292 miles, 3 states, rocks, streams, curves, geocaches FIXED
 

I just got home from my little ride. I took some pictures that I will work on posting.

The lifan performed flawlessly considering how hard I pushed it.

I covered 470km or 292 miles today. About 20 miles on forest service roads/trails.

100 miles of Interstate/4 lane highway. And the rest mountain 2 lane roads with lots of peg dragging curves. I didn't drag any pegs though.

I started out by leaving my house at 7am and sitting in traffic. I rode to Tallulah Falls, GA about 75 miles. Stopped and took some pictures.
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The gorge is 750ft deep and there is a total a four waterfalls.
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I then rode to Clayton, GA and filled up for gas and coffee. Attempted a geocache in Clayton, but I couldn't find it.
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I continue on to the edge of NC and then to my first plan destination of Rabun Bald which is back in GA.
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This is the road to Rabun Bald after the pavement ends. I had to walk the last .7mile of trail.
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Rabun Bald is the second highest point in GA at 4696ft. The tower was built by the CCC as a fire lookout and later converted for public use.
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On a clear day you are suppose to be able to see GA, NC, SC, and TN.
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Next destination was another geocache in Black Rock state park, but after I got to the trailhead I decided against this one as the walk was about a mile each way and the temp was near 100.
Here is the lifan at Black Rock Lake.
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After Black Rock lake I finally found a geocache in the Warwoman Wildlife Management area. It was a short walk of about 700 feet from the forest service road.
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I then went to another just fun forest service road destination. This is Sarah Creek Rd also in the Warwoman Dell area. There are alot of stream crossings and this old bus that my friend told me "the trail ends shortly after the bus". He was right.
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Those roads look like easy riding, but the gravel is really loose and the "slicks" were not hooking up on it.
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That is the last of the pictures. It was getting late and I was going to meet friends for dinner back home. I decided to go through SC yet and add another 100 miles of riding. Warwoman Rd has alot of twists, curves and hairpins which mays it interesting on a china bike. I completed the trip with about 40 miles of riding on Interstate 85 from the SC border to my exit for home. I enjoyed the right lane at 65MPH.

Allen

wow...beautiful...great pics...awesome location!!

Your bike rocks...you are getting your money worth!!

I realy liked the pictures of the gorge!!

I have a few questions for you...if you don't mind?

1st...where can i get that seat cover?

2nd...Got any video?

and third is more of a suggestion...convert your pics to a res of around 1024x768 for big, 800x600 for medium...and 640x480 for normal...or whatever in that size range...the pics will still look huge even on monitors with res's of 1600x1200...although most people are running 1280x1024...or even 1024x768...and your pics are three times that size... 8O

Plus it'll be alot easier and faster...to upload them to photobucket or whatever...

If you have MS Office...there is a real quick way to convert pics to a smaller res...it's called the microsoft office picture manager...just drag and drop your pics into the app...highlight them all...then choose the picture tab...then choose resize...then pick a size in the right column...then hit ok...then go to the file menu...hit save...it'll have saved new versions of the pics to the desktop or your my pictures folder...just upload those to photobucket...or whatever...

There are million other ways to do this including a few worthy free apps...but most people have office...and that method is very fast and produces great results and utilizes the simple drag and drop method...lol...

Just a thought...

Anyway...great job...more, more, more please!!

:lol:

Great pics, Looks like it was a blast. Those trail look like they were a ton of fun. I'm adding you to the iron butts list, that was a long ride.

Parallax, that seat cover is from Walmart.

AWESOME RIDE!

Great pics, Hope You had all of Your shots if You went inside of that Bus :lol:

walmart...realy? what section will i find it in?

Man that rules if i can get it locally at a walmart price!!! :o

Hey! I've been to some of those places before! Last time I passed that North Carolina sign I was 9 hours ino a 3 hour trip..... :lol: :lol: (I got sidetracked, it was fun!)
I actually have a pic of two of the same falls.

parallax, look for helmets, they should be close by. They are rolled up with a paper wrap around them. I paid less than 20 bucks for it.

The seat cover is at most wal-marts for $14. It is called an ATV seat cover. I stuffed some additional foam under it to flatten it out more, but I did that the night before I left and it needs improvement. I cut the foam out of an old car seat. It did help alot.

I don't have any way to take video at the moment. My camera is too old for that. I am looking at a cheap camera to use for video that I can strap on and not worry about breaking it.

And since I was scolded about picture size I changed them to thumbnails so that you all can click to see the full size version. I am spoiled with fast internet.

Allen

The have an ATV section. It was rolled up with paper around it. Made by Stearns and cost was $14.

Also I did not go in the bus. Things are probably living in there. I am up to date on shots since working on katrina cleanup. Lots of nasties there.

Oh, butt is still sore. 8O

Allen

Thanks for the info on the seat...i'm gonna try to grab one asap...

Again...great pics!!!

we may not have that at my local wal-mart?

I checked online on their website...it isn't there...

I'm still gonna go there today at dinner time...but i may ask one of you southern guys to grab one for me and ship it to me if you don't mind? :?

Let me know if that is an option?

Thanks?

i have checked both super wal-marts in my area and they don't have them . i figured in west virgina at least one would have it. so i went on line to no avail. after the 300 plus mile ride i did awhile back i'd love to git one or something similar.

by the way thanks for the pics and ride on.

Sweet ride!

Re: clickable thumbnails, cool by me! helps page load times for slow connections.

Lemme know if you ever make a run into Charleston SC, we'll have a beer!

Looks like a ride worth starting up the bike for--thumbs up!

I am still interested in that dual sport ride in Jan. Still happening?

Thanks for the comments everyone.

Parallax, if you can't find one up there PM me and I will get one for you.
Just for the record. My butt is still sore.
Allen