Smokies Fall Ride Pics - 56k warning

here are my highlights of the Smokies Fall Ride..


pics of the water using my ND filter...


more water pics...


tried to get everyone to move around while i took a long exposure..


a few people waved and moved around.. cool effect..


Docks.. really nice place.. wonderful people.. good times..


getting ready to go up on the Foothills Parkway.. lil did we know what would happen 10mins later..


Tim (Rubik) taking a swig of something.. lol.. see his custom mounted speakers.. that thing was loud
but i usually stayed up front so i didnt hear much of it until the rest of the pack caught up to us up front...


Larry (i call him Santa) came all the way from Michigan.. he camped over in the Smokies.. he kept up great and i think he had a blast on the Tail of the Dragon..


Beautiful fall scenery.. while waiting for the ranger/cop to tell me what i did and if i was going to get a ticket or not...


Still waiting.. he says he had me on tape passing Santa and crossing the double yellow.. if you saw my video i posted before.. you can see i did no such thing.. yes i did pass the slower rider but i didnt pass like a car/motorcycle over the double yellow.. we were all together passing each other in a pack.. geez.. luckily he gave me and everyone a warning.. but one thing i still remember.. he kept saying "you are in tennessee now!!!" and?


everyone one waiting for me and ranger/cop.. who finally found out the laws in NC about scooters/mopeds and let me go.. then came and told everyone a scare tactic to keep us from going to the dragon which worked until later and we all decided to go for it.. sure was a nice sight seeing the North Carolina sign near Deals Gap..


the end of the Foothills Parkway.. runs into Hwy 129.. to the left.. Tail of the Dragon.. to the right. small gas station/store where we all thought about what to do.. go on the dragon and risk it.. or say screw it.. well we decided to go for it..


everyone waited for the remainder of the pack to catch up..


thought i'd snap a few shots real quick.. of the pack catching up..


here we all are at the lil gas station trying to decide to risk the Tail of the Dragon after the ranger/cop told us he arleady told the TN Highway patrol about us and they were going to be looking for us.. which really got to everyone especially the few that had some extra mods *cough*.. motor swaps.. etc.. heh..


more pics of all of us lined up.. it was a great bunch of folks..


one such mod motor swap GY6..ClassicCityRuckus which i just remembered.. i didnt get a chance to test ride it.. damn saturday and rain maybe next time..


ok i think we decided to risk it.. all this way.. all the planning.. all the excitement.. we had to ride dirty on the Tail of the Dragon.. right Glenn?


nice little tomcat that was at the store.. while i was drinking/eating my Mt. Dew and Peanuts (in the bottle) which Pete said and i quote "you are a nasty mother@%$#" lol.. what.. i grew up on this man.. its the only way to have Dew and Peanuts.. unless i got some cheese and peanutbutter nabbs.. "edit profanity" :mrgreen:


ok.. we are all geared up and headed towards the Tail of the Dragon on Hwy 129.. with the lake to the right.. now from this point we didnt stop much.. i didnt take too many pics..


i was going to keep it simple.. took a few shots thru the mirror before we got to the starting point of the Dragon..


i like to take alot of shots like this.. sometimes these shots come out pretty good.. this is a good shot of Jason, Tim and the pack behind me going to the Dragon..


ok this shot might look odd.. but right as we started into the Tail of the Dragon.. originaljoie (one of the KaminoBros) got bit by the dragon.. i didnt see it.. but i heard from Scooby-Dew who was right behind him that he went down.. possibly cause of pegs.. im not sure.. the other KaminoBro (Josh) caught it on tape and so did originaljoie.. we didnt see the footage yet.. so hopefully they can pinpoint that footage and put it on youtube or somewhere for us to see.. he rode the rest of the way with his leg up on one side.. yes it drew blood too.. someone has a pic with his bloody pants and a french fry lol..


this is everyone behind me stopping to see "edit profanity" happened.. everyone made it thru the rest of the way with no problems.. and of course everyone was bustin his balls because of the fall.. all fun aside we were just glad he didnt get hurt that bad.. he was then a brother to Tae K who had his knee bashed up from earlier in the week before we got to the smokies..


closeup pic of my pegs.. i had a few instances where i was grinding my pegs in the curves on my way thru the Tail of the Dragon... its a weird feeling to grind your pegs with 2-3 ruckus riders behind you i will tell you that..


here we are.. made it to Deals Gap store/restaurant.. everyone was happy we didnt see ANY TN highway patrol.. we only saw one TN county sheriff on the way up but she just waved.. hell we are scooters.. we cant speed thru here anyways.. especially up hill..


a few more shots of everyone lined up. those that didnt make it.. you missed a great Friday ride..


the infamous tree at Deals Gap.. hence the damaged motorcycle parts hanging from the tree.. alot of accidents in this area..


sign out front of the store says it all..


the Dragon from Deals Gap...


going inside to get some much needed lunch.. i highly recommend the Chicken Parm with fries..


pics of the ceiling with hundreds of t-shirts mounted up there with signatures from riders from all over the state and the world.. we tried to coax Scooby into taking off his TotalRuckus.com shirt and getting us all to sign it in silver but he didnt want any part of that.. hehe.. maybe next time..


another quick handheld shot of the ceiling.. although its blurry you get the idea when i saw there were hundreds of shirts up there..


one last shot before we all geared up and headed back thru the Tail of the Dragon..


here we are.. we made it back thru the Tail of the Dragon... everyone was excited for making it thru unscathed besides originaljoie.. but he's alright.. him and his limp..


since we are all stopped.. decided to take some shots of everyone's ride.. ClassicCityRuckus' ride..


of course my ruckus.. with camera's on front and back.. more video coming soon.. especially the saturday's rain ride..


Scooby-Dew's ruckus.. with gloves hangin on the side.. he should of worn those on saturday's ride in the rain..


Rubik's (Tim) BigRockinRuckus with speakers..


DubG's (Glenn) all black ride.. ready for more action.. lets just say that Glenn loves his ruck.. it stays clean.. any spare moment that he isnt smoking he's cleaning his ruckus.. and yes it was verified he got his ruck up to 55mph..


KaminoBro's ride.. (Josh) with camera and all..


Stickler64 (Pete) stretched and modified ruckus..


Originaljoie's yellow ruckus..


Sharron taking a ride on the BigRuckus..


MaHawk's brand new 2010 Elite..


Larry's (Santa) white ruckus.. which had very bad rollers that you see on Tae K's thread..


another angle of Pete's ruckus..


Skuuter's brand new 2010 Elite.. which he carved the dragon with..


Glenn (DubG) Darth Vader look.. join the dark side..


next few shots are random shots taken on Hwy 129 going back to Foothills Parkway..


ever try to zoom and take a pic while going 40mph with your left hand? this is what you get.. heh


midway thru the ride back to the parkway.. a couple of motorcycles passed a few of us but couldnt pass all the way.. so i took a pic.. heh


the scenery was beautiful on Friday.. what a great ride..


almost back to the Foothills Parkway..


heading back up the Foothills Parkway.. again.. scenery.. beautiful..


there was alot of bombin downhill..


but with bombin downhill comes slow back up hill to do it again and again..


again a few shots from over my shoulder.. little did i know Scooby gave me a peace sign..


and then a thumbs up.. stupid camera strap almost ruined a beautiful picture...


more fall foliage and up hills..


then back down hills..


what i saw most of the time during my downhill rides.. 40mph + usually pegged to the light..


see what you missed if you didnt join us for the Smokies Fall Ride... just amazing colors..


awesome views..


everyone taking a break and waiting for the rest of the bunch to catch up.. bombin downhill really separates the group..


waiting to continue our ride on the Foothills Parkway and then on to Docks for pizza..


are we ready to go? who are we waiting on?


quick shot on the 4 lane back to Docks..

i got a few more pics i gotta download off my camera but not many since it was Saturday's Ride in the Rain.. but i do have a lot of video footage to go thru.. more later.. now back to work..

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