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CB's on the Dragon
« on: July 21, 2010, 03:41:09 PM »
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Offline madmtnmotors

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Re: CB's on the Dragon
« Reply #1 on: July 21, 2010, 05:11:37 PM »
I fully intend to take mine for a tour of the "Tail"... soon!
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Re: CB's on the Dragon
« Reply #2 on: July 21, 2010, 06:16:25 PM »
The "Tail" is cool, but is just the tip of the iceberg.
All the roads in that area are awesome.
If you make it there, be sure to stop into the kickstand lodge.
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Re: CB's on the Dragon
« Reply #3 on: July 21, 2010, 07:47:11 PM »
Heading there next week, unfortunately my CB isn't ready for the dragon, gonna have to take my kawi instead! I just read that they have had 3 fatalities on the skyway in the last seven days. It gets crazy down there!
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Re: CB's on the Dragon
« Reply #4 on: July 21, 2010, 07:51:01 PM »
I had heard that parts of the dragon were closed for the last several months due to landslides.  I'd love to ride it.  I hope to get my CB down there next year. 
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Re: CB's on the Dragon
« Reply #5 on: July 21, 2010, 08:13:02 PM »
Gamma, you're right, but it opend to thru traffic last friday, so it's party on!
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Re: CB's on the Dragon
« Reply #6 on: July 22, 2010, 07:35:59 AM »
That's an awesome looking 650!
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Re: CB's on the Dragon
« Reply #7 on: July 22, 2010, 07:48:50 AM »
I'm still hoping to get up there some time this year too.  Being that I don't live that far away there is no excuse not to be riding it. ;)
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Re: CB's on the Dragon
« Reply #8 on: July 22, 2010, 08:00:54 AM »
Quote from: scrapvalue on July 21, 2010, 03:41:09 PM
Two CB's ,(both custom), made it on the highlight page of Killboy.com
Anyone here?

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LxZ4Mi3rR3Q/TEc17-BAUtI/AAAAAAAAhUI/JTd6P74KwfA/s1600/img_1689.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LxZ4Mi3rR3Q/TEcvpYEUxnI/AAAAAAAAhR4/vx1UUdINXLg/s1600/img_4959.jpg

The cafe racer is a friend of mine, Brian, he works for Biker Performance.  There were 35 of us down there last week, 105 deg. in the shade.  The Dragon had just opened on the Friday before we arrived so it wasn't that busy.  Things were real cool, until we tried a road called the Devil's Trinagle.  A technical road just like the Dragon, but it's not maintained and it is covered in gravel and dust.  It was great up until the halfway mark when I throttled out of a left handed right behind Brian.  I saw his back wheel slip sideways a bit but he collected it and was fine.  I on the other hand had the front wheel break loose and lowsided the bike.  The bike hit the wall then flipped twice. I suffered some roadrash on my left arm, but the Roadie bit the dust hard, nearly $5000 of damage... so I got a winter project now.
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Re: CB's on the Dragon
« Reply #9 on: July 22, 2010, 11:37:36 AM »
Man that sucks, glad you are ok! Just out of curiosity, How hard were you pushing it when you went down? Scale of 1 to 10?
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Re: CB's on the Dragon
« Reply #10 on: July 22, 2010, 02:58:04 PM »
Well, I was following a cafe racer with an insane rider on board and I was riding the Stooge a '02 Roadstar chaindrive with 250 rear tire.



And I was right behind Brian, so I was pushing 8 or 9 on that scale.  Getting on it probably 'caused the front tire to unweight enough to exceed it's adhesion factor in the dust.  Easy to armchair quarterback now that its over, but I'd probably do it again.
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Re: CB's on the Dragon
« Reply #11 on: July 22, 2010, 05:31:13 PM »
That is 1 sick bike! I checked out the devis triangle website after reading your post, because I will be riding  it in a couple weeks. There are warnings up because of the terrible road conditions! Potholes and coal dust, not a good combination; I'll be taking it easy! Good luck puttin the stooge back together!
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Re: CB's on the Dragon
« Reply #12 on: July 22, 2010, 05:36:15 PM »
Yeah be careful, don't try to charge any corners if you try the Triangle.
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Re: CB's on the Dragon
« Reply #13 on: July 22, 2010, 07:06:01 PM »
Quote from: Cqyqte on July 22, 2010, 02:58:04 PM
Well, I was following a cafe racer with an insane rider on board and I was riding the Stooge a '02 Roadstar chaindrive with 250 rear tire.



And I was right behind Brian, so I was pushing 8 or 9 on that scale.  Getting on it probably 'caused the front tire to unweight enough to exceed it's adhesion factor in the dust.  Easy to armchair quarterback now that its over, but I'd probably do it again.
Sorry to hear, but glad it wasn't your SOHC!!
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Re: CB's on the Dragon
« Reply #14 on: July 23, 2010, 04:10:16 AM »
No #$%*, I would have fought to save that #$%* and probably not walked outta the crash.
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