Rustic Roads, or What we did on our day off.

[xsPain]

Heather and I had Monday off, so we decided to go out for a ride. Since we both like sleep, we didn't actually hit the road until about 1pm, but the sun was still high in the sky, both the bike's gas tanks were full, so we headed out of the city.

We live in Milwaukee county, and if you look at this map -


You see there are no rustic roads here. There are, however, 2 in Waukesha County, so we headed that way first.


The south end of R-10. I made sure before we left that all the roads with her would be paved. Not all the Rustic Roads are. Heather is still a little new, so we reviewed a bit about cornering, speeds and such.


I like water.

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The north end of r-86, the other Rustic in Waukesha County. Going through my pictures, looks like I took a lot of them sideways


Not entirely sure why.

From there, we headed south and east on two lane roads to Racine County, where there are 6 more roads. We only planned to ride 4 of them.


The northern start of R-2. This road was so long, we actually left it to ride another one, and then came back.


Heather was starting to really have fun. I know it is hard to tell.


Here we take a break from R-2, to cruise along R-25.


A little more proof that Heather was enjoying herself.


Along r-25. I didn't stop to take as many pictures as I wanted, the ride was too much fun. Something to work on.


The end of R-2. Nice lake, we stopped to drink some water. Here is where we technically started to head for home, but there were 2 more roads on the way back.


Southern start of R-30


Looking north on R-30


And, the last one for the day, R-5.

R-30 and R-5 run along the side of Hwy 36, which is also Loomis Rd. (R-5 is actually Old Loomis Rd). Hwy 36 is a major road, and this area had a lot more traffic, kind of a downer at the end of the day for me, but Heather didn't mind.

we had to get gas for both bikes after this, since we were over 100 miles, and then headed home.

[RedCBRRider]

Looks like a blast Andy.  Thanks for the pics.

[Zen Rider]

I love the Yammi twin  

Looks like a run ride had by two  

[DavidLSI]

I love the Yammi twin  

Looks like a run ride had by two  

A few more and you can send in for your patch, looks like it was a fun day.

SeeYa
DavidLSI

[FZ1 Matt]

What are those hard bags on your bike? Did you get them from Office Depot or something?   :lol:Nice.

H's bike looks better than yours. H looks better than you too. Looks you had fun. Is H all geared up for the 'big ride' now?

[mxvet57]

one of these days I'm going to do the rustic road tour.

 you sure had a nice afternoon to ride.  wish i could of done some riding but some of us have to work.  

 nice picks to.

[CBRXXBLACKBIRD]

Looks like it was a fun ride, There are some of those roads in Kenosha Andy that take you pretty far up north I think David had them on one of his maps he posted at one time.

I just googled rustic roads and found Matts website  

[Mark Milanowski]

I kind of like the hard bags. I would have never thought of using Office Depot file boxes. Looks like they work great. Andy is an inovative F.U.C.K.E.R..

[xsPain]

Those hard bags are off already. Too hard to get them on and off, and I never realy did like how they were mounted.

I replaced them with Ortlib Drybags , from Aerostich. They are way cooler, but you will have to wait to see them  

[bluemax]

I love Wisonsin's Rustic Roads. Last fall, with the help of DeLorme Street Atlas I put together 10 loops of paved RR's  that cover Wisconsin, with lengths of 200-400 miles. I test rode the SE Wisconsin route, it could use some tweaking, but it was fun. I easily got the 10 routes required by the state for the patch in one afternoon. Now when I'm out getting lost, I make sure the RR's are in the plan.


Here's your reward, as if riding these roads wasn't enough

[CBRXXBLACKBIRD]

Hey do I hear a rustic road meet?

[Oddball]

Rustic Roads are cool.

[JoeRider]

Great pics and topic.

I would like to see the routes if any of you can post them for us.  

I was looking at the WI Rustic Road site and mentioned it to a guy who moved from Bloomington another sprint owner as well as another guy in Dupage that would like to do them.  

Wish they had a decal like the patch

[xsPain]

I would like to see the routes if any of you can post them for us.  

I think I deleted it, but shouldn't be hard to rebuild when I am at home with some time (At work now). I will try to include it in the future.