Well, since TwoXentrix necro'd the thread I'll post...
Probably one of the younger people here on the forum at the ripe old age of 20. Growing up some of the more meaningful and memorable times I had were all off the beaten path, whether it was skiing, hiking, etc.
Rode a dirtbike to Bishop O'Dowd (bet most of the SFBay locals know where that is...), I've long been meaning to find a place to go ride the trails with it, but haven't yet. Senior year I ended up getting smoked by a car that decided he didn't want to stop for one of the stop signs. It was one of those peculiar times where I couldn't tell if I was dumb, lucky, or unlucky- The night before I had told my mom I'd take the Econoline to school, decided to take the dirtbike since she'd already gone to work, and lucky it was the dirtbike and not the K1200R. Pretty sure with the way the guy hit me it would have broke my leg if I had been riding anything else. Luckily enough- only a sprained ACL, a few fractured toes, and a lesson not to lie to ones mother.
While my on-road adventures have been fun (Crashed a Porsche-only club trip in a Dinan M5, smoked a bunch of Boxster's at 130+ (They said we couldn't bring the M5 to redding this year!
)), I can't say I'd trade that for sinking an econoline down to the axles in mud, doing donuts in the icy parking lots over winter, or driving the back country roads up here in Montana getting to see what a ton of people never get to.
Offroading has always been a ton of fun to me, especially with friends... hence the handle.
Erik
Oh, and P.S... If any of y'all have a good spot to ride dirtbikes that isn't a long ways from Oakland, let me know