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You know what really stood out the most to me in all those pics? The only bagger in the whole group was the one the cop was riding! Nobody rode a bagger in those days! Great pics! Thanks for sharing!
Sturgis is no longer the Sturgis I remember either, hats pulled down over the ears and turned sideways, baggy pants ready to fall down and rap music. It is what it is but just no so much for me anymore, I must be getting old . As Dylan said the times they are a changing, we just need to get used to it, we had our day.
Love these old pics - thanks for sharing. As a teen I got my first bike in 1980. Ive often thought about what I missed not being born 10 years earlier.
Cool pics. I never went to any of the major bike week events, looks like some good times.
Before credit cards and the middle class made it their favorite Walter Mitty fantasy, being an old school scooter tramp and the big parties were another world, epic fun.
You know what really stood out the most to me in all those pics? The only bagger in the whole group was the one the cop was riding! Nobody rode a bagger in those days! Great pics! Thanks for sharing!
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Bike Week back when
. As Dylan said the times they are a changing, we just need to get used to it, we had our day.
