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Offline P@Q

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The Snake?
« on: March 11, 2020, 09:47:39 am »
Has anyone ridden the road called the snake? A buddy and I found it a couple of years ago on a ride, I can’t seem to locate it now...any help would be greatly appreciated  it’s located near the blue ridge parkway.
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Re: The Snake?
« Reply #1 on: March 11, 2020, 09:58:35 am »
Was featured at last years STAR in Bristol US 421 at Shady Valley TN
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Re: The Snake?
« Reply #2 on: March 11, 2020, 02:27:30 pm »
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Re: The Snake?
« Reply #3 on: March 11, 2020, 05:32:32 pm »
Sssssssssssssssss!!!
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Re: The Snake?
« Reply #4 on: March 11, 2020, 09:27:03 pm »
US421...it's a fine ride!
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Re: The Snake?
« Reply #5 on: March 24, 2020, 02:42:24 pm »
Rode it before it had a name ;)   Like Deal's Gap it can be over run on the weekends with hooligans and posers. I can remember 10 years ago or more at Tri-Star Galen Diehl was recommending against riding there if you had anything that might make your bike a target for LEOs because they were starting to spend a lot of time there righting citations to keep things in order.

We all need to remember, these are public roads with others on them, not a road closed off for our entertainment.
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Re: The Snake?
« Reply #6 on: March 25, 2020, 08:23:13 pm »
Gonna ride it tomorrow!


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Re: The Snake?
« Reply #7 on: March 27, 2020, 01:23:20 pm »
Quote from: Brick on March 25, 2020, 08:23:13 pm
Gonna ride it tomorrow!


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Re: The Snake?
« Reply #8 on: April 02, 2020, 09:56:36 pm »
Does anyone else find it mildly annoying that fun roads get nicknames? Once the "Dragon" moniker came into being, it wasn't long before every road that was anything at all had a nickname. We've got the Devil's Triangle, the Snake, the Dragon (Dragon, Dragon's Tail, and other iterations), Back of the Dragon, and so forth. I've been living and riding in this area longer than most. My earliest memory of US129 was a friend talking about US129 as being a super curvy road at the Tennessee/North Carolina state line...no nickname whatsoever. Maybe I gave it my own by just referring to it as Deal's Gap.
I suppose one of these days someone is going to call the Cherohala Skyway as something else. I have news for that person...Cherohala Skyway IS the name/nickname given the road by the States of Tennessee and North Carolina (it's a portmanteau based on Cherokee and Nantahala National Forests).


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Re: The Snake?
« Reply #9 on: April 02, 2020, 10:22:53 pm »
Yea as soon as a road is named it gets overrun by too many riders/drivers. Kind of ruins it for me.


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Re: The Snake?
« Reply #10 on: April 03, 2020, 04:48:35 pm »
Our NE Ohio group was riding at one of the rallies in the south east, we had just finished a run on some really fun road. At the next stop one of our group says to me, "that road needs a nickname". I thought NOO that will ruin it.

I haven't been riding in that area as long as some of you, but I do recall enjoying the Snake (US421) before it had that name. It was part of one of my favorite short loops from the TriSTAR event site, US58 from Volney into Damascus, then the road to Shady Valley thru Backbone Rock, then 421. Then 91 back to Damascus and back 58.

Dang I'd love to be at the Allegheny Inn now for a few days and riding that area :( 
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Re: The Snake?
« Reply #11 on: April 03, 2020, 05:30:49 pm »
Quote from: stevegrab on April 03, 2020, 04:48:35 pm
Our NE Ohio group was riding at one of the rallies in the south east, we had just finished a run on some really fun road. At the next stop one of our group says to me, "that road needs a nickname". I thought NOO that will ruin it.

I haven't been riding in that area as long as some of you, but I do recall enjoying the Snake (US421) before it had that name. It was part of one of my favorite short loops from the TriSTAR event site, US58 from Volney into Damascus, then the road to Shady Valley thru Backbone Rock, then 421. Then 91 back to Damascus and back 58.

Dang I'd love to be at the Allegheny Inn now for a few days and riding that area :(
Steve I agree completely!


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Re: The Snake?
« Reply #12 on: April 03, 2020, 07:38:14 pm »
They won't  come up with a nickname for one of my favorite roads 8n the area because they can't compete with the real name. WAR WOMAN ROAD!
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Re: The Snake?
« Reply #13 on: April 03, 2020, 08:28:04 pm »
Quote from: NinjaBob on April 03, 2020, 07:38:14 pm
They won't  come up with a nickname for one of my favorite roads 8n the area because they can't compete with the real name. WAR WOMAN ROAD!



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Re: The Snake?
« Reply #14 on: April 04, 2020, 07:45:32 am »
16 has the nickname “back of the dragon” and 58 is known as “the crooked road”.  But I’ve never found either of them to be overrun with other riders, and they haven’t yet become destination rides.  And that’s a GOOD thing.
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