The Fall Color Ride 2009

[Smokinjoe-VRCCDS#0005]

I thought the weather would win on saturday but we still got in a nice ride to Deals Gap , The Hellbender on into Franklin and back to Robbinsville by way of Wayah Road. We had ( 2 ) groups leave Robbinsville saturday morning the first group with Big Don up front hit snow on Cherohala Skyline ( see Duffy's post for pictures ) . The group that went with me made our way to Deals Gap on a wet road    We talked it over and made the call to just head back to the motel with the nasty weather.Some took the quick route the rest of us did The Hellbender and by the time we made The Hellbender Store the roads was dry and once again the ride was on.





At this point we had lost about half our group they went back to the motel and missed a great ride as you can see the roads was dry for us the rest of the day. Hwy.28 into Franklin was a blast with zero traffic in our way.



We was sad to hear about Sugerbee getting hurt on the way up to join our ride ....Best wishes Donna heal fast and ...Ride On.


Here's a few pictures I'll share in no order I've got to get ready to hit the road . These pictures are from the ride in ( friday )....The Fall Color Ride ( saturday )....and going home today ( sunday ) .Dates for The Fall Color Ride 2010 are Oct. 15-16-17 and again will be out of The Phillips Motel in Robbinsville, North Carolina.

Bald River Falls



Bald River



Paul ( Britman )


Thom ( Chrome Dome )


The night party's ...We had two awesome fires going and all and all it was'nt that bad to hang outside even with the cold weather .


The Over-look at US 129 The Dragon taken sunday on the way home.

[Kindred Spirit]

Great Pics Joe!

[hubcapsc]

Great ride Joe... I'd never been on the part of 28 called The Hellbender before either...

-Mike

[Stanley Steamer]

Great ride Joe... I'd never been on the part of 28 called The Hellbender before either...

-Mike

Hey Mike.....I've got a video of Hwy 28 from Hwy 74 back South to Franklin....I may need your pc expertise to help upload it to photobucket or youtube....it's 21 mins long and I'm not sure how to edit it in case they don't allow that much video??....

[fudgie]

Great ride Joe... I'd never been on the part of 28 called The Hellbender before either...

-Mike

Hey Mike.....I've got a video of Hwy 28 from Hwy 74 back South to Franklin....I may need your pc expertise to help upload it to photobucket or youtube....it's 21 mins long and I'm not sure how to edit it in case they don't allow that much video??....

Were ya in the Kia? lol 

[Stanley Steamer]

Great ride Joe... I'd never been on the part of 28 called The Hellbender before either...

-Mike

Hey Mike.....I've got a video of Hwy 28 from Hwy 74 back South to Franklin....I may need your pc expertise to help upload it to photobucket or youtube....it's 21 mins long and I'm not sure how to edit it in case they don't allow that much video??....

Were ya in the Kia? lol 

NO......Nooooo.....NOOOOOOOOOO........LOL

[Probie (Scooter57)]

He rode up to Robbinsville NC just to ride halfway home so he could get some fancy burger that he's addicted to  or is this the correct one  either way the boy needs a 12 step program for those chili burgers...

[hubcapsc]

Hey Mike.....I've got a video of Hwy 28 from Hwy 74 back South to Franklin....I may need your pc expertise to help upload it to photobucket or youtube....it's 21 mins long and I'm not sure how to edit it in case they don't allow that much video??....

I use Winders Movie Maker to edit stuff down. The most important part is how you save it. My
first few videos were hideous blurs by the time youtube got done formatting them on their
end. The best I've done is to "Save To My Computer"->"Other Settings"->"High Quality Video (small)",
and upload the results from that.

Youtube has some help pages that tell you what formats they like best, so your best bet is to
get whatever video editor you have to spit out a format that youtube really likes...

-Mike