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I think we have done a pretty damn good job staying on task. Steering this boat into the future has been a passion of mine for the last 145 issues, and look forward to continuing that streak! Thanks, tons, for being a part of this magazine in the past and into the future. Thank you also to our loyal readers, subscribers, people that rely on us for the Iowa biker world information, and those of you that just look at the pictures!
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With all that said, I am excited as hell for June here in Iowa! We hit as many May events as we possibly could with time that we had available, and let me tell you, people are raring to get out and about and have some fun. People don’t like the price of filling the tanks, but I think are saying gas prices be damned, we are not going to be cooped up any longer and miss any more time with our brothers and sisters on the roadways! We may just all have to partake of two and three wheeled travels as much as possible to travel as cost effectively as possible. Fuel prices be damned, ride that thing as much as you possibly can. Figure We started off with the thoughts of having out how to get to work, get groceries, a motorcycle magazine that is not about work on your own mental health on the bikes per se, but about what we do and two wheels all the while saving money. Not a bad idea, where we go when we throw a leg over. A biker lifestyle magazine if you will. We have tried some new things along right? the way, some have worked, and some the fire burned out and we moved on to other things, but all the while keeping I thought that the May event list was considerable, and then comes June with runs, rallies, bike nights, supper the same theme of being About Iowa, For Iowa, and From rides, and just people hopping on to go out and find a cold Iowa. We wanted to have a magazine that was the source drink and a hot meal. This is all good to see, and we better for information and listing of Iowa events, Iowa Bike Nights, Iowa Event coverage, and things about Iowa Riders. enjoy it while we have the chance. Take advantage of the good weather days that we have coming up and the ability to go out and ride free while we can! Life is too short to sit around and be lame! In the back of every magazine is an events list, and in the summer months we add the bike night and supper ride list. Check these out and get to some That is the message as we roll into June. This clan events. If you know of one not on those pages, email to me here at the Sleeping Angles Fun Run in Boone last at vernon@thunderroadsiowa.com and I will get it added month is the epitome of that mindset. These guys post haste. I also post those same event and bike night run rain or shine, wind or calm, hot or cold. They pages on the TRMI Facebook page every Monday, so there had a tremendous turnout and an even better day raising funds for their foundation. As the country is is no reason to miss something that you didn’t know about! in turmoil in many ways, we need to take after these Get out and ride and enjoy!
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I was thumbing my way through the internet the other day when I ran across a demo video of something I never thought I’d see: a self-driving motorcycle. It accelerates, makes slow turns, even lowers its own kickstand and leans to a stop. Apparently, BMW has been working on the design for the last few years. They say the project is really geared toward helping them better understand the dynamics of riding and making them more aware of dangers posed for the rider - not toward putting a self-driving bike on the road. Guess only the future will show if that’s true or not! I can’t say I’m interested in a self-driving bike, but if it ever did become available, I think it would be prudent to sit back and let a few years go by while the bugs get worked out on some other poor soul. We’ve all seen issues in new offerings, from the iPhone 6s that couldn’t hold a charge for more than a few hours to the Yugo GV with its underwhelming ability to go from zero to 60 in 15.3 seconds. And while sometimes a design flaw in a new product is fixable, other times the whole thing just has white, in-between, to be re-tooled. talented, average – none of that matters. That’s pretty much what happened with humanity. Adam had a perfect design in the beginning. The Bible tells All that matters is if us that God looked at his creation and said it was good. He you have chosen to had a loving relationship with Adam and Eve, coming down admit that you were born a sinner, that to walk in the garden with them each evening to talk with you believe that Jesus them about their day. It sounds a lot like what we parents Christ offers the only do with our own kids at bedtime. But then Adam and Eve chose to sin, resulting in a broken relationship with God and way to be born again as a child of God, and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. that you then begin to live as part of God’s I don’t think we fully understand what Adam and family. Eve had and what they lost for all of us because we’ve never experienced the perfection that they did. If I ever Sure, there will be a have regrets about any of my decisions and how they’ve learning curve. Have affected the people I care about, that is nothing compared you ever watched to the regrets Adam and Eve must have had. They had videos of foster kids to watch as every single human born after them was born broken, into a broken world. Sin was now encoded into the who are learning what it means to be part of a healthy, DNA of every human being. The design passed down by the loving family? That’s basically us while we’re here on first Adam was irretrievably, un-fixably flawed. No matter earth. We all have a lot to learn. But God is patient with us. He paid a huge price to offer us the chance to be re-made how far back we go with “Ancestry.com”, “23 and Me”, and be reconciled to him. Won’t you accept his offer? or any other DNA search, we will still be revealed to be humans, and therefore sinners. We need to have someone Blessings – Karla completely re-tool our design. God has provided that through his son, Jesus Christ. I Corinthians 15:21 & 22 say this: “For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man. For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.” The first Adam chose to disobey and through him, all humanity is now born physically and spiritually under the curse of sin and death without even having a say-so in the matter. But Jesus Christ was willing to become the second Adam. He came to earth to live as a human but he chose to obey God. Now, through him, all humanity has been given the choice to be spiritually born again as children of God.
Mark and Karla Cornick are with the Christian Motorcyclists Association. Find out more about CMA and God’s plan for you at www.cmausa.org.
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not so USELESS RAMBLINGS Grooming.... Although brain development is subject to significant
individual variation, most experts suggest that the brain is fully developed by age 25. For some people, brain development may be complete prior to age 25, while for others it may end after age 25. The mid-20s or “25” is just an average age given as checkpoint for when the brain has likely become mature. This is why laws were changed to allow our children to remain on our health insurance plans until age 26. The argument was that their brains weren’t fully developed enough to have gainful employment that would offer healthcare benefits. It’s interesting that the lawmakers don’t think our young adults are mentally capable enough to maintain gainful employment, but at the ripe age of just 18 they can enlist in our armed services to fight and die for our country, enter into legally binding contracts, get married, and vote. Although, our lawmakers have been pushing the idea that voting rights should be lowered to age 16. What could go wrong there, right? I mean, I’m sure at 16 I had a perfect understanding of our political system and what my vote would mean. The latest development for our children has been a push by our lawmakers to allow them to circumvent their parents completely. In multiple cities across this nation there have been instances of teachers in public and private schools counseling our children on their feelings that their gender identity does not align with their biological sex. These teachers and schools are fighting to keep that information away from you, the parents.
One state that has been in the news lately is the Sunshine State, Florida. Governor Ron DeStantis is really rankling some feathers down there. A certain portion of the population is pretty upset by his new bill. The Parental Rights in Education bill passed the state legislature in March 2022. This bill has been thoroughly attacked by some and dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill by those that misleadingly claimed it bans any discussion to being gay in Florida schools. The bill prohibits classroom instruction on “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” with children in the third grade and younger, “or in a manner that is not ageappropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards. The bill does not ban the word “gay” in school settings, and it does not ban casual discussion of the topics relating to sexual orientation and gender identity in the classroom. Once a child enters fourth grade these restrictions no longer exist. I encourage you to look up the bill and read its text so that you have a full understanding of its contents. So why is it that our children are being groomed? Why do some people think that second and third graders should be taught sexual orientation? What happened to reading, writing, and arithmetic? Why is sexual education being pushed onto students that haven’t even come close to puberty? Indoctrination.
The indoctrination of the population is best started when they are young. The mind, as stated earlier, is not fully developed and is much more susceptible to suggestion when it’s young. This is why it is much easier for a child to learn The Alabama state legislature has passed a bill that would a second language than it is for my 49 year old brain. Their make it a felony to prescribe or administer puberty blockers brains are sponges, we just have to be careful with what we or gender transition hormones to individuals younger allow them to soak up. than 19 – it would make it a felony to conduct gender reassignment surgeries on individuals in that age range as Early grade schoolers are being fed sexual education and well. orientation curriculum, young teens are being counseled in gender identity and transitions by school staff. In some cases In one state, public school second graders will be getting these teens have been given puberty blocking drugs without lessons related to gender identity this fall under state sex parental knowledge and consent. Some parents are actually education guidelines that will take effect this September. taking their teens in for “gender affirmation” surgeries. If The standards listed “performance expectations” for second an adult wants to self-mutilate their body in pursuit of the graders, which include discussing “the range of ways people fiction that they can defy nature and science, more power to express their gender and how gender role stereotypes may them, so long as they don’t expect me to pay for it. But no limit behavior.” One school district in the state distributed child should be allowed to make, or be put in the position of sample lesson plans indicating that first graders could be making fundamentally life-altering decisions before they are taught they can have “boy parts” but “feel like” a girl. One of the age of majority. lesson plan instructs teachers to talk to their first graders about gender identity, and its first objective is to have If you suspect that your child may be receiving classroom students be able to define “gender, gender identity, and instruction that you would not approve of, you are entitled gender role stereotypes.” Another lesson plan for second to access to all curriculum and classroom materials. You just graders tells teachers to instruct students that “there are have to request it. some body parts that mostly just girls have and some parts that mostly just boy have.” A 1974 Federal law requires schools to provide curriculum 18 - TRMI JUNE 2022
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Lucky’s on 16th 86 16th Avenue SW Cedar Rapids, Iowa (319)-200-4590 Open Daily 6AM-9PM
While spending some time in the Cedar Rapids area for a swap meet, we decided to roll out of bed ahead of schedule and make our way to one of the local spots that serve up delicious breakfast options. Lucky’s on 16th is a social hot spot in the heart of the Czech Village. Lucky’s is famous for serving great food, beer, and cocktails. Offering American comfort fare at modest prices, made Lucky’s a spot on our “must visit” list. Many weekends you can listen to live music while enjoying your meal, but since we were on a tight schedule, we figured some breakfast grub would work just fine.
me. Vernon must have been cheating off my paper, because he also went the biscuits and gravy route. Vernon opted for a unique menu item, the biscuits and gravy flight. His meal arrived in all it’s breakfast glory, three tall stacks of biscuit and gravy beauty. The first of the three options was a standard fluffy biscuit topped with a generous portion of sausage gravy. The second was just like mine, a thick biscuit, sausage patty, scrambled egg, and more creamy gravy. The third choice was one I had never tried before, a fresh biscuit, topped with a juicy piece of fried chicken, scrambled egg, and even more sausage gravy. I have never thought of putting fried chicken on my biscuits and gravy, but I am sure glad that Lucky’s did. What a delicious spot for breakfast. If you are in the boozy breakfast mood, be sure to sample their mimosas or bloody marys. Both looked delicious. And the “weekend” bloody comes with pickles, olives, and a crispy slice of bacon…so it’s basically a side dish anyway, right? The next time you are in Cedar Rapids, make sure to visit all the cool spots in the Czech Village, including Lucky’s on 16th, and tell them Thunder Roads Magazine of Iowa sent you! Until next time! Melanie J Schwarte If you have a WRTE location for us to visit, please let me know at Melanie@ thunderroadsiowa.com
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Now I want you to go to your room and the kitchen for something ng you are to stay there for TWO HOURS. When you come to eat, the mother turnss tto o out, you may play with your train, but I want you to use the father and says, “Isn’t n’tt he n’ nice language.” Two hours later, the son comes out of the smart? I wonder what h hee pl plan plans anss an bedroom and resumes playing with his train. Soon the train to be.” The father says, “From Fro rom m th thee stopped and the mother heard her son say, “All passengers smell of his fingers, I’d say ay ou ourr so sonnwho are disembarking from the train, please remember in-law.” to take all of your belongings with you. We thank you for riding with us today and hope your trip was a pleasant one. Naughty boy draws We hope you will ride with us again soon.” She hears the a penis on a black little boy continue, “For those of you just boarding, we board. Lady teacher ask you to stow all of your hand luggage under your seat. rubs it off. Next day he Remember, there is no smoking on the train. We hope you draws a bigger one and writes: wri rite tes: te s: will have a pleasant and relaxing journey with us today.” “REMEMBER THE MORE M RE MO As the mother began to smile, the child added, “For those YOU RUB THE BIGGER GER IT IT of you who are pissed off about the TWO-HOUR delay, GETS! please see the bitch in the kitchen.” I asked my wife why she never “Dear NASA: Your mom thought I was big enough.” blinked during foreplay. She said she didn’t have time. Signed, Pluto. A couple driving home hit and wounded a skunk on the A father, mother, and son were going to Europe and were road. The wife gets out and brings it back to the car. “We going to visit the nude beaches while they were there. need to take it to a vet. Its shivering, it must be cold, what They didn’t want the son to get a distorted view of beauty, should I do?” she asks. Husband replies “Put it between so they told him, “The men with really big dicks and the your legs to keep it warm.” “But it stinks!” she exclaims. girls with really, really big boobs were both really, really “So, hold its nose!” dumb.” When they got to the beach they split up. Later the mother saw the son and asked where his dad was. The boy What is the difference between Michael Jackson and a said, ‘’Well, the last time I saw him he was talking to this grocery bag? One is made of plastic and is dangerous for really, really, dumb blonde, and the longer they talked, the children to play with. The other is used to carry groceries. dumber he got.’’ What do Disney World and Viagra have in common? They both make you stand around for an hour and wait for a What does a robot do after a one-night stand? two-minute ride. Nuts and bolts. In a terrible car accident, 3 nuns die at the same time. A psychiatrist was conducting a group therapy session They all appear in front of the gates of Heaven to meet with three young mothers and their small children. “You Saint Peter. When they arrive, Peter informs them that all have obsessions,” he observed. To the first mother, he those who lived a life of the cloth must answer some basic said, “You are obsessed with eating. You’ve even named questions about theology before they are permitted to your daughter Candy.” He turned to the second mom. enter Heaven. Each of the nuns has studied their bible “Your obsession is money. Again, it manifests itself in your well, so they don’t feel worried by this. The first nun steps child’s name, Penny.” At this point, the third mother got forward and tells the saint that she’s ready. “Who was the up, took her little boy by the hand and whispered, “Come first woman?” Peter asks. “That’s easy!” exclaims the nun. on, Dick, let’s go.” “Eve!” Peter smiles, the bells toll, and the gates of Heaven open. The second nun, encouraged by her colleagues’ easy How many men does it take to open a beer? pass, steps forwards and tells Peter that she’s ready, as well. None. It should be opened by the time she brings it. “Who was the first man?” Peter asks. “Easy! That’s Adam!” says the nun, excitedly. Peter smiles, the bells toll, and the While watching TV with his wife, a man tosses peanuts gates of Heaven open. The third nun is now confident that into the air and catches them in his mouth. Just as he she won’t have any trouble, and steps up to face Peter’s throws another peanut into the air, the front door opens, question. “What were Eve’s first words to Adam?” he asks. causing him to turn his head. The peanut falls into his “My, that’s a hard one,” the nun replies worriedly, but Peter ear and gets stuck. His daughter comes in with her date. smiles, the bells toll, and the gates of Heaven open... 30 - TRMI JUNE 2022
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Two Generals were preparing for battle. The first General calls his aide and says “Bring me my red uniform!” The other General asks why he would wear a red uniform. The first General explains that if he gets wounded then his soldiers won’t see the blood and lose their courage. The other General thinks about this, then calls to his aide “Bring me my brown uniform!”
Two married buddies are out drinking one night when one turns to the other and says, “You know, I don’t know what else to do. Whenever I go home after we’ve been out drinking, I turn the headlights off before I get to the driveway. I shut off the engine and coast into the garage. I take my shoes off before I go into the house, I sneak up the stairs, I get undressed in the bathroom. I ease into bed and my wife STILL wakes up and yells at me for staying out so late!” His buddy looks at him and says, “Well, you’re obviously taking the wrong approach. I screech into the driveway, slam the door, storm up the steps, throw my shoes into the closet, jump into bed, rub my hands on A man is riding aimlessly through the my wife’s ass and say, ‘How about a blowjob?’ ....and she’s desert on a donkey. He is not hungry or always sound asleep.” thirsty, because he has a bottomless bowl of fruit. He wanders for about a week and eventually gets pretty At a government affair, the wives of four world leaders horny. He gets to the point where he can’t are chatting about how people refer to a penis in their stand it anymore. So, he decides to try countries. The wife of Tony Blair says in England people and have s*x with the donkey. He drops call it a gentleman, because it stands up when women are his pants and positions himself under the entering. The wife of Boris Yeltsin says in Russia you call donkey. But, to his dismay, the donkey it a patriot, because you never know if it will hit you on walks away. Only slightly discouraged, the front or on the back side. The wife of Chirac says in the man decides to try again. He walks to France, you call it a curtain, because it goes down after the where the donkey is standing, positions act. With great resignation, the wife of Clinton says in the himself under the donkey, and right before USA, you call it a rumor, because it goes from mouth to he goes for it, the donkey walks away again. mouth… Now the man is getting frustrated. As he prepares for his third and final try, he sees a A man suffered a serious heart attack while shopping in a vision. A beautiful, naked woman appears out store. The store clerk called 911 when they saw him collapse of nowhere. She approaches the stunned man, who to the floor. The paramedics rushed the man to the nearest until recently, believed that he was the only person for hospital where he had emergency open heart bypass hundreds of miles. She smiles at him and says, “I would do surgery. He awakened from the surgery to find himself in anything for that bowl of fruit you have.” “Anything?” he the care of nuns at the Catholic Hospital. A nun was seated says, getting fairly excited. “Yes, anything.” she replies. So, next to his bed holding a clipboard loaded with several he says, “Will you hold the donkey?” forms, and a pen. She asked him how he was going to pay for his treatment. “Do you have health insurance?” she asked. A girl goes into the doctor’s office for a checkup. As she He replied in a raspy voice, “No health insurance.” The takes off her blouse, the doctor notices a red ‘H’ on her nun asked, “Do you have money in the bank?” He replied, chest. “How did you get that mark on your chest?” asks “No money in the bank.” Do you have a relative who could the doctor. “Oh, my boyfriend went to Harvard and he’s so help you with the payments?” asked the irritated nun. He proud of it he never takes off his Harvard sweatshirt, even said, “I only have a spinster sister, and she is a nun.” The when we make love,” she replies. A couple of days later, nun became agitated and announced loudly, “Nuns are not another girl comes in for a checkup. As she takes off her spinsters! Nuns are married to God.” The patient replied, blouse, he notices a blue ‘Y’ on her chest. “How did you “Perfect. Send the bill to my brother-in-law.” get that mark on your chest?” asks the doctor. “Oh, my boyfriend went to Yale and he’s so proud of it that he never A guy walks into an elevator and stands next to a beautiful takes off his Yale sweatshirt, even when we make love,” she woman. After a few minutes he turns to her and says, “Can replies. A couple of days later, another girl comes in for a I smell your pussy?” The woman looks at him in disgust checkup. As she takes off her blouse, he notices a green ‘M’ and says, “Certainly not!” “Hmmm,” he replies. “It must on her chest. “Do you have a boyfriend at Michigan?” asks be your feet, then.” the doctor. “No, but I have a girlfriend at Wisconsin, why do you ask?” I was in Venice Beach in January and there was a homeless man with a sign that said “1 dollar for dirty joke.” Seemed A guy walks into a sperm donor bank wearing a ski mask like a good investment to me so I gladly handed over a and holding a gun. He goes up to the nurse and demands dollar. Homeless man: “Alright sir what’s your name?” Me: her to open the sperm bank vault. She says, “But sir, it’s “John” Homeless man: “So Johnny, there is black rooster just a sperm bank!” “I don’t care, open it now!” he replies. alright? How many legs does that chicken have.”? Me: So, she opens the door to the vault and inside are all the “Two?” Homeless man: “Right, now how many wings this sperm samples. The guy says, “Take one of those sperm black rooster got?” Me: “Two?” Homeless man: “Right, samples and drink it!” she looks at him, “BUT, they are now how many eyes this black rooster got?” Me: “Two?” sperm samples?” “DO IT!” So, the nurse sucks it back. Homeless man: “Right again, now there is this white cat “That one there, drink that one as well,” so the nurse drinks walking around how many hairs are on that white cat?” that one as well. Finally, after 4 samples the man takes off Me: “I don’t know? A lot?” Homeless man: “Well Johnny, his ski mask and says, “See honey it’s not that hard.” why do you know so much about black cock and not enough about white pussy.” Thunder Roads Magazine of Iowa on Facebook
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Never over-look the importance of protection. Ever so closer we inch towards our celebration of a Mid Summers Night Eve and if that doesn’t make you feel all fresh and clean, I cannot help you! And feeling fresh and clean can be a challenge when riding in June! You see what I did there! Classic segue right there people, do not try this at home because after all I am a trainer professional. You see, June might… just might be one of the most perfect months on the calendar year. Sure it can rain like a bitch, sure it can be colder than my first wife’s heart and sure it can be hotter than Satan’s sack, but it can also set up to be the best riding weather of the year. Some days are just magic with copious amounts of sunshine, the longest amount of Daylight of the year, warm evenings with amazing sunsets when you hate to see the days end. I really love June…all of it. Sure, we might get enough heat to crank up the AC, fine, I never bitch about the heat, never. I don’t care it if’s Africa hot, I am talking the bowels of the Congo heat, the oppressive heat that causes you to instantly sweat, you can’t pound enough water, I love it because you don’t have to shovel that shit! Winter sucks, let’s just call it what it is. Sure, the romance of Christmas and snow is cute and in our minds eye, a Rockwell painting with kids smiling and reindeer prancing. It’s for the birds. This is coming from a guy, me, that does like to play in the outdoors in the winter, I like to test my mettle, see what I can handle, do things that most people
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cannot do or won’t try to do in the deep dark cold that is the winter. The isolation can and will clear the mind, body and soul. That said, it’s wickedly over rated! Oh, there is glory in being cold, said very few people ever. Screw that, give me the warmth, the heat, the sun, the summer. What’s hotter? A lady with four layers of thermal gear on, not able to completely put her arms down because the cloths are so thick that she is forced to waddle, or same lady, chaps, bikini bottom, plunging v neck shirt or less? Actually, just chaps and a bandanna…but that might be rumored Algona fashion statement only. No, it’s not really, but it’s likely more acceptable there I would imagine. Free the bosom, a wonderful cause we can and should all get behind. I have loved June since I was a farm kid on the black soil dirt of Northwest Iowa. Many people ask me where I grew up and I am always proud to tell them the same thing. “Do you know where Okoboji is?” I smile and say. “Yes of course, everyone does!” Well, I am not from there. While some of my best memories and times of my life are from the Iowa Great Lakes region, I am in point of fact, not from there. However, I did grow up 68 miles from my family’s farm to the place I’d enter my Okoboji mindset, Emerson state park. Okay, really once I’d hit Vic’s Corner, my mindset changed, I went into relax mode and it didn’t matter if I was riding or driving, as a matter of fact, there are several landmarks around the lakes region that still do it for me and mostly because it used to be June when I started my visits. Speaking of riding and Boji, the statute of limitations has long since passed, the people that would be pissed are long cold and
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dead, so I talk about this now. I have mentioned this in past articles, but my first “road bike” was really a road/ trail bike, a Honda 90. It was a 1968, my grandpa gave it to me at a very young age to ride, in fact I rode that bike a million miles on trails and fields before I ever ventured onto the road with. It was the third bike that was “mine”. I started with my Easter present at 6 1/2 years old, a Red Fox Mini Bike, a Yamaha 80 that I quickly out grew out of, then on to the Honda 90. I loved that bike as much as any bike I have EVER owned. Anyway, there was this girl I met at a track meet from Storm Lake or Okoboji, I legit cannot remember what school she went to and can barely remember her name. I ran track in high school, jumping those dumbass hurdles for 400 meters, running 4x400 because it was fun! But mostly I ran track because one of the football coaches ran the track program and it was kind of expected. I enjoyed it, but mostly I loved track meets. At a certain track meet, I seem to recall it was in Rock Rapids, I chatted with some girls from the Great Lakes and next thing you know, I was planning a motorcycle trip, from my farm to the lakes, On my Honda 90. Top speed, 65 maybe, but back then 55 was still the top speed anyway. First weekend in June, hot summer Friday afternoon, we just got out of school a few days prior, I was a junior and she wanted a ride on a bike. Now, the fact that I didn’t have a motorcycle endorsement never bothered me. Oh sure, it OCCURRED to me but it never BOTHERED me. The date was in no way memorable, I barely recall what we did, but I do remember riding there and more importantly, riding home well after dark, on Highway 9 on a hot summer night with a smile on my face and no eye protection. Only a dozen or so corn moths found my eye sockets and
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two my nose. Pretty sure that wasn’t the first time I ever did something I shouldn’t have for a lady and I am willing to bet, there ain’t a dude reading this that has EVER done something stupid for a girl. June was when school ended. I could ride all the time, the crops were planted, it was a bit of a down time for the farm, and since I have been doing what I do for better than 35 years now, I still love chilling in June and enjoying when school is over, only now it’s my kids that are wrapping up their annual scholastic commitments. My thoughts are of swinging a leg over my bike, grabbing my babe, and chasing that sun. So many great biker events this June, hell every June that I look forward to. Reconnecting with fellow bikers, seeing faces that many times I only see with two wheels under me and some of my favorite joints and haunts to well…haunt again. There is something about riding a familiar road, knowing the curves, the lines, the views the small-town cafe, burger joint, dive bar or whatever, seeing places you know is only matched with the discovery of a new road, joint, or meeting a new friend. The memories that get me thru the winter are the memories I create in the summer and summer in my world is as long as I can stretch that bitch out for. Bring me those long days of June, I will chase that sunset and now I know enough to make sure I have eye protection. Todd “Crash” Davis
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Friday
Vintage Bike Night Maggie’s Rumble Room Des Moines (Every Other Week)
Dirty Biker Design Winterset (2nd Fri May, Jun, Jul, Sep, 3rd Fri Aug) R Place Pub & Pizza Kelley (2nd Friday May-Sep) Friday Night Bikes Prairie City Bike Night (3rd Friday May-Jul, 4th Fri Aug) Bondurant Bike Night at the Rails (4th Friday Apr-Sep) American Legion Post 232 Polk City (2nd Fri May-Sep) Thunder Nites Newton (2nd Friday Jun-Aug) Off Point Pub Davenport (Every Friday starting June) Burt’s Dog House Boxholm (Every Other Friday) Mean The Dutch 200 Bowl & Grill (2nd Friday May-Sep) Machine Grub Run Elkhart (1st Fri, NO Aug Event)
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Saturday
Spirit Riders Supper Ride Spencer (May 17, Jun 7,21)
Bikes & Coffee at Two Wheel Detail Pleasant Hill (2nd Sat Morning May-Aug) Happening’s Bar Steamboat Rock (3rd Sat Jun-Sep)
Monday
Wednesday Back Forty Bike Night at the Barn Des Moines (2nd Wed ) Bea’s Place Baxter Cruise Night Britt (3rd Wed Jul-Sep) Pete & Shorty’s Clarksville Dinner Rides Zylstra Harley-Davidson Ames Supper Rides HD of Carroll (5-25, 6-22, 7-20,8-31,9-7)
Thursday Edwards Bikes on the Hundred Block Council Bluffs (3rd Thursday) Roar Into Harlan (3rd Thursdays) Stumpy’s Bar & Grill Duncombe Wild Hogs Saloon & Eatery Walford (3rd Thursday) Metro HD Cedar Rapids (2nd Thursday May-Sep) East of Omaha Bike Night Griswold (1st Thurs May-Aug) Harley-Davidson of Carroll (5-19, 6-16, 7-7, 8-18, 9-1) VFW Post 9662 Des Moines (Every Thursday Apr-Oct) Des Moines Vintage Bike Night (1st Thursday May-Sep) Screamin’ Eagle Waterloo (Select Thursdays) Chommy’s Bar/Grill Eldon (3rd Thursday)
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Sunday Just 1 More Jamaica (Starting in May) The Tama Pump (Sunday)
This list is what we have found and what has been submitted. Before heading to any event, please check weather and make sure the event is not cancelled. Not responsible for misprints and typos. If you have any other events to list, please email vernon@thunderroadsiowa.com
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