[diatomite]

Years ago when I was evaluating gold prospects in the Black Hills around Sundance, I wasn’t aware of Sturgis and had to book a motel room in Gillette. So on the I90 drive back to Sundance, I would see all these motorcycle trailers just outside of town. These bikers weren’t up to driving all the way across country from the west on their hogs, but they towed them to roughly the South Dakota state line, then unloaded and rode them on in to Sturgis. This “cheat” sort of destroyed my mental image of rough, tough bikers riding across America to get to Sturgis.

[bdfromlv]

We used to call them (American Express riders) new leathers, clean bikes, it was OK but easy to identify. Hard core was the Texas bikers on a hard tail with a P pad and a bed roll.