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Roger Anderson
Добавлен 6 окт 2008
Motorcycle rider and vlogger living on the eastern shore of Maryland.
Cheoah River...recreational release
I took these vids early last fall. The interplay of the rivers, dams, and their reservoirs around here fascinates me. It was fun to see the Cheoah River running relatively high. I looked it up, and they are having 20 such releases on the Cheoah this year. There's already been four.
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apalachia dam and powerhouse
Просмотров 9 тыс.9 лет назад
A look at the Apalachia Dam, and its powerhouse which is fed by a 10 mile diversion tunnel cut through the mountains.
Another Buzzards Roost Overlook. Near Murphy, NC.
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Last Fall I checked out the Durhamtown Tellico offroad park just outside of Murphy, NC. It's a nice area, but I'm not the off road hero that I used to be, and some of the trails were a bit out of my comfort zone. Better suited for a much lighter bike. Or a 4 wheeler!
Nantahala River, Winding Stairs Rd., North Carolina
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Part of my mid-October 2014 trip to my favorite part of the southern Appalachians. Gotta love the riding and scenery down that way. The "Dragon" isn't the only reason to visit. Especially if you're on a dualsport bike!
Kenda 270 Dual Sport Tire
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This vid won't be of much interest unless you're looking around for a capable, and fairly inexpensive rear tire for your dual sport bike. I didn't show it (should have done), but I have a Kenda 270 on the front as well. After over 2000 miles, it's showing hardly any wear at all. Good tires.
Greenville Maine, Dual-Sport Ride
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A nice day of dual-sport riding, starting in the little town of Greenville, Maine.
Maine forest roads
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On a search for Grand Falls, deep in the Maine pine forests.
Helen, Ga. Wet and Twisty!
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Just showing a bit of "down town" Helen, Georgia, and a couple miles of twisties to the north on rt 17. A pretty misty and rainy day, so no great scenery or spirited riding going on. Kind of a bore maybe, but this also marks the fist time that I've ever attempted to upload a vid from a laptop while still on the road, so I figured I'd give it a go.
NC rt 80. Great road !
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I've been up and down this section of rt 80 a bunch of times, but this is my first video of the full run from the lake up to the Blue Ridge Parkway. It's a great ride, and well worth checking out if you're in the area.
Dual Sport tool storage, DR650
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Showing the tool storage tube I have mounted on the back of my DR650. It allows for a much better, and easier to access tool kit.
The Back of the Dragon : AKA VA rt 16
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Rt 16 between Marion and Tazewell, VA is a pretty cool stretch of road to take a pass or two on. Nice scenery, and some very twisty bits. That said, I don't know that I would recommend making a huge detour on your trip to check it out. Many of the tight switchbacks are blind, and tend to have a lot of gravel dragged out into the apexes. A fun piece of road though, and certainly worth a go shoul...
Lost my gear shift lever!
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The shift lever on my DR650 disappeared early on the first day of my spring ride in western NC. My fault for not giving the bike a good going over for a while. Anyway, the nice guy (never got his name) at Mountain Motors in Robbinsville, NC saved the day big time! No telling if I could have found one elsewhere, or how far I would have had to go to get it. The whole episode only cost an hours ti...
Buzzards Roost redux...view from the bottom.
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a good, if not very exciting, example of the type of stuff I really enjoy doing on my little motorcycle vacations.
Cheoah Overlook "Road" near Deals Gap
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Nothing super special here, but riding down this lane was kind of interesting for me. This "development" sits on the TN-NC border, kind of behind the Deals Gap motorcycle resort. Building a house in there must be quite an adventure, and it wouldn't surprise me if some of those lots never get a home built on them. Probably just as well.
Blue Ridge Parkway and Mt. Mitchell... Dualsport style.
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A ride up to the top of Mt. Mitchell in NC, with a quick look around.
Couple of scenic views in east Tennessee
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Couple of scenic views in east Tennessee
Riding along the C+D Canal, Suzuki DR650
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Riding along the C D Canal, Suzuki DR650
N Carolina dualsport. Linville Gorge, Wiseman's View
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N Carolina dualsport. Linville Gorge, Wiseman's View
Buzzards Roost scenic overlook. Very cool spot!
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Buzzards Roost scenic overlook. Very cool spot!
Great Smoky Mountains, Road to Nowhere
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Great Smoky Mountains, Road to Nowhere
Springtime! Back on board the Honda 919
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Springtime! Back on board the Honda 919
Tail of the Dragon. Counting the corners.
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Tail of the Dragon. Counting the corners.
Hey Roger. How have you been? Are you still riding the old dual sport around these days? I'd love to hear what you've been up to all these years. Take care buddy.
Miss seeing your adventures on the DR!
Been down there enough i loved it
Just happened to me bro had to ride home in first
Csn you camp up there?
I really hope I can get out there sometime!!!
It sounds like my Volkswagen tigquan
FYI the lake at the end is known as Lake Aquone…
Just bought one for the front on a drz400
I've been in the great smoky mountains park on the Gatlinburg Tennessee north Carolina border beautiful country
I just discovered your channel. I'm loving it. You should list routes you took to get there
Excellent post, thank you for sharing.
You ran over a Chipmunk @ 5min mark -you and that two wheeled Devil machine.
Hit some jumps, run over a squirrel, flip off a cop - do something already
Do some burnouts already
Wick that thing up and pull some wheelies
Such a wonderful road. I grew up in Morganton and spent many days on that MTN. Luckily its protected and can never be paved due to the environmental impact. This is truly a beautiful place. Probably gonna take a ride across this weekend actually.
saw this on a map and was curious, thanks for uploading!
Hi. Tell me please. When you ride on the road do the tires hum??
This is my most favorite video on RUclips! It always just makes me so happy!
Do you feel significant more power with the 919 than the SV? I have an SV and am thinking of upgrading to either the SV1000S or 919 Hornet.
I raced a SV on mine, got my ass handed to me..... not my much
Locals call this stretch of road the "Redneck Dragon" (it's on the opposite end of the park from Tail of the Dragon) and of course has that 1.5-2 mile stretch of gravel once you cross the NC line. At present, It's a much better ride going the opposite way that you came (south or easterly...from Cosby to Waterville).
Blarry vision filming....
I think it's BADASS that you Drove near the END of it! 😜 I just found out about this today & decided to look it up on RUclips. Man, it's a horrible story. And if you look at the LAKE it's Higher Elevation than the other side. That me and that Town was High up there. And GOD FORBID if ANYTHING Happens to That DAM!! The People/ Towns Below will be DEVASTATED! 😵
I grew up in this neck of the woods and this spring I hope to ride the same roads you did. I have a feeling most of these roads are not on google maps ... Are they. I'm buying a Motorcycle waterproof GPS but I don't know which one I should buy?????????????????
Thank you so much for satisfying my curiosity of what the Cheoah Overlook looks like! That gate you went thru is always closed as of 2018 and there is a No Trespassing sign on it. The road and the overlook is reserved only for rich people that have enough money to build million dollar mountain mansions that ruin the view for people below!
I bought a 2007 CB900F 919 for my first bike and I love it. Very quick bike and comfortable riding position. I ride it on highway a lot so I installed a National Cycle F-16 touring wind screen and it helps direct wind off my chest. I still feel it on my helmet but it’s great for hwy commuting now blasting the wind higher.
Thanks for the videos. I just found them now I'm going through your library.
Seems beyond odd to me that you would move water 10 miles only to run power back out in the same direction. Then you have a concrete access tunnels. Could this have been a cover for an underground facility project? If not then why not build the power station at the dam. It's easier, faster and cheaper to set cables and move power then it is to dig tunnels, run pipelines and move water.
I'm not an engineer, but I suspect it has to do with the height the water drops to the power house. By digging the tunnel and building the power house where they did, they got an additional 200 feet or so of drop. There are several dams in this area where the water runs for miles through conduits and tunnels before reaching their respective power houses.
@@dprider02 Duffy, where have you been for the last several years? I see that your above comment is only 6 months old. Are you ok?
@@dprider02 Hey....buddy...you still around? Please...give me a reply and let me know you're ok.
You need to go in winter. No problem on snowmobile
It is, the area you are in is what remains of McFarland Siding, and that was the water feed to Appalachia P.H. Grew up in Ranger and have been here several times.
You stated "heavy steering" .I have a '79 that will feel " heavy..." Without 32 psi in the front tire. Otherwise no problem. .
Hey DP, what are you up to these days?
he disappeared which is so strange
@@riffsontwowheels Wish he would come back! I love the videos.
Awful commentary
Oh, Any other trips you make to Maine, Skip the google Maps. Pick up one of DeLorme's Atlas and Gazetteers. The info in them is indispensable and FAR beyond Google maps, especially for off road travel
simple and it works ! that’s what i want , Thanks
You better learn to keep your bike in the lane, it’s amazing you got as far as you did
You better clean the lens on your camera
Just ran across this vid. I'm from Central Maine myself and having spent A LOT of time in this area, I know the EXACT route you took. Done it many times myself. I must say though, that with a few side trips from this route there is an incredible amount of sites that you missed. You should take a little more time and try it again. I can guarantee it would be worth it
I had some excellent rides while I was up there, but my time was limited, and I was by myself with mostly Google Maps/satellite view as my only guide. It would have been nice to have someone like you to show me around!
@@dprider02 If you plan another trip, let me know.
I grew up in the area, couple miles from Appalachia dam. You drove right by an area where the flume line is visible on the road to the powerhouse. It goes over Turtletown Creek. Where the creek meets the Hiawassee River. Might be gated now. Maybe you edited it out. Cool video tho
I think you must be talking about the spur road off of McFarland that goes down to where the pipe comes out of the side of a mountain, across Turtletown Creek, and right back underground again. The road dead ends at the train tracks by the river. I've been down there several times...it's a really cool spot!
@@dprider02 yes that's it. We would camp there years ago. There's now a gate at the top of the hill going to Appalachia dam. Someone shot a hole in the pipe. Ruined it for everyone.
@@itsjustkevin6652 I know that gate has been shut for quite some time, but this is the first I have heard why. I even found a picture www.politico.com/magazine/gallery/2017/10/05/dangerous-waters-photo-essay-tva-tennessee-valley-authority-000751?slide=0 Idiot. As far as I know, the only other boat ramp is the one at the other end of the lake below the Hiwassee Dam. I'd bet there are some local fishermen who would love to get their hands on that moron. Hopefully they already have!
@@dprider02 someone,somewhere knows who did it. And yeah there's a ramp below Hiawassee but it's not convenient plus if they are generating power it's very difficult to put a boat in or out. Thanks for sharing the video, makes me want to head up there and look around
I got a tip move that mount that sticks out two and a half feet to the other side! Because you can't stay on your side of the road, I mean you about hit that car with it! You might need to practice ridding your sure can't maintain a good line!
Bad blind spots on this road. Dangerous if meeting trucks or cars.
East not south
Partly by accident I ended up on a shortcut across this, which is gravel and eroded asphalt tracks, but on the TN side of the state line (Tobes Creek Road, one of the "driveways" you passed on the right). I didn't realize even the "primary" route looping through the edge of NC, Mount Sterling Road, was also gravel up until the TN state line. So this means TN-32 is not accessible by any all-paved route from the east/south. The pavement on TN-32 begins right at the state line. I have to assume the Tennessee state roads authority thought NC would do the same, given that it's well maintained on the TN side. Interesting oddity (ok, fine, I'm a roadgeek) but this probably explains why so few consider it a Must Ride road; you have to be comfortable with taking on about a mile and a quarter of gravel no matter which way you take to get there (Mount Sterling or Tobes Creek Roads). I'll have to revisit this one soon. My ride on Tobes Creek Road: ruclips.net/video/fP0GSxZeb4o/видео.html
Probably because I actively seek out unpaved roads to ride, I never really gave much thought to the gravel access to rt 32 having to do with how lightly that road is traveled. I always figured that it was mostly due to the road not really being on the way to anywhere! I'm sure you're right though...not being able to access it (or exit it) from its eastern end without hitting gravel no doubt puts a lot of people off. I rode it again as part of a loop about a year ago, and once again I saw zero motorcycles and maybe 2 cars. The cars were locals no doubt!
dprider02 I've started doing the same ever since first trying the semi-ADV nature of the CB500X. Actually I've been fascinated with unpaved roads to the middle of nowhere for a long time and have spent plenty of time in the Blue Ridge mountains by car, but didn't apply it to two wheels until now. One way to find unpaved *through* roads is to look at Google Maps (in a desktop browser), and click the Street View stickman icon. See where there is a road that has Street View (blue overlay line) on both ends but *not* in the middle. In the majority of cases this is where the Google car turned around because the pavement ended. However, I found that whoever was driving the Street View car in 2007-2008 in western NC and parts of Eastern TN was more adventurous and actually went up many lesser-maintained roads so you can see that fact right from the captured imagery. (Tellico Road, for instance. That's a doozy!) Either way it's a good resource to find 'em on top of the usual satellite picture scrutiny.
Ooh, that signed Forest Road 81 is Old Santeetlah Road. As it's so close to the Dragon and the loop around Lake Santeetlah connecting to the Skyway, I've been looking for an on the ground view of this for a while (to see if it's suitable for my CB500X with 80/20 tires). Looking really good there. Similarly for the southward 1-lane, one-way exit from Cades Cove (Forge Creek Road/Parson Branch Road). The northward Cades Cove exit road (Rich Mountain Road), letting out in Townsend TN, looks *a lot* more challenging, with nine miles of tighter and steeper switchbacks than the Dragon... on gravel.
Do you have a bad back or shoulders? You're lifting very very little at time.
Where are you?
Researching this area, thanks for the video
good video ,use to run around there some as a kid ,subscribed to you.trying to do my own channel wnc adventures hope you post again
Old US 105 might just be the most amazing ride/drive in western NC. I've been across it many times and it always gives me something I've never seen before.