Bikini bike washes are always a popular draw at Sturgis. Better yet, many of them are free.The music from the Buffalo Chip's Amphitheater is but a distant echo, tents no longer dot the landscape of Glencoe Campground and you can once again find a parking spot on Main Street. As riders return to the 9…

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…-goers over the course of the week.Random thoughts, observations, and follow-ups to the dailies already filed.So another year came to a close at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. Official attendance was slightly down, traffic accidents were down too, but gang violence returned in an isolated incident in a nearby…

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…August, I attended the 64th Annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. It was my first time attending, so I was a "Virgin Sturgian." I am not a big crowd person or a Harley guy, but I think that every motorcyclist, regardless of what make of bike they ride, should attend Sturgis at least once in their lives. Since…

…from the Apopka, Florida, area: Jason Gray Customs and Orgazmic Choppers into Guilty Customs. Since the merge, Guilty Customs has used venues like Sturgis and Biketoberfest to put its foot in the door of the custom bike building industry.When asked about how Guilty would survive in the ultra-competitive…

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Day 1 - Rain"Oh god, it's raining, but I'm not complaining. It's filling me up with new life."Getting to Sturgis from L.A. takes you through some beautiful country, like the wide desert expanse of this landscape near Lake Mead.Okay, is a Depeche Mode reference too odd for a story about riding to Sturgis?…

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…alcohol sales and other peripheral income streams. Right now there are mature events, run by local governments and some of the big stakeholders, like Sturgis and Daytona, that basically are a conglomeration of events, mostly without charge. You also have what I'll term Adolescent events, like the Laughlin…

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…creations and showed what they could do in order to customize the Yamaha platforms."We spend a lot of time out at the various rallies; at Daytona and at Sturgis and here," Dave Pooler, Product Manager of Yamaha's Star Accessories, commented. "I spend a lot of my life talking to the customers and seeing what…

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…Sturgis was the place to be last week. Wait a minute, this guy is a rock star. I understand why Micahael Lichter chose ?Rebel Rousers ? Motorcycle Icons that Inspire us to Ride? as the theme for his display at the Buffalo Chip this year. There?s no event that embodies that theme more than Sturgis, where…

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…Sturgis.It is during our darkest times that we most feel the need to live. Perhaps something on the order of the Great Depression or WWII six and a half decades ago inspired motorcyclists to build the basis for classic events that would stand the test of time, both in Daytona Beach, Florida and Sturgis,…

…top spot by a mere half point. After that, the Ground Pounder began a six show streak of "Best of " honors, giving Martinez confidence heading into Sturgis for the 2007 World Championship of Custom Bike Building. Ground Pounder's streak of victories came to a close as two board tracker-inspired bikes took…

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