Some rides stick out in your memory

[FryeVRCCDS0067]

I’ve got a short ten mile night ride which has played in my memory over and over for 25 years. The wife and I had headed North to Rockville and towards an approaching storm on the V65 just before dark in the late summer/fall.

After dark, as the storm started to break we headed home with the lightening at our heals and the storm wind gusting hard from the right but no rain quite yet. Headed South we had the road to ourselves and the hammer down, way down. The V65’s rectangular headlight cut a hole through the night with leaves, small limbs and cornstalk leaves racing through the beam from right to left. Our ride wagged with the blasts of air, the lighting strobed the country side and the V65 howled as only the V4’s did. The air was charged with nighttime ozone and felt cool and primal.

I’ve got goose bump now as I relive it. That was a ride.

[da prez]

  Many years ago two of us were comming back from the Indy time trials. We were headed north of Chicago. We saw a storm approaching and I suggested that we ride straight west into it as it might be a faster way thru it. We stopped and suited up and hit it head on. It was a long hard 15 minutes of intense rain , and maybe a total of a half hour of rain. We got off at a McDonalds over pass, soaked to the bone, changed clothes,coffee and left to go home. We watched the storm to our right for many miles. Had we continued north , we would have been in it for a long time. This was one of the better long cut , non-scenic routes I have taken in a long time.

                                                                                              da prez

[bludragon]

My first ride from Montreal to Stecoah via the Shanendoah Valley Skyline and Blueridge Parkway.  Also did return trip via Blueidge and Skyline
I have been back down another three times and plan to do it again in 2012

[Stanley Steamer]

I remember a really wet ride to Hattiesburg, MS with Coot and Smokin Joe and some of the Wild Bunch a few years ago.....we rode in pouring rain for ~400 miles.....dodging tornado warnings and such......my dash display went out from so much moisture in it.....but it came back when it dried out some.....we pretty much left in the rain and almost ended up in the rain....but Coot led us through some pretty Alabama countryside.....

[Oss]

hey prez thats a great move for sure

g man and I riding out to Gig's on the way to inzane on 80 saw this huge thunderstorm on the tv screen at a rest stop in Ohio that would have nailed us big time if we went the way we were supposed to go

We decided to go a bit west and backtrack and the whole way up 20 just a light spritz to cool us down after the full day of heat

The light show to the east was something to watch even in daytime  

Unfortunately that was one of the few times when I did not get thunderstormed on during any trip maybe thats why its so memorable