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Last November two friend and I rented a Cabin on Black Rock Mountain as our base camp for four days and rode the mountains for all four days. We were usually riding 8 to 10 hour days doing riding excursions to Bryson City, NC, Cherokee, Tellico Plains Tennessee along with some other areas.
Living in Florida (Tampa Bay area), I have to go about 700 miles before I hit some good mountain riding areas. We have no mountains here or twisty roads, just a lot of heavy traffic. So for the last decade, I've been going up to North Carolina and Tennessee as much as I can, usually once or twice a year for twisty mountain road riding excursions. The riding experience is so different up there. Very little traffic, and very few side roads makes riding there so much less stressful than in the urban areas of where I live. I can actually enjoy the scenery instead of watching out for what all the cage drivers around me are doing. Is the area where you live a good riding area, or is it like mine with heavy urban traffic and side roads and drives coming out everywhere? Do you have to go very far for some relaxed riding?
I was just re-making (editing) the video that I did last November of our rides up there to shorten it, change some footage, and to add different music. Watching the riding scene's made me wonder what its like for everyone else out there in other areas of the country. I get pretty frustrated riding here with all the road rage and idiot drivers that just don't see riders, its a every day issue that forces me to get out of town to enjoy riding. Anyways, this is the re-edited video. Some of the younger guys here wont recognize the music.
Living in Florida (Tampa Bay area), I have to go about 700 miles before I hit some good mountain riding areas. We have no mountains here or twisty roads, just a lot of heavy traffic. So for the last decade, I've been going up to North Carolina and Tennessee as much as I can, usually once or twice a year for twisty mountain road riding excursions. The riding experience is so different up there. Very little traffic, and very few side roads makes riding there so much less stressful than in the urban areas of where I live. I can actually enjoy the scenery instead of watching out for what all the cage drivers around me are doing. Is the area where you live a good riding area, or is it like mine with heavy urban traffic and side roads and drives coming out everywhere? Do you have to go very far for some relaxed riding?
I was just re-making (editing) the video that I did last November of our rides up there to shorten it, change some footage, and to add different music. Watching the riding scene's made me wonder what its like for everyone else out there in other areas of the country. I get pretty frustrated riding here with all the road rage and idiot drivers that just don't see riders, its a every day issue that forces me to get out of town to enjoy riding. Anyways, this is the re-edited video. Some of the younger guys here wont recognize the music.