Thunder Roads Magazine of Oklahoma/Arkansas June 2014 | Page 46

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This past year, I started
my riding season in February of
2013; I left St. Louis on my bike
when there was 10 inches of
snow on the ground. That was
when my trip started and I hadn’t
been back to St. Louis but two
separate nights and I was there
for less than 24 hours. I’m pretty
much constantly on the road. I
work for J & P Cycles doing rallies
for them as an independent
contractor. Wherever their 18
wheeler goes I meet them at the
rallies and sell parts. I help set
the truck up at the rally, layout
the parts, sell for a week or so,
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tear the display down, pack-up
the truck and meet them at the
next event. When I have time in
between events, I also work for
them at the National Motorcycle
Museum.
I normally like to spend
the winter months down south
in Florida or anywhere in the
southern US from California
to Florida. I generally have 2
1/2 months of winter time off
or I work at the museum some
times. However, this past winter
was very different. At the Warf
Rat Rally in Nova Scotia, Kevin
Bean’re told me he was going

to write a book about travelling
in Asia. He planned to go over
there for 4 months with no prior
research and let the book write
itself. If you go with no research
that is certainly what happens.
If you know Bean’re, he is quite
the character anywhere he
goes. In December, Kevin was
going to be a judge at the David
Mann Chopperfest in Ventura,
California and I finished my last
job in Galveston. Since winter
was approaching, I decided to
go to California. I ran into him
and some other friends that I
knew were going to be at that