Topic: The Riding Dead with Norman Reedus

[Desert-SOHC]

Well, "hipster" is where the ratings and money are at these days.
I liked that the product placement was toned-down a bit in the last couple of episodes.

Agree.  Last episode was the best so far.

agreed.

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Watched the last episode again last night.  Caught a glimpse of a CB750 at the last stop they made at Colt's place.

[RAFster122s]

Yes, it is travel friendly and bike friendly. It is geared towards hipsters and their culture. It does highlight some beautiful places. Mooshie and a few others should hit him up or the bike producers to get a sample of good riding they know about and to segment the cb750 and cb550s. It would be real then. Maybe hit up APE for a visit and get some track time there...
Willow Springs raceway would be a cool place to visit as would a tour of Edwards USAF base...easily doable from LA. and then take the back way going down the Angeles Crest into LA, a very fun ride in car or bike.

As far as the epsiode before last...
Well, lots of errors in describing things and the Blue Ridge Parkway runs up into VA and can link into some of the other beautiful parkways up there Skyline Drive/Parkway for one.

The Blue Ridge Mountain chain is part of the Appalachian Mountain chain that runs from North Carolina into Virginia, not as Norman said of Georgia up to Maine. The Georgia to Maine is the Appalachian Mountains.  And that "smoke" they saw from the scenic over look in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park ...THAT IS CLOUDS!!!  The mountain air currents cause condensation as the air downdrafts cause a pressure drop and formation of the clouds down in the valleys. It takes quite some time for the clouds to lift as Fog is actually clouds that form at ground level or near ground level due to high humidity levels in the air combined with air temperatures that are conducive to cloud formation.

A classic tale I heard when living in Boone NC was that a CB operator was talking with a trucker going down the mountain from Blowing Rock headed towards Greenville & Hickory area and was complaining about the fog being so thick.  The CB operator replied, <bleep> man, you are in the clouds, what do you expect!

The Blue Ridge Parkway cuts through Blowing Rock. 
A fun mountain road in the area is 221 and 421 from Bristol TN towards Boone, NC...lots of curves unless they straightened out 421. Haven't been on it since moving back to NE TN after being gone for 25 years.  Lived in Boone after college. Grew up in Blountville and lived in Johnson City, TN while attending college. After Boone (2 years) I ended up in Columbus, Ohio and then moved to Tucson, AZ.  I love southern AZ and want to move back.  When I have the money raised/saved, then I intend to move back there.

I agree with others, last episode was the best.

David

[SOHC4 Cafe Racer Fan]

Yes, it is travel friendly and bike friendly. It is geared towards hipsters and their culture. It does highlight some beautiful places. Mooshie and a few others should hit him up or the bike producers to get a sample of good riding they know about and to segment the cb750 and cb550s. It would be real then. Maybe hit up APE for a visit and get some track time there...
Willow Springs raceway would be a cool place to visit as would a tour of Edwards USAF base...easily doable from LA. and then take the back way going down the Angeles Crest into LA, a very fun ride in car or bike.

As far as the epsiode before last...
Well, lots of errors in describing things and the Blue Ridge Parkway runs up into VA and can link into some of the other beautiful parkways up there Skyline Drive/Parkway for one.

The Blue Ridge Mountain chain is part of the Appalachian Mountain chain that runs from North Carolina into Virginia, not as Norman said of Georgia up to Maine. The Georgia to Maine is the Appalachian Mountains.  And that "smoke" they saw from the scenic over look in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park ...THAT IS CLOUDS!!!  The mountain air currents cause condensation as the air downdrafts cause a pressure drop and formation of the clouds down in the valleys. It takes quite some time for the clouds to lift as Fog is actually clouds that form at ground level or near ground level due to high humidity levels in the air combined with air temperatures that are conducive to cloud formation.

A classic tale I heard when living in Boone NC was that a CB operator was talking with a trucker going down the mountain from Blowing Rock headed towards Greenville & Hickory area and was complaining about the fog being so thick.  The CB operator replied, <bleep> man, you are in the clouds, what do you expect!

The Blue Ridge Parkway cuts through Blowing Rock. 
A fun mountain road in the area is 221 and 421 from Bristol TN towards Boone, NC...lots of curves unless they straightened out 421. Haven't been on it since moving back to NE TN after being gone for 25 years.  Lived in Boone after college. Grew up in Blountville and lived in Johnson City, TN while attending college. After Boone (2 years) I ended up in Columbus, Ohio and then moved to Tucson, AZ.  I love southern AZ and want to move back.  When I have the money raised/saved, then I intend to move back there.

I agree with others, last episode was the best.

David

I thought something was off when he was describing the Blue Ridge Mountain Range in place of the Appalachians.  I've visited parts of the BRM Highway in Virginia and W. VA.

[RAFster122s]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Ridge_Parkway 

Sorry CB, it is only in Virginia and NC.  There are some spectacular rides in W VA, a really mountainous state with lots of backwoods places.  Lots of roads that can make you sick if you aren't driving when driven at high speeds in a car.

Want to know what a Texas Twister and West Virginia divorce have in common?
In both someone is going to lose a trailer.
(JOKE)

A friend in Columbus related one of the differences between driving in Columbus versus driving here in the Tri-Cities area of NE Tennessee.  In Columbus you cut someone off they may beep at you and flip you off, you do that to Billy Bob in his truck around here he might follow you to where you are going and beat the __t out of you.  They also are known to interpret Yield signs as Stop signs around here, as opposed to how they are intended to be used.  The driving pace of big cities is very different and it has to be much more aggressive than around here to survive or you are "eaten" like the prey instead of viewed as a hunter.  It cracks me up when people around here complain of the traffic. It is NOTHING like any of the large cities I have lived in.  Most of my siblings can't deal with heavy traffic...they get really stressed out or even angry about it...I go with the flow and accept it and only get irritated if it is 45 minute delays when traveling due to dead stopped inching forward traffic on major freeways.  Yeah, getting cut off by boneheaded drivers irritates me like everyone else.   Norman hasn't shown any instances of aggressive or unsafe drivers of cars "trying to kill you" on a bike. They are portraying it as a rosy situation.  That bit of misinformation might get some new riders killed unless they are taking MSF safety courses.