600,000 Bikers To Iraq

[Bobbieo]

On August 7th, some 600,000 bikers from all over the world will descend on the small community of Sturgis , South Dakota for the 66th Annual Black Hills Sturgis Bike Rally
http://nativeunity.blogspot.com.

Can you imagine what they will do to that community and the environment? I think it would be wonderful if somehow those 600,000 people and their bikes and booze could be suddenly transported to Iraq. What would be the outcome?

[tocqueville]

1. they would run out of gas nt

[BlueEyedSon]

3. Now THAT'S funny!

[Swamp Rat]

6. LOL! They'll all be driving electric scooters in the future. n/t

[spag68]

10. electric

NOOOOOO NEVER NEVER

[mrcheerful]

2. What good would that do when at least 70% of those so called bikers are

just yuppies? Come on most of those that go to Sturgis today are not bikers, the majority of them are week end bikers who trailer their bikes in and god forbid if they had to ride in the rain. Its all show and BS now a days in Sturgis.

[spag68]

7. just yuppies

come on guys du has good discussion, and yuppies or not bikers have fun and if you havn't spent time riding a cycle, don't knock it. So what if its all show, what's the harm. I've been riding for 50 years and I wouldn't go to Sturgis now, but again I say what's the harm?

[mrcheerful]

13. The op was trying to make it sound like 600,000 Angels were going to

Sturgis, those days are long gone.

[JuniperLea]

4. Golden Age of Leather... the humans and the Harleys... oh yeah...

Raise your can of beer on high
And seal your fate forever
Our best years have past us by
The golden age of leather

This was the night not long to come in the year of our Lord A.D.
Where in a desert way-house, poised on the brink of eternity
Four and ninety studded horsemen closed the knot of honor
As only drunken soldiers can

And passed from man to man, a wanton child to dead to care
That each would find his pleasure as he might
For this fantastic night was billed as nothing less than the end of
an age
A last crusade, a final outrage, in this day of flacid plumage

And there was worn no cloth but leather
Made supple by years of stinging cinders
And here were seen the scars of age
For age had been the common call for one last night together

Down colored the sky (the ritual feast)
Some had died (they were buried with their bikes)
Each grabbed a rag (from a man with a sack)
Torn strips of color (the red and the black)

We made a vow to give it all we had to give
We made a vow to die as we had lived

They flew the colors, they began to fight
They flailed at each other like bugs at a light
Bodies and bikes beyond repair
Smell of oil and gas in the air

Then the wind whipped the desert with a giant hand
And the humans and the Harleys caught the shifting sand
And the old ranger weathered the storm
And he topped the rise by the middle of morn
He saw rippled dunes, calm and surreal
And a glint of a solitary shaft of chromium steel

Golden age...

[spag68]

5. Sturgis and bikers

Hey, I'm not even a harley rider, but lay off. We do a lot less damage then you might think. for instance my Vulcan fi gets 45 or more mpg. Further i'm sure that conservation is on these bikers minds also, as we will always need somewhere to go. You don't know, if you attended one of these getogethers, you might have some fun, so take a chill pill or a toke or something.

[mrcheerful]

11. Yeah my old 1963 Bonnie had a 4 gallon tank on it and I was able to drive

it all month for around $15. I spent more on food on a trip then I did on gas, I could go from mid michigan up to the big Mac and back on $20 or less. I was driving around 10,000 miles a summer going to rallies and events and never had it cost me over $50 even when i was paying for a friend to ride along when they were short. One nice thing about cycles, they are good on mileage unlike some other vehicles out there.

[TomInTib]

8. Get real Sturgis welcomes bikers with open arms.

If you haven't been there, you have no room to crticize it.

Get rid of the Hell's Angels images.

And why should I go to Iraq? I already served 2 tours in Vietnam.

[spag68]

12. Sturgis

way to go, I also served and sometimes I think riding is all thats left.

[Beelzebud]

9. Good way to alienate many Democrat bikers......

Do you think all Democrats live in the cities and ride the subway to work?

Why is it that in your mind Biker = pro war?

You should watch Easy Rider sometime.

[spag68]

14. bikers

biker does not mean pro-war. However if you got a hundred of them together and gave them a legitimate reason to go to Iraq you would get more of them to go then other groups.

[Dr.Phool]

15. I, as does John Kerry, ride a Harley

[Swamp Rat]

16. Good point... but the next film will be called "Easy Electric Scooters"

:D

I gave up my Harley riding days long ago for rifing bicycles, though I still cruise with my cousins when I go to New Mexico. They all have Harleys and a couple to spare, though the last time I went I rode an 800cc Moto Guzzi. :)

[w8liftinglady]

20. lol..that's actually pretty funny :)

[w8liftinglady]

19. I am a biker.

feel free to search my posts and see what a redneck I am.

[im10ashus]

21. Sing out, w8liftinglady!!!

Democrat's come in all shapes, flavors and sizes. Give me a biker over an SUV city-driver any damn day.

:hi:

[Arkansas Granny]

17. One of the main effects the rally has on the community is to

pump a lot of money into their economy and into the state coffers. Look at these figures from the official website:

http://www.sturgis.com/2kstats.html

[Buns_of_Fire]

18. Remember, it's a group of bikers who surround soldier's funerals

to cut off the nasty presence of Phred Phelps and Phamily from the mourners. All Hell's Angels are bikers, but not all bikers are Hell's Angels.