Thunder Roads Magazine of Oklahoma/Arkansas April 2014 Volume 12 Issue 9 | Page 5

Letter from
The Editor
Hey All You Spring Riders…and you frost
bitten year round maniacs as well!
Before I start, I’d like to take a moment
to ask all of you to say a prayer for all of our
downed bikers. If you don’t pray, lift a mug!
Recently, Jesse Melton, the General Sales
Manager at Fort Thunder Harley-Davidson
went down. At press time, Jesse was still in
an induced coma, but showing improvement.
Here’s wishing Jesse and all who’ve gone
down a speedy road to full recovery. Let’s be careful
out there folks! Remember they aren’t always watching
for you and don’t see you!
On the upside, T” has a new ride! For the past few
years, I’ve been stuck using the truck and trailer for many
events due to the lack of hauling capacity on my chopper,
Lola. Not to say, we won’t use the trailer for large events,
but I’ve purchased a 2014 Harley-Davidson Street Glide
Special. Of course I’ve named it, THOR. Thor is the
Norwegian God of Thunder. So appropriate! At press
time, we didn’t have him complete yet, but in the coming
month he will be wrapped with our logos, events, ads
(space still available) etc. He’s a rolling billboard and
can carry magazines out to more towns and clients! For
those of you concerned, Lola is still in the family! Not
sure I’ll ever give up that awesome Show Girl Bike!
I’m feeling a warming trend ahead and if it doesn’t
happen, it ‘s not a lack of will and wishful thinking of all
of us riders! Regardless of what the weather entails, we
are headed into a very eventful summer. Our advertisers,
clients, rallies, runs and events are overflowing in our
events calendar. May I remind you that you can download
our calendar to your phone from our on-line calendar at
www.thunderroadsoklahoma.com/events. Go to the
bottom of the calendar and click on the gray box “Ical
import month’s events”. Bam! Your calendar will be
loaded with great new events for you and friends!
FLASH! That’s right, we have flashed into Spring with
a new feature that I am very excited to offer. FLASH! is
our periodic newsletter. Through the spring and summer, I
find that we don’t have room for all that is going on in the
monthly issue of Thunder Roads. This weekly newsletter
will brief you on upcoming events, tips, interesting facts
and last minute updates so that you don’t miss a thing!
It features hot links and embedded videos which the
printed magazine cannot include! If you’d like a free
subscription to this e-letter, please register at http://
www.thunderroadsoklahoma.com/get-the-flash OR on our

facebook
page
at
www.
facebook.com/thunderroadsmagazineokar
. For advertisement opportunities in FLASH! contact “T”
at 405-612-3844.
This year, “T” and the crew have taken on s