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[spydglide]

Hope the beautiful tree colors weren't distracting him/her.  spyder

[2k]

I always stay in my lane, because given a choice I NEVER wear a brain bucket.

[wideglidejoe]

The bike rider was apparently at fault in this pic.  The wife and I rode the Dragon in '09, and there were numerous times that we were in curves and the cages were on our side of the road!  It's even more fun when you're meeting an 18-wheeler!  In sharp curves, they have no choice but to cross the line into the other lane.  That's why 18-wheelers should be banned on the Dragon (IMHO), but, hey, its a US highway, so what do you do.

killboy has several photos of cars over the line, but even more interesting, he has photos of state police and sheriff cars crossing the line into oncoming traffic!!

The Dragon is 11 miles long, so if you ran it @ 60 mph, it would take you 11 minutes.  Not trying to see how fast we could, we just rode at a comfortable pace for us, and timed it.  We rode it in 21 mins.  At the store at Deal's Gap, there were sport bike riders bragging about running the Dragon in 7 mins!!  They wear racing gear with metal shin guards and metal knee pads.  We met a sport bike rider in a curve, he was laying over so far that his pegs and his leg guards were throwing sparks, and who knows how fast he was going, and he was still able to take one hand off the grips and wave at us!!  When on the Dragon, I was doing "head nods" instead of waving.  We only saw one bike off of the road, but it was a weekday (still very busy!), I hear it is really crazy on the weekends.

Ride Safe!! 

[smkymtnboy]

The bike rider was apparently at fault in this pic.  The wife and I rode the Dragon in '09, and there were numerous times that we were in curves and the cages were on our side of the road!  It's even more fun when you're meeting an 18-wheeler!  In sharp curves, they have no choice but to cross the line into the other lane.  That's why 18-wheelers should be banned on the Dragon (IMHO), but, hey, its a US highway, so what do you do.

killboy has several photos of cars over the line, but even more interesting, he has photos of state police and sheriff cars crossing the line into oncoming traffic!!

The Dragon is 11 miles long, so if you ran it @ 60 mph, it would take you 11 minutes.  Not trying to see how fast we could, we just rode at a comfortable pace for us, and timed it.  We rode it in 21 mins.  At the store at Deal's Gap, there were sport bike riders bragging about running the Dragon in 7 mins!!  They wear racing gear with metal shin guards and metal knee pads.  We met a sport bike rider in a curve, he was laying over so far that his pegs and his leg guards were throwing sparks, and who knows how fast he was going, and he was still able to take one hand off the grips and wave at us!!  When on the Dragon, I was doing "head nods" instead of waving.  We only saw one bike off of the road, but it was a weekday (still very busy!), I hear it is really crazy on the weekends.

Ride Safe!! 

my advice is don;t go on the week-end!

[JoeSDE]

30+ yrs. as an OR nurse and I've seen just too much of this stuff. You stick it & we'll fix it (hopefully).

[Montanakid]

Been seein and hearin bout the Dragon, so where is it? We have one hear in the Bay Area, it's Hiway 9 from Saratoga to Santa Cruz and you get the same issues guys trying to go too fast and walllah .   

[dayne66]

Looks like he needed tighter boots/shoes.  Left one's already off.

  I think the foot is still in the boot.....just at an odd angle due to some impact related bone breaking.

[JCZ]

Been seein and hearin bout the Dragon, so where is it? We have one hear in the Bay Area, it's Hiway 9 from Saratoga to Santa Cruz and you get the same issues guys trying to go too fast and walllah .   

The dragon is about the same as Hwy. 9, or Hwy 36 or Hwy. 299 or and of a dozen other highways here in Nor Cal........just not as long as what we have here on the west coast.

[spydglide]

The dragon is about the same as Hwy. 9, or Hwy 36 or Hwy. 299 or and of a dozen other highways here in Nor Cal........just not as long as what we have here on the west coast.

So what you're saying is that you guys never have tires that wear just in the middle, rather nice and rounded at all times.  har.  spyder

[FLSTFI Dave]

I ride the Dragon a few times a year, never on a week end.

I see about 10 cars crossing the yellow for one bike crossing the yellow.  More than once the bike crossing the yellow is doing it on purpose to pass a car, or us Harley riders LOL.

I have had the crotch rockets pass me in my lane, scares the crap out of you because you do not see or hear them until they are next to you.

[FAST380]

OK, I am going to be the one to question is. I have seen a lot of really good photo shopped images recently. The glass breakage looks kind of questionable to me. I realize you could easily blow out a window crashing into the car like that, but..... Just looks a little suspicious to me.

Just sayin....