{"id":2536,"date":"2011-10-10T17:47:29","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T23:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/?p=2536"},"modified":"2011-10-10T17:47:29","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T23:47:29","slug":"oh-that-crazy-hoka-hey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/oh-that-crazy-hoka-hey\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh That Crazy Hoka Hey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What if they gave a Hoka Hey Motorcycle Challenge and nobody got any prize money? No, I&#8217;m not talking about last year&#8217;s questionable event, I&#8217;m talking about an awards ceremony that was held over the weekend . . . and Big Jim Durham said no one gets a cent.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.motorcyclecolorado.com\/BlogPix\/WillBarclayAndCheck.jpg\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" alt=\"Will Barclay at 2010 awards ceremony\" \/>I owe Dan Leffert and Alan Baumbach on this one. They were the ones who alerted me. I had pretty much ignored the Hoka Hey this year, even though they did come through a bit of Colorado. And like a lot of other people, I was only aware that Will Barclay, last year&#8217;s winner, had won again. But even Barclay doesn&#8217;t get paid this time.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the reason? As it says on the <a href=\"http:\/\/hokaheychallenge2011.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hoka Hey blog<\/a>, the winners must not exceed the speed limit. Last year all they had to depend on was issuance of speeding tickets by local jurisdictions. This year they had GPS and other fancy gear that could actually track such things. And surprise, surprise, every single one of the supposed winners exceeded the speed limit at one point or another on their 11,000 or so miles of riding.<\/p>\n<p>So no one get any prize money. Gosh, what do you suppose Jim Durham plans to do with all that cash?<\/p>\n<p>And a bigger question than that, I wonder what the reaction is at Harley-Davidson? Harley signed on as a major sponsor this year but you really have to wonder how happy they are about this turn of events. Will they be back as a sponsor next year? I guess we&#8217;ll just wait and see.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll also be extremely interested to see if even 10 riders sign up for next year&#8217;s Hoka Hey.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recent from National Motorcycle Examiner<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/motorcycles-in-national\/report-all-finishers-2011-disqualified-no-cash-payments-made\" target=\"_blank\">Report: All finishers in 2011 Hoka Hey disqualified, no cash payments made<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Biker Quote for Today<\/h3>\n<p>Horsepower: Because sometimes testosterone is not enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if they gave a Hoka Hey Motorcycle Challenge and nobody got any prize money? No, I&#8217;m not talking about last year&#8217;s questionable event, I&#8217;m talking about an awards ceremony that was held over the weekend . . . and Big Jim Durham said no one gets a cent. I owe Dan Leffert and Alan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[325],"tags":[292],"class_list":["post-2536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycle-events","tag-hoka-hey-motorcycle-challenge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2536"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2541,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536\/revisions\/2541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}