EPISODE 102 | A Hoka Hey Motorcycle Challenge Strategy with Rider 954
Listen to Steve Davis’ Story
About Steve Davis’ Episode
Today we’re talking the 2022 Hoka Hey Motorcycle Challenge with guest Steve Davis. He’s a Navy veteran, leader at work, husband, parent, and avid motorcyclist.
I first learned of Steve Davis in 2020 when he decided to do the Hoka Hey Motorcycle Challenge for the first time. Two years ago, I documented his ride on socials because it was such an interesting journey. There’s more behind it than just getting on a motorcycle and going.
As you’ll hear today from Steve, there weren’t only physical and navigational challenges to overcome across 10,000 miles of American back roads, but by the end of his journey, he’d had a complete perspective shift about the importance of time and risk taking.
We start out digging deep into spirituality and faith quite a bit, but Steve admits this isn’t a topic that comes up in his everyday life often. But there’s an important wink from Steve’s late mom that ties into his faith that assists with taking on the Hoka Hey.
Then we shift into finding the fun in challenges and some of Steve’s personal story, including how he and his wife, Dawn Davis, fell in love and embarked on a dream of motorcycling together as recently as 2016.
Steve and Dawn Davis will be riding in the 2022 Hoka Hey Motorcycle Challenge starting on June 26. They’ll be launching from and finishing in Sturgis, South Dakota.
Steve is returning rider #954. He completed the 2020 Hoka Hey Motorcycle Challenge in an impressive 12 days. His wife, Dawn Davis is new rider #1064. She’s the shortest person to ever attempt a Hoka Hey Motorcycle Challenge. If they successfully complete the challenge, they’ll be only the second couple to have ever completed the challenge on two separate bikes.
Steve is riding to raise money for the veteran non-profit called Angels Alive. They support veterans in integrating back into society and regaining their sense of community and purpose. We even reflect a bit on what veterans go through when they come home after deployment and why supporting them during that time matters.
Dawn is riding to raise funds for St. Jude Children’s Hospital to honor, as she puts it, “two very special angels who will be guiding their parents through this challenge.”
So what do you say?
Let’s help these riders meet their fundraising goals for these amazing charities.
Highlights from Steve Davis’ Interview
Getting to know Steve Davis, returning Hoka Hey Rider 954
All about the Hoka Hey Motorcycle Challenge - a 10,000 mile ride on back roads
The role of destiny and fate versus free will
How fate and free will can coexist
How a teacher, guide, or mentor can also be a warrior
Having faith
Proof in heaven
Getting a glimpse of Mom who passed on while in Sturgis, SD, where the Hoka Hey is launching from this year
Considering what it’s like to see life begin and life end and how it ties into faith
Adopting the mindset of have faith, know love, be heroic as a driver in life
Flight school not working out and what it was like to re-evaluate
Steve is one of 600 people to have completed the challenge
The strategy Steve used to complete his first Hoka Hey Motorcycle Challenge
stopping when needed
sleeping on the bike
Why Steve chose to ride in the Hoka Hey Motorcycle Challenge in 2020
Steve’s experience getting on a motorcycle for the first time in 2016
How riding a motorcycle feels like flying an airplane
The appeal of an endurance-type event
The questions Steve asked himself when making the decision
The importance of practice
Preparing for rain
Why Steve chose Angels Alive as the charity he rides the Hoka Hey for
Lessons learned on the first Hoka Hey ride that Steve can apply to other areas of his life
When time stopped mattering
“It’s a good day to die.”
Defining goals
What goes into getting into the Hoka Hey Motorcycle Challenge
How Steve is preparing for the 2022 Hoka Hey Motorcycle Challenge
Easter eggs on the route
Getting back into life after the 10,000 mile ride and the lessons there that we can use to empathize with what veterans go through when they come home from deployment
Homecoming
Who is Steve Davis?
A believer, a soulmate, a leader, a challenger, a human: Amplified.
Steve lives a life of interesting challenges.
He graduated from the United States Naval Academy with a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering, but almost didn’t.
He snuck in an unauthorized handshake with President Bush Senior at a graduation ceremony
He parallel parked an aircraft carrier between two oil tankers
He landed an airplane with emergency response vehicles chasing him
He has been one of less than 100 to serve as a National Reconnaissance Office Technology Fellow solving a top intelligence problem
His first homework assignment submission in Public Health Informatics became a presentation at CDC’s Weight of the Nation 2012, a national conference on obesity prevention and control.
He has witnessed death and birth
Although strong in faith, he has been blessed with proof of heaven.
He has experienced love at first sight and the unity of lovers beyond soulmates.
He has encountered sharks, bears, and buffalo and run marathons
He has been employed and unemployed, he has been an intern and a leader
He has lost dreams and gained them
One of Steve’s most recent challenges came out of learning to ride a motorcycle in 2016 out of supporting his soulmate’s dream. Six weeks later, Steve set his sights on the most difficult challenge in the sport – The Hoka Hey Motorcycle Challenge. It has shaped him into the man he was meant to become. Steve is one of 600 people in the universe to complete the challenge successfully. The 2022 challenge is next on his experience list.
Learn More About Why Steve and Dawn Davis are Riding in the Hoka Hey Motorcycle Challenge
Donate to Support Steve and Dawn Davis’ Charities
@AngelsAliveGa on Venmo
Follow Steve and Dawn’s Hoka Hey Journey on the Map
Find the map at HokaHeyChallenge.com.
Find Steve and Dawn on the map using these call signs:
#954-BBK-XXX-Davis
#1064-Ladybug-Davis
Connect with Steve
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CREDITS: INTRO AND OUTRO MUSIC AND EPISODE EDITING BY RYAN SAULS. EPISODE PRODUCTION AND GRAPHICS BY BRANDI FLECK. SOUND EFFECTS FROM ZAPSPLAT.COM. MID-EPISODE MUSIC IS “Switch Me On” BY SHANE IVERS AT SILVERMAN SOUND STUDIOS. BIO AND PHOTOS PROVIDED BY STEVE DAVIS.
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