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TONIGHT 2 OF 7 10:30 SUNDAY PM FREE 6:00 AUG. 6, 2017 PM ® STURGIS RIDER DAILY DOn’T MISS No race like it, no track like it • fx show & dyna mixer • builders breakfast FIRST RUNNING of AFT’S BUffALO CHIP TT • fan fest 2017 • aft buffalo chip tt STURGIS WEATHER Sun 8/6 Mon 8/7 74/52 77/57 Isolated Thunderstorms Mostly Sunny Courtesy of weather.com STURGIS BUFFALO Chip’s WOLFMAN JACK STAGE t’s THE rally event everyone will be talking about TONIGHT all week: American Flat Track’s Buffalo Chip TT presented by Indian Motorcycle. Make no mis- 10:30 PM Itake, dirt track racing hasn’t been this fiercely con- tested in decades. And tipping the scales further, even SHINEDOWN the pros are jittery about the Chip’s challenging, un- tried TT track configured with right turns, jumps and 6 PM a singular location—wedged into a crowd-packed AFT BUFFALO CHIP TT amphitheater. It’s sure to be unprecedented racing—and it will be nationally televised, too. The head-to-head clash TOMORROW between Harley-Davidson and Indian, in place before the First World War and so apparent this year, raises 10:30 PM the profile. What’s in store? We went right to the DOOBIE BROTHERS sources to find out. 8:30 PM KENNY COOLBETH JR. Kenny Coolbeth Jr. rode for the H-D Factory JUSTIN MOORE team from 2006 to 2011 and then came back this 7:05 PM year. Originally from Connecticut, he’s now based JIMMIE BRATCHER Continued on Page 2 PAGE 2 STURGIS RIDER DAILY SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 2017 SHOWCASE STAGES Buffalo Chip TT … Sunday 8/6 in Florida. Coolbeth was GNC Champ in 2006, 2007 and 2008. Well-respected as a pro, others BIKINI BEACH have coined the term “a Kenny Coolbeth surface,” 1 PM ������������������������������� Head Banging Contest indicating finesse with the throttle—high praise. 1:30 PM ���������������������������� Beer & Burps Contest 2 PM ����������������������������� Whipped Cream Twister Q: What are you expecting at the Buffalo Chip? A: It’ll be cool. The atmosphere will be way dif- 2:30 PM ����������������������������� Rope Swing Contest ferent than what we’re used to. There will be a lot of 3 PM ������������������������������������� Slip ‘N Slide Relay different people and that’s good for the sport. 3:30 PM ������������������������� Frozen T-Shirt Contest 4 PM ���������������������������������� Pickle Lickin’ Contest Q: The XG is H-D’s first new flattrack bike in decades. 5 PM ��������������������Air Sex World Championships A: Yeah, since 1978! The XG is cool. Hopefully 6 PM ������������������������ � Homemade Bikini Contest it catches the eyes of new fans. The race bike has 9 PM ������������������“Air Sex: The Movie” Screening pretty much the Street 750 motor, it’s just souped Midnight ������������������� Live Music: Stolen Rhodes up a lot more than the showroom models. And it’s on a purpose built chassis. CROSSROADS EVENTS Q: How’s the new bike been running? 7 – 11 AM ������������������������������������ Songs of Light A: It’s been a tough year. The guys are work- Free Pancake Breakfast ing tremendously hard on it. We had higher hopes 9 AM – 6 PM ����������������������������Miss Buffalo Chip in the beginning. We made some changes before Calistoga and hopefully they’re the right changes. Bikini Bike Wash Us racers always want to win every time we’re out 9 AM – 6 PM ��������������������������� BMW Demo Rides there. But, obviously, that doesn’t happen. 9 AM – 11 AM ���������������������������������Flying Piston Breakfast Benefit Q: You get to work with Terry Vance, right? 10 AM – Dark �������������������������������� Lake Superior A: It’s a huge confidence boost for us riders to have Vance & Hines building our equipment. We JARED MEES Q: Sammy Halbert’s been near the front of the Helicopter Rides still have some learning curves but hopefully by the AFT series leader Jared Mees is from Honey- pack. 2 PM ����������������������������������������The FXR Show & end of the year we’ll get ‘em all figured out. brook, PA, and lives in Clio, MI. He’s a four-time A: Halbert’s been going pretty good in some Dyna Mixer Awards Grand National Champ. As one of Indian’s new places. I think TT tracks are a little bit more of Q: And the rivalry with Indian? Wrecking Crew, Mees has already scored a dirt his weakness. But you never know what to expect. A: Harley has been the backbone of flat track. track grand slam, winning a Mile, Half-Mile, Short This is only our second time racing Twins on a TT CROSSROADS STAGE You say flat track and Harley-Davidson comes to Track and TT this season. The TT win at the sea- so it’s pretty exciting. 10:30 AM – Noon ������������������������������ Live Music: mind. It’s cool for me to be part of Harley’s team son opener in Daytona was the first time in almost Clint Cunningham Fan Fest and cool to be in it this year with the rivalry going 34 years that a rider won a TT on a Twin. Is he Q: Never underestimate the competition, right? 2 PM ����������������� Biker Games with Zach Gibson on. Pretty much everybody that lines up in a main poised to make the Buffalo Chip TT his second? A: Oh, no. Never. 2:30 PM ���������������� Live Music: Well Hung Heart event has a chance to win. There’s probably 15 of us that can win anytime. Q: What do you think about racing at the Buffalo Q: The FTR 750 is pretty high-tech. 3:30 PM ������������� Biker Games with Zach Gibson Chip? A: The bike is a purpose built flat tracker. We 4 PM ��������������������� Live Music: Well Hung Heart Q: What’s your preferred track type? A: I think the racing is gonna be pretty tight came right out and started winning on it. It’s a 5 PM ������������������ Biker Games with Zach Gibson A: A TT is definitely not my forte’. I don’t know because the track is small and tight with lots of cor- very unique motorcycle, a totally modern race 6 PM ���������������������� Live Music: Well Hung Heart why, I do a lot of cross training on motocross. I still ners. You know we’ve never had a track like this, bike. go into them with high hopes and the one thing where we started and had to turn right. So, it’s a always on my mind is to win. So hopefully we can really unique set up and it’ll probably be pretty Q: You were on the development team, right? KINISON STAGE turn it around at the Buffalo Chip. challenging for a lot of us. It should make for a A: Yeah, I developed it last year with them and 9 PM ��������������������������������������� Buffalo Dreamers technical, challenging race track. it was an honor to be able to see where it started 9:05 PM ������������������������������������ The Flaunt Girls Q: Tell me about your teammates, Jake Johnson and where it came to. The first couple of times we 9:55 PM ���������������������������������� Buffalo Dreamers and Brandon Robinson. Q: On which tracks are you most comfortable? rode it we had a few adjustments, but it’s really A: We have sense of humor on the team. Bran- A: I feel like I get around pretty good on most of good now. 10 PM �����������������������������������������The Flaunt Girls don loves to race motorcycles and he’s very tal- them! I just kind of go with it, take it how it comes. Midnight �������������������������������������������� Live Music: ented. Jake and I, we’re kind of the old guys. We How good? Good enough to keep Mees at the The Dirtboxwailers talk about riding styles and bike set up. Q: So far, it seems like you’re mainly racing your top of the heap for now after his sixth win at Cal- teammates. istoga July 29th. And tonight at 6 p.m., Sunday, Q: So, you’re old? A: We‘ve been doing very well for Indian and the August 6th, there’s only ONE place to be; In the ROADHOUSE STAGE A: I am 40 years old, I’m the oldest guy on the bike has been very good. We’re putting on a great Chip amphitheater witnessing an aboveboard 9 PM ��������������������������The Charlie Brechtel Band circuit. But I feel great, I work hard, I ride almost show every weekend. That’s the thing about this brawl at the inaugural Buffalo Chip TT. every day. I treat it as a job and take it serious. I feel track at the Chip, you never know what to expect Tickets at www.motostampede.com or the Schedules are subject to change. like I can beat those other guys on any given day. because it’s so new. Things might be different there. Chip box office. See you in the bleachers! SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 2017 STURGIS RIDER DAILY PAGE 3 Still time to get there Let’s Connect! MEET THE BUILDERS FOR BREAKFAST Tell us what you love about spending the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally at the Buffalo Chip. Or Builders from Motorcycles As Art: Old Iron Young Blood plus legacy custom builders you know will shoot us a picture and show us how your rally adventure is playing out. We may print your words gather on the upper decks of the Buffalo Chip CrossRoads this morning at 9:30 for a meet and greet. or photos in the Sturgis Rider Daily! $20 donated to Motorcycle Missions and Tech Ed Scholarships gets you in to the Flying Piston Builders Text: 828-205-8482 • Email: [email protected] Breakfast. Silent auction, cool people and breakfast, too! Letters to the Editor: [email protected] Where’s Woody? Scan every issue to find Woody then head to the Chip Chamber of Commerce to collect your prize.