Thunder Roads Magazine of Oklahoma/Arkansas April 2014 Volume 12 Issue 9 | Page 20

FEATURES

“THE RIDE OF A LIFETIME”

Article by: Ed Thompson, Larry Fisher and Rick Tyler.

This ride started out as most
things do, as an idea. “Hey, let’s
take a ride this summer to Glacier
National Park.” It started out
pretty ambitious knowing it was
going to be a minimum of 3,600
miles round trip. Then, as time
passed, we thought since we’re
going that way anyways….well
you know how things go? As
time got closer to the actual go
time, we said, “we’ll just go and
every day for itself.” There were
four of us that actually committed
to make the ride: Ed Thompson,
who owns Creek County Cycles,
Rick Tyler, Larry Fisher and Ron
20

Thunder Roads Magazine of OK/AR

Sullivan. We would meet at Ed’s
shop and look at the map. The
ride changed every time we met
except the main goal: Glacier
National Park in Montana.
The day, August 2nd, came
at last. We tied down everything
we thought we might need, and
then some, on our bikes. We
met at Ed’s house and left out at
7:00 A.M. It was a mild day and
a good day to be on a Harley!
We headed down Highway
412 toward the panhandle of
Oklahoma. Knowing this would
probably be the hardest part of
the trip, we rode as hard and as

fast as we thought we could get
away with. We were stopped by
a Trooper outside of Woodward
and we all got warnings for doing
72 in a 65mph zone. He was a
great guy and actually joked with
us about being the “Wild Hogs.”
He even took pictures with us
and said, “You know, the cop in
the Wild Hogs was gay? Well,
you aren’t getting a picture of a
gay cop!” The mild day began
to change as we got closer to
Guymon. The wind