Meet The Rider Tom Pylant # 221

Melbourne, Fl. Grandpa and involved with children after retiring several times Tom spends his free time trying to stay retired. Tom bought his first Harley Davidson in 1979. But it wasn't until the first Hoka Hey Motorcycle Challenge that he went his all time longest miles in a trip of 23,200 miles.  It only took him 11 days to get there but it took two and half months to get home.

He learned about the Hoka Hey Motorcycle Challenge in 2010 from a friend at a HOG chapter meeting. After talking at length with Jim Red Cloud at Destination Daytona Harley Davidson during bike week he signed up immediately.  All back roads and going from Key West, FL. to Homer, AK sounded great but then Jim had compared the challenge to a vision quest and that had Tom's attention. He talked about bringing good and bad spirits through the reservations we rode through. "Seeing the country in a way that's impossible to see any other way."

It has taken Tom quite a while to make friends with his new Tri-glide.  After almost taking out the landscaping at the dealership the first time he rode his new three legged stead he realized he has to learn a new way to ride. The good will of so many people who have followed Tom in the HHMC to make sure he was covered for the up coming event has been amazing for him to experience. His very understanding wife who never knows when Tom pulls out of the driveway when he will return is his biggest supporter.