A Real Time Ride Report with DK Customs

One of our site sponsors, DK Customs, is starting a nice road trip starting in Joplin, MO and ending in Dells, WI. We are going to share some of their trip and you can follow the live blog in the forums here. Make sure to leave some comments and feedback below or in the forum thread!

Friday morning, ready to roll out of Mississippi to Joplin, MO, the starting city of the Hot Bike Tour.

Cutting the corner of Tennessee for 40 miles or so to get to Arkansas.

Crossing the Mississippi River into Arkansas.

We had some fun in the winding foothills in Arkansas. Perfect riding weather in the mid 80’s.

The bike is running perfectly. Great sound, pulling strong, running cool, good mpg. Very happy with it!

Entering Missouri.

Covered around 200 miles in Missouri…mostly highway miles.

I have a lot of foot positions between the floorboards, heel rests and highway pegs.

Mary has her footboards, she’ll put her feet up on my legs now and then. Recently she discovered that it’s a nice change to put her feet up on the top of the bag guards.

Getting close to Joplin. We covered a tad over 400 miles today, getting to the starting point.

Already a few bikes here…registration is tomorrow, so we’ll see a lot more then.

Yes, that is John Zamora’s blue low rider. If you looked at the ride report from last years Tour, you’ll see it was gold then…he didn’t like it so changed it up. I think the blue looks pretty good.

Had a good chat with Jeff of Bagger Mag and Hot Bike Mag, also Dave of Hot Bike mag. Met up with several folks who I rode with last year on the Sporty, and met some new folks too. Glad Mary is riding with me this year.

Gonna be fun!