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Ken’s Op-Ed: Riding the Tail of the Dragon, Pt. 2

It seems that while riding on the fabulous roads that lead to and from the Dragon, some of the riders in the group  got separated from each other, which is not unusual.  It was before GPS, but they all had maps, and the route was not very complicated.  But one guy (I’ll call him Jack . . . short for Jackass) fell quite a bit behind, whether intentional or accidentally.  At some point he decided to catch up to the group.  So he began to speed up and got frustrated by the slower moving traffic on the two lane roads.  “Jack” began to pass cars and other traffic by crossing the double yellow lines and passing on the left and right at breakneck speeds.  Apparently, some of the folks he blew past were startled and other drivers got the crap scared out of them. Someone among them called the police on Jack for riding like a crazy man.

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Ken’s Op-Ed: Riding the Tail of the Dragon

I first rode the Dragon way back in 2007 when they referred to that area as Deals Gap, and it boasted a small 1-story motel with a place to stop for some refreshments and food, and of course a souvenir shop. I took some photos, bought the t-shirt. It also had a huge old tree, with hundreds of pieces of motorcycle wreckage hanging ominously from it’s many branches recovered from the numerous crashes, (sometimes fatal) warning folks what had occurred on that road, and what may happen if ridden beyond one’s capabilities. The “tree of shame”, they call it.

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