No gramps is still getting over the 3800 miles of seat time.

I have yet to figure out if I'm coming down this year or not. It will probably be a last minute decision.

you should come, it will be a blast as usual.

how many ppl are going?








and FYI i hate my job sometimes

not sure

you dont need to go to the concert, tell will he is gay if he blows this off.

he was never blowing it off and I wasn't going to the concert but i'm working from today straight till the 30th of June.


I was only supposed to work the load in and out for the festival which woulda mean mon through thurs and then late sun night and monday. I coulda come to the rally too, but they're hurting for ppl so bad that I have to work the whole show.:bash: and my show.

DO EET!
Around 10 of us thus far, I think :idk:

Trip my plan is still to arrive at the gap around noon on Thursday. You'll be there? Should we meet @ tapoco or the store or what?

PM me your cell, I'll call you during my long ride down there and we'll hammer out the details. I'll be figuring out how to rendezvous with NtS as well.

Right now it looks like I will be leaving from knoxville thursday morning because I was not able to get the room I wanted for wednesday night. I still need one of you guys to let me crash in your room thursday night. I am more than willing to wait for ya and ride up there from knoxville thursday. I will pm my # to ya.

I may end up staying in knoxville wednesday night if I can make it that far in one day... I'm not sure though I will have to play it by year.

As nts and I make our way down we'll all keep in touch and meet up thursday morning, if not wednesday night.

I'm getting ridiculously psyched for this trip.... now let's just hope I don't go out and fucking crash 1st lap of my first TD on monday :lol:

Yeah if yall get here wednesday night that would be cool, we could hooliganize a local establishment.

im even thinking about leaving tuesday afternoon when i get outa work, so long as i can find a place to stay in KY or S. Ohio.

CEO, are you driving or riding this whole trip? Driving I assume, but riding would be really cool.

seriously guys, if we can get away with it, you can chill in my room Wednesday night if you want.

I dont mind, especially since I will be getting an early start Thursday I think, to go through the dragon a few times and I wouldnt mind the local assistance, unless you are planning on getting there early...my plans are to get to the lodge around 3 or so, unload and ride a bit till it gets dark or something, shoot, I may go see wheeler and get some work done too...decisions decisions...

Ok, I'm not making it down for the Rally this year. Its 11 hours one way for me, and the plans never really got sorted out in time. I mentioned it to my fiance last week, and she got pissed because I always plan vacations for myself, but not for the both of us. Well whoopti fuckin do! I always go to the gap every freakin year at the same time every year for the past 5 or 6 years.
Gas is so freakin redicoulous right now anyway....so I'm coming down in late september or early october....I will make a trip to the gap this year....dammit!

I'm driving, for many many reasons.

If I had a long ass time to do all this, I might ride the whole thing, take all back roads the whole way... but just to ride a shitload of highway to try to get places is a waste of tires and wear on the bike.

Also with all the track days I need to bring a lot of supplies and tools and stuff just in case.

lame, well hope to see you at the end of the year, but there is a couple weekends I won't be able to get out of in sept/oct. The wedding/honeymoon weekends at the end of oct and indy in sept.

Depends, if they stay in knoxville that night, yall could make the trek out here and back to eat dinner and then we could all head out early thursday to meet up with you as early as possible the next morning.

we're hitting up the dragon when I come down for indy! I don't care if I have to go by myself! :lol:

I will go with ya man, you don't have to worry about that, are you coming before or after indy?

before... kinda depends on you Rae and Drewpy's schedules as to when though... but I'd like to stay two nights in TN... spending the day at the Gap...

but we'll figure it out as sept approaches

wow a week to go now. gonna have some fun.

Well I got the corsa IIIs mounted, decided to not put on new tires and just use my track tires and get some new track tires before nashville. Got A's passenger pegs remounted and cleaned/lubed the chain. Besides a bath, she is ready to go.

There better be copious amounts of picture posting and story telling after... fuckers

hope it's fuck'n dry!

I won't push it in the wet, plus it will be a lot warmer than it was in march. Easier to get em up to temp. It was just too cold and wet to build up heat at Barber.

well regardless... I hope it's fuck'n dry for ya'll... same as for Indy it can rain all the way up to the day I get to your place... but I want it dry for riding the gap and for Indy... so 10th -14th then it can pour down again

having said that... it'll do just the opposite :lol:

Im getting mine put on tomorrow. how many miles would you say they took to break in? Had to re-mount my pass pegs again, in hopes they'll assist w/ my luggage, do you have as much trouble as me getting that tail fairing off (i got it off a little easier this time, but what a bitch).


yea im hoping for no rain, but eh, whatcha gonna do. so long as its no typhoon we'll be good.

No my tail fairing comes off easy, why did you have to take it off? My pass. pegs come off with out removing if that's why. My race tail is a lot harder to get on/off.

I don't know how many miles on the street, I broke mine in on a track. So 2 or 3 laps because it was cold.

never mind you dont even have to take your tail off do you...

nope, not for pass. pegs. You have that long tail. Mine is real short. Mine is a pain in the ass to put on because of the 03-06 taillight mod I did.

idk. you have to wiggle and wiggle the shit out of mine, to near breaking point, to get it off. fortunatly i only have to pull it up and back about 5 inches just to put the pegs on.

.... undecided as of now, need to see what pc's schedule is, im a fitty fitty right now, if i can spend time with her, thats were i will be

GHEY! She already said she has to work, your family is coming, you gotz to be here.

ya man, for as much you talk about riding down there how you gonna pass this up. it'll be good for you and PC to spend some time apart. Some more.

I think it's more he know's OSP isn't gonna be there... and he's missing his cuddle buddy

riding 2up does things to you :leaving:

Um that's super gay. Especially since you're splitting a room with us. Don't be a nancy

How far away is Knoxville from Tampoco?

about a 1 hour and a 1/2. The 1/2 is for the gap.

It looks like knoxville is about 40 miles north of the gap, right?

So is tapoco East from the gap? How far?

I also need to stop by Oak Ridge on my way back through TN after Jennings...

Is Tampoco the feminine hygiene store near Tapoco? :lol:


Just teasing :D

I didn't even notice that in her post. Awesome :rofl:

work related? I will be sunning in Orlando when you come back through.

Yeah work stuff. It will be cool to finally see the facility.

That's cool that you're getting that work trip... just unfortunate that the wedding is fucking with our track day plans :no:

:lala:

Yeah yeah, i always get that one confused, I always think theres an "m" and theres not...*sigh*

So heres a technical question for you guys...

Should I go see wheeler and get my bike tuned and suspension when I get there Wednesday? Or wait? I need to get it done and I have been holding out since what he does for $100 will cost me about $400 down here...

By tuned, you mean just the suspension or do you mean getting the bike Dyno tuned?


I can't remember if Wheeler has a dyno or not, but if you mean dyno tuning you would probably want that done closer to home, the different air pressure, altitude, conditions and temp at Wheelers is going to be different than in FL.

Do it wednesday, I don't want to be waiting around wheelers for you this time. I am with PoD, dyno tuning here may not give you the best results at home.

PoD, he has a dyno.

Yeah he's got a dyno, and I may have him run it for me, but primarily I want him to take a look at an issue I have been having and readjust the suspension. I was thrilled with what he did last year and since this year I am running considerably lighter, I want to see what else he can do. Methinks the issue is just the butterfly valve in the exhaust per some convos with buddies, but Wheeler mentioned he can hook it up and do some other stuff for me.

I dont care to see what she dynoes at, its bone stock, I just want to get the small issues resolved that he can see on the computer...and I know he can do that for a fraction of what I will pay here, plus he wont have my bike for a long period of time...

the suspension is well worthe the money

$25 for setup, yeah he is worth it. Plus Ken is jawesome.

i was going down killme highway, thought i was on a different bike, so much smoother, even going in a straight line, was crazy, cant imagine getting new springs put in this winter what it will feel like

Yeah, stiffer springs is one of the first thing I always do on a bike. I am not a 150 lb'er like most of the japanese bikes are set up for from the factory :)

No shit.. I had to change the preload on the rear shock from 4 to a 6 and the rebound from a 2 to a 3.

:lol: I am useless when it comes to adjusting my suspension...im not even big enough to move it unless its in motion or I get a running start...but last year the adjustments he made were like a whole new bike, it was AWESOME!!

Stop eating, lunchbox motherfuckers :lol:

Hey Frodo.. We're real men. I dont think being 5'10" 210lbs with a 34 in waist is fat.

nope, just solid...:wink:

Poe.....tay......toes

I was just kidding.

I'm just dense.. 5'8" 30 inch waist 175lbs a few months ago.

I haven't been to the gym as much as I would like the past few months so I've dropped to around 167.

One of my reasons for trying to get down a little extra early, i'd really like to get the suspension set up correctly.

You're real big men, thats all.

You're 5'8" and 175 w/ a 30 waist? you must be built like a fucking norseman. im 160 at 5'9" with a 32" (comfortably) and bench 200...

shit, im 6 foot, 220 and not skinny

im afraid you guys might blow off the back if you try to keep up...

sometimes, so am i.

6'3 190... :leaving: :lol:

I'm more like 168 right now because I haven't been to the gym as much regularly. If I completely stop working out and everything for 6 months or so, I bet my weight would drop to like 150.







OK.

I'm heading out for the track in NH and may not post before I head out for TN...

SEE YOU FUCKERS AT THE GAP!!!!!

folks like drewp, rae, trip, nts, ambly, whoever else might go, etc... my number is:

five oh eight - eight six eight - oh four oh four

in case there are any updates/changes to the plan.. text me your numbers so we can all keep in touch.

I still plan to arrive at the gap midday thursday. Where I lodge wed night is still TBD. I'd like to get all the way to knoxville but we'll see.

i was gonna post something but i guess you wont see it cause you'll be headed to the track.

So in lue of the orriginal text, i am going to say this.


Your mother was great last night, tell her she can keep the change.

:zowned:

goodluck guys and have fun

count me in on saturday for sure, due to lack of funds and just moving down to TN fri might be spent camping somwhere, :idk: the CO trip cost more then i planned

lame

That's Drewpy for ya.

red/blue/white/black/silver/yellow stickers will be available at the rally

yellow/silver stickers should be available after the rally for everyone else

:pwhore2:

FUCK!!!!1 my "new" rear is down to the wear bars already, damn liter bikes and addicting throttle... this means i am demoting myself to the slow group this weekend, unless wheeler has some amazing special on a nice PP again

i hate you trip

LOL, why?

What day are you showing up? You need to get here friday night so you can be here for the cookout.

good possibly friday, just sucks friday is pc's birthday

Happy birthday hunny, we're going to the Gap!

that is ok. She threw out your dip, remember?

hey i'm not making him stay i'm working roughly 1-2am and going in at 9-10am every day the rest of this week.

Just reconfirmed reservations at the Lodge.

See y'all there....

this sucks balls, i would rather spend time with you

When are you getting here??? Call Tapoco and see if they will come get us to answer the phone, we want to include you on the ride if you are here early info. If not, we are going to be back around 5:30pm tomorrow for the cookout.

vagina.

come ride with us.

that may have something to do with why he wants to spend time with her... :lol:

I'm totally unsubscribing from this thread because I'm so fucking bummed out.