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Sturgis - the being there (part 1)
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Arriving at No Name City camp ground on the second day
of the official rally week, we set our tent up and relaxed for a while till late
afternoon. Then caught the camps shuttle bus into town, with every parking space
for blocks around the main street filled with bikes, a steady stream of riders
doing laps past another four rows of bikes parked in the main street, plus the
footpaths jam packed with people, it was hard to say just how many people were
there that night, but I would venture a conservative guess and say two hundred
thousand at least, combine that with the thousands of riders, who, constantly
for almost 24 hours a day, were out on the Interstate Highway coming and going
from the various big campsites and towns around Sturgis, and with an estimated
five hundred thousand people eventually expected to go to the rally, you can
begin to get an idea just how big this thing is.
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It would be impossible within the week to see everything that is going on at Sturgis, but, if it’s got anything even remotely connected with two or three wheels and bikers, then its there somewhere, it’s just a case of finding it. With a lot of the events being much the same as in Australia, I opted to check out a few of the things that we don’t have much of, a couple of four hour sessions of the hillclimb contest at the Jackpine Gypsies venue were well spent, with some spectacular rides to the top by a few hardy riders, and even more spectacular crashes on the way up by a lot more of them.
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Back in town, with a couple of hundred chopper builders in attendance, there was at least a thousand bikes to look at, for the most part, they were basic run of the mill bikes designed for quick production and turnover to buyers, however, every now and then I would see a real work of art or genius in construction that was worth spending extra time taking a good look at. I must say though, that the choppers shown at Bike Week on the Gold Coast in Queensland this year are certainly up there with, and in a lot of cases surpassing the best of those on show at Sturgis.
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