Lying back in his seat and traversing U.S. 79 in his specially made bicycle, Kenny Gober of Little Rock rode with the wind heading into Wabbaseka, the furthest point northeast in all the Tour de Bluff stops.
“It is more comfortable, but I’m on it because I had some disks fused in my neck, and I got some that need to be replaced in my lower back, back from my college football (days) and all,” said Gober, a McGehee native who played at Henderson State University. “This is more aerodynamic, so it gives me a hand in that.”
Gober and the rest of his peloton cycled into the Willie K. Hocker Memorial for a pit stop before heading toward Pine Bluff to complete their ride in the 22nd annual Tony Carruth Memorial Tour de Bluff. About 115 riders took off Saturday morning from the Pine Bluff Civic Center and journeyed through one of six routes, from the Railroad Museum 8-mile to the 63-mile path, sending bikers as far southeast as Arkansas 88 and up to the heart of Wabbaseka, back down U.S. 79 Business and north into Arkansas 15 and 31 before heading south into Pine Bluff…