11-05-2016, 06:13 AM
Ulve google Killboy.com to see pics from the Dragon
Huge touristy place for not only bikes, but lots of cars hold their rallies there as well. It has the name, that's all, and all kinds of subset roads named after it, Back of the Dragon, Claw of the Dragon, etc. each trying to draw tourists.
All roads (racetracks too) are basically made up of straights, left curves and right curves of varying degrees and combinations, sometimes flat and sometimes angled up or down. It's why I never tire of riding the roads around here even though I ride them everyday... A left curve here is just like a left curve in North Carolina or California.
What makes places different for me is what is on the left and right sides of the road. In North Carolina or West VIrginia, it just might be a sheer drop off. The Dragon has lots of drop offs. Where riders get in trouble on the Dragon is they are not really accomplished at riding curves, especially when there are a lot of them, and they put a whole lot of them one right after another. They might make the first few, but one eventually suprises them and if they make it thru that one, they are really out of shape for the next one, and all the ones that follow. They never fully recover, and they refuse to pull over and regroup and eventually it bites them in the butt.
When I am teaching people to draw, it's the same thing.. Everything in nature is made up of straight lines and crooked lines. IF you can draw a straight line and if you can draw a crooked line, then you can draw anything as long as you can recognise the lines and repeat them.
Huge touristy place for not only bikes, but lots of cars hold their rallies there as well. It has the name, that's all, and all kinds of subset roads named after it, Back of the Dragon, Claw of the Dragon, etc. each trying to draw tourists.
All roads (racetracks too) are basically made up of straights, left curves and right curves of varying degrees and combinations, sometimes flat and sometimes angled up or down. It's why I never tire of riding the roads around here even though I ride them everyday... A left curve here is just like a left curve in North Carolina or California.
What makes places different for me is what is on the left and right sides of the road. In North Carolina or West VIrginia, it just might be a sheer drop off. The Dragon has lots of drop offs. Where riders get in trouble on the Dragon is they are not really accomplished at riding curves, especially when there are a lot of them, and they put a whole lot of them one right after another. They might make the first few, but one eventually suprises them and if they make it thru that one, they are really out of shape for the next one, and all the ones that follow. They never fully recover, and they refuse to pull over and regroup and eventually it bites them in the butt.
When I am teaching people to draw, it's the same thing.. Everything in nature is made up of straight lines and crooked lines. IF you can draw a straight line and if you can draw a crooked line, then you can draw anything as long as you can recognise the lines and repeat them.