JayJay

Enjoyed this post and read -thank you. Was always a Bridgestone guy in past but when I got my 5thGen (from 3rd) it had PP on it and man o man what a difference and experience. They did not last long and had a few miles on them when I bought the 5th...on 2nd set of PR2s and would never go to anything else.

Thanks for sharing memories of riding the Dragon. I have been there (rode from Canada , so not a 1-day event!) 4 times. The first time down we came in from north (near Maryville, TN) and can remember it raining hard and just stopped and started to dry when we spotted the infamous "HWY 129" sign (off the 411) and thought here we go! After 5 mins or so we thought this is not that spectacular!? We kept riding thinking it would change, and we rode and rode until we finally hit the real 129 Dragon and where blown away. It was a weekday late in day so very quiet and remember how alert I become with heart pumping a large grin on my face. Over the next couple of times down we discovered more of the roads in the area and could not get over how many great rides exist and if I could just take 30 miles of one of many runs home to Ontario how grand it would be! Other notable ones I have experienced and are a must are: 1. The Entire Blue Ridge Parkway (lightly traveled and no trucks allowed) - 2days of bliss 2. Hwy 28 ("Hellbender on north and Moonshiner on bottom) 3. Hwy 421 ("The Snake") out of Bristol to Mountain City 4. Hwy 80 ("Devils Whip") near Little Switzerland 5. Cherohala Hwy 6. Hwy 209 ("The Rattler") to Hot Springs

Had same issue with my 2000, I replaced RR to avoid an issue and it fried connector like yours, I just put the OEM back in and had it fully tested and all is perfect now! Go figure.

Planning on attending this (my first) event travelling from GTA and would be interested in sharing the road time down or contributing to trailer. PM me , thank you from frozen Toronto area. JayJay

Sorry for late reply on this one..been off the site for a bit (riding LOL)...I passed 140K kms (~88K miles) on my Y2K. Still running strong. Regular mechanical bits and 2 RRs. JJ

All I can say is you have to do the Cabot Trail. Amazing. I will look through my notes from last years trip and send some more suggestions.

Thanks, yep was the switch. Cleaned it up and all working fine.

I have had this issue on my 5 G. I just replaced both bulbs with fresh set of bulbs and issue is still there. Whenever I flip to high beams and back to low both headlights are out cold. It takes several seconds and then they come back on. It actually seems worse with new bulbs (osram 65w). I don't do a lot of night riding so not huge issue but would like to trouble shoot. I have new RR and vfrness harness installed in last year as well. All charging and voltage readings seem fine. Any further thoughts would be great.

Anyone heading to event from southern ontario? Pls send me seperate private email as I really want to attend but would be great to share ride down. JJ