# Tail of the Dragon **URL:** \ **Category:** SON240sx Automotive\ **Created:** [February 13, 2009, 10:07pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tail-of-the-dragon/121824 "2009-02-13T22:07:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kollo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/kollo/32/5661_2.png) [@kollo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/kollo)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2009, 9:20am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tail-of-the-dragon/121824/21 "2009-02-14T09:20:37Z")
how long would it take to drive down there from gta?like possible summer cruise? ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bing/32/7211_2.png) [@bing](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2009, 9:27am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tail-of-the-dragon/121824/22 "2009-02-14T09:27:28Z")
your car will overheat and die before you get there. ---
**Author:** ![Polar\_s13](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/polar_s13/32/5572_2.png) [@Polar\_s13](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Polar_s13)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2009, 9:28am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tail-of-the-dragon/121824/23 "2009-02-14T09:28:59Z")
sick road…wish i could go there ---
**Author:** ![JDM-KID](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jdm-kid/32/5640_2.png) [@JDM-KID](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JDM-KID)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2009, 9:33am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tail-of-the-dragon/121824/24 "2009-02-14T09:33:35Z")
Nice vid, is there any roads like that in Ontario or Quebec? ---
**Author:** ![Theo23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Theo23](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Theo23)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2009, 9:36am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tail-of-the-dragon/121824/25 "2009-02-14T09:36:05Z")
Yeah, the tires were complete ass… and I had my VLSD still… I didn’t want that to be the Tomei’s maiden voyage haha. But the video doesn’t give a very good indication of speed… I was at the brink of concentration for the latter parts of it. It is about 12 hours to get there from here. Oh, and about the limit and corner signs… There are only one type of corner and only one safe speed… tight, and slow! The only thing that changes is if it’s a right or left and 30mph is the limit. In '07 the cops were patroling US 129 very heavily, to the point where the local tourism all but died. The locals complained about that, so for '08 the cops really backed off. The reason there were so many cops when I was there was because of the accident that you can see at the beginning where a bike went over the edge. So all of the cops were busy. That first cop that drove by me was shaking his finger at me haha… I’m pretty sure he heard my bov ---
**Author:** ![Theo23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Theo23](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Theo23)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2009, 9:46am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tail-of-the-dragon/121824/26 "2009-02-14T09:46:53Z")
> [@Pushrods and OHV = teh suck!](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pushrods-and-ohv-teh-suck/20221/25): > > Nice vid, is there any roads like that in Ontario or Quebec? No. People will say that there are roads like that near their house or up north, but there is nothing that even comes close to that in north america… 318 turns in 11 miles equates to 29 turns per mile! ---
**Author:** ![Gatecrasher3](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/gatecrasher3/32/5617_2.png) [@Gatecrasher3](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Gatecrasher3)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2009, 10:02am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tail-of-the-dragon/121824/27 "2009-02-14T10:02:24Z")
Nice man, looks like a fun road trip. Isn’t there a corner where people place broken off car/bike parts after they are ‘defeated by the dragon’? ---
**Author:** ![spd-dmn](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/spd-dmn/32/5513_2.png) [@spd-dmn](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/spd-dmn)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2009, 10:08am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tail-of-the-dragon/121824/28 "2009-02-14T10:08:30Z")
it’s the Tree of Shame or somethin like that there’s mostly motorcycle parts hanging off it killer vid, theo glad you found a way to get it online ---
**Author:** ![spd-dmn](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/spd-dmn/32/5513_2.png) [@spd-dmn](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/spd-dmn)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2009, 10:17am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tail-of-the-dragon/121824/29 "2009-02-14T10:17:30Z")
oh and if that county or town or whatever was smart… they’d close it down a few days a year and make an organized time trial run a la european hill climb ---
**Author:** ![Theo23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Theo23](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Theo23)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2009, 11:47am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tail-of-the-dragon/121824/30 "2009-02-14T11:47:51Z")
> [@Guitar Hero II....Part 2. FRIDAY NIGHT!](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/guitar-hero-ii-part-2-friday-night/20284/17): > > Nice man, looks like a fun road trip. > > Isn’t there a corner where people place broken off car/bike parts after they are ‘defeated by the dragon’? Thanks man, yeah it was pretty fun, we also continued on all the way to the south coast, through Mobil Alabama to Dauphin Island where we had a few pops at our fire and camped the night. The night before and a couple nights after we chilled at my buddy Mark’s place (S2K guy) in TN. ![http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v641/Theo23/My%20S14/PICT0003-2.jpg](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/uploads/speedlife/original/3X/0/9/0913f47512e928aae3adcb75998ea41bacb80fef.jpeg) Can you tell Mark is a graphic design artist… ![http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v641/Theo23/My%20S14/PICT0001.jpg](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/uploads/speedlife/original/3X/3/6/367b12d9204e5942650b72953c0b201cdc27540b.jpeg) ![http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v641/Theo23/My%20S14/PICT0034.jpg](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/uploads/speedlife/original/3X/f/c/fca6f0a8d2944b025d3e888d8bdbeb6415abb023.jpeg) ![http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v641/Theo23/My%20S14/PICT0022.jpg](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/uploads/speedlife/original/3X/5/0/50cbe003ebbfc6cfee38b710f52f3b8a2cdab48b.jpeg) Some of Katrina’s damage is still there. This used to be a nice beach. You could also see some of the newly built oil rigs out in the ocean. ![http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v641/Theo23/My%20S14/PICT0024.jpg](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/uploads/speedlife/original/3X/d/b/db12857d1b9a8664081d52c51f986877b4e4b420.jpeg) On our road trips, we always map out the route excluding as many interstate highways as possible ![http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v641/Theo23/My%20S14/PICT0027.jpg](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/uploads/speedlife/original/3X/c/c/ccf073f615005eaa85efd77ed5104b486d2e0efc.jpeg) And here’s the “Tree of Shame” It’s a pretty neat little spot and the whole culture built around it. While we were up the road a bit grabbing some food, we saw and heard all kinds of un-plated blacked out bikes. One guy drove by in a busa and all you could smell was race gas! I’m sure there are a lot of photo’s Killboy does not post on his website. ---
**Author:** ![Theo23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Theo23](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Theo23)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2009, 12:01pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tail-of-the-dragon/121824/31 "2009-02-14T12:01:41Z")
> [@FS:: b16a2 head ,skunk 2 knock off I.M., exh. manifold, etc](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fs-b16a2-head-skunk-2-knock-off-i-m-exh-manifold-etc/20298/5): > > oh and if that county or town or whatever was smart… > > they’d close it down a few days a year and make an organized time trial run > > a la european hill climb Yeah, that would be nuts! It’s too bad though, that there is not a real good spot to reroute traffic to… for a lot of people, it’s the only way in or out, as we found in our attempts to get back to the highway. I video’d the night run back down aswell but the camera was having focusing issues and it’s not worth uploading… plus I was at the back of the pack ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Martino](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/martino/32/5674_2.png) [@Martino](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Martino)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2009, 12:15pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tail-of-the-dragon/121824/32 "2009-02-14T12:15:34Z")
Lol, nice slide around all those stopped people, Theo. Great video. Defiantly encourages me for a drive like that. Something I’d like to put on my “List of things before I die”. ---
**Author:** ![Fobwall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7ea924/32.png) [@Fobwall](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fobwall)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2009, 2:33pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tail-of-the-dragon/121824/33 "2009-02-14T14:33:34Z")
DAMN! I gotta watch that vid later! ---
**Author:** ![lewtz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@lewtz](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/lewtz)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2009, 3:16pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tail-of-the-dragon/121824/34 "2009-02-14T15:16:25Z")
nice vid theo! always wanted to see an s-chassis take on the tail of the dragon ---
**Author:** ![S14Zenki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@S14Zenki](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/S14Zenki)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2009, 4:06pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tail-of-the-dragon/121824/35 "2009-02-14T16:06:31Z")
_But the video doesn’t give a very good indication of speed… I was at the brink of concentration for the latter parts of it._ Yeah, that’s what I thought. Onboard videos don’t show speed well at all, so by knowing that you can tell you’re going pretty fast in that video, and you can hear it too. Beautiful sounding KA-T btw. And why did you park it and check your engine bay halfway through? ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Motorhead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecccb3/32.png) [@Darth\_Motorhead](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Darth_Motorhead)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2009, 4:17pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tail-of-the-dragon/121824/36 "2009-02-14T16:17:17Z")
awesome vid - I like that 3rd pic after the roadmap - just a little more and the front drivers tire might be up off the ground ---
**Author:** ![Lucidsnow](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/lucidsnow/32/5538_2.png) [@Lucidsnow](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Lucidsnow)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2009, 4:18pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tail-of-the-dragon/121824/37 "2009-02-14T16:18:25Z")
OMGGG THEO UR SOOOO COOLLLLLL !!! stage one! to be continued dot dot dot. RAWRRRR ---
**Author:** ![Gatecrasher3](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/gatecrasher3/32/5617_2.png) [@Gatecrasher3](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Gatecrasher3)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2009, 4:32pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tail-of-the-dragon/121824/38 "2009-02-14T16:32:14Z")
what make is your BOV? ---
**Author:** ![JDM-KID](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jdm-kid/32/5640_2.png) [@JDM-KID](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JDM-KID)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2009, 5:23pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tail-of-the-dragon/121824/39 "2009-02-14T17:23:01Z")
^ x2 please:drool: ---
**Author:** ![Theo23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Theo23](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Theo23)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2009, 8:33pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tail-of-the-dragon/121824/40 "2009-02-14T20:33:31Z")
Hahah Season!! Thats how I know you watched the whole thing! I was wondering when that would come out! Just you wait for stage TWO!!! Martino, that was where the [killboy.com](http://killboy.com) guy took the pics of us. There was a guy from that corner that met me at the bottom on an R1, he came up to me and said he was impressed at seeing a car rip it up like that. I thought he was going to give me shit about crossing into the other lane (which is one of the biggest cause of accidents). S14Zenki, I had some time before my buddies cought up, so I decided to have a quick look to make sure everything was still bolted on and not burning up… I was beating up on her pretty good 🙂 The bov is made by Greddy. [Previous page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tail-of-the-dragon/121824.md?page=1) [Next page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tail-of-the-dragon/121824.md?page=3)