Full Moon, Empty Wallet!
Ride Free.. Not so fast!
ABM's little pile of Sturgis emergency cash took yet another hit yesterday & this morning. Better half's ignition key went missing. After a frantic hour of key-search, figured on to tearing out the tank mount & swaping the old key unit for a new one. Harley offered one for $104.99, not including the ride from Sturgis to Rapid City. As luck would have it, the JP Cycles store here in town sold me an aftermarket unit for $34.99! This morning, same bike, rear tire, Metzler 210, was losing 12-14 lbs of air overnight. Not one to patch punctured rubber, or shoot that goop stuff, unless it's an emergency, so paid a visit to the Metzler tent on Lazelle St & ponyed up $340 for the tire & labor. That same tire cost me $225 in Florida, when it was mounted, 6 weeks ago. Shoulda finished her off in the burnout pit last night. Lost a brand new tire to a 3 inch nail. They gave me a nice tee, thanks to kind office ladies, & they will get ya in & out fast.
Come Wednesday, it'll be a MADHOUSE!
Crazy all night!
ABM is camped out across the street from a 50' rv with a load ramp mounted stripper pole, complete with pole-mounted sound system, & disco lites! As ladies return from the shows, microphone dude pursuades them to grab a handful of pole. We wuz up all night. Like trying to grind out some zzzz's in the corner of a strip joint. Musta been 100 beer cans on the ground this morning.
If you don't like it, you have to move, not them. Rules is rules.
Madhouse?
Yes. Seems like everyone in town has tickets for Aermosmith. It's the gotta-be-there show of the rally. Better half...sez..
"Come Wednesday, this place will be a madhouse". No doubt.
Tent City:
ABM thinks we may have finally hit bottom in the declining numbers of bikers attending the rally. At my campground, each day we're seeing more and more tenters, fewer rv'ers. The whole hillside surrounding the bath/shower area is wall to wall tent city, no electric provided, just ground. In the hookup area, there are rv spaces still available that were wall to wall in years past.
Toby's Loaded!
Toby Keith's tour busses (5 of 'em!), were lined up just insided the north Chip gate early this morning. Prob close to a couple million bucks between them. This dude has so much dough, he could refund "Cash for Clunkers"! Amazing how much cash country music stars amass.
Homeless Shelter?
Dollar beer, buck hotdogs under the Buffalo Chip awning, stage left, in the pit. An eclectic mix of young and old, male & female bikers who all have one or two common atributes.. they're cheap, broke, or both, daily, 9am to 5pm. Better half sez today is the first of two free pork loin sandwich days at the Chip, courtesy of the SD Pork council. Delicious w/jack daniels bbq sauce. Did we mention, they're f-r-e-e->?
Chef Jeff:
Dinner last nite was boneless, skinless chicken thighs from the Dakota Mart, $1.79 lb, rolled in egg, flour, paprika, pepper, salt, then deep fried, southern style. Dixie name: "Chicken Fried Chicken Steak" (chicken fried steak is beef).
ABM's little pile of Sturgis emergency cash took yet another hit yesterday & this morning. Better half's ignition key went missing. After a frantic hour of key-search, figured on to tearing out the tank mount & swaping the old key unit for a new one. Harley offered one for $104.99, not including the ride from Sturgis to Rapid City. As luck would have it, the JP Cycles store here in town sold me an aftermarket unit for $34.99! This morning, same bike, rear tire, Metzler 210, was losing 12-14 lbs of air overnight. Not one to patch punctured rubber, or shoot that goop stuff, unless it's an emergency, so paid a visit to the Metzler tent on Lazelle St & ponyed up $340 for the tire & labor. That same tire cost me $225 in Florida, when it was mounted, 6 weeks ago. Shoulda finished her off in the burnout pit last night. Lost a brand new tire to a 3 inch nail. They gave me a nice tee, thanks to kind office ladies, & they will get ya in & out fast.
Come Wednesday, it'll be a MADHOUSE!
Crazy all night!
ABM is camped out across the street from a 50' rv with a load ramp mounted stripper pole, complete with pole-mounted sound system, & disco lites! As ladies return from the shows, microphone dude pursuades them to grab a handful of pole. We wuz up all night. Like trying to grind out some zzzz's in the corner of a strip joint. Musta been 100 beer cans on the ground this morning.
If you don't like it, you have to move, not them. Rules is rules.
Madhouse?
Yes. Seems like everyone in town has tickets for Aermosmith. It's the gotta-be-there show of the rally. Better half...sez..
"Come Wednesday, this place will be a madhouse". No doubt.
Tent City:
ABM thinks we may have finally hit bottom in the declining numbers of bikers attending the rally. At my campground, each day we're seeing more and more tenters, fewer rv'ers. The whole hillside surrounding the bath/shower area is wall to wall tent city, no electric provided, just ground. In the hookup area, there are rv spaces still available that were wall to wall in years past.
Toby's Loaded!
Toby Keith's tour busses (5 of 'em!), were lined up just insided the north Chip gate early this morning. Prob close to a couple million bucks between them. This dude has so much dough, he could refund "Cash for Clunkers"! Amazing how much cash country music stars amass.
Homeless Shelter?
Dollar beer, buck hotdogs under the Buffalo Chip awning, stage left, in the pit. An eclectic mix of young and old, male & female bikers who all have one or two common atributes.. they're cheap, broke, or both, daily, 9am to 5pm. Better half sez today is the first of two free pork loin sandwich days at the Chip, courtesy of the SD Pork council. Delicious w/jack daniels bbq sauce. Did we mention, they're f-r-e-e->?
Chef Jeff:
Dinner last nite was boneless, skinless chicken thighs from the Dakota Mart, $1.79 lb, rolled in egg, flour, paprika, pepper, salt, then deep fried, southern style. Dixie name: "Chicken Fried Chicken Steak" (chicken fried steak is beef).
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