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Dragon claims 67 year old triker
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<blockquote data-quote="El Toro" data-source="post: 443580" data-attributes="member: 14779"><p>The biggest problem for the Dragon in my opinion is that the folks trying to make a buck off the Tennessee part of the road while living in North Carolina have promoted it as the greatest motorcycle road in the world. Hell... the Dragon's not even the best motorcycle road in Tennessee. We've got much better roads for nearly every type of challenge from the Cumberland Plateau through the Appalachians and Smokies.</p><p></p><p>The folks who started trying to make their living off the Dragon are essentially leech-like. They brought nothing good to it themselves, they hyped it in the media and promoted the idea that it was appropriate to ride the road as though it were your own private race track, and then as the costs of taking the dead and crippled out of the Tennessee side mounted exponentially and the State of Tennessee started vigorous enforcement, they whined and bitched and moaned about their mistreatment.</p><p></p><p>In my view, if the guys who make their living off the Dragon would go and build a Barber style Motorsports Park, and charge admission for track days, and carry the requisite insurance, and require appropriate gear, etc., I would have no beef with them. But to take a public road and start promoting it as a personal MotoGP course while sharing it with regular drivers who are using it for transportation rather than sport, is incredibly irresponsible.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="El Toro, post: 443580, member: 14779"] The biggest problem for the Dragon in my opinion is that the folks trying to make a buck off the Tennessee part of the road while living in North Carolina have promoted it as the greatest motorcycle road in the world. Hell... the Dragon's not even the best motorcycle road in Tennessee. We've got much better roads for nearly every type of challenge from the Cumberland Plateau through the Appalachians and Smokies. The folks who started trying to make their living off the Dragon are essentially leech-like. They brought nothing good to it themselves, they hyped it in the media and promoted the idea that it was appropriate to ride the road as though it were your own private race track, and then as the costs of taking the dead and crippled out of the Tennessee side mounted exponentially and the State of Tennessee started vigorous enforcement, they whined and bitched and moaned about their mistreatment. In my view, if the guys who make their living off the Dragon would go and build a Barber style Motorsports Park, and charge admission for track days, and carry the requisite insurance, and require appropriate gear, etc., I would have no beef with them. But to take a public road and start promoting it as a personal MotoGP course while sharing it with regular drivers who are using it for transportation rather than sport, is incredibly irresponsible. [/QUOTE]
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