Originally Posted by RL67037

Ok, ok ... I have never been to the Dragon (will make it one day, I'm sure) but watching this video brings some questions to mind:

With it being a 2 lane twisty, isn't it dangerous zipping through it at those speeds? I know there are "cruises" offered, but I also see that there are more "aggressive" tours to be had.
That is why the guy told me, "At the end, my brakes were SMOKING". He isn't taking the turns at 50, tho he is running pretty fast at other times. He ran it hotter than I would, but again, you really need to drive it once to 'get it'.

Has anyone that attended the Crossfire meet ever lost their car into the trees?
boiler lost his car into weeds, overturned and ended up in a river. He wasn't on the Dragon, he was on TN360 and had slowed down to at or under the speed limit - they were signalled by bikers of LEO in the area. When you are diving all out like in the video, you are really watching what you are doing; both hands on the wheel, paying strict attention, etc. It is those time (like boiler's time) when you THINK you are ok, that you get in trouble.

With as much as this forum promotes the GTG, and with two trips per year, the local police have to know that you all are there and will be running the twisties - do they not monitor the roads?
EVERY weekend there is a club there, from about April to late October. We are nothing special. In fact, watch some biker videos on the Dragon, you will be amazed, they make us and the Gens look like grandma!

The road is HEAVILY patrolled. The speed limit is 30, but I have YouTube videos showing my speed of 50-55 going by LEOs sitting aside the road, they keep an eye on us, but a little known secret is that the limit was 50 until 1998 when the internet made the road known around the world. The speed limit is a tool they use to deal with the crazies, tailgaters, yellow line breakers and trouble makers.

Cross over that yellow line in front of a LEO (even at 25 mph) and they will come after you! I saw a van doing 25 several Dragons ago - over the line in every curve - LEO saw it, turned around, and got us all out of the way so he could pull the guy over.

As one office up there told me, "If people would stay on their side of the road, it almost would not matter how fast you are going."

Just curious...