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Here's a Deal's Gap foto from 91. Derek is in the middle:
Very Cool! Here's a quick auto-correct to help with the pics! :c)Folks, this is a picture of six of us on our 1970 Honda 350's at the Dragon in 1971 before it was the Dragon. We saw NO other bikes on our entire loop from Cherokee, over to Gatlinburg, down to the Gap and back to Cherokee.
The first is the Deal's Gap store as it was then. That is Katie and me on the gold CB, Bill and Linda behind us on their CL and Johnny to the right beside his CL with Paula.
The second is again in front of the store. That is Paula in the front and me with my back to the camera. Notice the pillows for butt padding and my Easy Rider headband.
The third is where we camped along the Little Tennessee at the western approach to the Dragon.
Sorry for the quality of the photos but they are 35 years old snapshots. Paula also filmed (Betamax didn't come out until 1975) some of the action and she and Johnny had it transferred to DVD last year and we have been enjoying reviewing it.
I thought at first you were talking about the dragon 'rally' in Wales, Great Britain. I did the first in, I think, 1960 or 61 in the depths of winter, on a 197cc Francis Barnet, from Essex to North Wales. I slept in a tent with no ground sheet or sleeping bag, just laid down on the snow in my riding gear which was lots of layers and not much else! Food? I took the bacon out of the sandwiches that I'd taken with me, heated it up over a fire, put it back in the sandwiches and ate them, that was it till we stopped at transport cafes on the way back: which took 18 hrs in the snow. Those were the days!.... Swede.Folks, this is a picture of six of us on our 1970 Honda 350's at the Dragon in 1971 before it was the Dragon. We saw NO other bikes on our entire loop from Cherokee, over to Gatlinburg, down to the Gap and back to Cherokee.
The first is the Deal's Gap store as it was then. That is Katie and me on the gold CB, Bill and Linda behind us on their CL and Johnny to the right beside his CL with Paula.
The second is again in front of the store. That is Paula in the front and me with my back to the camera. Notice the pillows for butt padding and my Easy Rider headband.
The third is where we camped along the Little Tennessee at the western approach to the Dragon.
Sorry for the quality of the photos but they are 35 years old snapshots. Paula also filmed (Betamax didn't come out until 1975) some of the action and she and Johnny had it transferred to DVD last year and we have been enjoying reviewing it.