So we are gonna call this one

Bell Cow Lake and one long

ass dirt road.

We left out of OKC early Sat morn June 25

headed for one of our favorite breakfast places,

POP'S in Arcadia Ok about 35 miles from home.

Then plan was simple eat a good breakfast and head up Hwy 177 north towards Stillwater then head west towards Guthrie and HWY 77 and on back to home.

We would be headed no place in general just a big loop and to be out on the road is all we wanted.

We got to POP's around 7:45 and the place was dead??? we were the only ones there besides the people that work there. Usually when we get there the place is busy. We got our booth and ordered our food, ate drank our coffee and watch as people started arriving. Done with breakfast it was time to head out. We hit rt 66 ready to see what we could see. We made our left turn onto hwy 177 north and graded us some gone. It didn't take long for our plans to change. We came across a sign we had seen many times. 4 1/2 miles est on E 870 is Bell Cow Lake, we had passed by this place many many times, but today was the day to check it out. It's a big lake out in the middle of nowhere and it's pretty nice lake to boot. The out has some twisties (we like twisties) and some upsy and downsys and that was fun, like riding a roller coaster. As we were heading to the end of the road which was a camp area for the lake Lynn said she seen a cemetery, so we checked it out on the way out.

We headed back out to hwy 177 north and headed towards Stillwater. About 10 miles down the road I decided to make a right onto hwy 105 and head to Tryon which we had never been to. We made our right turn and less than 1/2 mile on the north side of the hwy there was another cemetery so we stopped

Back on the road and east toward Tryon and just right out side of this small town a rather large cemetery.

We rolled onto Tryon got a cold lemonade and gas and headed out again.

Now we have never rode hwy 105 east soooooooooooo we decided to do that.

We rolled east at a fair pace and enjoying the ride, when we seen a sigh that said cemetery and off roading we went. Yeah we never found the cemetery but we did ride all the way back to Luther and Arcadia and POP's on one of the longest and roughest dirt, lose gravel and sandy roads we have ever been on.

We pulled back into POP's to get a cold drink late afternoon covered in Oklahoma red dirt and Skull well she looked like we had abused her.

The looks on the other bikers faces was priceless.

and POP's was hopping, man a ton of people unlike when we were there about 6 hours earlyer.

we had a few people come up and look Skull over and a few questions were asked.

We drank our drinks and fired our girl up and roared out of the parking lot headed for home.

It was a good ride and a little odd.

So I put this video together a little odd, to show what our rides can be like in one day

ENJOY

 

bell cow lake from Lon Stoner on Vimeo.

Riding SW Oklahoma

We headed out towards Our new house and thought we would take a few roads we had not

taken before and take a few road we have run again.

The plan was simple to check out a few cemeteries that we see from the I-44 turnpike and at the

same time see what ones we run across.

We had never been to The Ft. Sill Natl. Cemetery so that was one we knew we were going to.

Now the Ft Sill Natl Cemetery is close to Ft Sill Okla. but it's closer to Elgin Oklahoma, matter

of fact it's 5 miles SW of Elgin off of Hwy 277 and you can see the flags from I-44.

Now I going to give in a bit of information about the pic's and the 2 videos.

You will see a tall mountain in the back ground.

That is Mount Scott it is almost 3,000 feet tall and it's 60 miles from our new home.

Yes 3,000 feet is what we here in Oklahoma call Mtns. 

We spent about 9 hours in the heat on 2 wheels and almost 300 miles just riding and taking

pictures.

See when it's 95 degrees and 103 or so heat index Lynn and I ride, we don't sit inside and

wait for the sun to go down, WE RIDE.

enjoy the 2 videos and see ya out on the road.

 

ft sill natl cemetery from Lon Stoner on Vimeo.

Lake Lawtonka from Lon Stoner on Vimeo.

Out And About

Our 2 day adventure

First update on Falkor

HE'S STILL ALIVE (lol)

We are still having to give him his pills every 8 hours so our riding is still short half day rides

so we try to go as far and see as much as we can.

We took off Fri late after noon for a early supper ride on the way back to town we found an old barn.

Even though it had a "No Trespassing"  sign by the gate well we still had to get some pictures.

 Check out the view

 After that we headed to a local lake for a few more pic's

 local wildlife

 oh and this guy

This guy wanted to get his ducky on

Back home and in for the night

Saturday morn would bring a chance for a longer ride

Up early Saturday Morn and off to Pop's for breakfast

and look what we found

There was a whole hurd of sports cars getting ready to run Rt 66

Check out the $200,00.00 Lambo

WEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeee

Some how we ended up at St Gregory's Abby in Shawnee.

So us being us we pulled in and walked the campus, talked with a monk

and took tons of pic's.

 Lynn lighting a candle for her grandmother

And here's your video

it was GOOD to be out on the road

 

Shawnee, Pop's and an Old barn from Lon Stoner on Vimeo.

Mother's day 2016

So mothers day is once again upon us, now in the past

We have switched off between riding and going to Muskogee Oklahoma to the renaissance festival. Well this year since Falkor is still not doing well we decided to do the festival only with a twist.

I decided to take care of two mothers with one move.

To make grandma's day we would take ElizaBeth our 3 year old granddaughter and at the same time her mama would be able to get some rest when she got home from work.

So we gathered our garb loaded the car picked up ElizaBeth and headed out.

and here's your video (lol)

 

mother's day 2016 from Lon Stoner on Vimeo.

TheChopperUnderground.com

The Chopper Underground

A bit of history

 

TheChopperUnderground.com

What is The Chopper Underground aka TCU? Well, I will do my best at trying to explain where we come from, who we are and what we are about in the next few words.


TCU is an online forum made up of many unique custom bike builders from around the globe. We are not one brand specific and welcome all makes of motorcycles. It is a home to those of us who want to build a bike the way we see it without mortgaging our homes or selling our kids. We have a strong motto and we stick by it. “Chop What Ya Got”

My journey with TCU started in June of 2004. I had just traded a blown up Kawasaki KZ650 for a running and ready to ride 69 Triumph Bonneville (Yes, I stole it) and was quick to realize I wanted to make it different without breaking the bank. I quickly jumped online and started searching for custom Triumph choppers and ran across this small backyard builder website called “Chopper Underground”. I joined this free website with roughly 1400 members and fell in love with the stuff that the members of this place were building. Not only did they have very nice Triumph builds going on but I seen beautiful built Honda’s, Kawasaki’s, Yamaha’s, Suzuki’s and some European bikes. I WAS HOME!

Fast forward a couple of years and the man who started this great site up had disappeared. The site was about to fold and each night after reading the posts and seeing the member’s talents that had been logged getting ready to disappear into internet oblivion I knew I had to do something and do something quick. I was no computer genius but I figured out a way to save all of the information from this website and transform it into what it is today. Here we are 6 years later with a roughly 10,500 registered members. I could not have done it without the help of some very key members who stepped up to assist in the administrator and moderator duties along the way. These outstanding members and I have seen some rough times but as any bike builder knows, you learn the most from those rough times and mistakes. We now have a new home and have worked hard to build it. It has since been re-badged with a new logo and new URL, http://www.thechopperunderground.com/. I am honored to call of these talented members my family. 

 

And now my story starts

I joined TCU in August 2011, looking for a place to call home and move away from another site.

That story is for another time. After joining Lynn I would ride many thousands of miles to meet some of the people on the site, we would also meet Chris (Car99's) who was the owner and Admin. of The Chopper Underground. We would drop in to visit Chris three times and would have a great time each visit. And lets face it riding with the Flatlanders in Illinois is a great way to spend time.

Fast forward to March 2016 and Maxx who was the Admin after Chris passed the site to him makes the announcement that TCU was shutting down, this could not happen.

So I sent messages to Chris and Maxx letting them know I had the time and funds to keep the site going.

On March 26 2016 I became The Admin (caretaker) of The Chopper Underground.

I hope to do as good of a job as those that came before me.

WhiteWolf