A bit of attitudinal adjustment
Preparing for 2023
Now less than two weeks away
Bikers already rolling in... TheEditor
Preparing for 2023
Bikers already rolling in... TheEditor
Sturgis expected to be big this year. There is a big uptick in travel all over North America.
On one of the less traveled paths at the rally.
Much work going on in downtown sturgis where vendors create a mini-city each August.
When hundreds of thousands of biker arrive
Sturgis Police expands drastically during the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally.
Town explodes from 7,000 population to somewhere between 200,000 and 400,000. Maybe more.
"It's a difference of night and day."
says Geody VanDewater, chief of the Sturgis Police Department
The outskirts are also flooded with South Dakota Highway Patrol troopers who come in from all over the state.
And a motorcycle gang fight broke out one year on Main Street, and that entire area was immediately swamped with lots of armed law enforcement.
Massive consumption of biker life...
Wikipedia.com
Grenade launchers, around 35 rifles, 25 submachine guns, 100 pistols, and more than 10,000 rounds of ammunition were taken.
Investiation began after a firearms were found in a car last year. And a rival biker was murdered while riding through the area.