Hoka Hey

For those that do not know what the Hokay Hey is it is a contest where the winner wins like 500,000 dollars if they are the first to cross the finish line. This years the race was from Key West to I think Homer, Alaska. Next year its suppose to be from San Diego to Nova Scotia.

The entrance fee is pricey by my standards anyways.

I have an acquaitence that completed the race, quite the feat by any standards and I thought about doing it too but decided not to. To have competed and finished makes anyone a winner in my book.

The contest and contest owners seemed to have generated negative publicity and I don't know why or what the particulars were. I just read the various beefs but have no opinion about it.

My thoughts about the Hoka Hey is that anyone can have there own Hokey Hey and by there own standards, expectations and pace. While the HH can be considered a good idea and anyone who croses the finish line is truly a winner, anyone can plan a destination of challenging proportions similar to the HH. Like the couple in there 70's who road two wheels to Alaska I read in another thread...there you go.

As motorcyclist, seeing the country on two wheels (while risky) is the only way to go. You get so much more out of it then in a car and especially a plane. Yes getting caught in the ran sux. Mechanical failures ever looming like a dark cloud threatening the moment.

It can be a 2 day ride, a 4 day weekend. Just what ever you want. You'd be surprised how far one can get in 2 days and how much there will be to see.

Yes traffic congestion is a legitimate concern and why I avoid that I-90 stretch from Cleveland thru Chicago but most any trip emcompasses many big cities and with caution and experience doing so becomes easier.

Well, that's a different ride. We can call it "Poser, Hey."

First, you must wash your own bike and/or successfully identify a 9/16 six point deep-well socket in a typical Harley tool kit.

You must bring your bike to a full stop using only downshifts and the rear brake. Deduct points if they ask "Why?"

Name a movie that Dennis Hopper appeared in besides "Speed."

Without a biscotti, the bikes are required to leave the parking lot before noon, and traverse a road trip of fifty miles or three stoplights. The survivors (if any) can call themselves RUBs.

Next week, four stoplights...

Well there you go!

Jest you may but for some beginners that would indeed be a worthy challenge,lol.

I say "fifty miles" as an "in joke."

When I'm on Spinner, and I'm just getting into the rhythm of the road and settled into a comfortable tuck, that's when my fuel warning light clicks on at fifty miles...

Pull over, get out the fuel cuff, find three or four quarters from my wife's change purse, and re-fuel. Get comfortable, start to unwind--yikes--there's the frakken fuel light again!

If I wasn't so cheap, I'd buy a replacement Nightster gas tank!

Yes, it's a small soft plastic cuff or spacer that allows you to squeeze as much gasoline into the tank as it will take without over-filling.

I can get about 50 miles on the Sportster 48's tank with a standard fill before my warning light comes on. Using the cuff I have gotten 57.3 before the light.

For my driving, that's an advantage. I have to use highways or the slab to get to most places around Madison. Like it or not, the 48 must cover distances. Just going to the shoe repair shop is 53 miles round-trip from my house.

Since most off-ramps are +/-10 miles apart, that extra mileage is a comfort.

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Primarily, I believe the main focus of BI63's OP here is getting out and riding. I read this weekend on an op-ed piece in a bike magazine that we have become 'passive' as bikers about getting involved.

Not so in my area. We have a broad walk-way in front of our gym. All during this summer we had motorcycles parked. Most had luggage racks or touring rolls. One guy had a Beemer and carried everything in a back-pack. We even have a guy with a little step-through scooter that has a box on the back that is almost bigger than the entire little bike.

I know I used the little Sportster more for daily jaunts, errands and even going to the grocery store. I think it's a good thing when we debate how to carry more gasoline. We're out riding.

It's going to be dry today and it might hit the 70s. Guess what I'm going to do?

The rider who won has collected his money a long time ago. It seems that most of the disgruntled people were those who did not compete. Almost w/out fail everyone I spoke to who participated were glad that they did and the disparities were inconsequential to them. The memories priceless. Sure there were things that were said but were not done by the organizers, it appeared that other riders stole street signs and other adversarial manuevers.

That was the point of my original post is that as you stated regarding your friends ride is that anyone can organize there own Hoka Hey. I am by no means intending to shat on the Hoka Hey. I reccomend doing it soon as the freedoms we have as a nation seem to be getting more restrictive...who knows where that leads or ends up......