I swear my bff is one of the luckiest people I know.  It’s like she was totally born with a golden horseshoe shoved up her you know what.  What happened this time?  She won a freakin’ bike from US129 Photos.  She’ll be heading up there to pick it up this weekend. 

Nope it’s not a new bike, but who cares?  Who’s going to turn down a perfectly good free bike?  Actually I really wouldn’t mind having this one.  It’s an 03 Honda CBR 600rr.  Congrats  Alli!  Who knows…maybe you’ll break down and let me ride it :-p.

I finally got 2 more of the videos from Hubby’s trip yesterday transferred to the computer. Like the other one, these are both the raw copies without any editing. They’re also lower resolution versions to make it easier for my friend on a slow connection. I’ll have the better versions up later!

Anywho the first one is Alli following Hubby from the lookout to the Crossroads of Time, and the 2nd is the ride back up to the lookout. This isn’t the full 11 miles and 318 curves, but it’s the typical section most people ride. There’s another couple miles past the lookout that is still considered part of the 318 curves in 11 miles. Allison’s filming from an 07 Yamaha r6, and Hubby’s riding our ‘06 Yamaha yzf 600r.

These are from a Wednesday, and most of the time a mid week trip is a lot nicer than this. I couldn’t believe how packed out the place was on a week day! Normally there’s no one around! You’ll also notice in the first video there’s a section where there are a few Blount Co. cars sitting on the side of the road. So far the cops are being cool this year. They’re helping to escort transfer trucks (which you can plainly see shouldn’t be on this road) and keeping an eye on things.

I didn’t get to go to Deal’s Gap today, but I did get to enjoy the video footage. I’m still transferring, cutting, and uploading, but I’ve got one uploaded. Enjoy this one while I work on the others. These are the unedited versions, so feel free to forward through.

Alli had the camera mounted on her r6 most of the day, and there will be a few videos of her following Hubby.

Remember when I mentioned what can happen to a girl’s face if she doesn’t clean her helmet? Well I’ve got it going on again this week. After riding and sweating so much Saturday my helmet held in all that sweat and dirt. After wearing it just a couple hours today my face is already breaking out like crazy tonight.

How do I know it’s my helmet causing it? It’s my cheeks that are breaking out, right where my pads touch. That’s the way it usually goes. Thank goodness I finally found a natural acne treatment that clears it up practically overnight.

At least the highlight of my day is that our photos are now up on Zeefoto, US129, Moonshine, and Killboy. I’m waiting on the Killboy highlights right now as they’re being posted to see if Little A made it on the front page.

Once I’ve got all the photos sorted I’ll share our Photoreflect albums, but you’ll just have to wait for that!

Man this weekend was so much fun! I didn’t end up riding very much at all, but I still had a lot of fun. We rode up to Deal’s Gap really early Saturday morning, and we met up with our friend’s at one of the local’s house. We spent a few hours riding, then as everyone started to tire we headed back to Ray’s house for an awesome BBQ. We got to meet a lot of the locals, and we just all hung out having a great time.

Ben got to ride Rodney’s 2006 GSXR 750 since our bike is still in the shop, and he absolutely loved it. He’s been trying to convince me to let him get a 1000, and I told him I thought he should get a 750. After this weekend he’s sold on the 750. He’s still a bit away from dragging a knee, but the body position on the 750 sets him up for it so much better.

Here’s Ben getting a feel for the 750.

Ray always looks good no matter how crappy the camera is.

We made quite a few trips through in the Blazer as well since Little A hung out with me and Rodney most of the day. We parked at one of the pull offs so he could watch his mama riding through. I didn’t get many photos, but I did snap a few with my little point and shoot. If I had a DSLR I would have been in heaven. As soon as I get one I’m definitely taking a trip up there with it.

Alli always came by so fast she was nothing but a blur in any of the photos I took.  We’ll have to wait and buy some from Killboy, Moonshine, and Zeefoto.

We left a lot later than we had planned. From Ray’s house it’s about a 3 1/2 hr trip home, so I took a few books with me, but we ended up leaving so late it was super dark. Reading was out of the question. We did however get to ride through at night while some of the locals were out playing, and it was gorgeous. The sky glowed across the mountain from all the cars and bikes riding up.

We would have stayed overnight for the night runs with the locals if it hadn’t been Mother’s Day yesterday.  We just really needed to get home.  Alli stayed though, and she said it was absolutely awesome.