i don't want to bore you with endless pics of our trip but there are these two that i really need to show. i'm afraid this wasn't really a bike trip but my minivan is extra long and easily carried a gz250 and our camping gear.
so once we arrived at home base (Shenandoah nat'l park and mt. pisgah rec. area) we unloaded and went riding.
that's my wife taking in the scenery with her gz.
riding the blue ridge parkway was a high point of this season for me. there were all sorts of bikes there too. i saw aprilia, ducati, beamers. bikes i rarely see near home in western new york, i guess cuz we po' folk round here. the on/off road dual sport suzuki drz was fairly popular there. i was talking with a guy who rode a honda shadow 750, very nice shafty cruiser. and of course the place was lousy w/ harleys which were annoyingly loud while we were camping.
we covered most of the b.r.p's more than 500 mile length and had a great time although the brakes in my van got smokin hot more than once.
i've decided to try and do the entire parkway on a bike, maybe next year. has anyone done that?
so once we arrived at home base (Shenandoah nat'l park and mt. pisgah rec. area) we unloaded and went riding.
that's my wife taking in the scenery with her gz.
riding the blue ridge parkway was a high point of this season for me. there were all sorts of bikes there too. i saw aprilia, ducati, beamers. bikes i rarely see near home in western new york, i guess cuz we po' folk round here. the on/off road dual sport suzuki drz was fairly popular there. i was talking with a guy who rode a honda shadow 750, very nice shafty cruiser. and of course the place was lousy w/ harleys which were annoyingly loud while we were camping.
we covered most of the b.r.p's more than 500 mile length and had a great time although the brakes in my van got smokin hot more than once.
i've decided to try and do the entire parkway on a bike, maybe next year. has anyone done that?
