The top 25 finishers will be paid a total of $500,000 in prizes but participants are required to ride the entire route only if they want to receive any Prizes and Awards. For these participants; their bikes will be confiscated; there will be a drug screening, a polygraph test and a thorough cross verification of receipts and the vapor trail from their tracking devices. The polygraph test will be enough to verify whether the contenders slept in a hotel or trailered their bike. The first to finish the challenge will be required to undergo a drug test and a polygraph test as well as show proof the route was completed properly by submitting receipts. |
| Hoka Hey Motorcycle Challenge |
The Hoka Hey Challenge was started by Beth and Jim (Red Cloud) Durham of Hot Springs. According to the Rapid City Journal, Jeri O'Barr filed a complaint with the State of Florida's attorney general regarding the Hoka Hey Challenge's organizers.
In her complaint, O'Barr says that "the organizers refuse to give us a number registered to ride but I have heard somewhere between 500 and 750. There were supposed to be tracking devices on the bikes ... that did not happen. There was supposed to be a film crew for a reality show.
Toni Schultz, whose husband was participating in the challenge stated, “He treated us like garbage and it absolutely blew me away," Schultz said. "He said to us ‘I used you (the riders) to get money because my people (on the reservation) needed water.'"
Oglala Sioux Tribal officials also dismissed the organizers’ statements that the money raised by participants would fund water improvements on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. OST President Theresa Two Bulls said tribal officials had not been contacted about any donations. Also, “The administration of the Oglala Sioux Tribe’s Rural Water Supply System is also unaware of a plan by the HHMC organizers to improve the water system with the revenue generated by the Hoka Hey Motorcycle Challenge,” Two Bulls said in the release.
In response, Jim “Red Cloud” Durham via cell phone from Wyoming, where he said he was “driving people’s motorcycles back,” expressed to the Homer Tribune some concern that misinformation was being spread by people not affiliated with the Hoka Hey Organization.
When questioned about the release from Oglala Sioux Tribal President Theresa Two Bulls, Durham called it a “mess” created by some crazy woman up there talking about something she knows nothing about.
The Winner Announced
Rapid City Journal
On August 11, 2010 Will Barclay, winner of the 2010 Hoka Hey Challenge received his $500,000 check at the Broken Spoke Campground in Sturgis.
Participants in the ride who attended the celebration shouted “Hoka Hey, Hoka Hey,” as Barclay accepted his check.
“This was the best event in motorcycling that I’ve ever seen, ”said Barclay. “It was a little bit of freedom, and I am absolutely glad I did it.”Jim Durham said in previous Journal stories that the purpose of the challenge was to get water into homes on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation by raising funds for the Red Cloud Humanitarian Fund.
On Wednesday at Broken Spoke, Durham said that the operation of bringing water into at least one home was successful and that “we did everything we said we would do.”
So it’s up to you what you think of the Hoka Hey Challenge. This event is strenuous both physically and mentally which can upset many people and we all know you can’t make everyone happy. Some people bitch no matter how hard you try to do good.
“It was definitely a challenge,” said Richard Stinnett of Missouri, who participated in the challenge. “A lot of people got upset quickly because it was more a mental challenge than anything.
The application deadline has been extended out to August 4th so there's still time to GET ON YOUR BIKES & RIDE!!
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