Goin' for some pizza in Telico Plains

[sprint_st]

Need to shake down the new scoot on a long run. Anyone is invited to tag along. It is going to be a long day. Leaving Chesnee, SC at 8am. Will be in the Walhalla area about 10:30, Highlands about 11am, Franklin, 11:20 or so, topping off fuel at Robbinsville at noon, run the Cherahala, eat pizza in Telico Plains about 1pm. That's about 220 miles. May return by way of the Smokies or take 68 down into GA to the Clayton area and then drift back toward the Greenville/Spartanburg area.

I just reread this and it sounds like it's pretty inflexible. Actually, nothing is locked in stone and I don't even have to be back Saturday night.

 

[FJR Gary]

Wish I was a little closer. Would love to join you. Have a good ride

 

[sprint_st]

Wish I was a little closer. Would love to join you. Have a good ride

This is a spur of the moment ride triggered by a forecast of 80 degrees and sunny for two days all over W.NC, E.TN, N.GA, and W.SC. If you are ever in the area, give me a shout. Maybe we'll get to ride together at the EOM.

 

[skyway]

For a moment there, I could swear I read you were going on a 220 mile long ride and that it would be a long day? How many hours are there in the day where you live sprint? :lol:

Shameless free bump for you and have fun.

 

[sprint_st]

For a moment there, I could swear I read you were going on a 220 mile long ride and that it would be a long day? How many hours are there in the day where you live sprint? :lol:
Shameless free bump for you and have fun.

That's 220 miles just to lunch B) . There will be at least double that if I just go back home, but pizza for lunch is the only hard requirement on this trip, they have excellent brick oven pizza at this bakery place in downtown Tellico Plains. The options are all pretty good: slide over to US129 and watch people destroy plastic in the gap, go sight seeing on 441 on top of the Smokies, shoot south on 68 and mozy toward Clayton and N.Ga. Unlike so many "choose and lose" situations you run into in life, being in Tellico Plains on a great day and a great bike is a total winner. After looking at website of CA bike roads, I don't think you are missing out on much by not riding with me tomorrow. Some time I wouldn't mind trying some of those out. Thanks for the bump.

 

[wheatonFJR]

Watch out there sprint...my wife and I are relocating to Greenville in a few years(after the kids are out of school)...

posts like yours may make me relocate sooner! The kids will just have to learn to adjust and make new friends!

 

[sprint_st]

Watch out there sprint...my wife and I are relocating to Greenville in a few years(after the kids are out of school)...posts like yours may make me relocate sooner! The kids will just have to learn to adjust and make new friends!

Come On Down!!! I need some Yankee reinforcements in this den of rebels. I run a Geographic Information System for Spartanburg County and am friend with the GIS manager in Greenville. So if you need some assistance in any way locating property or whatever in this area let me know. I AM NOT a real estate guy so I'm talkin' "helping" with absolutely no profit motive. I just need riding buddies who understand there are things other than HD's on two wheels :yahoo: I'll be happy to give you the grand tour of our scenic highways too.

 

[sprint_st]

Well, I'm back. 493miles in about 9hrs and 45 minutes of road time. Pizza was great, took some time to get it, but great. SC/GA/NC28 was as close to empty as it gets. The stretch from Highlands to Franklin is in theory a great road but it always seems to be full of flatlander tourists going slow. Not today, it was wide open. It was as close to a race track as it gets. Cherohala was pretty deserted too, as was the BRP. Definitely not so at Deals Gap. That place was a zoo. Can anybody tell my why Harley drivers even go there???? I had one car pull over for me and passed another, but got behind three rolling thunders about half way through and that was the end of that. Stopped at the store for some dragon decals, I needed my earplugs in the parking lot. Loud pipes save lives, what bull ****!. As close to a perfect riding day as you can get, but this was the final straw for me, the Gap just ain't worth it.