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The Carolinas’ Full Throttle Magazine
A Sunday Ride To Meet New Friends By: Wally Wersching n Sunday April 26th, I had to go for a ride. It was too beautiful out with temps in the low 70’s’ under sunny blue skies. I had no special place in mind when I left. I headed west on Rte. 74. When I turned right onto Washburn Switch Road, I thought that I might stop in at the CCIB clubhouse if anybody was there. After a couple miles, I rode under the new Rte. 74 bypass for the bypass. Years ago, they built a bypass for the road that went through Shelby. Since then, it has been built up so that the bypass has more congestion on it than the original Rte. 74. Now they are building a bypass for the bypass that will go far enough outside of Shelby that there should be no congestion. We’ll see how that works. There was nobody at the CCIB Clubhouse, so I continued until I turned right onto Hollis Road heading north. I was really enjoying the back roads of the county. People were out and about working in their yards or playing with their kids. It was very relaxing. When I got to Stagecoach Road, I turned right and followed
it into Polkville. I saw a motorcycle parked at the gas station, and pulled in. Since there are no events to attend, I haven’t been able to give away many of the Carolinas’ Full Throttle magazines that I get each month. Now I look for bikes parked and stop to give magazines away. There was a young lady standing next to the Harley in the
