Thursday, July 26, 2007

The extremes of motorcycling

Just picked up my venerable Honda GL500 Silverwing from Clydebank today, and the folk at Gremlins having sorted out the front brake, I rode it back into Glasgow. Which was fine, if slightly nerve-wracking. Not as nerve wracking as this video, though. It was sent to me by Colin Fraser of the excellent Shetland Island Cruisers, and shows some very, very committed riding indeed on one of the classic biker routes in the USA: Deals Gap which runs through Tennessee and North Carolina for 11 miles and, ahem, 318 corners. The amazing thing is that both the cameraman and the rider he's filming were on GL1800 Honda Goldwings, enormous, everything-including-the-kitchen-sink cruisers. Listen out for the scraping noises.

2 comments:

Al Issner said...

It is a bit on the vertiginous side! All those bends just seem to go on for ever - it must be great to experience, but I'm afraid that on my PC screen it became a bit monotonous. Sorry!

EyeOnDubai said...

Och, looks just like the road down the side of Loch Lomond, but without the caravans and tourist coaches

Big respect for doing it on Goldwings though...