I will personally execute anyone who bails because of anything less then a Cat 5 hurricane.

11/9/2006 10:55:34 AM

well get your ass online and chainsaw me in half

11/9/2006 2:47:05 PM

No 360 at work.

[Edited on November 9, 2006 at 2:50 PM. Reason : and this is a driving thread, not video game thread ]

11/9/2006 2:50:12 PM

same thing.

BTW...i know your cheap and all but do you have Xbox LIVE????

11/9/2006 2:53:59 PM

Yea I have it. We can't play online yet because Quinn and I haven't beaten the Single player.

Gamertag is DemiDahGreat or something retardedly gay like that,.

11/9/2006 2:55:21 PM

lol what kind of lame shit is that? multiplayer has no story line so it won't be like you are spoiling anything

11/9/2006 2:59:51 PM

Yea but I didn't buy GoW for multiplayer per se. I'll prolly get around to it eventually but we're really digging the co op single player atm.

11/9/2006 3:17:30 PM

I looked at some of the killboy pictures today; don't be the guys who drive like jerks b/c I'm gonna be out there on my bike. Ironhorse in Stecoah is 30 mins from the Gap and it has cabins and tent cabins.. http://www.ironhorsenc.com.. close and cheaper than a hotel.

11/9/2006 3:35:26 PM

We'll be careful =)

11/9/2006 4:03:09 PM

yeah derk and I are really digging co-op via xbox LIVE...but the multiplayer is badasssss

11/9/2006 4:19:28 PM

we cant afford xbox live until we start our careers at ebgames and best buy respectivly

11/9/2006 5:16:52 PM

who is comin?

holla

11/9/2006 5:21:04 PM

Alright here's the List as it stands now:

Baonest
Donkeybutt
Golovko
H8R
SandSanta
Jek
tjoshea

...and whoever else wants to come .

The evo group assembling at fontana is 7 cars strong I think.

11/9/2006 5:25:59 PM

anyone find a good route? or a meeting spot (still near NCSU??)

i know H8R has some GPS thingy on his laptop, and im hopefully getting mine in the mail soon.

but im sure you dorks have something built in your phones.

DORKS

11/9/2006 5:27:33 PM

Mark and I have GPS indash (we are nerds) so navigation won't be an issue.

I was down with meeting at waffle house since we can grab some grub and head out.

11/9/2006 5:29:26 PM

Quote :

"we cant afford xbox live until we start our careers at ebgames and best buy respectivly"

we all know your gf doesn't pay you enough for Xbox LIVE and sony ericsson is going through budget cuts

11/9/2006 6:17:22 PM

Went a couple of weeks ago. You guys shouldnt see any leaves.

Its better with rain. In the dark.

11/9/2006 6:47:36 PM

Quote :

"GPS indash "

Does it give you rally style navigation? "10 RIGHT OPENS INTO 2 LEFT"...lol

Hanya, just stay alert, like you always should when you ride a bike. You'll be fine. There won't be many asshats out there. Hell, if you're really worried, the best strategy is to find a car that runs at about your pace and follow them. They'll make sure nobodies in your lane.

I doubt any of this group would lane cross...most of 'em probably saw the pics of BBR and know what a car can do to a rider.

11/10/2006 7:43:34 AM

Yea it talks to me all sexy

"Right turn, 300ft."

Ok no it doesnt do rally

11/10/2006 10:12:42 AM

Alright d00ds.

5 AM tomorrow at waffle house off of Hillsborough st (fairgrounds side).

919 961 0345 - cell

11/10/2006 7:25:46 PM

alright well i guess im coming. ive met most of you i think but i'll be driving the pos bimmer
271-5853

oh and i can NOT get another speeding ticket so i hope you all dont planning on hauling ass

[Edited on November 10, 2006 at 7:43 PM. Reason : .]

11/10/2006 7:43:00 PM

ill be thurrr..picking up donkeybutt around 4:45-4:50

11/10/2006 9:17:06 PM

Yea Jon, just come by and roll up to wherever our cars are. It should be chill. Give me a call if you're going to be late.

I definitely can't get a speeding ticket because the one I have now (court date friday) can effectively suspend my license for a month. Besides, its not worth risking lives and equipment to do boneheaded stuff.

It will be a fun cruise though.

Karoush and the other d00ds, see you all there.

11/10/2006 11:00:34 PM

Quote :

"alright well i guess im coming. ive met most of you i think but i'll be driving the pos bimmer 271-5853"

if its the same red bmw...that thing is pimp. +1

11/10/2006 11:07:50 PM

red EVO MR... -3827

11/10/2006 11:11:52 PM

your moms a red evo MR

--ahmet

11/10/2006 11:15:12 PM

so i just woke up

11/11/2006 6:05:10 AM

we are at exit 189 gettin some breakfast

Engins ass didnt get up!

Ketchup!

11/11/2006 7:20:02 AM

well shit, i waited around for about 30 minutes to see if i would get a call back and then just went back to sleep

i just ran an errand and my alternator was making some horrible sounds, so it might have ended up for the best that i didnt make it.

11/11/2006 2:07:51 PM

920 miles
ill be sleeping well tonight

11/12/2006 3:17:37 AM

what a freakin trip.. 22-23 hours of driving..

the dragon was good stuff

11/12/2006 3:43:24 AM

another 45minutes and I would have been awake for 24 hours lol...dragon was definitly worth it though....WILL BUY AGAIN!!!! A+++++ SELLER

11/12/2006 3:45:06 AM

i was sooo damn happy once i got home.. mmmmm sleeeep

rain sucks

11/12/2006 3:50:26 AM

Yea Jon you should have just gone to the meeting point. I some how actually didn't wake up through alarm + fifty phone calls and had to meet the boys in Winston Salem. Hell of a time though. Definitely ran out of adrenaline.

Also, GG mark on the save from getting a ticket/arrested.

11/12/2006 4:07:51 AM

^ Wait, Mark almost got one?

It was fun meeting all you guys in person. Be sure to let me know if you come up this way again, it was great hanging out with some cars that are actually well driven as opposed to the usual ricer numskulls I see around here!

Oh, and post some of the pics of us freezing our asses off

[Edited on November 12, 2006 at 9:25 AM. Reason : Sp.]

11/12/2006 9:25:07 AM

i would have just headed to the meeting point if i had more phone numbers. oh well, im gonna go visit my sister in ashville soon so i will just add a day to the trip to drive out there.

11/12/2006 9:42:03 AM

So it was raining up there? I drove the Dragon back in April and the first day we went there it was misting. Pavement was slick... it was a pretty tricky way to learn the course, but it made me cautious. Then the next day it was sunny and dry and it seemed so much easier and more fun.

11/12/2006 10:35:02 AM

we drove as if it was dry out there... twas very fun.

mark didnt get one,

golovko, h8r, and i were traveling together, doing maybe 80 in 70...

sandsanta and tjoshea headed out before us and i think there was some eclipse that was trying to mess with them... forgot what happen,

but all of a sudden we saw a trooper just cut the median and speed off past us, golovko called up sandsanta and told him to get off the road for a bit, so he did and the trooper pulled the eclipse over that was trying to race sandsanta.

close calls..

11/12/2006 11:45:01 AM

sounds like you guys had fun

11/12/2006 11:56:23 AM

so this is the life of the fast and furious i keep hearing about...

11/12/2006 11:56:43 AM

haha, that eclipse was a bit fast and furious looking.

it was the bubble looking generation, blue with some kinda paint BS and altezza lights...

perfect for racing EVOs

11/12/2006 11:57:45 AM

Parts of the run were the whitest knuckled driving I had ever done. Going one way of the Skyway all I could see was Tjoshea's tail lights and maybe on occasion Golovko's due to the thick fog. Going the opposite way, I was the lead car and everyone else had gotten stuck behind some grand am, I couldn't see anything around me: headlights, trees, road, anything. Just white fog.

It cleared up and stopped raining so once we hit dry pavement we opened it up and it was amazing going down the mountain at those speeds.

The Dragon itself is a very unusual road: you go from elevation change hard left to an elevation change hard right for about 6 miles of road. Luckily, at night nobody else was on the road so we ended up driving pretty spirited and even setup proper turn in and turn out. Killboy himself (according to Jek) actually caught up to us and drove by in his silver evo with two honks when we had finished the run.

It would have been much better if it had not been raining but the crap weather was excellent practice for wet weather technique.

We even got props from one of the local knuckleheads who was trying to keep pace in a ford ranger.

The drive back, on the other hand, was a complete fucking failure for me. Aside from getting a ticket, by the time I had gotten to 40 E Raleigh - Durham split (separated from the others due to the patrol car) the road was basically a lake and I definitely didn't feel comfortable going faster then 55. Anytime I picked up speed I'd hit a pond and the steering would get limp. Going from Gboro all the way to raleigh at 55 mph takes forever.

11/12/2006 12:07:06 PM

lol
i watched the eclipse get pulled in my rear view mirror
was wondering how SandSanta made it through that trap

11/12/2006 12:07:39 PM

The Eclipse Incident:

I'm just going home at about 80mph (speed limit 70 - before gboro) and this fucktard in an eclipse gets next to me, downshifts, and floors it. The road, mind you, is completely covered in water and the wake his piece of shit car creates drops visibility down to 0. He keeps getting next to me, and flooring and all I'm doing is accelerating in 6th and either going ahead of his shitty car or having him barrel by me going 120 in rain. I decide against trying to outrun him since obviously he has no fear of going 120mph+ in a car looking like Paul Walker's eclipse in FNF (after it got shot up) and I ease down to 60mph.

That fucktard took it as a sign that I wanted to drop the hammer and race so he gets up next to me and does his rice antics of pulling ahead, then slowing down. I flash him with my high beams once when he's a head because at this point I'm getting thoroughly pissed. Every puddle I go through reminds me of Ahmet's Earnhardt maneuver on 40 but the dickwad interprets my high beams as the Ricer bat signal and gets even more excited.

Right at that point, I my cell phone rings and I pick it up.

"uhh dude."

"Yo mark whats up"

"yea, get off the highway right now because this unmarked cop car just slammed on his brakes, did a U turn and plowed past us"

Right then I saw the exit for the rest area so I pulled off, parked, and headed into the bathroom to take a massive shit that I suddenly felt the need to take.

Couple miles down the road, the eclipse gets pulled over.

I wait a few more minutes, and calmly pull out of the rest area, nerves completely shot, barely going 60 mph. As I approach the eclipse and the cop, the cop turns his lights off, floors his car in reverse, and then floors it in gear and gets right next to me.

At this point, if anyone had seen my face, they probably would have seen me completely white. I mean the cruiser was literally right on my right passenger door. We stay like this for what seemed like the longest 5 seconds of my entire life and he then just eases ahead of me and pulls off a couple exits down the road.

I got so scared after that incident that combined with my hydroplaning on the lakes on 40, I didn't go faster then 60 the rest of the way home.

Let me reiterate. 60 all the way to Raleigh from Gboro takes like five million hours.

11/12/2006 12:21:36 PM

hahaha thats a pretty good story

11/12/2006 12:27:19 PM

Ahahahah, awesome. Glad the riceboy got taken and you made it, Sandsanta

I, on the other hand, got to sit totally still for 45 minutes on the way home for no apparent reason right after I-81 split off from I-40. It sucked, I almost chased you guys to Asheville to join ya for dinner, lol.

Lots of good stories from this trip...#1 thing is: FOG SUCKS! Especially when Rednecks get pissed at your HID's and start swerving all over the road and yelling at you, lol.

11/12/2006 12:42:59 PM

http://www4.ncsu.edu/~tjoshea/dragon/
some [crappy quality] pics

[Edited on November 12, 2006 at 12:51 PM. Reason : link parser sucks]

11/12/2006 12:50:07 PM

it was like driving a gokart on a roller coaster track

11/12/2006 1:55:08 PM

lol, glad that eclipse ricer got what he deserved.

11/12/2006 2:00:56 PM

i'll download the few pics i took and add them to my gallery.

11/12/2006 3:39:41 PM