Old Faithful:
80-Somethin' Days 'till Sturgis..
ABM is too shot to do the math, but in a matter of a couple months or so, we'll be there, talking to you, the valued radio listener. Change has come to the Black Hills, as it has come to Leesburg, Laconia, Myrtle, & Daytona. What used to be a sea of mohawk-haired sport bikers is down in all these places. You'd have to guess these bikers don't have the resources of the older brothers & sisters. If they have to make a choice between the food, rent, & clothes, or accomodations at the bike fest, they do what they got to do. ABM makes no distinction between bikes-we don't care what you rode in on, just that you're here. We don't care what you wear, past event tees, hawaiann shirt, horned, furred helmets, just that you made it in safely. We do have, however, a special place in our heart for bikini & leather clad ladies..
The New Biker-Frugal:
We heard Leesburg had 250 vendors this year, perhaps an all time high, but like in past years, people weren't toting around bulging bags of biker-related goodies. Beer stands & food trailers don't have 10-deep lines of people waiting to spread around some cash. Bikers are being careful with their dough. Last year's "tooth whitening" booth was nowhere to be found. Our favorite little hole in the wall bar was packed, but nothing like two years ago, when it was so plugged up with bikers, it took 10 minutes to reach the bar, and 45 minutes to get some oysters. Meanwhile, in Seminole county, some gated community homeowners were caught using as much as 1.75 million gallons of water, that's 900 bucks in water charges a month! That's 2-4 new bike payments + insurance & registration cost, at a time when many of us wonder if we'll make next month's rent or mort. We still show in the hundreds of thousands, laugh, & party, just leave with a lot less stuff than 24 months ago. If that's better or worse, we can't say..that's just the way it is..for sure, you appreciate to a greater degree, what you got.
The beauty of being a biker is that if you buy a well-made bike in decent condition, & don't beat it like a rented mule, you get a lot of smiles for not a lot of cash, that's why we bikers will cook our own food, mow our own lawn, sit the kids, make small repairs, & do anything necessary to avoid the biggest mistate a biker can ever make.. selling old faithful.
ABM is too shot to do the math, but in a matter of a couple months or so, we'll be there, talking to you, the valued radio listener. Change has come to the Black Hills, as it has come to Leesburg, Laconia, Myrtle, & Daytona. What used to be a sea of mohawk-haired sport bikers is down in all these places. You'd have to guess these bikers don't have the resources of the older brothers & sisters. If they have to make a choice between the food, rent, & clothes, or accomodations at the bike fest, they do what they got to do. ABM makes no distinction between bikes-we don't care what you rode in on, just that you're here. We don't care what you wear, past event tees, hawaiann shirt, horned, furred helmets, just that you made it in safely. We do have, however, a special place in our heart for bikini & leather clad ladies..
The New Biker-Frugal:
We heard Leesburg had 250 vendors this year, perhaps an all time high, but like in past years, people weren't toting around bulging bags of biker-related goodies. Beer stands & food trailers don't have 10-deep lines of people waiting to spread around some cash. Bikers are being careful with their dough. Last year's "tooth whitening" booth was nowhere to be found. Our favorite little hole in the wall bar was packed, but nothing like two years ago, when it was so plugged up with bikers, it took 10 minutes to reach the bar, and 45 minutes to get some oysters. Meanwhile, in Seminole county, some gated community homeowners were caught using as much as 1.75 million gallons of water, that's 900 bucks in water charges a month! That's 2-4 new bike payments + insurance & registration cost, at a time when many of us wonder if we'll make next month's rent or mort. We still show in the hundreds of thousands, laugh, & party, just leave with a lot less stuff than 24 months ago. If that's better or worse, we can't say..that's just the way it is..for sure, you appreciate to a greater degree, what you got.
The beauty of being a biker is that if you buy a well-made bike in decent condition, & don't beat it like a rented mule, you get a lot of smiles for not a lot of cash, that's why we bikers will cook our own food, mow our own lawn, sit the kids, make small repairs, & do anything necessary to avoid the biggest mistate a biker can ever make.. selling old faithful.
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