Deals gap omen
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Deals gap omen - 4/1/2007 3:42:24 AM
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JBaz
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Well took the whole day to finally process the raw pictures. Cropping and color correcting 200+ pictures is no easy chore, specially when I had 900 to go through (over 3gb)! I burned the pics on DVD and gave it to everyone who was at the dragon that weekend. Anyhow, here's some story time with pics, enjoy!   So I went to deals gap March 24-25, 2007 with a group of Evo's and bikers on my 600RR. The weekend was fun but so much ****ed up shit went wrong. The plan was to meet at 6am and leave around 7 on Saturday, get to deal's gap in the afternoon and run it once or twice the same day, hang out and get wasted Saturday night, then run the dragon and the skyway a few times on Sunday and leave in the afternoon and get home late night.
I tried to borrow a co-workers truck but then I find out that it breaks down after every two hours and since it was last notice, I didn't have enough time to fix the coolant problem (rust/calcium deposits in the coolant passages in the block is the most likely reason). We had another SUV to haul a small enclosed trailer that fits 2 bikes, but they were already reserved for two other people. We didn't leave till 8am because the driver of the SUV woke up late, then had problems leaving because the trailer detached on the road when we left waffle house... (Doh!)
So it was 3 bikers riding on our 600rr's, the SUV with trailer (+2 bike), 3 Evo's, 1 M3, and 1 WRX. We had to stop every hour because one of the 600rr riders is running a small front sprocket and larger rear sprocket so his rpm's at highway speeds are high. He could only go for like 90 miles till his gas tank is gone. And riding hours on end on the 600rr, the most uncomfortable street bike ever made, is an ass-hurting experience. After 20 mins, it becomes uncomfortable, now 6+ hours was insane.
We ended up speeding a little bit and got ahead of the SUV with the trailer. We stopped at Winston-Salem and find out that the transmission went out on the SUV and was stuck near Burlington. One of the girl's bike was on the trailer so another biker gave her a ride all the way back to Burlington to pick it up and ride it back and all the way to the dragon. We must have waited 3 hours so we just went near by mall and ended up being shopping bitches for the girls that were there. Two Evo's and the WRX guys didn't want to wait so they went ahead of us. This was also a good resting stop to take some nice photos.    Igor driving the SUV. He didn’t even make it out there with us because the transmission blew.         [image]http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/
< Message edited by JBaz -- 4/1/2007 3:50:27 AM >
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RE: Deals gap omen - 4/1/2007 5:41:18 AM
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holy crap...could things get any worse?? and yeah you are nuts for riding with no headlight... sorry about the bike though.....
cant beleive that i read all that.. but it is 5am so not much else to do.
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RE: Deals gap omen - 4/1/2007 6:21:47 AM
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This was a great read!
Sounds like you had a fun time indeed, an interesting weekend that you'll remember forever.
I can't believe all the crazy shit that happened, and I literally laughed out loud many times (in sympathy!).
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RE: Deals gap omen - 4/1/2007 6:56:28 AM
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That truly was a wild weekend you had! Good thing you had your camera and took pics because no one would believe half of it if you hadn't! 
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RE: Deals gap omen - 4/1/2007 7:28:09 AM
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nice pics i liked them.... i did not really read much of what u said only when u whent down. that sucks.
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RE: Deals gap omen - 4/1/2007 7:33:07 AM
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I really liked the way the 03-04 fairings looked without the "air grabbers" attatched. Suck that it got all messed up, but hey, you have a damn good story about it though!
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RE: Deals gap omen - 4/1/2007 4:57:49 PM
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Wow.
that was some crazy trip.
Glad you ended up ok after that wreck.
That seemed like a cool experienced, defenetly something you can talk about it for years.
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RE: Deals gap omen - 4/1/2007 5:04:04 PM
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cool pics, i use to have that same m3, fern green on modena only i had the sport seats, man i hated getting rid of that car, but i couldnt keep a license with it......llke im gonna have better luck on a sportbike....im toast.
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RE: Deals gap omen - 4/1/2007 5:20:38 PM
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good read my friend I felt like I was there... you should be a journalist
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RE: Deals gap omen - 4/2/2007 12:02:19 AM
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JBaz
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Found the photographer who took the pics. Might buy the pics cause they are pretty badass.
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RE: Deals gap omen - 4/2/2007 1:41:59 AM
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damn son where u been anyway J i havent seen a single post from you since the stolen bike incident last fall, i seen the kid the other day he was starin at me like he has a problem, (they think for some reason i got them caught) but **** them, your bike looks like mine now, buy an acerbis headlight and go street fighter, youll love it, hit me up and well ride this weekend
btw, that strip of I85 you got pulled on is crucial as ****, same thing with 40
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RE: Deals gap omen - 4/2/2007 2:44:37 AM
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quote:
ORIGINAL: OldFatGuy
That truly was a wild weekend you had! Good thing you had your camera and took pics because no one would believe half of it if you hadn't!
couldnt have said it bette rmyself
glad to hear ur ok bro , and might i add again DAMN u had a wild weekend
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