TN Thunder
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A friend and I took our bikes out for a day of riding in the Chuck Swan Forest, a Div. of the TN State Forest here in E. TN. The NC performed great. We ran 51 miles of crushed rock, gravel, sand, dirt, mud holes and forded the same stream at two different locations. Last one was about 18" deep. I bumped the bottom on a rock that was not visible. The NC does get a little skittish on very loose rock but that little dude is spunky. This was all in the mountains. Lots of up hill down hill and switchbacks to deal with. You could spend a week in that area and not ride all of the roads in the forest. Proud of the NC but boy is my rear end tired. Total mileage today was 184 and a lot of saddle time. I may need to postpone the saddle bags and go for the skid plate and engine guard instead.