Day 1 Sturgis
It's wild up there...The Editor
The wettest summer in memory in the Black Hills
Rain!
The very unusual weather pattern continues in the Black Hills this summer as it often rains every day or night. Even in summer when the usual is a dry heat that bakes the grasses into dormacy.
Four hours of solid rain yesterday, and more today with temperatures reaching only 63-degrees even down on the Plains.
Mountains Colder
Those coming in from 110-degrees plus from Arizona and the Southwest in for a real climatical shock here this year.
Tomorrow's forecast:
Rain!
Intense Energy for Sturgis
The biker cultural event of the year
Now only days away
We'll have plenty of videos here as the the 2023 Sturgis Motorcycle Rally explodes
Big names The Chip begin on Friday, Aug. 4
A week of the premier musical events in North America
Aug. 4 bands at the Buffalo Chip
7:00 PM - 7:05 PM National Anthem & Opening Toast - Sturgis Rally Kickoff Party Wolfman Jack Stage
7:05 PM - 8:00 PM GOODFIRE Wolfman Jack Stage
8:00 PM - 8:15 PM Miss Buffalo Chip Beauty Pageant Wolfman Jack Stage
8:30 PM - 9:15 PM TIM MONTANA Wolfman Jack Stage
9:00 PM - 10:30 PM Movie - Two Lane Blacktop Camp Zero
9:05 PM - 9:15 PM Miss Buffalo Chip Beauty Pageant Wolfman Jack Stage
10:30 PM - 11:59 PM ZZ TOP Wolfman Jack Stage
Mr. Cool Guy
Sturgis Pscyched
Arrivals began more than a week ago. Now building massively.
2023 expected to be humongously huge
Live Video Feed Sturgis
All of them !!!
A brief break from Sturgis
Hot weather no more...into Deadwood
"The Deadwood Coach" 1924 film with Tom Mix
Up into the Mountains
Normally hot Sturgis expected to be mostly cool this year. The first day of the rally in the 80s. Then highs mostly in the 70s. Some rain early on.
The usual migration to Deadwood
Just up the road in the Black Hills, Deadwood and Lead are at high enough elevation for cooler temperatures, even in a hot spell.
- This year bikers will be heading up just for a change of pace. Gambling in Deadwood. Old mining town in Lead.
- And there will be more leather and jackets this year. Cool mountain weather.
The 1924 movie with George Bancroft, Hank Bell, Frank Coffyn, Jane Keckley, Lucien Littlefield, Doris May, and Tom Mix, and of course Tony the Wonder Horse
A bit of attitudinal adjustment
Preparing for 2023
Now less than two weeks away
Bikers already rolling in... TheEditor
Sturgis 12-days out
Vendors have been busy for weeks
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.
Vendor setup
Much work going on in downtown sturgis where vendors create a mini-city each August.
- Local stores rented out just for the rally. A health food store, for instance, might be emptied and turned into a leather shop.
- Main Street will be blocked off to any traffic except motorcycles. As usual. A few bicycles creep in, too. But no lumbering cars.
- Motorcycle parking along the curb and double rowed down the middle of the street, for as far as you can see.