The 75th Anniversary of the Rally starts in a few days. If you are coming up, send me a PM. I'll be happy to facilitate whatever I can.
Pitiful, really. It has become the world's largest theme costume party. A walk down Lazelle street looking at odometers on the bikes reveals a scary percentage of bikes with less than a thousand miles on them and in many cases, that is also the total number of miles the rider has knocked off in their LIFETIME. Few bikers come to the rally anymore. Its roughly the equivalent of someone booking a cruise on a Carnival cruise and claiming they are a pirate.
We are on track to set a record for accidents and deaths. What else? You have a giant crowd of people with a very limited experience on the back of a bike, throw in a 24 hr a day party with unlimited access to alcohol, hot weather, twisty turning roads, and there ya go. 51 weeks a year he drives a desk, and drives it like he stole it...and one week he is a biker pumping his lily white fist in the air to the sound of Born to be Mild while the price tag of his brand new Harley Davidson Collectors Limited Edition Chinese made leather chaps flaps in the breeze.
My annual rant....
