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The trick, I've found anyway, is to go anyway, and carve yourself out a little niche. Make it your space, and own it while you're there. I'm not going to miss all those historic rallies because I don't care to be around a bunch of people, I'm just not not going to behave like a social butterfly while I'm there...before the liquor anyway. As I mentioned earlier, there are plenty of small local rallies to be found if you're looking and IMO, they're the best kind anyway. The kind where people who ride get together to bullshit and drink and ride and drink some more and party and just hang out. Throw in some bike games and a stripper pole and buddy, you have yourself a time. Way better than showing up with half a million other mother****ers and the vendors are knocking each other over to get to you first.
Well, you can throw in a stripping pole at any spot where riders get together. But the assumption is, you will want to see what is doing the stripping. All of the bar help and entertainment at Sturgis--the scantily clad young ladies with D Cups and pasties--are shipped in to work the rally and make money. They didn't ride in on the back of someone's bike just to entertain riders for the heck of it. Maybe it was different back then and there were hoards of strippers riding into get togethers on the backs of bikes and wanted to entertain just for the heck of it.
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Well, you can throw in a stripping pole at any spot where riders get together. But the assumption is, you will want to see what is doing the stripping. All of the bar help and entertainment at Sturgis--the scantily clad young ladies with D Cups and pasties--are shipped in to work the rally and make money. They didn't ride in on the back of someone's bike just to entertain riders for the heck of it. Maybe it was different back then and there were hoards of strippers riding into get togethers on the backs of bikes and wanted to entertain just for the heck of it.
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Most people don't. But it depends. Not sure if what was riding into rallies on the back of bikes was any different back then compared to today. If it wasn't, I could live with leaving the stripper pole at home and just stick with the bike games.
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There's still plenty of good, high quality stuff coming to the rallies, it's just that the big ones like Sturgis and Laconia have turned into vacation week for senior citizens with motorcycles and the younger crowds mostly avoid them. The ROI just isn't there for most younger people. Entice them instead to a wild weekend party within a hundred or so miles from their homes and it's a different story.
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As I said before I am 73 now and have been going to Sturgis every year since 1980 except for two years because of illness. I still have a great time every year. Also I noticed this year that the crowd is getting younger than it has been in the past. I also noticed the younger crowd does not party and get drunk like we used to. I think they are more mature now than we used to be. Of course the drinking laws and the public nudity laws have changed since the old days. I also found there were more bikers riding to Sturgis than there has been in the past. To me it is a happening that IMO every one that rides should attend at least once. Some will get addicted others will hate it but that's what its all about
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