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Never saw anything too far out of line, heard the hot fun is in the outlying hills at night?
A guy I worked with bought a bike faster than his reaction time... Months inpatient hospital time, two years of repair, surgery, and PT... NOT fun in the hills that night.
Motorcycle hooligans Ping!................
My one time to the rally (I have been to the area several times) my group of four Army buddies and three wives spent a week and timed it so we left on the first day of the rally.
I’m in Wyoming now visiting relatives, waiting for the crowds to clear for a quick visit before I spend two to three weeks exploring Montana and Idaho until I “take the long way home” to Texas.
I loved riding, but I knew it was just a matter of time if I kept rolling the dice.
Sounds like so much fun. /s
“There’s people laying across the floor,” he said. “Nowhere to walk. Basically, stepping over people. I got a mat to sleep on, but they ran out after a while, and then there were just people on the floor with a blanket.”
The heat, the crowds, the mayhem, the filth, the noise, the cost.... I just can’t imagine what there isn’t to enjoy.
I have a motorcycle endorsement on my drivers license for large displacement. Most motorcyclists do not.
I did my motorcycle drivers test with a Honda 1,000 cc
Gold wing.
I live in Hawaii, I sold my motorcycle as most my fellow motorcyclists have done also.
We got tired of idiots trying to kill us.
I won’t define idiots other than to say they elect
people from a party that starts with a “D”.
Today I refer to most Motorcyclists as “organ donors”.
I miss my motorcycle.
But today when that assh0le pulls out in front of me I’ll
t bone them and then wait for someone else to call for help!
I drive a truck and I’m out of date for my first responder
card.
My first rally was before our senior year of high school as a 17 year old with three buddies. We were on Japanese cruisers ( Virago, Shadows, Magna) and had given no planning to the trip. First night, slept in a park until RCPD sent us on our way. The next two nights we were lucky to find a motel room. It turned out to be vacant because the prior occupants had been arrested.
We figured out that they, and the surrounding rooms, were Bandidos. We had no issues with them. About the only interaction was when one of our group said “those are beautiful bikes” to one the first morning. The reply was “ they’re shore purty, aren’t they?”
No fake IDs were needed (and at the time the 3.2 age was 18 so no one really paid attention) and the wildest event of the trip was seeing a couple of topless women! We were high schoolers, after all, so that was as crazy! Also, it was 1984…
Been there 3 times with the wife and just about every rally in the states at least one time. After 52 years of riding and not one issue with the wife on the back (I’ve had a few riding alone including a life flight out back in 98) I decided at 70 years old I’d go out on top with the wife never getting a scratch. Sold my 2011 street glide in May..to a 75 year old Vietnam Vet !!!
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Says a lot without actually saying it ...
I’ve done the Rally a couple of times now... I still count myself as farily new to riding.
During Sturgis... I’m up fairly early and out riding most days. I hit a couple of concerts at the various venues at night. Pick up a Party Bus out of one of the campgrounds and I can let my hair down without worrying the gendarmes will make me blow into a machine.
I ride mostly alone, not part of a Club, no real beef with anyone that I know of...
Getting up in the Hills... finding a quiet spot... and just taking in the beauty of it all is what draws me back.
Sturgis is worth the trip. Unlike Daytona which is about drinking, drinking and more drinking, Sturgis is about riding. Deadwood, The Black Hills, Mount Rushmore, Devil’s Tower, the badlands, Iron Mountain Road and several other destinations will get you out of town every day. A stroll down Main Street to see the bikes and the madness is nice but not required. There is enough camping territory to handle ten times the rally attendees. If you’re not an a-hole, you won’t have any problem with the police or the one percenters.