From: Arlo Bensinger (ajb102@psu.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 03 2005 - 17:38:58 GMT
Hi Mike,
>I am headed to the Dragon, Route 129 in TN/NC on June 18th, and having
>started rereading this book again, had an idea.
What a great ride! I, too, am planning a run to the Dragon in early-mid
June (from my home in Central Pennsylvania, to a friend in Oak Ridge,
Tennessee, and then onto NC and the Dragon. If I settle on the 18th (which
is doubtful, as I need to be back by around the 22nd to do technology
preparations for our Summer Institutes) maybe I'll see you on the road. (I
have a Harley FXDI, my friend rides a Honda VTX).
Here's a shameless plug for my (and my friend's) motorcycle blog:
http://language.la.psu.edu/~abensinger/inthescene/
(Note.. since I see you are a sport bike rider, you'll have to forgive some
anger-venting I've done about sport bikes in the past. I have since
repented, and know several riders who ride sports that I am glad to call
friends. In fact, if you tour on your bike, you may want to check out
Carolyn's Bluepoof Bikes Blog (http://bluepoof.blogs.com/), she riders a
SV650, and writes waaaaaaaaaay more than I do!)
Interested MOQers may want to check out the Tail of the Dragon website
(http://www.tailofthedragon.com/). Maybe it'll inspire some of them to get
on bikes themselves. I think Platt mentioned he lives in NC, maybe he'd
consider renting a Harley and hitting the Dragon?
>I have lent this book to several friends, and while it may attract negative
>comments from the list, I am more interested in it from the aspect of the
>"Philosophy of Motorcycling" than from the meaning of quality aspects.
This was the initial goal of our blog. In fact, we took the name "In the
Scene" from Robert Pirsig, when he says "On a cycle the frame is gone.
You're completely in contact with it all. You're in the scene, not just
watching it anymore, and the sense of presence is overwhelming."
Next summer (2006) we are planning to recreate Pirsig's route (as much as
possible) on our bikes, when my daughter will be old enough (13), I think,
to enjoy the trip.
>To my
>way of thinking it is actually 2 books interlaced together, and one can skip
>over the "Quality" portions or the Motorcycling portions and enjoy it
>immensely either way.
Yep, I'd agree.
Ride Good!
Arlo
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