16-year-old Rides Motorcycle Over The Colorado Rocky Mountains

Donovan Cook, a student at East High School, rides a Kawasaki Z650 motorcycle from Las Vegas to Denver over Easter weekend. End Quote

Denver, CO (1888PressRelease) April 08, 2021 - 16-YEAR-OLD RIDES MOTORCYCLE OVER THE COLORADO ROCKY MOUNTAINS
Donovan Cook, junior student at East High School, rides a Kawasaki Z650 motorcycle from Las Vegas to Denver over Easter weekend
By Curtis Cook | April 6, 2021

A 16-year-old kid, from Denver, may be the youngest to ever ride a street motorcycle across the Colorado Rocky Mountains. While most kids are struggling to pass the driver’s exam, Donovan Cook, a 16-year-old junior at East High School, is living the open-road dream. Just weeks after a major snowstorm dumping as much as three feet of snow in Colorado, father and son plan a weekend motorcycle ride in sunny Las Vegas. In parts of the country (i.e., Florida, Texas, California, Arizona, and Nevada) where the sun shines brightest, many motorcyclists begin their first ride of the season, while others still wait for the tail end of winter to give way. But if there’s a strong enough will to ride, then there always a way to extend your motorcycle riding season, even in the winter months. For Donovan and his father (owner of AnotherRideDay Travel & Tours), it’s by storing motorcycles in the warmest states across the U.S. – Las Vegas being one of them.

Obtaining his permit at age 15 and driver’s license, one year later, at age 16, Donovan, like most Colorado teens, are all too eager to get behind the wheel of a vehicle. However, when your father is a devoted motorcycle rider, getting behind two wheels is the ultimate goal. With good behavior, exemplary grades, and money saved up from a summer job, there was little a parent can do to deny the request for a motorcycle permit, especially when your father has five modern motorcycles in his collection – 4 Hondas (2010 VT1300 custom cruiser, 2013 VFR1200f sport, 2015 1800 Valkyrie, and 2017 VFR1200X adventure bike) and 1 Suzuki (2018 GSX S1000f sport). So a six motorcycle was added, the Kawasaki Z650.

In an open warehouse district parking lot, Donovan practice all the necessary techniques of motorcycle riding, to include balance & braking, throttle control & gear shifting, braking, counter steering, and more. His first curvy mountain father and son ride was Lookout Mountain, Clear Creek Canyon, and Squaw Pass. His first long-distance father and son ride was two hours north of Denver to Curt Gowdy State Park in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Riding motorcycles was one of the few outdoor activities allowed for Donovan, due to strict Coronavirus (COVID-19) guidelines. But while others ended their outdoor activities due to winter weather conditions, Donovan only delayed his by storing his motorcycle in Las Vegas. By March, Las Vegas began its warm weather climb to 72 degrees, and by Spring Break, a reported 87 degrees.

In what is commonly known, in the Cook household, as a “Fly-In, Ride-Ride Weekend Getaway”, Donovan and his father fly from Denver International Airport to Las Vegas McCarran International Airport for a routine weekend of motorcycle riding. However, on this Easter weekend, a warm-weather front heats Las Vegas up to a reported 90 degrees and the Colorado Rocky Mountains to 68 degrees. That’s when a weekend of motorcycle riding turned into a road-trip ride back home to Denver. With plans to only ride a minimum of four hours a day, Donovan exceeds expectation and road six hours (406 miles) from Las Vegas to Green River, Utah. With a night rest at the newly constructed Holiday Inn Express & Suites, Donovan and his father continued East, past Grand Junction and Glenwood Springs, up the snow-covered mountains of Vail and Cooper, and down through Silverthorne, Georgetown, Idaho Springs into the City of Denver, Colorado. Another five and a half hours (350 miles) of riding through what some say are the most scenic landscapes and epic road trips ride on every motorcyclist's bucket list. When asked what’s next, “I just want to enjoy and remember all I’ve seen and accomplished on this ride, before planning the next,” said Donovan. That’s both enjoying the ride and the journey, what motorcycle riding is all about.

For more information
Contact: Benita Bazemore-Cook (Mother)
Phone: 1.443.768.7236
E-Mail: Benitabmore ( @ ) gmail dot com
Instagram: ( @ ) unknown_donnie, ( @ ) ridelifeARDtv

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