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That had to hurt. All of it.

Deal's Gap aka The Tail of the Dragon is in Tennesse and North Carolina.

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Hiking the trail up to the Tri-State Peak: Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia. It is located near Cumberland Gap, TN, and Middlesboro, KY.

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Watch the video, see the FAIL in detail. NOTE: The camera angle and zoom ratio from the helmet gives the illusion that the bike is taking a strange line. I rarely if ever cross any lines while riding   more...unless it is in the process of passing only with a clear vision of the road and oncoming traffic. The only line that was touched by the tires was the white line on the corner where I left the pavement. I was in a full skid due to worn tires, dew soaked road, and MY FAILURE to adjust my speed to properly evaluate those conditions. The ONLY way that this could have been avoided is that if I would have slowed down.  less

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"What no one seemed to notice was the ever-widening gap between the government and the people.

"And it became always wider...the whole process of its coming into being, was above all diverting,   more...it provided an excuse not to think...for people who did not want to think anyway gave us some dreadful, fundamental things to think about... and kept us so busy with continuous changes and 'crises' and so fascinated... by the machinations of the 'national enemies,' without and within, that we had no time to think about these dreadful things that were growing, little by little, all around us....

"Each step was so small, so inconsequential, so well explained or, on occasion, 'regretted,' that unless one understood what the whole thing was in principle, what all these 'little measures'...must some day lead to, one no more saw it developing from day to day than a farmer in his field sees the corn growing...Each act is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next.

"You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join you in resisting somehow. You don't want to act, or even talk, alone...you don't want to 'go out of your way to make trouble.' But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes.

"That's the difficulty. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves, when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed.

"You have accepted things you would not have accepted five years ago, a year ago, things your father...could never have imagined."

Milton Mayer, They Thought They Were Free, The Germans, 1938-45 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1955)

The video is an excerpt from the documentary "Tourists in DC."
Go to http://touristsindc.com for more information about "Tourists in DC."  less

This video was taken about a year ago when I went to Deals Gap. I was inexperienced and got rattled when I locked up my rear tire. Nothing but a couple scratches on my fairing.

Me jumping out of my window onto my trampoline...

Some young guys with trusting parents flip all over the place, one after another. Pretty impressive little acrobats.

Pro Skier Tanner Hall break both ankles trying to jump Chad’s Gap in Utah, video from MTV’s Scarred

All BS aside, I love all you guys, especially the ones that helped me out so much. I cannot thank you all enough. That was one of the best trips I've ever been on.

Britney Spears to take the stage for a suprise performance at the MTV Video Music Awards? Paris Hilton hires a crises manager to help solve her problems? Victoria Beckham has a new fashion line. David   more...Beckham motorola advertisement, John Mayer Gap advertisement, Caroline D'AMORE engaged? Weed's star Mary Kate Olsen to get with old man. Christina Aguilera to perform at the Emmys. All the scoop straight from the streets of Hollywood blvd from the Hollyscoop girls. The scoop from the Hollywood walk of fame. We also talk to people on the streets about their thoughts about the Entertainment world.  less

North into Tennessee from Deals Gap, North Carolina on the world reknown highway 129. I give some tips on approaching curves and trail braking, and talk about the trip. I spot an idiot driving a semi-truck   more...on the Dragon, followed by a loaded dump truck.  less

US 129 closed to all traffic for 3 days, because tractor trucks are not banned. TDOT says trucker blames biker for $100,000 crash. THP claims Knoxville News Sentinel has a monopoly on the First Amendment   more...to US Constitution.

Full-length Google Video version:
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This is a dragon run on Thursday 8/7/08

Not once was I thinking about puppies......

What a great day it was to ride...nothing left to do but ride all day tomorrow in my 65+ degree weather :)

Nasty bike crash in the woods

What made this kid think he could make this jump?

Nice 13 minute run through Deals Gap show Video Overlay

Some video from the Deals Gap trip. Enjoy.

Failed GAP