Great smokey mountain week of riding

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Me and the Concours did over 100 miles of blue ridge parkway today. it was fun but cooooold. Heated grips are a true godsend. Later I ran into 4 guys from the Vstrom rally randomly on the road. Great people!

On a second note, the great smokey mountains expressway is a treasure trove of big, sustained high speed sweepers. What a joy! I do so much technical twisty roads but the concours is really at home on a road like that instead.

If you ever get the opportunity, running along [url=https://goo.gl/maps/J9GT4fw7MAw8Ub5v7]this section of GA-19 is an absolute blast for that kind of riding. We ran it north-to-south, which was mostly downhill. It was the closest thing to "motorcycle luge" you can imagine, just bombing downhill on these big sweepers at high speed! Some of the curves tighten up, and you may touch down a peg feeler here and there.

Me and the Concours did over 100 miles of blue ridge parkway today. it was fun but cooooold. Heated grips are a true godsend. Later I ran into 4 guys from the Vstrom rally randomly on the road. Great people!

On a second note, the great smokey mountains expressway is a treasure trove of big, sustained high speed sweepers. What a joy! I do so much technical twisty roads but the concours is really at home on a road like that instead.

I can't imagine what "cold" means in SC today.

Today it easily reached a perfect 25C + light humidity in southern Ontario, Canada. In rider terms, that's t-shirt weather.

I can't imagine what "cold" means in SC today. On the Blue Ridge Parkway, you're always at elevation, usually in and out of cloud banks. It can be pretty darn cold up there, even this time of year!