yesterday i decicded to ride my atv during the heavy rain, i only rode around my
drive way, which is a small oval, but is was alot more fun then usual,

does any one else enjoy rain ridin, or is it just me?????

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My best ride ever was last year in the rain. It was a nice warm rain. Puddles were filling up just water hole after water hole. Rode about 70 miles 50 of which was in the rain. EXCELLENT!!!!

Much preferrable over dust.

 

That's one way to avoid eating dust.

 

I like it when it rains just before I ride. I've gotten soaked way too many times. The trouble with where I ride is that rain is usually accompanied by lightning and thunder. I've seen strikes within a few hundred yards of me. Too close. I'll take dry and in the 60s any day of the week. I've also been in storms that have caused trees to fall over the only way back to my truck. Not fun breaking branches and trying to drag a good sized tree off a trail. Up here, in New England, it's too easy to go from a comfortable 60 degrees to hypothermia from cold rain.

 

Been there and done that too Moose. We all got caught in a hail storm when a tornado went by too. That hurt. I love riding after the rain but try not to ride in it. I'm usually hours away from home with no dry clothes to change into. When I'm close to home I don't mind walking in the rain but I can come in and get dry afterward.

 

I keep a gortex raincoat that I got on sale at Cabelas in the front box of the quad under the rack. I bought a good sized structured bag for the front of the quad for extra clothing when it's going to be cold but don't have too much in the way of raingear. It still beats sitting home feeling the back throb.

 

It's raining here in OK. today. Wish I was riding in it rather than sitting at this comp here at work. : (

 

i definitely enjoy throwin muddy roosts. haha especially on your buddys ridin behind you

 

Funny you should say that, RedRider. A bunch of us went riding a couple years back and it ended up pouring out. As the puddles formed the younger guys decided to soak each other every time they got a chance by coming up from behind and bombing through the muddy puddles. They were soaked but having fun. The young guy who had the only 250 in the bunch of 500s was having a really rough time and got to the point where he kept looking back over his shoulder. A trail that had been fine when we went into the woods now had a foot deep washout. He looked over his shoulder and turned to see the washout to late. His front end went in and stuck. He went up.... did a 5 second handstand, and finally succumbed to gravity, falling over the front of the quad. All in slow motion.

 

A couple month ago a few of us went out for a ride. There was rain in the forecast, but it was holding out. We were about an hour away from home when some really nasty looking clouds started to move in so we decided to head back. Well, my brother thought that it would be a great idea to hit a 60ft mud bog on his 4x2 Prairie even though we were racing the storm to get home. By the time we were done with the 1/2-hour extraction it was just starting to rain. 5 minutes later we were riding in a violent thunderstorm. It was quite scary because there were trees falling around us and lightning strikes that seemed very close. It was also a really fun ride though-probably one of the best I've had-because our adrenaline was pumping and we were absolutely hauling through the woods. The trail we were on was a very deep-cut gully that was littered with mud puddles and mud pits separated by flat and rocky straight-a-ways. After only a few minutes of down-pour, the entire trail was several inches deep so we couldn't tell where the deep section were at all. We'd be riding really fast and then all of a sudden drop into a foot or two of water and mud. It was a blast, but also relieving to make it home.