I found this and thought I should post it. It’s probably one of the NuTzOest videos I have seen. It’s a tricked out import chasing a crotch rocket of an unknown type. I’m not real sure about what happened before the guy in the car started recording. If you listen, about half way through, the guy in the car turns on a police scanner. Which I’m almost positive is illegal in most states. Watch for yourself….

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Well, we did it. Five of us took the trip to Deals Gap, Three of us on motorcycles, and two in the Miata. We left at 4:30 am on Sept 1st and didn’t arrive there until 2:30 am Sept 2nd. The trip down was 22 hours and 830 miles, and should of only taken about 14 hours and 600 miles. We decided about 3/4 of the way into the trip that it would be better to get off of the interstate and go east on 421 in Tennessee and then backtrack when we hit I-81 in Kentucky and go back west to hit I-75 south. By the time we got to our motel after being on the road for 22 hours we were ready to kill each other. We went to bed and woke up at about 9 am. We woke up to the sound of motorcycles driving by and I was anxious to hit the gap. I walked out and into the morning light to see rain. This kind of bummed me out but we weren’t going to let rain spoil our day. We showered and ate breakfast and hit the gap. I checked my oil in my bike and found it to be a quart low. David was nice enough to take me to “Hell Benders” to buy a quart of Amsoil Synthetic. We then got back on the road to see the scenery. Even though we were all sick of our vehicles it didn’t really bother us to be back on/in them. We then headed to the beginning of the Dragons Tail we hung out there for a bit. Here we got to meet a few people as well as check out the tree of shame and watch riders take off from the straight-away doing wheelies before the first turn into the “Tail of the Dragon”. We then hit the gap and ended up going all the way through it and turned around. Coming back we met David and Craig and decided to hang out at a turn off on the side of the road. I had Craig take some video of Mike and I taking the corners (This can be seen in the video). We hung out here for a little while longer and decided that we wanted to hit the “Tail” some more. Upon trying to leave we discover that Mike has not clutch on his borrowed Honda V65. His clutch is hydraulic and we could not get the cover open to even see if any fluid is inside the reservoir, since one of the screws are stripped to the point of no return. During this discovery a generous off duty firefighter riding his Harley pulls over and gives us a hand. The off duty firefighters name is Mike (also in the video). We concluded that the fluid is probably the original fluid and that we may be able to bleed the line and get it back to running condition. We lifted and propped the tank while trying to trace the hydraulic line. We bleed the line and Pepsi comes out and something in the line ends up clogging the bleeder valve. After cleaning the bleeder valve and reinstalling it we end up with even less pressure in the clutch handle. So whatever pressure we had in the hydraulic line is now lost. While putting the bike back together someone yells “Your leaking gas!!”. And sure enough gas is spewing out of the main line which is connected to the reservoir tank. We end up fixing the line and in the process lose almost everything that was in the gas tank. Mike (Firefighter) ends up staying with us the whole way through until we fixed the line which ended up to be about 3 hours. It’s now dark and we finally put the bike back together and get it back on the road (Also in Video). The next day (Sunday) we end up finding a drill and pulling the stripped screw out and running clean fluid through the clutch line. The clutch starts to work and the Green Machine is back on the road again! The only problem now is there seems to be a valve rattle which was not there before. The bike makes it through the day with out a hitch and we ended up leaving Monday Morning (Sept 3rd) at 4:30am. Along the way through the “Dragons Tail” we encounter a rattle snake in the road curled up, and five or six wild boars grazing on the side of the road. The Green Machine ends up making it back to Elkhart at about 7:00pm Monday evening to conclude the 600 mile trip in 14 hours with the rest of us. We were all glad to be home.

Although the long ride down was well worth it to spend a few days at Deals Gap, next time we are trailering our bikes.

Here is the video Deals Gap Movie

I couldn’t get all of the recorded video into this file. I will be making another video Let me know what you guys think of the video. This is my first attempt at one.

I ordered the Xtreme Camera Mount last Tuesday late in the evening and received the mount (from Plano, TX) in the Friday Mail. I Installed it Friday night and took some pictures along the way. There really isn’t much to installing the mount except for the removal of three stock bolts and the installation of three bolts that come with the mount. The reason I went with this mount was because of the one piece construction of the main arm. This I felt was important because of durability and strength. The mount is quite pricey at $90 plus shipping of $9.95 but well worth it. Every other tank mount I came across was between $80 and $100. If you mention you are a SV1000 Portal Member and give Anthony Rizzo your user name he will give you a discount of $5. I do have some video that I took with the tank mount which you can see for yourself. The Suzuki Spectre Model I bought will fit these models:
GSXR1000 1996-2006
GSXR600 1996-2006
GSXR750 1996-2006
TL / TLR ALL
Hayabusa ALL
Bandits through 2002 Mount Extension Required
SV650 ALL
SV1000 ALL
V-Strom ALL Mount Extension Required
Katana 600 ALL

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Here is a video that I found by EmpireGP from Deals Gap! GREAT VIDEO!
Deals Gap By EmpireGP Google Video

Well, looks like David, Brian, Craig, and I are headed to Deals Gap soon. It’s a total of 610 miles from my house and will take us an estimated 13 hours to reach. The stretch of road that we are traveling so far for has a kick ass attribute of 318 turns in 11 miles. This is what makes this stretch of road so famous and is also why we are willing to ride our motorcycles over 600 miles to experience it. Anyway, before this trip I do not own any leathers. I figured that it might be wise of me to buy some as a form of health/medicalinsurance. Although leathers are extremely expensive, they are a lot cheaper than a medical bill if you go down on a motorcycle with out them. My first investment is a Alpinestars Dyno Leather Jacket. The cheapest place I found this online was SandHillsPowerSports.com. My next investment was a pair of Alpinestars Leather pants which zip onto the jacket. My choice was the Alpinestars Bat pants, I guess these are the same pants that Batman wears. Alpinestars also has a womens sytle of leather pants called “Cat Pants” for all you Cat Woman fans. Anyway the cheapest place I found these is SandHillsPowerSports.com Now since I have the pants and jacket, all I need is a pair of gloves which I also purchased from SandHillPowerSports.com I ordered black since they didn’t have my size in blue. The last and final thing I purchased was a Tank Mount for a Camcorder. After some research on the best one I found the Suzuki Spectre at XtremeCameraMounts.com I am SOOO excited for the trip down! Looks like we may have to camp one night out there. Which shouldn’t be a problem except we don’t have a whole lot of room for luggage considering we are taking a Miata, a ZX-6r, and my SV. We have a room for the last night there so we would only have to sleep in the wilderness the one night. I guess we will see what happens. I can’t wait…….

I got a call this evening from my good friend Gavin, when I answered the phone he said “I will call you right back!” with a sense of urgency. I replied with “Ok, I’m still at school doing homework” and hung up and put the phone in my pocket. I then continued to do my homework forgetting about the phone call and that my phone was on silent. The only way I knew he called the first time was because my phone lit up with his name on the caller ID as it lie on the desk in front of me. I stayed at school until about 10:45, at which time I walked out with Nikola and Jason B. I stowed my bookbag away and got on my motorcycle strapping my helmet to my head and sliding on my gloves. I started to head down the road when I remembered the phone call not 50 minutes prior. Not wanting to hassle with pulling over and having to go through the trouble with making a phone call, I continued down the road. But something was telling me that the phone call I got earlier was not a typical phone call and that something wasn’t right. I pulled into Martins parking lot and called Gavin back. He told me in a shaky voice “I’m at Goshen Hospital, It’s Brian”.
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