The lady and I are getting married. And were going to take our honeymoon vacaion down in pigeon forge. We have a cabin booked for the 16th through the 21st of june.

Driving the truck down and bike in tow. (Can't even fit all the wifes clothes on my tank and saddle bags. Lol. )

Planned on spending a good cpl days riding around in the Mts. Hope we can meet up with some of you guys to ride with. Or maybe if I can get some good info on rides. So I can get a cpl maped out.

Originally Posted by c'n'b

The lady and I are getting married

congratulations ................ don't think I will be able to meet up though

Originally Posted by TheDuck

congratulations ................ don't think I will be able to meet up though

Thanks man! And I'm sure a flight is cheep enough. Pets ride free on some air lines. So you can bring the duck. Come on. Lol

Congratulations in advance.

What state is Pigeon Forge in?

There are no bad roads down there, IMHO. US-129 is not that far and you can hook it into a nice out-and back and hit Robbinsville for lunch. Take the main drag, 71-North out of PF,..left turn onto 321/73 West/South, take it all the way (more then enough miles to get you warmed up for the day) to a left turn onto "Foothills Parkway" Take "Foothills" to the intersection of State Highway 115/U.S. 129 and make a left turn headed East and your on "The Dragon". Stop for photos at the turn out at the top of US-129 on your right( this is the turn around spot for those that make more then one pass on the Dragon). From the turn-out spot the road gets twistier as you head toward the Deals Gap Motorcycle Resort. Stop at the Resort to collect yourself (get the tee-shirt and sticker)..turn around and run it back up to the turn-out spot...or continue on to Robbinsville for lunch. After lunch stay on 129 to Topton (heading southeast) at Topton turn North on 19/74 and take it all the way into Bryson City (your on the return leg here) and stick with 19 coming out of Bryson into Cherokee. Hit the 441 coming out of Cherokee heading to Gatlinburg (441/71) and your near enough home to Pigeon Forge. That's about a 4 hour run according to Google maps...but traffic will make the difference and can turn it into 5 hours or more. Weekends are not a good time to ride the Dragon. You may have already done a similar run out of Pigeon Forge i.e.The Tail of the Dragon,..but if you have not it's worth the effort just to say you have. Beware..the Dragon is (IMHO) a technical piece of road that is best taken at a leisurely pace the first time out...select lower gears...keep the rpm's up in the power band rather then lug the motor. While your bride sips coffee at the Motor Resort you can make another run up to the over look perhaps, and get a better feel for the road in solo fashion. I'd still caution you to take your time and enjoy the road first and foremost. Also, the LEO's have been out in force the last few years I hear tell,..obey the rules and play safe.

Another nice run would be to exit Robbinsville on 143/165 West to Tellico Plains via the Cherohala Skyway. You could run this clockwise or counter clockwise as you like. Again your into about 5 or 6 hours depending on traffic. The Cherohala is devoid of trucks which is nice. The road is beautiful...see the attached.

All the best to you both



Tony

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This is acctualy the site to the cabin we're renting. Its in Tennessee around the North Carolina boarder. I know there are some guys from NC on here so I thought id ask to maybe join on a ride.

And Thank You Tony. Drawing the paths as I'm looking at the map. I don't plan to ride to hard being the womans on the back and I'm 400ish miles from home. I hate paying for someone to attempt to work on my stuff. Lol. (Some are good, some are bad. But ill do my own work).

And CB thanks, ill check those out. But I like to hear from the riders that ride the style of bike I do. I rode with some co-workers once on cruzer bikes. They took me to some curvy roads and said "these are awsome. You can really drag aroun the corners. We fly through them....." truth is...the roads were boring. To the might have been awsome. To me, I was yawning. Then my buddies that have gsxr600/zx10r/1000rr's that go to some roads that are more than I can do to keep up.

I talked with rogerr about going down under but the winters down there in june is not what were looking to do. And we had a vacation to the Diminican Republic but it seemed we were jumping through hoops left and right and didn't even know the exact days we were allowed to go. So just making it simple.

Ohh you poor thing,anyway congratulations to you and your new wife,cheers.

On my way to work. - Imgur This could be the honeymoon lodge you're looking for.

Originally Posted by CanadianBird

On my way to work. - Imgur This could be the honeymoon lodge you're looking for.

Lmao. Really?