Ride to Brasstown Bald last Saturday

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Hooked up with the NGAMC http://www.meetup.com/NGAMC1/

Gas stop



We went hither and thither on the way there with an unwanted stop when one of the riders got a tad carried away on a bend near "The Stonepile". http://roadsidegeorgia.com/site/stonepile.html

He had to go off in an ambulance. His bike went on a wrecker. He had a dislocated shoulder and some cracked/broken ribs



One of the most important things I've learnt about bike wrecks on mountain roads is that YOU HAVE to get traffic control in place IMMEDIATELY. If you can't help medically that's what you MUST do. Not stand around like a bunch of frickin fish wives trying to have your own reality TV show gossiping about why the wreck happened.

The attending police don't seem to give a rats ass about traffic control.

If I hadn't been flagging down drivers a couple of them would have piled into what they couldn't see around the bend.

One dumb as a rock young woman with her cell phone firmly planted up her ass only just managed to not rear end a stopped vahicle.

So on with the ride.

From the top of Brasstown Bald. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brasstown_Bald



Jack and Anita Hunt trailered with their Valkyrie and supplied lunch for us. Not only supplied but prepared and cooked.

Inflated with altitude.



Jack and Anita


Man cooking





Marion, originally from from Holland, rides a Honda 750 like she stole it.



The burgers were excellent.

It made me wonder how so many restaurants/diners can screw up a burger with their professionally equipped  kitchens.

After lunch we high tailed it home to beat the building summer rain storms.