney wrote:

JasonWatts wrote:

all these people I hear mentioning bikes on here... how many people actually have them... and how many people actually ride them in more than strait lines?

Here's where I'm going for a long weekend in May

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source= ... 64187&z=13

I have been riding casually for 15 years -- mostly urban and commuting when life permits -- but I have never actually made a dedicated trip out to the twisties just to ride. I'm looking forward to it. Track events have lost their glory for me but I'm getting an adrenaline rush thinking about how to best not kill myself on 2 wheels

Got back today from 2 days out in the mountains on a dedicated motorcycle riding trip with Brian Marks and a bunch of his friends I met last year. What a _freaking_ blast. We rode the Blue Ridge, Cherahola, Foothills, 441, 28, and a bunch of others. Gave my bike a serious workout... that thing loves to be flogged. Dragon is closed which was a bummer since it is normally a good way back to the cabins we had in Townsend, TN.

Did about 320 miles Fri and 240 miles Sat, with plenty of beer drinking and hanging out with the kids in between. Surprisingly some of my chicken strips are still intact, despite a lot of hard cornering -- the bike has a lot more in it than I do

I'm hooked, I'm going back next year, hopefully with a few more days added for more family fun, there are a lot of cool touristy attractions in the area around Sevierville and Gaitlinburg.

Since I had never done a lot of hard riding before, I was pleasantly surprised how much track driving discipline helps with spirited motorcycle road riding. It's all about in-slow, out-fast, looking ahead, being smooth, braking in a straight line, and rolling on power after apex. Only thing you NEVER do on a bike is traction sample, obviously

It's also fun that it takes serious extended concentration, just like track but a bit less intense and you keep it up even longer. I'm also happy that I was able to ride very fast but within my limits, and the red mist never really caught me ... of course there were a few close calls with the law

clinehall · **Posted:** Mon May 24, 2010 6:14 am

Did you trailer it out there and deposit the family somewhere and then go riding?

Donnie Barnes · **Posted:** Mon May 24, 2010 8:30 am

MikeWhitney wrote:

Since I had never done a lot of hard riding before, I was pleasantly surprised how much track driving discipline helps with spirited motorcycle road riding. It's all about in-slow, out-fast, looking ahead, being smooth, braking in a straight line, and rolling on power after apex. Only thing you NEVER do on a bike is traction sample, obviously

It's also fun that it takes serious extended concentration, just like track but a bit less intense and you keep it up even longer. I'm also happy that I was able to ride very fast but within my limits, and the red mist never really caught me ... of course there were a few close calls with the law

If you do a track school or two you find that you definitely CAN slide a bike around. Quite a lot, actually.

You might consider a school just so you CAN get to that point, though, so that if you NEED that extra margin being able to slide the bike can provide, you'll have it. I did a bunch of track days back in the day that all helped my riding immensely in terms of safety. You can never have too much in the way of capabilities when it comes to mountain riding in NC. I've been cornering in my lane near the limit when I hit a gravel patch while a damned dump truck was all the sudden coming the other way half in my lane. You either pucker up and become squish or you let that bitch slide a little bit through the patch, wait for it to get traction again, and then get it turned enough that you don't hit anything.

I think if I hadn't had my track time, I might have been squish in that situation. Hard to say for sure. I do know riding a wheelie out of Oak Tree was one of the most fun things I've ever done that I DEFINITELY don't ever want to do again.

--Donnie

MikeWhitney · **Joined:** Wed Aug 20, 2003 9:15 pm **Posts:** 4724

clinehall wrote:

Did you trailer it out there and deposit the family somewhere and then go riding?

Yep, trailered out with the family in the Durango.

I think there were 15 riders in the group, and about 1/2 of the guys brought their wives ... and 4 of us had kids along. We were in a group of 4 cabins (one a big lodge) on a hill outside of town. So the 7ish wives and 5 kids played at the cabin during the day. On Sat they all went to the Aquarium in Gaitlinburg.

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