Welcome KentT

welcome

Kent, to the SSXSR Forum !!

Glad you stopped by...

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to the SouthernSxSRiders!

Thanks, guys!

Joined your site because I see your members showing up all over the place, contributing, and they seem to have more in common with where I ride and how I ride than most other sites. Plus I love the movies and pictures you guys post around -- it makes me homesick!

It also seems that most of the posters in the forums fall into two categories:

1. Duners, or

2. Mudders

So, they have to have 50MPH machines or ones that'll spin 29" Outlaws in wet cement... I don't need either, so this Grandpa is perfectly content with his little 450, and the savings over a new 700FI let me pimp it out pretty well. If I ever want a couple more MPH, I can add a sheave and CDI and get it.

BTW, though I live in Massachusetts now (went off and joined the Air Force and after 27 years in blue, I haven't migrated back HOME yet), I've bought retirement property in East Tennessee (where I grew up) and will be retiring back to the foothills of the Smokies. I'll be in Walland (Blount County) within a couple hours of Brimstone or Royal Blue, and less than an hour from Coal Creek... so I look forward to that VERY much!

Kent

Good deal, Kent ! I hope you can join us for a ride sometime !!

well you will have to pass by my house to get over to coal creek amd brimstone. got a good friend that lives up old tuckalleeche, right up the road from ya.

Rhino Rob wrote:

well you will have to pass by my house to get over to coal creek amd brimstone. got a good friend that lives up old tuckalleeche, right up the road from ya.

Yep, I'll be in Saddle Ridge off East Miller's Cove, almost back up into Walden's Creek in Sevier County...

Here's where I'm planning to build...

http://loonlanding.info/

Wish I could make it happen tomorrow, but this economy likely has delayed things even farther...

looks like its a very nice location. close to some good trout fishing

Rhino Rob wrote:

looks like its a very nice location. close to some good trout fishing

Yes, when the've stocked Little River.

I grew up in Seymour, at the foot of Bluff (Chilhowee) Mountain -- what part of K-town do you live in?

behind Bearden high school, raised in north knoxville, morgan county on the weekends, CHS bobcat. looking forward to making morgan county home base in a few years.

There's some drop-dead gorgeous areas on the edge of the plateau in Morgan County -- or at least there used to be... a good friend grew up in Oliver Springs -- visited there and Wartburg a lot -- and my best friend dated a girl from Harriman...

rugby is an awesome little town on the plateau, family house is the first one coming up from elgin. great fishing in the gorge along with canoeing and rock houses out the ying yang. hunting , 4 wheeling. peed on my first electric fence up in burrville. i think thats what stunted my growth

I say you probably remember 27 before they did the bypass. I think thats where i built up my tolerance level to curves
big south fork is to me what the smokies are to you.

Rhino Rob wrote:

rugby is an awesome little town on the plateau, family house is the first one coming up from elgin. great fishing in the gorge along with canoeing and rock houses out the ying yang. hunting , 4 wheeling. peed on my first electric fence up in burrville. i think thats what stunted my growth

I say you probably remember 27 before they did the bypass. I think thats where i built up my tolerance level to curves
big south fork is to me what the smokies are to you.

Isn't Elgin where the tornado hit a few years back? My nephew, Mike Justus, pastored a Baptist church up there somewhere... not exactly sure where.