Sturgis bound!

[Magic Man]

We'll it's getting down to the wire now, as we leave on Saturday morning for the Sturgis rally.

After all these years we're finally going to be able to afford the time to get there a day early and do some riding in the Black Hills! :yes:

Unfortunatly we're only going to get the one day so I hope the weather holds out for us? From the sections we have seen and what people tell me it is some of the best riding in the country.

We also have the Lamonster coming out there to spend a few days with us which should be cool. :doorag:

He is going to meet us there and ride with us on Tuesday I hope he don't slow us down too much! LOL :joke:

Even though I have been there 6 times I have never ridden there even once! Each year seems something comes up and we don't get a chance to ride.

Lamonster has been there before and ridden all over the area. He knows the area real well and just where to go for the best riding. We're real lucky to have him this year as our "guide" so to speak so we don't end up lost in the Bad Lands someplace?

Than it's back to work for the next 11 days straight. We'll be set up with our corproate tractor trailer rig at Black Hills Harley Davidson in Rapid City. So, if any of you are going to Sturgis rally this year stop by and say hello, we'd love to meet all of you!

MM

 

[b2k]

Just a heads up Lamonster don't play with buffalo's to well:yikes:nojoke

 

[Magic Man]

Just a heads up Lamonster don't play with buffalo's to well:yikes:nojoke

Yea I saw the last time he was there! :yikes:

I guess they don't like too much "bull" in their back yard? LOL

MM

 

[b2k]

:agree::clap:

 

[jeuchler]

Wish I were there!

We'll it's getting down to the wire now, as we leave on Saturday morning for the Sturgis rally.

After all these years we're finally going to be able to afford the time to get there a day early and do some riding in the Black Hills! :yes:

Unfortunatly we're only going to get the one day so I hope the weather holds out for us? From the sections we have seen and what people tell me it is some of the best riding in the country.

We also have the Lamonster coming out there to spend a few days with us which should be cool. :doorag:

He is going to meet us there and ride with us on Tuesday I hope he don't slow us down too much! LOL :joke:

Even though I have been there 6 times I have never ridden there even once! Each year seems something comes up and we don't get a chance to ride.

Lamonster has been there before and ridden all over the area. He knows the area real well and just where to go for the best riding. We're real lucky to have him this year as our "guide" so to speak so we don't end up lost in the Bad Lands someplace?

Than it's back to work for the next 11 days straight. We'll be set up with our corproate tractor trailer rig at Black Hills Harley Davidson in Rapid City. So, if any of you are going to Sturgis rally this year stop by and say hello, we'd love to meet all of you!

MM

Have a wonderful time, everyone!

I worked on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota summers from 1979 until I got married in 1986. My lovely bride told me that she was tired of just hearing all my stories about the place, so we packed up and drove the 1837 miles (door to door) so she could see for herself. I have very fond memories of the place. I have two skeleton bones I found there which are too big to be bison bones, and it has been suggested may be from a mammoth. My first ever ride on a dirt bike was there. My son Eric is named for a dear friend that I met in the Black Hills.

I'm sure Lamont will give you a good tour, but try to get to Crazy Horse monument, Mammoth Site, Wounded Knee, the missile silo, lake Angostura--all great destination rides.

(Not my photo, but it really does look this hauntingly beautiful!)

As you know, it is a spectacularly beautiful area that will be even more enjoyable seeing it from astride a Spyder!

Maybe the lovely bride and I will catch up with you all there next year! :doorag:

 

[Lamonster]

Have a wonderful time, everyone!

I worked on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota summers from 1979 until I got married in 1986. My lovely bride told me that she was tired of just hearing all my stories about the place, so we packed up and drove the 1837 miles (door to door) so she could see for herself. I have very fond memories of the place. I have two skeleton bones I found there which are too big to be bison bones, and it has been suggested may be from a mammoth. My first ever ride on a dirt bike was there. My son Eric is named for a dear friend that I met in the Black Hills.

I'm sure Lamont will give you a good tour, but try to get to Crazy Horse monument, Mammoth Site, Wounded Knee, the missile silo, lake Angostura--all great destination rides.

(Not my photo, but it really does look this hauntingly beautiful!)

As you know, it is a spectacularly beautiful area that will be even more enjoyable seeing it from astride a Spyder!

Maybe the lovely bride and I will catch up with you all there next year! :doorag:

Custer Wildlife loop is great and so is Crazy Horse, Devils Tower is cool too but I will never go to Wounded Knee again. That was the most depressing place I've ever been and to top it off the day I went there a good friend who lost his wife killed himself that day. Very bad day for me and that place was the pits.

On another note where"s the Spyder Team going to be?:dontknow::hun:
I can't believe that BRP is not going to have a showing in Sturgis!

Are any of the members here going? Look me up if you do.:spyder:

 

[jeuchler]

...I will never go to Wounded Knee again. That was the most depressing place I've ever been and to top it off the day I went there a good friend who lost his wife killed himself that day. Very bad day for me and that place was the pits.

I am sorry for your loss.

The fact that the gate is busted, the sign is hand painted and weathered, and you could blink and drive by the place without knowing it is why I bring people there: So much American history surrounds the events of the area, and yet so little was done to memorialize it. Very strange message, indeed.

...On another note where"s the Spyder Team going to be?:dontknow::hun:
I can't believe that BRP is not going to have a showing in Sturgis!

Now that IS strange...Maybe they don't get that South Dakota's #2 industry is tourism; add to that the presence of the many Sturgis rally regulars, and they have quote the opportunity for new sales.

:dontknow: either.