Well, my one buddy was going with his kid and his kid woke up Sunday morning sick, so he bailed. My other buddy and me really wanted to ride, but I didn't want to drive all the way there and have it downpour.
So we decided to ride out of my house. We both ride plated Drz's with baja design lighting kits on them.
We just did some dualsporting and avoided a couple places as I found out it was opening day of hunting with muzzle loaders. It started drizzling while we were gettng dressed then a few minutes after we pulled out of the driveway, it stopped. We rode a bit on some rail bed and blacktop. One road in paticular that I use is a public dirt road, kind of like a new england class IV road, but now the one end is posted as someone's private driveway. I don't know how you can post a road as your driveway, so I went through anyway and luckily the other end had an open gate.After a couple more hunter detours, we hopped on some more blacktop and decided to stop off at a buddies house to see how work was going on his truck and his mom cooked us breakfast. At this point it was really raining and my gloves started to get wet and the rain on teh face hurt at 50mpg. Probably spent an hour there, then headed off to a little spot I have not been to in a couple years, it's single track and roads. Last years storms did a number on it, but someone has been in cleaning it up. We messed around in the woods for a couple of hours, it poured rain too, but in the woods it wasn't too bad. Then we headed out, stopped for lunch and gas and rode about a half hour of blacktop back. Luckily it stopped raining for the ride back, but it was a bit chilly on the wet hands. I was even on my second pair of gloves. Next time I'll take my neoprene kayaking gloves with me.
Anyway, I'm glad I went.
I'm hoping to hit paragon in early december if there's not too much snow.
I don't really mind riding in winter as long as it's above the single digits and I can stick to single track riding, the single track riding keeps you warm. It's the open riding that sucks.
Nick