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These Dealers Offer a Full Line These of Motor Dealers Trike Products Offer a Full Line of Motor Trike Products Riding along a country road in Kentucky. ARIZONA Southwest Trikes 16251 N. Cave Creek Rd. Suite #3 Phoenix, AZ 85032 (602) 374-3510 ARKANSAS Arkansas Trike Clarksville, AR (800) 919-8861 Pin #99 www.arkansastrike center.com COLORADO Unique Rides 3321 E. Mulberry Ft. Collins, CO 80524 (970) 416-5986 FLORIDA Motor Trike of Daytona Daytona Beach, FL (386) 255-1999 www.motortrike.com MICHIGAN Jerry Grow’s Honda Muskegon, MI (800) 962-0979 www.jerrygrowshonda.com NEBRASKA Motor Trike Central Norfolk, NE 68701 402-379-2243 NEVADA Motor Trike of Las Vegas Las Vegas, NV 89144 (702) 856-0308 NEW YORK Mid State Trikes Interlaken, NY (607) 532-8930 www.midstatetrikes.com N. CAROLINA Honda of Winston Salem Winston Salem, NC (336) 765-0330 www.hondaws.com OHIO Blackburn’s Inc Medina, OH 44256 800-424-0008 OKLAHOMA Nutting Custom Trikes Afton, OK 74331 918-257-8795 Trinity Trikes Moore, OK (405) 794-3935 PENNSYLVANIA N&R Trike Belle Vernon, PA (724) 929-3035 www.nrtrike.com Leola Motor Trike Leola, PA (888) 656-7531 www.leolamotortrike.com TENNESSEE Volunteer Cycles Sevierville, TN (877) 774-7170 www.volunteercycles.com TEXAS El Campo Cycle Center El Campo, TX (800) 640-4391 www.elcampocycle.com Mitchell’s Trikes and Bikes Gatesville, TX (254)-865-2731 www.mitchells-trikes.com Tim Grimes Motor Trike Brady, TX (325) 597-0404 www.trikesforsale.org Vida Loca Trikes Bonham, TX (903) 640-5622 As hoped, our fourth annual Memorial Day Ride continued the three Chapters’ tradition of a fun ride to honor our veterans.This time, however, the ride originated in Ohio and covered the beautiful tri-state area of Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana.As you may or may not know, Southwestern Ohio and the surrounding area, including Northern Kentucky and Southeastern Indiana, offer some superb motorcycling roads, outstanding scenery, and interesting sites—not the least of which was our end point of Wright Patterson Air Force Museum in Fairborn, Ohio. Countdown to “Take Off!” The Gold Wingers who rode some 350 miles from Elkins and Clarksburg, West Virginia, stayed overnight at the Shaker Inn in Lebanon, Ohio. We Ohio natives were happy to share some local history with our nearby friends, including the fact that Lebanon, founded in 1802, features Ohio’s oldest inn, The Golden Lamb, which was visited by no less than a dozen U.S. Presidents, plus author Charles Dickens and several other notables. We also let them know that their lodging, The Shaker Inn, was thankfully not named after an earthquake but rather for the religious organization called the Shakers, who were an offshoot of the Quakers but with a strict belief in celibacy and a knack for making gorgeous furniture. Once retaining thousands of members, less than a handful of the organization remain today. It was an interesting side note to let our West Virginia friends know that OH-X2’s monthly GWRRA gatherings are held where the last four remaining Shakers live, at the Otterbein Retirement Living Community, located just outside of Lebanon, Ohio. Day 1: Joining Forces The weekend started off with a Chili Dump on Friday night, May 26, at Otterbein’s outdoor pavilion. For those of you unfamiliar with a Chili Dump, this is where people bring their various chili recipes and dump them all together, mixing them up in a huge kettle. X2’s Members brought in tons of desserts and chili dishes. Our West Virginia friends also got to taste some Cincinnati-style chili, with its unique recipe containing chocolate and cinnamon. Between the socializing, music, dancing and eating, we couldn’t have started off the weekend any better, and 91 people attended this event. Day 2: A Tour of Northern Kentucky and Southeast Indiana As mentioned, the Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana (aka OKI) tri-state area does not contain any mountains but does contain some fabulous motorcycling roads. So on Saturday, we toured with our friends on some supertwisty roads in northern Kentucky and along the beautiful Ohio River Scenic Byway in Indiana. Some of these roads are referenced in the websites www.motorcycleroads.us and www. sportbikeroads.com. Our main destination for the morning was the hills and ridges of northern Kentucky.This is the region geographically called the Outer Bluegrass, and it contains hills and twisty ridges. It is located between the glaciated plains of Ohio on the north and the flatlands of the better-known Inner Bluegrass region to the south around Lexington, Kentucky. We left Lebanon, Ohio, with 41 motorcycles in five groups on the 350-mile ride. Ride leaders were Durrel Monroe, Joe Lupo, Vic Mathews, Bud Rahe and myself.What a glorious day it was! These large streams of bikes traversed the twisties of the Outer Bluegrass region of northern Kentucky on notable 66 Wing World
A line of Gold Wings head up a Kentucky hill. One of the many tight curves Ohio’s X2 and S2 and WV-K encountered. Kentucky routes 10 and 22, plus twenty other back roads.The first destination, for lunch, was Blue Licks Battlefield State Park Lodge. The salt licks in this park attracted famous visitors such as Daniel Boone and are most noted as the location of the last of the Revolutionary War battles in Kentucky. The food, especially the fried chicken, was delicious. After Blue Licks, we continued our northern Kentucky curvy back road tour towards the west on roads like KY-617 (freshly paved, with nine miles of no houses, and twisty as heck) and KY-1032 (the Berry, Kentucky, road—more twists there, with excellent views south from the hills into the flatter region of the Inner Bluegrass). We crossed the Ohio River into Indiana near Warsaw, Kentucky, at Markland Dam. We even missed one turn-off on KY-1032, so the ride was official. Ha! The ride up the Indiana side of the Ohio River Valley on IN-156 and 56 was beautiful. This section of road is part of the Ohio River Scenic Byway. (You can check it out on www.byways.org.) On the way home, some of us stopped at the Grande Victoria Casino in Rising Sun to try our luck with the “onearmed bandits.” Tired but happy, we arrived back in Lebanon around 8:30 p.m. Day 3: Ohio, and Our Goal of Wright Patterson Air Force Museum On Sunday, Keith Kennedy led a great ride of 28 motorcycles from Lebanon, Ohio, along the National Scenic Little Miami River Valley up to Wright Patterson Air Force Museum in Fairborn, Ohio. A place of interest along the way was Fort Ancient State Memorial, an ancient earthen fortification built by the Fort Ancient Indian culture around 1000 AD. For motorcyclists, the area is most noted for its switchbacks on OH-350. Indeed, there is a series of switchbacks in this part of Ohio as OH-350 descends from the flat plains into the Little Miami River Valley. After arriving at Wright Patterson Air Force Museum, the attendees toured the museum for a few hours.The OH-S2 Chapter commandeered the picnic pavilions in the park next to the museum, and we had a picnic brown bag lunch. Our West Virginia guests were treated to a “fix your own lunch,” furnished by generous donations from Members of OH-X2. There were cold cut sandwiches, cheese, watermelon, cakes, chips and fruit to choose from, and OH-S2 furnished the drinks and ice. After lunch, OH-X2’s Donnie & Sharon Dakin coordinated a photo shoot on the outside tarmac where some old planes were on display. Motorcycles were positioned in a V- shaped wedge in between the row of planes. Donnie took the picture from atop a ladder in the back of his pickup truck. (See page 64.) After the Wright Patterson museum stop, OH-S2’s Members Ivan Hastings and John Cooley toured us through the rural Ohio areas north of Dayton. We drove past Kiser Lake State Park, near Urbana, and C.J. Brown Lake in Buck Creek State Park near Springfield. Finally, we arrived at Pisanello’s Pizza in Franklin, Ohio, at 6:30 p.m.A total of 68 people attended the pizza buffet and roast, coordinated by Sandy Yaple.After I summarized the activities from the weekend and recognized May 2007 67
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