Saturday morning, April the 28^th about eight am, my  two friends, Wendell on his 72 Honda CB350 twin, Dennis on his 71  Kawasaki 250 Samurai A1-B, and me on my trusty old 65 Honda 305 Superhawk, left Wichita Kansas along with the chase truck and headed East to Latham, Ks. About forty miles from

The plan for this day would be to ride with other VJMC members and potential members on a pre determined  course of about a 150 mile loop. Everything looking good, the old bikes ran beautiful. As we arrived at Latham there was about  twenty people all ready there with their old bikes. It was already 9:30 am or so, and we were looking forward to having some breakfast before the start of the ride.

Now, Latham is a real cowboy town.  The population in Latham is about 164, and most everyone has at least one horse. With twenty motorcycles parked on main street it had a lot of folks wondering just what was going on.  Well, after breakfast we got everyone’s attention and gave them the low down on the ride. At 10:30am we rolled out of Latham and headed south on a black top road, as I checked in my mirror to make sure the red chase truck was there. We had thirteen bikes in all. The road went straight for about ten miles then it was hills and 35 and 45 MPH curves. We rolled into Cambridge  where I then took a count to make sure that everyone was still with us.

After a short check we rolled on down to Dexter, where the Henry Candy Co. is.  This place is where the original O’Henry candy bar was first made. The temperature at this point was 72 degrees and all sunshine. A perfect day for a ride.  Virtually, no wind.  After about  30 minute’s of taking care of our sweet tooth, we were on the move again.

  Now we head down a road that is called the Grouse Creek Road. It’s about the most beautiful riding area in south central Kansas. This time of year everything is starting to green up. As we make our way on down to Highway 166, stopping just long enough to account for everyone, we headed west on 166 for a couple of miles and then turned off at the Silverdale road and on into Silverdale, population 50. Silverdale is noted for it large quarry of sand stone. Not spending much time there, we pressed on to Arkansas City, Ks. where most everyone got gas. Then taking some back and side roads we ended up at Wendys for lunch. After everyone had eaten and rested, we moved on north on the old highway 77 (now a county road) to county road 20, where we traveled east back to Dexter and went north on K-15 to highway 160 near Burden, Ks.

From there we went west about three miles to a small café they call “The Little Hooker Bait shop and Café”. The temperature was now about 80 degrees. Time to shed some clothes. After a piece of pie and something to drink, we moved out and crossed the Dam at Winfield lake. Headed north now toward the small town of  Atlanta, Ks..

Everyone seemed to be enjoying the ride. We arrived back in Latham around 4:00pm.  You can tell if everyone has enjoyed the ride by the way they hang out at the end of it. Well maybe they were just to tired to move on. I would like to thank all the riders and support folks that made this a great day to ride.

Kansas area Rep, Bob Lee