I am going out to Sturgis on August 5th, staying at Glencoe camp ground. I will not be on my Max put on my Warrior, (see picture).

So if anyone is around and you want to hangout. . .have a smoke. . . drink . . .take a ride.

Let me know, shoot me a PM.

See ya out there.

Bob

I will be around! PM sent

I'm thinking about it...however the last weekend of the event is considered the best time to go (per locals out my way) so if I do, I'm shooting for something in the 10th thru 12th dates....if I can get my chit ready....

Mr.M, are you riding from NYC or pulling a wheeled tongue crate?


---P/D

PeaDawg wrote:
Riding from NYC Not me bro. . .

14 of us going, One of the guys is an over the road trucker, so he outfitted his truck to take our bikes. I am flying out on Sunday the 5th and fling back on the 12th.

See you out there if you make it. PM me when you get there.

Was up there yesterday for a one day runabout with a Victory friend.

We left Cheyenne, Wyoming a little after 6am and had lunch at One-Eyed Jack's before noon.

I ran out of gas just 2 blocks before a gas station in New Castle, WY

I'd last topped off just past Glendo and we were dogging it along the state highway open roads....got brave and decided not to top off in Lusk, WY.....was getting 30 to 34 mpg

Found those open roads between Lusk and Newcastle...too hard to resist, so I played with the top end, was able to squeak out a 180mph (Speedometer ~ 8 or 9% off) without any po-po-cident.

Suppose that lead to the 2 block walk/push

Found some nice twisty-ish roads on 85 through to Deadwood and on to Sturgis.

Also found the classic HD "gang" leather vest wieghed down by all them pins freedom patches, consisting of about 2 dozen bikes riding 35-40 and hogging the lanes as if they own the road (even the passing lanes?)....so it pissed me off, don't care if I pissed them off, as I passed in and through them....idiots! no helmets, no road awarness, no basic motorcycle command, no reason for being on public roads....(sorry for the rant)

Had a steak/tater dinner in Deadwood (nice place...gotta look this over more seriously next year) and got back on the road by 7pm

Hit a monster lightening storm with driving rain and hail on the return trip....w/ rain gear on we pushed on through.....it was a blast 80-ish in the rain, but we found Lusk and a scenic lightening show as our reward.

It was a good jaunt of a day....heading to Longmount, CO today for a Calendar Babe bike gathering (free pulled pork is what they've claimed)


----PeaDawg

Going through my Contour video.....

.....Still curious why this trooper did not give pursuit,

We had been booging down the road, just flagged by a fellow biker with hand signals, to slow way down.

was as hard on the brakes as I could without being obvious...the trooper slowed to the side....

...figured it was a done deal....but he never turned around

we were just a few miles from the border...maybe that was his thought?

PeaDawg wrote:
PeaDawg,

Just got back from Sturgis.

Your running out of fuel is the exact reason I did not take my V-Max. I am lucky to get 25-27 miles to a gallon.

I was on 85 a couple of times, you may have past me? Stayed in Deadwood at the Hampton Inn, great place. Deadwood had two great restaurants, the Mineral Palace and the Cheyenne Social Club. Also a great Cigar Lounge with live Blues, Called the Deadwood Cigar Company.

I ran into several groups of HD riders that "Hogged" the road. Slow down for the turns, speed up on the straights and block the left lane. I sliced and diced several of them. I am a firm believer that not everyone should own a motorcycle and especially riding it on some challenging roads in SD.

Friday Deadwood had a Hale storm, lots of it. They had to use shovels and brooms to remove it. Luckily I was in Sturgis under a gas station overhang and didn't get wet.

Saw Jackyl Thursday Night at the Full Throttle and Slash Friday Night at the Buffalo Chip.

The Jackyl Show was out of control, I had seats on the stage and it was a made house. Jesse James Dupree is some performer, out of his mind.

Slash was great too. . .but I left early. It started to rain and the ride back up the mountain to Deadwood is no fun at night in the rain.

I did all the rides. . . Custer State park, Needles road, Rushmore, Crazy Horse, Nemo road, Hulett, Devils Tower and a few others I can remember. It was Hot as hell in the early part of the week then cooled off. Glade I brought my rain gear because I used it several times.

I will post some pictures when I get a chance.

Bob

As promised some pictures:

Our cabin at Glencoe camp grounds


Getting my bike washed, no that's not me in the background


The s h i t show at the camp grounds



Me at Rushmore


Me with a new friend


Devils tower

More pictures

Main street Sturgis


Deadwood


At the Full Throttle


More from the Full Throttle


More fun from the Full Trottle


Jesse James Dubree, Jackyl With the chainsaw
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Cutting up the chair


Doing the high wire acted