MTF North Carolina 2011

Motorcycle Tourer's Forum - Smoky Mountains Rough Road Ride MTF_NC_2011 Sep 21
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Chicken in Sylvia's bag.
MTF_NC_2011 Yes at least a couple of us did ride across the broken part.
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Sylvia after getting some pictures.
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Randy getting picture of Andy and Susie
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After a very long uphill pull on rough and sometimes wet gravel, we had one of the only breaks with a view. It should have been a clue that the…
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Couldn't quite get Andy jumping in the air.
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Andy at the top of run up to radio towers and back.
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Brian arriving at radio towers
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...and Susie
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...and Sylvia
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...and Randy I think
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MTF_NC_2011 Funny gas stop where only one pump at a time could run. It took us awhile to get everyone through.
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Don Kime
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Raining pretty hard by the time we got to the parking lot at the store at Deals Gap. The little pink scooter went everywhere. By the time we pulled…
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MTF_NC_2011Leaving the store at Deals Gap. Rain was gone shortly after we were on the road.
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MTF_NC_2011 Deals Gap - Killboy photo. Must have been going so fast that air made my Frog Toggs puffy. That's my story and sticking to it.
MTF_NC_2011 Followiing Sylvia through Deals Gap - Killboy photo
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Lunch at Carriage House
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MTF_NC_2011 ...left my lights on during lunch. This is about the point I discovered it would not start and then the fun began.
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could not get it bump started. I tried and Andy tried thinking he could bounce more weight on it. One of the guys had jumper cables, managed to get…
MTF_NC_2011 When we finally got the bikes next to each other and found where we could attach jumper cables, it was easy. Another thing I need to carry - found a…
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MTF_NC_2011 In Cades Cove we were in slow moving, single lane traffic for miles with no place to go. Eventually my bike started steaming with a hole in the…
MTF_NC_2011 Gald all these guys were along with some tools and ideas on how to get me back. It was really not looking good at this point.
MTF_NC_2011 We got the radiator cap off, added some water, started it up and promptly lost more fluid. Andy got a guy to stop and put my bike in his truck for…
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MTF_NC_2011 Wrestling the bike into the first truck.
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Bear cub up in the tree. by this time I was in the back of a truck after the radiator leak - the first leg of the rescue.
MTF_NC_2011 Bad picture taken from the back of the truck shows what traffic was like especially with bear in the tree over my head.
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F_NC_2011 This was the guy who first took the bike from the breakdown to the visitor's center parking lot. When we got to the parking lot and off loaded, Andy…
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MTF_NC_2011 Bike all loaded and ready to go when his girlfriend gets back. She was in store and came back with CD of banjo music. He says to her look what I got…
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MTF_NC_2011 I should have been in this picture. This was the road we were looking for all day long - the promised road!! I was in a pickup truck headed for the…
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Chicken in Sylvia's bag.
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MTF_NC_2011 Don Kime as they were getting ready to leve me to the mercy of strangers.
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MTF_NC_2011 This road was just not as interesting in a truck.
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MTF_NC_2011 Andy and Suzy. My hero for getting the trucks to give me a lift. I went home the next day.
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