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TGAT86

05-05-2010, 07:19 PM

jtryz

05-05-2010, 07:24 PM

while i am always up for a good fid and a ride on blood. that first vid would explain why we have so many cops there now... :NONO:

TGAT86

05-05-2010, 07:28 PM

no... THIS vid explains why.... <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/zFvRegBt-4U&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/zFvRegBt-4U&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

Georgiacbr

05-05-2010, 08:41 PM

Nice find but nothing new in my book. Speed kills and some like to take risk that's the fact's of life. I 've been on blood mountain a few times but I take my time on road's I don't know too well. I was there last weekend and during the rain I took my time and didn't speed too much. On the dry road's I ride a little faster vs the posted speed limit's (ride within my limits). Let's face it people you can go on Ga 400 and see people driving between 85 to 100 mph on an Suv or truck is this anything different?

New rider's can be the problem's too but not many law's in tack to really do anything about it.

ramm

05-05-2010, 08:59 PM

Here comes the drama.

Steve750

05-05-2010, 09:11 PM

Why would anyone ever act like that. When I got my Gixxer, the first thing I did was order a plus 4 front sprocket! I bought it for the gas mileage after all!

Steve

Lazarus

05-05-2010, 09:19 PM

I was hoping that wasnt the OP in that first vid. Way too many cars to be weaving and leaning like that.

ramm

05-05-2010, 09:34 PM

I was hoping that wasnt the OP in that first vid. Way too many cars to be weaving and leaning like that.

That's pretty much how it is up there during the summer on the weekends. Weekdays = empty

Derrick

05-05-2010, 09:51 PM

Just another weekend up in the mtns.

Lazarus

05-05-2010, 10:01 PM

ramm

05-05-2010, 10:30 PM

Wow its that many cars? Last year, one Thursday I went up with everyday3, slowmotion and another guy and it was like only a handful of cars up there. I'll never go up there on the weekend if its that many cars + cops.

It's nuts on the weekends dude. It's fun to go up with groups though. Hit Helen grab some food and stuff. But if you're looking to get a little speeding on then the weekdays are the times to be up there.

Georgiacbr

05-05-2010, 10:45 PM

Here comes the drama.

only what people make out of it. My moto is simple ride within your limit's but don't harm anybody in your path.

Georgiacbr

05-05-2010, 10:51 PM

Wow its that many cars? Last year, one Thursday I went up with everyday3, slowmotion and another guy and it was like only a handful of cars up there. I'll never go up there on the weekend if its that many cars + cops.

Jeez Laz why don't you sell you bike and Not ride it at all . Seriously most weekend's these places are packed but hell so is Lame Atlanta getting to point A to Z too. I don't like Traffic or cop's like the next person but I always try to find areas that are not soo packed. I rode last weekend in the rain to Helen and it was a good ride but i was missing out on speeding on the curves (oh dam).

ROCKER

05-05-2010, 10:56 PM

Derrick

05-06-2010, 07:40 AM

Yeah, tooling around metro Atlanta in the traffic just sucks, especially on a bike, IMO. It's not THAT crowded up there every weekend. That little stretch of 129 is the most popular, but there are plenty more great roads up there that are far less traveled.

TroyBoy30

05-06-2010, 07:54 AM

Just another weekend up in the mtns.

+1

looks like a normal weekend and a normal pace to me. traffic isn't usually that bad though

Frank Law

05-06-2010, 08:10 AM

1st vid looks like a slow pace to me :lol:

TroyBoy30

05-06-2010, 08:40 AM

1st vid looks like a slow pace to me :lol:

everything except maybe dzones videos is slow to you! :crackup:

dzone

05-06-2010, 09:23 AM

Wow its that many cars? Last year, one Thursday I went up with everyday3, slowmotion and another guy and it was like only a handful of cars up there. I'll never go up there on the weekend if its that many cars + cops.

You are one strange little dude. Amazing, cars on 129 who would of thunk it?

Actually the cars add a bit of fun to the whole run. when you are doing 2, 3 , 4 times their speed it is like they become slalom gates, just something to move around, you don't really focus on them as you are looking so far past them.

Frank Law

05-06-2010, 09:29 AM

LMAO

"slalom gates"

I like:up:

ramm

05-06-2010, 09:32 AM

:rofl: @ the Slalom Gates

wallypiper

05-06-2010, 10:42 AM

You are one strange little dude. Amazing, cars on 129 who would of thunk it?

Actually the cars add a bit of fun to the whole run. when you are doing 2, 3 , 4 times their speed it is like they become slalom gates, just something to move around, you don't really focus on them as you are looking so far past them.

Yer probbly onnadose twolaners, arncha?:deadhorse:

dzone

05-06-2010, 10:54 AM

Yer probbly onnadose twolaners, arncha?:deadhorse:

Hell yeah, I iz, and sometimes 3 when a Slalom gate make a funny move :jam2:

wicked

05-06-2010, 11:20 AM

i ride fast up there...most of us do...but...

this video is yet another prime example of so many that are posted on youtube that show exactly what not to do on public roads...crossing over double yellows, weaving from lane to lane, swooping in right in front of cages...

Frank Law

05-06-2010, 11:21 AM

TroyBoy30

05-06-2010, 11:23 AM

+1

I don't swoop in front of cars but I cross double yellows and use both lanes

ramm

05-06-2010, 12:39 PM

+1

I don't swoop in front of cars but I cross double yellows and use both lanes

I only swoop in front of Harley's when a truck is coming at me. :)

TroyBoy30

05-06-2010, 01:04 PM

and that's only on RR :crackup:

Solace

05-06-2010, 01:12 PM

what you just described sounds like a lot of fun to me actually

And what most of the local cage drivers do every day. I live in Blairsville, approximately 15 minutes from Walasi-Yi, and I have to cross Blood Mountain on 129 twice a day, four days a week (minimum) for my commute. The amount of > two-wheeled traffic using all three lanes greatly outweighs the amount of motorcycle traffic that I see at all. This includes 18 wheelers and a surprising number of dually contractor trucks. This is a well beaten horse, so I digress, but I feel that it's my backyard and I can speak with some authority. If they want to crack down on life in the oncoming lane, motorcyclists are a very small part of the problem.

However, the warm weather does bring out the calamari. This is why I ride the mountain roads at night this time of year.

wicked

05-06-2010, 01:14 PM

mmm hmm...

Frank Law

05-06-2010, 01:24 PM

I didnt learn to ride "that way" on a bike or recently:up:

I have been going up into and over the mtns in North GA since I was born with my parents as we have had a cabin in Hiawassee for my whole life. After the death of my father my brother and I now own it and continue to go up there. Using ALL of the road (where sightlines permit) is the most efficient way to cross the mtn.

Mtn folk love having city slickers on their fancy motorscooters come up there and tell them how to stay in their lanes.:up: Sorry but it doesnt work that way. Believe me when I tell everyone its not the locals crashing in the mtns up there. Its the idiots who watch Rossi on speedtv and dont know their ass from a hole in ground who go up there and try to "go fast" :lol:.

wicked

05-06-2010, 01:28 PM

i ride hard up there...but if you want to use ALL of the tarmac, take it to the track...

TLR67

05-06-2010, 01:39 PM

i ride hard up there...but if you want to use ALL of the tarmac, take it to the track...

Noooooooooo we dont want them Swoopers....

Frank Law

05-06-2010, 02:03 PM

......take it to the track...

:deadhorse::duh::wheelie::peace:

TroyBoy30

05-06-2010, 02:43 PM

4 real. you go to the track, i have no desire to

dzone

05-06-2010, 03:33 PM

i ride hard up there...but if you want to use ALL of the tarmac, take it to the track...

Dude! that's where they taught me to use ALL the Tarmac! :duh:

Derrick

05-06-2010, 03:45 PM

Dude! that's where they taught me to use ALL the Tarmac! :duh:
Hey Bill, when are you gonna come and do a track day with me?

wallypiper

05-06-2010, 03:56 PM

Using ALL of the road (where sightlines permit) is the most efficient way to cross the mtn.

Of course. And that's why most of us go up there. We get up on a summer Saturday, put on our gear, lube that which needs it, fill our tank and spend all day going nowhere and back in a relentless pursuit of transportation efficiency.

Solace

05-06-2010, 04:28 PM

Using ALL of the road (where sightlines permit) is the most efficient way to cross the mtn.

I always looked at it as laziness or lack of skill. :confused:

Derrick

05-06-2010, 05:05 PM

I always looked at it as laziness or lack of skill. :confused:

I'll admit..I stay in my lane 99 percent of the time just to increase the 'difficulty level'

wicked

05-06-2010, 05:42 PM

I always looked at it as laziness or lack of skill. :confused:+1

my biggest problem with this is the crossing of the double yellows...it infuriates me when cagers do it...it infuriates me when motorbikers do it...

ramm

05-06-2010, 06:01 PM

Trey

05-06-2010, 06:26 PM

Solace

05-06-2010, 07:47 PM

I'll admit..I stay in my lane 99 percent of the time just to increase the 'difficulty level'

That's a better way to say it rather than for me to generalize that folks who cross the double yellow don't have skill. I guess that is where I miss the concept though. If I want to go fast on a straight road, I'll go to a straight road. I won't straighten out a twisty road just to go fast. I'm not a good enough rider to do curvy and super fast; and I'll take curves every time. It's just a difference in priorities. I'm surfer not a racer.

Still I think we are all in violent agreement (in this semi-monthly warm season horse-beating) that using all the pavement on a public road is right dangerous, especially knowing that folks coming the other way might be doing the same thing.

Frank Law

05-07-2010, 07:48 AM

Of course. And that's why most of us go up there. We get up on a summer Saturday, put on our gear, lube that which needs it, fill our tank and spend all day going nowhere and back in a relentless pursuit of transportation efficiency.

I always looked at it as laziness or lack of skill. :confused:

I'll admit..I stay in my lane 99 percent of the time just to increase the 'difficulty level'

At specific speeds (not legal to mention here) and above the roads curve just fine when using all the lanes:lol::up:

....and believe me that I dont worry the least bit about whether anybody here thinks I have skills or not.

TroyBoy30

05-07-2010, 08:03 AM

+1

my biggest problem with this is the crossing of the double yellows...it infuriates me when cagers do it...it infuriates me when motorbikers do it...

it infuriates me more to be stuck behind grandma doing 25

Solace

05-07-2010, 08:08 AM

At specific speeds (not legal to mention here) and above the roads curve just fine when using all the lanes:lol::up:

Just remember that you don't have TCAS or Mode S on your bike. Be safe out there brother.

wallypiper

05-07-2010, 08:12 AM

At specific speeds (not legal to mention here) and above the roads curve just fine when using all the lanes:lol::up:

....and believe me that I dont worry the least bit about whether anybody here thinks I have skills or not.

You could say the same thing about 285 but what's the point?

Georgiacbr

05-07-2010, 08:18 AM

in infuriates me more to be stuck behind grandma doing 25

I think you meant "it infuriates' vs in infuriates" me more to get stuck from some Moron going lower then the posted speed limit. I'll pass on a double when I feel it's safer and have done it plenty of times with the bike or truck. I know Troy has passed a few peeps going too dam slow and hell I don't blame him. I hate people going in the fast lane going 70 mph and stuck in that lane like they own it. My moto is simple move the **** over.Ga new laws on going the right speed limit is long overdue and people need to get tickets for there actions.

Frank Law

05-07-2010, 08:28 AM

Just remember that you don't have TCAS or Mode S on your bike. Be safe out there brother.

I am also not doing 300 mph:lol: but I understand your point. For the record I no longer ride on the street but my opinion stands that I personally think hauling ass in the mtns and using pavement where pavement exists to accomplish that and have fun is the preferred way to ride FOR ME. Others may disagree and choose to ride in a single lane and go slower. I have no problem with that. If you will take notice, unlike Wally and others here who attempt to make jokes and cast those of us who ride in the manner I choose to as being wrong, I dont try to persuade everyone who rides slow to try to go faster. Some probably could. Others clearly dont have the skills. Again though, unlike other people, I neither point those things out to them or try to convince them to go faster. I am not so sure why, unless one's name is Johnny Law, these people always try to those of us who choose to ride or did ride a specific way on a PUBLIC road to go slower or stay in one lane. If the mtn road has three lanes, 2 going up and one coming down, the two going up are going to have dashed lines between them. Last I checked dashed lines mean I can switch between them unless there are special rules for a motorcycle I am unaware of.

You could say the same thing about 285 but what's the point?

Whats the point of riding on 285 going fast and making it "curve"? I dont know. Perhaps some of stunnas from the Varisty crew and the 285 200 club could answer your question. I see no point in riding on 285 AT ALL which is why I dont/didnt ride on it. Unlike 285 however I would ride in the mtns in the manner I described because that is how I enjoyed riding up there. Additionally, and unlike 285, the mtns offer scenic views, elevation changes, little traffic and for me a destination as I have a house up there. So comparing the two seems rather ignorant in my opinion but again and like above, just because I dont think riding a bike on 285 makes sense doesnt mean I am going to tell you not to.:up:

Frank Law

05-07-2010, 08:37 AM

I think you meant "it infuriates' vs in infuriates" me more to get stuck from some Moron going lower then the posted speed limit. I'll pass on a double when I feel it's safer and have done it plenty of times with the bike or truck. I know Troy has passed a few peeps going too dam slow and hell I don't blame him. I hate people going in the fast lane going 70 mph and stuck in that lane like they own it. My moto is simple move the **** over.Ga new laws on going the right speed limit is long overdue and people need to get tickets for there actions.

Nothing better than someone correcting one's grammar when theirs is lacking itself. :lol:

Georgiacbr

05-07-2010, 08:41 AM

Nothing better than someone correcting one's grammar when theirs is lacking itself. :lol:

yea true but i ain't a nazi like most on here ( lol).personally I can care less about grammar on a fourm because i'm rush when i write this shit at work anyways .So ideally it has No barring with me and that's my logic take it or loose it.

Cheers

TroyBoy30

05-07-2010, 08:46 AM

I think you meant "it infuriates' vs in infuriates"

yes I did and that's what I said! You may want to go back and re read my post. seems your quote is incorrect!

Georgiacbr

05-07-2010, 08:48 AM

yes I did and that's what I said! You may want to go back and re read my post. seems your quote is incorrect!

anyways you edited that i see (LOL) back to your posted speed limit I agree with your logic there on passing others going too dam slow.

Jared

05-07-2010, 09:02 AM

That first vid is so old, included the douchebag James aka "stunna" from BSB. Ridden with them before, pretty much par for the course up there.

TroyBoy30

05-07-2010, 09:15 AM

anyways you edited that i see (LOL) back to your posted speed limit I agree with your logic there on passing others going too dam slow.

I did lol

wicked

05-07-2010, 11:57 AM

i hate it when people use poor grammar while carving the twisties up on blood mtn

Solace

05-07-2010, 01:06 PM

Especially when that grammar is going 25mph in front of you. Wait - what?

Barton72

05-07-2010, 01:06 PM

Another vid just for fun....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooU74HLS_5A

ramm

05-07-2010, 01:09 PM

oh my goodness they crossed the double yellows!!

Barton72

05-07-2010, 01:16 PM

oh my goodness they crossed the double yellows!!
http://www.blogkindle.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/shocked.jpg

ramm

05-07-2010, 01:43 PM

:crackup:

DICKIEDOO

05-07-2010, 02:05 PM

Noooooooooo we dont want them Swoopers....

+1 keep your ass on public roads.

Of course. And that's why most of us go up there. We get up on a summer Saturday, put on our gear, lube that which needs it, fill our tank and spend all day going nowhere and back in a relentless pursuit of transportation efficiency.

HAHA! ZING!

I have no desire to go back to the hell hole called 129 unless it was in a C4. HEHE. I also don't move my car over for bikers when I have to drive up there. You want to pass me in a double yellow or in a turn that's fine, but I'm not running my shit of the road when you loose control and cannot hold your line. Bu bump!

I don't care how you ride, but both of those videos were slow ass riders on big bikes and a speedy MF on a motard. He was moving on that thing, but not enough to back it in. :(

ROCKER

05-07-2010, 02:08 PM

Another vid just for fun....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooU74HLS_5A

I like watching him ride, unfortunately two turns later he's gone.:(

Barton72

05-07-2010, 02:25 PM

I like watching him ride, unfortunately two turns later he's gone.:(
Yeah, Mike can scoot.

Frank Law

05-07-2010, 02:49 PM

I like watching him ride, unfortunately two turns later he's gone.:(

Yeah, Mike can scoot.

Mike is who I used to ride with..... :lol:

Shame youtube took the music out of the video. I have hours of VHS footage from back in the day playing up there with him and our other friends if anyone cares to see it.:up:

ramm

05-07-2010, 02:51 PM

What's "VHS"? :D

Barton72

05-07-2010, 03:07 PM

Mike is who I used to ride with..... :lol:

Shame youtube took the music out of the video. I have hours of VHS footage from back in the day playing up there with him and our other friends if anyone cares to see it.:up:
I've seen you mention that before. I would like to grab a cold beer and watch some of this "VHS" stuff you talk of. I agree that vid was 20 times better with Kid Rock blasting. You can just start another window and play "Cocky" on You Tube at the same time. LOL.

JSKeezy

05-07-2010, 03:18 PM

May i asked what happened to Mike?

Jared

05-07-2010, 03:44 PM

Nothing he's still around, just not sure if he plays in the mountains as much

TroyBoy30

05-08-2010, 07:22 AM

What's "VHS"? :D

:crackup:

wallypiper

05-08-2010, 08:24 AM

I personally think hauling ass in the mtns and using pavement where pavement exists to accomplish that and have fun is the preferred way to ride FOR ME
... Perhaps some of stunnas from the Varisty crew and the 285 200 club could answer your question.

It would probably be the same basic answer except they would say "on 285" instead of "in the mountains". I ride on 285 but only to get from where I am to where I need to be. Since I have ridden both places, I understand both the differences and also the similarities. Since you don't/didn't ride on 285, maybe it's your ignorance that prevents you from understanding the point of the question.

Or maybe not since you did, actually, answer my question. You think it's fun to go so fast you need both lanes. Good enough. I didn't say it was wrong. I asked you what the point was.

And, yeah, I could run 129 a lot faster than I do if I used both lanes. But for me that's not the point of spending two hours getting to a twisty road. And that is my point. But suit yourself.