A little taste of America.....

[FkNAmerican]

Hey all,

Being new to the forum and soon to be in NZ (in 4 months) I thought I'd share with you a bit of what I'll be leaving behind in my little slice of "Tarheel" heaven......hope you like it. If you're ever on the east coast of the states......check it out. Some of the best riding around.

http://www.tailofthedragon.com/

http://www.blueridgeparkway.org/

[gijoe1313]

Ooh yeah baby - I was reading that site a whiles back, and it sure sounds like fun. Don't mention it to DMNTD 'cause he'll just want to ride it up and down all day long - if and when he gets there!

And don't forget, Noo Zeeland is a cowcocky, back of the wop-wops sort of place. Why you want to come here Willis?

[FkNAmerican]

hehe, already been to NZ mate. Made a huge mistake and fell in love with the place.

[Big Dave]

hehe, already been to NZ mate. Made a huge mistake and fell in love with the place.

Yeah nice - and there's killboy too - but down here there are plenty of roads just as twisty with no double yellows and comparatively little or no traffic. Empty. Particularly on the mainland.

Surfaces aren't as reliable so beware too.

[FkNAmerican]

eh, whoever payed attention to double yellow and massive trucks cutting lanes anyway!!

[McJim]

eh, whoever payed attention to double yellow and massive trucks cutting lanes anyway!!

survivors.

[BarBender]

Great piece of tarmac. One of the best in the world.

[Street Gerbil]

Damn it I miss North Carolina. Why would anybody from over there come over here voluntarily?

[Sanx]

I did miss North Carolina. Got on a Greyhound in Washington, got off in Atlanta. Never saw NC at all.

[FkNAmerican]

some pics of the fall colors on the Blue Ridge Pkwyfor you guys. As nice as this, I actually prefered NZ!!!:

http://www.wunderground.com/data/wxi...dian75/354.jpg

http://blueridgeblog.blogs.com/photo...zed/leaf_1.jpg

Here is one of the exact same spot but when the colors arnt changing. This will give you an idea of just how spectacular the change in scenary can be over the seasons.

http://www.grandfather.com/images/me.../viaduct_s.jpg

Some more of the pkwy:

More fall colors: http://averycounty.com/autoimage/p8mgXwW.jpg

http://www.ncmountainbooks.com/image...nsCalendar.jpg

And here is a nice little map of the Dragon. The best technical riding road in my neck of the woods. Might very well be something better somewhere else in the US but this is suppossed to be the best around the North Carolina area........In total there are 318 curves in about 11 miles. Pretty sweet .

http://www.lexusdragon.com/img/DRAGONmap.gif

[FkNAmerican]

oh and since video's are always great here is a clip (not me) of a rider on the dragon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XxAt...elated&search=

[Swoop]

I did miss North Carolina.

No wonder she was kicked out of the beauty pageant...

[Finn]

I did miss North Carolina.

Funny, I did Miss California.

[The Pastor]

Dude, all our roads are like the dragon. The states sux for "curves" lol

[FkNAmerican]

hehe, yeah I noticed. During my six months in NZ I was always thinking "wouldnt this road trip be great on a bike"?...........But the states do have TONS of curvy roads. Its just that you tourists from NZ always stick to the interstate highways and think those are the roads Americans travel LOL. Those are the roads Americans travel to go BIG distances......which is why they are called inter-state highways........but for everything else we really do have twisities.

Every time I hear people like Jeremy Clarkson on Top Gear talking about how America doesnt have corners I just sit back and laugh.

But anyway, when I get back to christchurch the first thing Im gonna do is buy a motorcycle......Im not sure if Im even gonna get a car straight away. Hell, if all goes well I might just not need anything but a motorcycle.....especially with the weather in Christchurch. The only place better for a motorcycle would be the Nelson area.....but thats yet another great thing about NZ = I can get from ChCh to Nelson in no time!!.... Im gonna love that!

Here in my part of North Carolina we actually get snow in the winter so people tend to put away their bikes for about 3-4 months out of the year. Sucks. But it does make the first day you take your bike out after winter, usually sometime in March-April-May a pretty special day!!!