Sturgis Rally, 2002.

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Oh yes, living in the Black Hills, South Dakota, has it's advantages indeed. Sturgis, a pissy little town of something under 2000 residents, is annually home to the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, biggest in the country, with more than 500,000 bikes and riders flocking to the small northern town for the week long event. Needless to say, half the state is clogged up with Motorbikes, ha.

So yesterday, me and my Dad drove up to Sturgis, at about 1:00pm. We were counting the bikes, but I stopped at about 350... And that's before we'd even gotten out of Rapid City. Heck, I counted 80 or so while we were waiting at a traffic light!

So anyway, we got up to Sturgis, bummed around and took pictures of attractive biker girls in thong bikinis. Occasionally there was a bike in the picture. Actually, at one point, it started raining. Immediately, both my Father and myself thought 'Wet T-Shirts!', but it turned out the only people wearing White T-shirts were 50-year old obese biker guys. I was mentally scarred.

But the *best* thing about the rally (Save the bikinis), were the knife tents. I had no idea there were [I]Knife tents[/I] at this Motorcycle Rally! And they sold Swords! Swords! Swords that are affordable and available, not some $500+ limited offer in some bi-annual catalog. I'm getting one when we go back up tonight.

After this, we went to Deadwood (Population: 1830), a tiny gambling town. The plan was to go to the Silverado Casino, meet the Dahm triplets (I pity anyone who doesn't know/hasn't seen the Dahm triplets.), spend $25 on the Pokie machines and win 25,000 back, driving back to Sturgis after that and buy lots of Swords. Sadly, we won nothing.

Gambling doesn't pay!

We went home, visited a local army surplus store (they sold Nunchucks, and a few swords... hmm... [URL=http://www.nuklearpower.com/comic/068.htm]Sword-Chucks, yo![/URL]).

So, has anyone heard of/been to/have plans to go to the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally?

[Kinetic]

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I haven't been to it, and don't plan on, but I would go just for the knife tents. Once I get a job, I'm smuggling all sorts of swords into the secret areas of my room, and then hanging them on the wall when I move into my own place.

That place sounds like [i]so[/i] much fun! >Is going to check out map to see how far it is to South Dakota, even though he already knows<

Of course, the bike races would be great, too, but I'd be missing the races at the sword tents.

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I just read "Sword Chucks, Yo!" [img]http://otakuboards.com/images/icons/icon14.gif[/img]
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[Genkai]

yo yo, swords are da bomb. my freinds and i together own a few cheap, like, $4-$30 ones.... we got obsessed fter our reading teacher brought his swords in. we only have medieval, but scholar swords ROCK!

anyway, i'dgo there for the knife tent, not to mention the bikinis