CB in the Blue Ridge Area

[misterprofessionality]

I will post here a collection of boring videos of a CB1100 hundred chasing a Mini Cooper all over the blue ridge mountains. there won't be any sound because I discovered early on that the sound consisted entirely of wind noise. cheap camera. what can i say?

first up: A CB in an environment not altogether suited to it. who needs an ADV bike?

https://youtu.be/xalyhRptLKQ
next up: A CB chasing a Mini Cooper up Hwy 276 at moderate speeds

https://youtu.be/cOdSKlGYOTA

Afterwards, some time was spent on the BRP. actually, A lot of time was spent on the BRP, but i wasn't about to record all of it. Here's a stretch of road we ran almost entirely uninterrupted by slow drivers.

https://youtu.be/RDZpAZ3WLzE
our run on hwy 80 (the Devil's Whip) was not recorded due to technical difficulties.
Finally, one of a couple of runs we did on 226A, the Diamondback. This was the only one that was almost entirely unencumbered. i'm not the fastest rider, but this felt really good.

https://youtu.be/mEGfQeJq5xA

[the Ferret]

Enjoyed the vids. Good camera angle imo. Showed the roads both in front and in the rear view mirror, showed the speeds, the gears, and you wree able to get a feeling for the ride.

You don't have to be the fastest rider, to enjoy a good road on a motorcycle.

[misterprofessionality]

Thanks. i'm sure by lap 3 I could take these turns a little harder, but i figured it'd be safer to put my wife in the mini in front than to have her behind me. I was content to just keep my speeds moderate, maintain distance from her, and focus on entering and exiting the turns in the smoothest way.

also, I will make another excuse for the 226A video: I got stung by a wasp about 1/4 of the way up, right on the neck. if you watch you'll see my head jerk at a certain moment, the thing just dive bombed me as i went into a turn.

The camera was on my chin of course, but i had a heck of a time finding a way to mount it that was totally stable.

[Houtman_imp]

Thanks for the nice video's , beautiful riding area's in WNC

[KiowaEagle_imp]

Looks like some fun riding MP. Thanks for sharing.

[The A-man]

Nice job mister! I was just up there a couple of weeks ago, and this video really captures the experience well. I'm blessed to have this essentially in my "back yard"! And, I think it's tremendous fun on the CB.

[misterprofessionality]

really, A-man, i'm not a church-going guy, but the mountains on a bike are the closest thing I have to "church." It really is the one bad thing I have to say about Charleston. we have almost no good roads. barely any. you might be able to find a stretch of 2 miles or so here or there where there are some moderate curves, but it's called the Low country for a reason. riding 300 miles up to Asheville is almost the only thing I've got if i want a good riding experience.

heck, I pay for a whole tire, and only use the middle. i've been thinking of putting car tires on my CB because they might as well be flat anyway. but in the smokies, i get to use the whole PR3 contact patch, and it's really something. If there is anywhere else i can travel to without taking a month-long vacation to get a ride like that, I'm going to start planning for it.

Alas, though, i've looked at a map. there isn't any place quite like WNC.

[Houtman_imp]

You want me to start looking for a place to live here for you ?
Just tell me your max. budget .

[misterprofessionality]

john,

I'm going to be buying a rental property in 2020 or therabouts. we'll probably pay about 80k for it down here. got anything like that up there? :-p.

[Houtman_imp]

You probably have to at least double your 80 k to even start finding something around here and close to Asheville it will be a lot more.