LC200 Out of its element!

[winkwallace]

So, heading back from Georgia, Google Maps routed us down the Tail of the Dragon. The big girl wallowed thru the curves OK. Yes, I know I'm riding the center line too closely - like I said, she handled OK, not scary but not exactly confidence inspiring. There is some lesson here about using the right tool for the job...

Seth
'21 LC200

 

[BarnFab]

I have to ask, you stopped, dropped off your camera guy and then drove past them and went back and got them just to get pictures ?

 

[winkwallace]

The Tail of the Dragon has photographers perched along the route who take pictures of everything coming by. Then, you can go to their website and buy copies (in better resolution and without the watermarks on these).

Seth

 

[urinalcake]

Oh boy.... the cardinal sin of driving the Dragon illustrated in the 3rd pic...don't cross the double yellow line.

Otherwise, yes, quite a bit out of its element. Although, I would surmise your speed through the bends is on par if not a bit faster than many of the full dresser hogs. They can barely lean without scraping pegs or something. Were your tires howling in distress?

Meanwhile, I've driven it a handful of times.

Once in my R. Sunny one day, rainy the next.

GoPro screen capture.

 

[TeCKis300]

Traction control may have had something to say - beep beep!

I find my 35x12.5s ATs at 36PSI make considerably more grip than 41 PSI.

 

[grinchy]

If only the TLC was equipped with one of these like the LX.


I kid, mostly . . .

 

[Supra Turbo]

That's freaking sweet haha. My type of fun Sometimes I too forget that I'm in the Land Cruiser and not my spec-Miata

 

[Cruisin911]

Love the battle wagon. Tail of the Dragon is on my bucket list of roads to drive in the 911. Sadly, I'll be out there next month but in the cruiser. I dont think I'll be going in the LC....

 

[TCH2FLY]

Colorado has some fun roads and I'd rather be living and wheelin here but the Tail is an awesome stretch of road, the only thing I miss about living in GA is no more days like this…

 

[Tex68w]

I hit the Dragon on a bike back in 2009, things were a little more “open” in regards to speeds and lawmen back then. My two wheel speed demon days are long gone but the memories are forever.

 

[LCH21]

I've enjoyed the TOTD several times over the years. My VW GTI and Macan are perfect on it. The Macan is nothing but grins on a road like that. Powerful enough but not too powerful. I have found on some roads however, it is too much car. That's where the GTI really shines. Good memories from my younger days. The constabulary has become rather thick on the TOTD recently due to too many people going off the road and getting themselves killed. The last time I was on it was six years ago, I saw a couple of accidents and strangely, found myself for the first time, getting bored and irritated with negotiating one turn after another after another and so on. It just got old. I found myself wanting to slow way down and enjoy the beautiful scenery instead. I've driven too many roads in a rather spirited manner just to get to the other end and not be able to remember a thing about the scenery along the way. All that is in my mind is asphalt or for off roading, the big rocks I was trying to drive over. My wife will ask me: "Do you remember this or that?". I will answer no, and ask where it was. She will tell me: "Well, you drove right past it, dummy!". I am heading back to north Georgia in three weeks in the LC and this time, I am just going to take long, slow drives in the mountains and really smell the flowers for once. I can get all canyon carving I want where I live. Plus, after 40 years here, I kinda know what it looks and smells like.

 

[TomEf]

Colorado has some fun roads and I'd rather be living and wheelin here but the Tail is an awesome stretch of road, the only thing I miss about living in GA is no more days like this…


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Not sure where you are in CO, but Rist Canyon was one of my top 5 driving roads. Best to drive it when there are fewer cyclists, since that’s also a popular cycling route.

 

[TCH2FLY]

Born and raised here (GA was a 10 yr work stint) and live in Den currently but have a place in Red Feather so I know Rist canyon well, it's a great loop up to Stove Prairie and back toward Collins on 14 (lunch at Vern's Place ) or left to Masonville back toward Denver. Cyclists are a huge issue now, I used to run canyons worry free all over CO before it became so popular and now it's down right scary close to town.

The biggest issue in CO in the quality of the road surface, growing up here there were always rough spots but now the money goes to expansion not repair. Driving across the border from KS to CO on I70 feels like going to a third world country. The road surfaces in GA/SC/TN were sooo much better and rarely did I worry about turning a corner and finding fallen rocks ... cyclists were the same issue in places.