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Motorcycle Cannonball Update riders
After exactly 1400 miles (and more if you happen to made navigation mistakes), all riders and pre-1916 motorcycles have a well deserved rest day in Hot Springs, Arkansas. For motorcycles, I will say maintenance and repair day for machines not supposed to take this kind of abuse. For riders, well you guess that it is physically and mentally extremely challenging. Have you ever ridden so long on a rigid frame, spending most of your nights fixing bugs, machining parts or helping others do it? So, at almost half the Run, what lessons might be drawn about this event that could probably go lower while in the books as one of the greatest motorcycle events, as well as with the required endurance, but as it exemplifies what motorcycling depends upon: freedom, camaraderie, tenacity and courage.
First, several of the favorite riders had troubles right in the beginning, proof that even ready machines by the best restorers can reserve surprises which the winner in each class can’t be known for sure until he arrives in Santa Monica. Good, it’s more excitement for all riders and then for us observers. Second, organizers did an awesome job at mapping each stage along side safest and the majority scenic roads on the State crossed with the participants, at protecting/supervising/assisting riders during each ride, at providing at stage arrival a location where riders can both focus on their machines and luxuriate in one another during group dinners. Third, the organizers demonstrated, if needed, that the biker journey is rarely about money…but about accomplishment.
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