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Thanks guys.......Trailer and Duelly are all hooked up and ready to go first thing Wednesday morning...About 3800 miles for me round trip and I really don't have the extra time, so trailering the four bikes is the only way to go.

Better have a good reason. Those boys up there take care of things rather quickly, no law enforcement needed.

Sounds good! I rode a rented Harley the one time I visited Sturgis Bike Week. Picked it up in the Twin Cities and had a nice ride from there. I wouldn't care to ride from the east coast all the way to SoDak. 1700 miles is a long drive in a 4-wheel vehicle, and on a bike you'd need an ass of iron.

I know guys who've done it, but they fit the iron-ass description, and the only thing harder than they ass is they head. I doubt even Bristoe would ride from home to Sturgis and back!!!

Looks like a clown show.

I'll pass.

Ya know, it's comments like this one by okok (not to mention his whole "Dynasty" clusterphuqk last winter) that make me truly wonder if he's old enough to drive yet...

We had occasion some years ago to head out that way one first week in August. Started picking up Sturgis traffic in Dallas. Actual convoys of the same by OKC.

Grand Island Nebraska, a whole state away, "welcome bikers" signs started appearing, and campgrounds devoted to the same were found all across the Sand Hills.

From up on Bear Butte outside of town you could see distant lines of Harley coming across the plains like ants.

I do hope they've been successful in stopping the sprawl from impeding on the view from the 'butte.

I'll not call that "going to Sturgis", Bear Butte was as close as we got, but Sturgis ain't a bad thing to have on one's bucket list.

Planning to do the Isle of Man TT with my son next year myself, but that's all about motorcycle races, warm beer, cold drizzle, and soggy fish and chips. Nary a "SHOW US YOUR TITS" sign anywhere.

Birdwatcher

Damn, dude, where's the fun in that?!?!?

Sturgis is a freak show, which is why folks go. It's actually a pretty safe and affordable freak show, at that. I liken it to such spectacles as the Kentucky Derby (Hunter S. Thompson's article on that schitshow in 1970 still holds true today), the Daytona 500, and soccer's World Cup Final. You ought to go at least once in a lifetime to see the elephant, to prove to yourself it's as real, wonderful, beautiful, ugly, and smelly as they say. It simply is.

Forecast there in early June usually runs 60F/40F, intermittent showers, sustained winds. That might be a contributing factor.

I've been checking, right now its a balmy 65/50 over there, maybe they should do the rally in July instead I dunno.

Birdwatcher

He's riding a Sportster all the way there??? I had one of those for two years.. Couldn't ride 20 miles before I hadda get off and walk off the back ache.. What rough ridin' sobs THOSE are.. But - hey, if he can do it, hat's off to him..

Gray-haired guy on the black Harley.. Piece of cake.. Meet you there..

No kidding - that trip = "BORING!"

It can be.. But I've seen plenty of freaks just 40 miles west of me - year round.. And I love every minute of it..

Yup, sounds like it's best he stays behind the keyboard.

By warm do you actually mean warm, or warm as in not American style beer cold, ice chips forming cold, so cold you can't taste it because you really don't want to?

Now THAT is my kind of rally!!

I have never felt the need to dress like one of the Village People or one of the dudes from the Blue Oyster on Police Academy. I'll pass.

Book it!

According to the City of Sturgis Rally Dept., the actual number is approx. 400,000. If it's like most events, even that is exaggerated. Most folks overestimate crowds.

No dress code up there. Everything from bib overalls to full dress leathered up yuppies. Even wild west cowboys and no cover up 18 year olds. Grannies that will make you look for eye bleach.

Doc, couldn't have said it better.

Word to the wise okiephenokie. if you don't REALLY know who or what you're bitin' off and gonna be chewin' on, best keep your mouth shut until you do.

8th grade sociology lesson over.

LOL!!

I well recall ambient temperatures as a little kid in Blackpool, right across from Man. See, I kept aquarium fish but had no aquarium heater. No surprise, the only way of heating the house (or our hot water) was the coal-burning open fireplace in the living room.

I woulda loved to keep tropical fish but the fish tank temperatures (in the living room yet), varied between 55 and 65F, so goldfish it was.

So I guess I mean 55 to 65F cold, ambient temperatures.

Birdwatcher