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·It sounds like things are just starting to get interesting at Deals Gap and other NC?TN roads. Below are a few messages that a friend got from some of his friends that did the Gap this weekend. Bring Cash and track bodywork probably wouldn't hurt either as I doubt that they are real careful when they load your bike on the flatbed!
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First, let me say that it was the slowest I have ever gone through Deal's
Gap. Not because of my layoff, not because of the bike, not because of the
squids (at least not directly), but because of the MAN. I should have
known it was going to be a bad trip through when I got behind a deputy
Barney as I passed Tennessee 72. I had to follow him all the way to the
beginning of Deal's Gap where he turned off into the Blount County Sheriffs
Department's Mobile Command Center ( I shit you negative.they had a huge
sign up) where there were approximately a dozen Sheriff's cruisers, two
ambulances and two flatbed tow vehicles. This was merely a portent of
things to come. As I passed the next couple of hundred yards I saw a group
of bikes approaching. I threw my hand up and received waves in
return.except from the last two bikes, who were Tennessee State
Troopers. Damn. To make a long story short, I ended up passing 8
Tennessee Troopers on bikes, 14 in cars (8 sitting and 6 patrolling) and
another 6 Blount County Sheriff's cruisers. I guess they're tired of
mopping up guts, huh?
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I also discovered, from discussion with a rider who just received a ticket
for 38 mph in a 30 mph zone, with a mail-in fine of $158.00, that they were
writing tickets for anything 35 mph or greater since the Tennessee side of
the Gap is now 30 mph. The same group of riders also informed me that the
LEO's were using the flat beds to impound the bikes of any persons who
received tickets for reckless driving..a ticket they conferred upon all
souls exceeding 45 mph or who crossed the double yellow lines, among other,
more vigorous, offenses. Looks like the squids have now completely ruined
that area for all of us! (Not news.but still..Damn)
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The wife and I made it to the dragon today. She rode the dragon for the
first time today on her KLR. She kept up with the hardly crowd going up,
and was only passed by 2 sports bikes on the way back down. Got to give a
lot of credit to the law enforcement for her to achieve that. They had a
command post set up at the bottom, complete with a whirly-bird, several
fire and rescue trucks, tents, and a number of police cars scattered out
along the road. 3 or 4 running radar in the 11 mile stretch.
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First, let me say that it was the slowest I have ever gone through Deal's
Gap. Not because of my layoff, not because of the bike, not because of the
squids (at least not directly), but because of the MAN. I should have
known it was going to be a bad trip through when I got behind a deputy
Barney as I passed Tennessee 72. I had to follow him all the way to the
beginning of Deal's Gap where he turned off into the Blount County Sheriffs
Department's Mobile Command Center ( I shit you negative.they had a huge
sign up) where there were approximately a dozen Sheriff's cruisers, two
ambulances and two flatbed tow vehicles. This was merely a portent of
things to come. As I passed the next couple of hundred yards I saw a group
of bikes approaching. I threw my hand up and received waves in
return.except from the last two bikes, who were Tennessee State
Troopers. Damn. To make a long story short, I ended up passing 8
Tennessee Troopers on bikes, 14 in cars (8 sitting and 6 patrolling) and
another 6 Blount County Sheriff's cruisers. I guess they're tired of
mopping up guts, huh?
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I also discovered, from discussion with a rider who just received a ticket
for 38 mph in a 30 mph zone, with a mail-in fine of $158.00, that they were
writing tickets for anything 35 mph or greater since the Tennessee side of
the Gap is now 30 mph. The same group of riders also informed me that the
LEO's were using the flat beds to impound the bikes of any persons who
received tickets for reckless driving..a ticket they conferred upon all
souls exceeding 45 mph or who crossed the double yellow lines, among other,
more vigorous, offenses. Looks like the squids have now completely ruined
that area for all of us! (Not news.but still..Damn)
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The wife and I made it to the dragon today. She rode the dragon for the
first time today on her KLR. She kept up with the hardly crowd going up,
and was only passed by 2 sports bikes on the way back down. Got to give a
lot of credit to the law enforcement for her to achieve that. They had a
command post set up at the bottom, complete with a whirly-bird, several
fire and rescue trucks, tents, and a number of police cars scattered out
along the road. 3 or 4 running radar in the 11 mile stretch.
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