Friday, March 20, 2020

Meet The Rider Heinz Spielvogel # 332

 I have been riding since my teens that makes 45+ years and over a million Harley miles on eight different bikes from Sportsters to Road Glide and FLH FX variants and I'm from Rhode Island.

I entered the Hoka Hey Motorcycle Challenge 2020 and it will be my seventh running of the Challenge.  I'm looking forward to this year's ride. I see that we have many returning rider as well as new ones. The Challenge always proves to bring me to another level of riding. Whether it is physical. mental or mechanical. I plan to ride my 2007 Roadking that will have close to 250,000 miles at the start line. This RoadKing has brought me to every one of the 48 contiguous states at least 3-4 times and  once to Alaska in 2010.

I got to see some awesome scenery of our Country as well as Canada. Had some fun and funny times. one of my favorite stories to tell was from 2011. It was somewhere in the coal belt of VA or KY early in the O dark 30 hours and I needed some sleep. I found a closed gas station, parked the Roadking behind it, rolled myself up in my blue tarp and slept, till someone was kicking my feet proclaiming "Sheriff's Office you alive?" After we exchanged pleasantries and inspected my paperwork he said that they got a call that there is a dead body rolled up in a blue tarp on the side of the road! and the Deputy told me that they take those calls "Kinda seriously around here". We had a good chuckle over it, so I gave him the web site and how he can track me as well as other riders that will be passing through.

This year as in the past I will be in part sponsored by Ocean State Harley Davidson, Exeter RI, I thank them for their support, generosity and enthusiasm.





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