Day @ the Dragon (US129)
 

My friend and I went up to the "tail of the dragon" on Saturday and here is a teaser video and some pictures that I snapped of our road trip. It was an awesome day and I could not believe how fast we were ripping on some of the back roads on the way there. I had a blast. Here are the pics and video.

Video Link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyE36BZP6d8

Pictures:
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e2...7/DSCN1808.jpg
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e2...7/DSCN1792.jpg
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http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e2...7/DSCN1786.jpg
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e2...7/DSCN1813.jpg
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e2...7/DSCN1793.jpg
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e2...7/DSCN1795.jpg
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e2...7/DSCN1796.jpg
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e2...7/DSCN1801.jpg
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Great photography. Great looking car too. I didn't get to see the video yet, but I'll watch it tomorrow.

NICE pics, great idea for a location for the video and how to set it up.

You really need to stay on your own side of that yellow line though.

I wasn't driving. lol. But I guess your right even tho it was a chicane where you could see. thanks for the compliments!

As always excellent work, i am at work and youtube is loading so slow i so i will watch it tonight.

damn!!!! i wanted to go so bad!! i was thinking about it the whole time i was at work!

Awesome shots. I love your videos on youtube. You have a great taste in music too! Please post more!

Great Pics.
+1 for the RHD.

Music way too fast for a car driving way too slow.

That's funny. :)

youtube is being a bitch so i'm not sure if its in the video, but did you have any trouble via police?

:rofl: hahaha...

The car looks great. I'd like to see more driving though. I don't see the point of cutting the double yellow unless you're actually timing yourself especially on a road thats almost just a tourist attraction. Looks like the driver was scared to make sharp turns :p:

the driver could seriously out run most of the people making the cute comments as well. shitty video of a fun day out on the mountain sums it all up in a nutshell right?

but i will try to get some better footage next time of him driving on the roads closer to home. thats where he shines. also, thats my choice in music. just some funny ass music that i got off the comp. i have a hard time finding music that fits. oh well.

Nice Vid.. The music was a bit crazy..lol

it always looks slower in video, when in reality he is moving right along. you guys need to hit up the dragon as its not "just a tourist attraction" its a freaking track that you dont have to pay for. and he is cutting across the yellow so he can maintain speed through the corners. that means less heat on the brakes, engine, and tires. so dont say he is going too slow until you are a mountain expert. we have them in our back yard (literaly)...

Or that he was below 4.5k 95% of the time according to the video.

Very nice

keep it up rotarybeat1287. really enjoying these videos and pictures you share with us. :)

take into account its youtube man. im not going to pay for ultra high quality space to host my vids. i think there is a website called veo that i will try to let you get the picture.

the exhaust thats on the car is somewhat stock except a downpipe, cats, and RE-Amemiya dolphin tail exhaust. It's pretty quiet to be honest.

thanks for the compliments tho to those who gave them!:D

I havent watched the video but my guess is he is saying 4.5k as in RPM`s not cmputer speeds...

oh shit really? .............................................yeah we know

Ahh, I wanna take a sports car out there one day. I've ridden on it but didn't get to do anything special... I was 14 and my dad was driving his truck. :(

Just got the chance to partake in the video and damn that music is crazy. i enjoyed it throughly!

ARE YOU A FUCKING IDIOT???? IT IS A PUBLIC ROAD. And moreover there have been a lot of police presence there lately. Cutting across the yellow line is asking for a fucking head on collision with a motorcycle because there are literally hundreds a day on there. Keep pulling that line crossing shit, ESPECIALLY ON THAT ROAD, and you'll end up hitting someone. If you don't have the brakes or the engine or the tires to be on that road then you shouldn't cross yellow to make up for it. Some of that footage is no more than about 10 mins from my house so I'll ask you to be careful how you drive seeing as how my family drives those roads. I'm not saying I don't cross lines, because I do. But not during the day, and definitely not at the dragon.

LOL, don't take it offensively. The footage is money, I've always wanted to take footage from outside too, I just usually do my driving at night. You must be retarded if you think hes maxing out the brakes/tires/suspension of that car on every turn in that vid or even going WOT on the straightaways...and don't bother to challenege me unless you want to drive all the way down here with your buttbuddy :) Quit watching initial D and learn how to drive bro, you and your friend are a bunch of pussies who need to cut the double yellow in order to make up for your lack of driving skill...and thats all. But once again, great vid! lol

+10000, you don't own the damn road. Even when not cutting the double yellow I still make sure to not come near it under hard cornering in case theres a bigass truck coming out of a turn, and this is later than 12am. If you didn't wanna piss off the locals and actually keep driving on the road you wouldn't cut the double yellow, but it looks like you and your friend are some initial D fanbois who went there just to get this vid and enjoy the comments. I assure you would shit your pants or attempt to jump out the window if you went for a ride with me.

bumper camera would be fucking sick on that road.
rhd in south carolina, I always thought of the south as a different country...

hmm, very unclear as to what you are trying to get across. yeah its a built ass car from RE-Amemiya. There is no need to max it out on a very popular and dangerous road. That would be suicide. But how do you think you know me and my driving? I just said it was a cruise man. That's all we were doing, just having fun.

Are you guys that fucking stupid to not know what a chicane is. It's not a blind fucking turn. You can clearly see way up in front of you to know there aren't any cars coming. But Hey... those invisible cars, trucks, and bikes are a bitch and they sneak up outta no where. lol.

but the whole judging thing man... that must be a VA thing. you don't know my friend nor me. so why talk shit on how we drive? I am not the best and I don't try to be. I just have fun doing it in my slow NA S5. But to call someone out who has a plethora of cars you would jack off to and act like you know shit says a lot about you.

BTW...

funny how you think of it as a cocky challenge... (Initial-D fan I presume) and VA is north of me. lol. dumbass i would have to drive up not "down there"

I just post shit of my weekend and I feel like its a godamn merge of forums from some honda site or something. lol. fuck

Ive not seen the vid yet, but I will add that you should never cross that double yellow...even in a chicane. Bikes can and WILL come flying around that corner on the oncoming side faster than you can get to the first part of said turn, and be all over the hood in a matter of moments. I would hate to see a nice FD, or FC get hit up there. Though I would like to state that you can still maintain speed, and not put stress on engine/brakes in a chicane, such as the ones on the dragon, by staying in your lane....crossing the line just makes ya seem a tad lazy to put the powersteering to good use.

this is getting good now we just need to arange a place and get a fight going :) I am notgoing to support eather side althou rotarybeat1287 is a good friend of myne. But you people need to chill out a little bit everyone is doing that shit maybe not to that extent but they do I owuld say you all got pissy becouse someone got hurt or something but nothing happened they went out there had some fun shot some vids and came back all in one peace now how about lets just enjoy the pics and video futage and put this BS behind.

Nice vid man, and good photography work. Keep it up. Hopefully I will get to take my car out to Deals Gap in the near future.

thanks! if everyone could just keep their shit to themselves... id be fine. but its ridiculous @ times. i don't mind the "stay on your side" but theres a right way to get it across like FirstRotaryExp did.

But yeah, all is well. and i will keep in mind next time we go film that KhanArtisT is a douchebag and that I succeed in mountain dominance of the gunma prefecture. i mean.... i didn't deliver bagels to the top of sicamore hill everyday for 5 weeks to master my techniques for nothing. give me some cr3dit

Don't post your vids and pics on a public forum if you wan't people to keep shit to themselves. Sure you guys had a good time blah blah no one got hurt blah blah, just remember it only takes one "accident" of someone else coming around the corner, and you'll be saying "damn I totally looked and there wasn't anyone there, he just came out of nowhere". Or maybe you'll get lucky and end up with some pissed off biker punching your teeth out to get the point across. Hopefully its the latter.

allen, it looks like we need to just stick to our roads and you need to stick to pics, atleast on the forum! lol although, the shit people argue about gets better in every thread, myself included.

My point is I pointed out that your friend was driving slow, in your reply you judged my ability to drive and said your friend could outrun me. If it was a "cruise" then why were you surprised at how "fast" you were going down those roads? :lol: I'll say it again, there is absolutely no need to cut the double yellow ever, now going slow AND cutting the double yellow is retarded. Looks like your friend was scared of curves and was waiting for straightaways, not like he even pushed the car while doing so... And no, I don't see how pushing an RX7 close to its limits on a road like that could ever be near "suicide" assuming its tuned for the type of road and there are no road hazards. LOL, I have a slow S5 :( I'd love for you to borrow your friend's car so I can show you how big a difference a driver can make. If thats how you have fun then keep it up, my advice? Go to a local auto x and ride along with an experienced driver and get an idea of what "fast" really feels like...

oh and sorry for the mistake lol, I'm not from this country and I could really care less :(

nah bro... you have an S5 and I do... fuck borrowing cars. If you want to come drive, do it. I don't give a shit.

Are you guys going to be hitting up any of the local roads this weekend? I am driving down to Clemson tomorrow and will be staying at Deals Gap Friday and Saturday night.

clemson... then staying @ deal's gap? im like 20 mins from clemson. and yeah man, come drive some local runs w/ us if you want. we have like 20 roads that would be impossible to show you all. lol.

Hwy 151 is very nice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy_Cuuci9ss

you do know that deals gap is like 4 hours from clemson right? hell yea come drive with us this weekend. pm me or rotarybeat for phone numbers.

aaaaaaaaaand wheels on the bus go round and round :) this is getting to be preaty funny bunch of pansies having a internet fight.

What does PREATY mean, is that how they say it in SC? :)

Preach on brother!

RHD FTW! Nice Vid and the music was great!

hes not from SC :)


funny thread.. i normally would agree to the no crossing line rule, but if you could trust anyone crossing the line on roads like these, it would be these guys.. they werent endangering anybody

yea i know how far is it. i went from Clemson to there for DGRR. anyway I drove down from nj in my 350z today and will be heading to the gap mid afternoon.

i was checkin out killboy.com. you guys made the highlights!
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haha yeah... thats pretty funny. thats exactly what i wanted to do... make them say "wtf? oh". haha. but yeah, I go to school in Clemson everyday. thanks for the heads up on that man.

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e2...enshotofus.jpg

^nice pic

for someone who is mostly self thouth I think I am doing preaty good when I came to US I knew no english what so ever show me an average mexican who can do that :)

Damn, that's one JDM tyte FD. SICK :icon_tup:

Nice pics!!! I didn't get to see the vid because my sound isn't working. Only thing I don't like about that FD is the spoiler. I personally prefer the stock US spoiler over the JDM spoiler.