Category: Iron Butt Association

Justin was at it again…  He and his team devised yet another brain-tweaker for the fourth edition of the How the West was Won 32-hour rally.  This year’s theme was Heaven and Hell, with...

June 28, 2017 The 11-day 11,000 mile Iron Butt Rally riders began their challenging journey from Minneapolis on June 21st.  They scattered about the USA and Canada making their way to Checkpoint 1 in...

February 25, 2017 Cliff Wall and Bill Thweatt have been luring long distance riders from around the United States for 6 years now with the DFW Defective Gene Pool Ride to Eat at Big...

It was time to wrap up the Pressed Penny Insanity.  This whole ride was due to Mike Kneebone with the Iron Butt Association pitching an idea that he and Donna Fousek envisioned – collect...

This is the third year for Justin Philipson’s How the West was Won rally.  Justin chooses great places for ride starts and he and his scouts do a lot of homework ahead of the rally...

July 24, 2014 It was time for another IBA-style ride.  I found the How the West Was Won 32-hour endurance rally in the Iron Butt Association site several months earlier.  Justin Philipson was the rally...

February 22, 2014   Cliff Wall and Bill Thweatt orchestrated the Iron Butt Association gathering of the DFW Defective Gene Pool in Allen, TX.  This year’s honorees were Bo Griffin for running out of gas...

November 1, 2013 The annual meeting and party for the Iron Butt Association is held in Irving, TX this year.  The event outing for Friday is a 1,065-mile ride down to the Gulf and...

August 21, 2013 Robert and Sylvie Torter orchestrated an enticing 32-hour rally based out of Big Sky Montana.  I was looking forward to it for months.  My ride into Colorado in July was somewhat...

The Prologue… Work has been way too busy…  I was at the annual HIMSS conference in New Orleans.  We’re buying hospitals and merging with other healthcare systems.  Connected medical equipment continues to tweak my...