Kenny’s Bio about who he is and what we do at Revelation Motorcycles

My name is Kenny McElwain and I make my home in Lake Havasu City, AZ but I am originally from Sturgis, SD. 

My dad bought my brother and me our first bike at age 10 and I purchased my first Harley Davidson at age 22. Today I am 49 and I literally eat, breathe and think about Harleys constantly. Many tell me I bleed orange and black. My garage is all done in Orange and Black with every Harley memorabilia you can imagine. One bedroom is all done in Harley including carpet, bedspread and awesome paintings by Scott Jacobs. In fact my wife’s wedding ring is the Harley Davidson insignia ring full of diamonds. My passion when I am not riding is wrenching on Harleys. While I have a shop in Havasu called Macs Bike and Body Works the economy has pretty well shut it down and it now is in my garage. However I still wrench and have built my own bikes called Revelation Motorcycles. This spring my wife and I are relocating back to Sturgis, SD to open another shop called Old Skool cycle Works. I hope to have the shop opened before Sturgis rally of this year. We have the property now it is just about building the shop and getting started. I love the Black Hills and want to come back home something fierce. I believe this shop will give me the opportunity to come home to the place I was raised and give back to a community that gave so much to me while I was growing up.  Arizona is nice but the riding is limited in the Black Hills this is not the case. While I have ridden all over South Dakota in over 39 years of riding it I still have not seen it all. So moving back will give me a chance to keep on riding and experiencing all its beauty.

I am always up to a challenge so when I heard about the Hoka Hey Challenge I jumped right on it. I love to ride and have gone as far as 1000 miles in one day so to be able to push myself further is a challenge I am ready to take. My wife and I have traveled all over the Western US and Canada on our Ultra Classic Harley and I have ridden from Lake Havasu City, AZ which is on the AZ/CA border to Daytona, FL and back and from Lake Havasu City, AZ to La Conia, NH.

When you hear the saying “Ride to Live and Live to Ride” that just about says it all about me. Rain, shine, snow, wind, you name it I have ridden in it. That’s how passionate I am about riding. The only thing more important to me than riding is my relationship with God, (which I recommend to anyone riding out here) and my wife and family.
While I am definitely all about winning and helping my family with the money I am also about the ride. Just to have an opportunity like this and to say I did it is a pleasure within itself not to mention a great feat if I survive it. After all I am not getting any younger so I do not know if I will ever have this opportunity again. As far as the prize money goes, I am no different than many out there riding today who has been hit by this economy. But through my faith in God and perseverance of never giving up my wife and I have been sustained though we truly don’t know how. It has to be God. So the money will come in handy to pay off all debt and to owe no man anything ever again except to love him. You have no idea what a blessing that would be and how much I have learned about never wanting to be in debt again.

As mentioned earlier I build custom motorcycles called Revelation Motorcycles. I have a web site called revelationmotorcycles.com that pictures some of the bikes I have built. The reason it is called Revelation is all my bikes have names taken from scripture out of the book of Revelation in the Bible. When you go to my web site you can learn all about my bikes and me.

I have never gone to school to learn how to wrench on bikes. All my knowledge comes from first hand experience of just doing it. I have been building bikes and hot rods for people since I was 18 and graduated from Wyoming Technical institute in Laramie, WY for paint and body work in 1979.

I am fortunate that I share my life with my wife, Dawn, who loves to ride as much as I do. While my wife does not ride her own anymore she loves sitting behind me and sharing our time together on the road wherever we may be. She even wrenches on bikes when needed although getting dirty and greasy is not usually her thing. She too has first hand knowledge of the hazards of riding in any kind of weather and has been riding on Harleys since she was 15 years of age. So I guess after this long it is beyond just a passion for us it is in our blood.

I believe in God and country. I am Native American and believe this country has taken a turn for the worse. There are not enough people out there willing to fight for America besides our troops. We have become complacent. We have taken prayer out of school, and God out of the Pledge of Allegiance.

I can’t understand this thinking. I said the Pledge of Allegiance everyday in school and I believe it is what has made me so patriotic today. Today I am proud to be an American and proud to represent God and country. One Nation under God with liberty and justice for all doesn’t even exist, and I believe it should. My concern is how many in our future generation can recite the Pledge of Allegiance. How many know, “ for which it stands”? This is scary but this is the future we are heading for.

I am a solid American and standup and fight for our liberties and I am against the injustices that are done by our government and whomever. I believe as an American I should be allowed to ride free and want it to stay that way. I think this challenge represents all I am stating and if I am one of many chosen to ride, I feel privileged to of been given the opportunity and will ride proudly my American made Harley Davidson to the best of my ability.

Hi,

We're Ken and Dawn McElwain, founders of Revelation Motorcycles Ministries. We would like to take this time to tell you a little about us and how Revelation Motorcycles Ministries began.

Both Dawn and I grew up riding with outlaw motorcycle gangs. We understand the lifestyle of living and riding in so-called freedom, brotherhood, and the thrill of living on the edge.

The difference is today we truly do ride free and don't have to live with having to always look over our shoulders or wake up with a gut ache sick feeling wondering what the day will bring.

The goal of Revelation Motorcycles Ministries is to show others how you can still have the companionship, the brother and sisterhood, and bond of friendship without having to live in the bondage of fear, anxiety, or always feeling like you have to perform for someone or be something you're not or don't want to be.

Jesus came to set the captives free and today both Dawn and I are free from the chains that bound us. Hebrews 4:15 & 16 tells us Jesus understands all we've been through because He Himself has been there. The best part is we don't have to go through anything alone.

Hebrews 13:5 is the promise from God that says, He will not leave us or relax His hold on us. Revelation Motorcycles Ministries stands on the promises of God.

If this introduction has touched you in any way or you just want to know more about Revelation Motorcycles Ministries, then we would love to hear from you.

Just email us at info@revelationmotorcycles.com or write us at 1867 Willow Ave., Lake Havasu City, AZ 86403

God Bless you and we look forward to hearing from you.
Ken & Dawn