Bill Dragoo wins American Adventure Rider Challenge

Well fellow Okies, we have a celebrity in our midst. Bill Dragoo recently competed in the 2008 American Adventure Rider's Challenge held each year in California. This event puts riders on big dual sport adventure travel motorcycles and puts them through a series of skills challenges, such as riding up knarley trails, across a swinging suspension bridge, and u-turns through heavy sand - things you might come across on a world-spanning adventure ride.

Bill was representing Ride Oklahoma and Adventure Motorcycle/Dual Sport News magazine at this event. He was initially supposed to ride a 2008 Kawasaki KLR-650 but the factory bike was late arriving, so KTM stepped in to provide him a 2008 950 Super Enduro.

Well, Bill did us good there. He WON the event against well over 50 world class adventure riders! Yep, top place overall. Pretty darn cool.

Watch for a full story in an upcoming issue of Ride Oklahoma Magazine.