For the Striped SVT ::
Hey, Roger...I'm driving up from Greenville SC, looking forward to meeting you (I was in on your dead pedal GB.)

For the group, two things ::

1) Where are we meeting? Again, I'm throwing the question out. Remember, lots of folks will be first-timers up there.
Friends tell me there's a gas station where Hwy 28 meets US 129 (Cross Roads of Time), and it's a good meeting place, but I don't know nuthin' 'bout it.

2) RE: the chest thumping; a call for sanity.
We are going on a Saturday; by all accounts, the busiest day.
We will probably be up there in peak hours.
I (and others) have never seen the road.
This is for cruising, and - while not trying to seem harsh - anyone with any other approach is foolhardy.
Sorry, I'm too old for any s*** up there.
I rode motorbikes on road courses in my youth, I have a clue. This is not the time or place for heroics.
I am looking forward to meeting other CEG folks, and looking forward to a little crusing on a very twisty road.
Hope I share that approach with all comers.

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