07-02-2015, 09:02 PM
In 1974 I rode the Blue Ridge Parkway in a torrential rain from Ashe County, NC to Cherokee. It was November and cold as well. As the BRP climbed near Mt. Mitchell, the road started icing and following the tire tracks of a car at my front saved my bacon. The icing stopped as I came down to a lower part of the BRP but the rain kept on unabated to Cherokee and a nice warm hotel room. My rain gear helped but I still got soaked. The cold was the worst and I was near hypothermia by afternoon.
In 2007, Pam and I were riding back from the South Carolina mountains when we got caught up in a low pressure system that came in unexpectedly. We rode for 326 miles (she counted them) in a tropical system downpour to home where we had to negotiate 1 mile of very muddy road to the house. She did fine on her V-strom but my ST1300 was a handful. ST1300's are not nice in mud I learned.
In 2007, Pam and I were riding back from the South Carolina mountains when we got caught up in a low pressure system that came in unexpectedly. We rode for 326 miles (she counted them) in a tropical system downpour to home where we had to negotiate 1 mile of very muddy road to the house. She did fine on her V-strom but my ST1300 was a handful. ST1300's are not nice in mud I learned.