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OF LYNYRD 2SUNDAY 8 SKYNYRD COLLECTIVE SOUL AUG. 3, 2014 JARED JAMES NICHOLS ® STURGIS RIDER DAILY Sturgis Local Weather Sunday Monday Tuesday 8/3 8/4 8/5 SHOWTOP NAME BIKE US SHOW YS AOURNCHOR THES ! 5CRO SSROADS STARTING TODAY Don’t MiSS Customization can take many forms, from simple Sailor Jerry Winner Take All Show and, “the rest pound sand!” Icing on the cake? The Indian Night at the Chip bolt on changes to frame mods and complete rebuilds. presented by Baggers Magazine wining bike will also be featured in Street Chopper. Page 4 But whatever way you go, it’s cool to show off the Sunday, August 3 So swipe some Armor All on that king & queen John Shope Bike Reveal results and there’s no better place to do that than the Buffalo Chip CrossRoads seat (unless it’s quilted velvet), blow out the fishtails, Page 7 Buffalo Chip Crossroads during the Sturgis Rally. Entry Fee: $40 and ride your rigid to the CrossRoads. All makes “The CrossRoads will be the place to find some of Registration Before 1:00 PM welcome, but we’re talking rigid choppers, folks. Outlaw Truck & Tractor Pulls the most beautiful and powerful motorcycles on the Judging & Public Display 1-3:00 PM Hang on to your sissy bar, it’s gonna be a wild ride. Page 11 planet,” said Rod Woodruff. “All the new bike shows Awards 5:00 PM offer people the opportunity to see amazing customs Sailor Jerry Winner Take All Show TODAy’S BIKE SHOW in one place while enjoying the many new attractions If you’re all about raked front ends and tiller presented by Street Chopper Magazine Baggers Magazine we’ve added this year.” 21 bars, bring your sled to the CrossRoads on Monday, August 4 Winner Take All Show They’re making it easy, too, by holding five different Monday August 4 for Street Chopper Magazine’s Buffalo Chip CrossRoads bike shows in a row, staring today. Whether your Winner Take All Bike Show presented by Sailor Jerry. Entry Fee: $40 interest is in entering or spectating, pick the shows Editor-in-Chief Jeff Holt was so enamored with the Registration Before 1:00 PM TODAy’S RIDE that suit you and head on over. There’s nothing to no nonsense approach he applied to Sunday’s Bagger Judging & Public Display 1-3:00 PM Custer Wildlife Loop lose, and you just might ride away with a cool five show, he’s repeating it: the winner gets $5,000 in cash Awards 5:00 PM Page 6 grand. Continued on Page 2 STURGIS BUFFALo Chip’S The CrossRoads bike show roster kicks 11 off today with a sweet show sponsored by WOLFMAN JACK STAGE Baggers Magazine, the Sailor Jerry Winner Take All Show. And in this case “all” is $5000! It’s open to all TONIGHT makes and models of baggers. 10:30pm ....... Lynyrd Skynyrd “We have grown tired of shows that are like pee wee 8:30pm ......... Collective Soul soccer where everybody who enters gets some sort of 7:00pm ......... Jared James prize,” says Jeff G. Holt, Brand Director of Baggers Magazine. So there will be one winner, and only one. Nichols The rest get nothing! That’s about as clean as it gets. And since Jeff was in the mood to pile on the TOMORROW accolades, the winner’s bike will get a full feature in 10:30pm ....... Zac Brown Baggers Magazine, too. So get out to the CrossRoads Band today to enter your bagger or simply peruse the show entries for customizing ideas. You’ll find cold beer, 8:30pm ......... John Mayall live music, tasty snacks, a Wall of Death show, Victory 7:00pm ......... 4onthefloor Demos, and plenty more at the Crossroads. PAGE 2 STURGIS RIDER DAILY SUNDAY, AUG. 3, 2014 on hefty eye candy and copious celebrity sightings Rat’s Hole Show What happens when two badass bike shows Cycle Source Magazine Nighttime Chopper as contestants vie to win a coveted sculpted Rat Thursday, August 7 3 combine forces? The badass quotient goes 4 Show 1 1 Trophy. Best of Show winner takes the trophy on the Buffalo Chip CrossRoads off the charts! And that’s what you’ll get when the Get down and dirty in old school style at the Cycle Wolfman Jack stage that evening just before headliner Entry Fee: $35 Top Builder Competition meets Hot Bike’s Winner Source FREE ride-in show. Count on 15 classes band Train performs. Registration Before 10:00 AM Take All Show presented by Sailor Jerry, on Tuesday, and handmade trophies from Kevin “Teach” Baas, Free to spectators, builders can pre-register online Judging & Public Display 10: AM-4:00 PM August 5 at the CrossRoads. and there are tons of prizes on the block from S&S, at www.ratshole.com. You simply don’t see bikes like Awards 5:00 PM Over the last three months, builders submitted JIMS, Biker’s Choice, Bikernet, and more. Thanks these anywhere else. In its 26th year, it’s the legendary custom bikes online in two distinct classes: The Kinetik to GEICO Insurance, Best of Show wins a rolling Rat’s Hole Bike Show at the Legendary Buffalo Chip. Pro Audio Class where audio prowess is king, and the chassis outfitted by Led Sled Customs, Metzeler Tires, Adventure Power Class where bling and radical styling Ridewright Wheels, Lowbrow Customs and Biltwell - rule. Now that fan voting has ended, those 16 finalists and a full feature in Cycle Source. will join the Hot Bike show to be judged by industry “The Buffalo Chip is the epicenter of all things experts as they compete with entrants on site for the that rock in Sturgis,” said Cycle Source editor Chris $5000 prize and the opportunity to represent as the Callen, “We would like to see Sturgis become the champ in the 2015 Top Builder marketing campaign. centerpiece of all our bike shows rolling into the 75th Said Buffalo Chip President Rod Woodruff, “This next year.” unique event not only gives fans the chance to get an up-close-and personal look at the world’s top custom Cycle Source Nighttime Chopper Show bikes but it also gives them great ideas on how to Wednesday, August 6 customize their own motorcycles.” Buffalo Chip CrossRoads The show is open to American V-Twin customs. Be Entry Fee: FREE there! It’s two, two, two bike shows in one! Registration 9:00 AM - Noon Judging & Public Display Noon-4:00 PM Hot Bike Magazine Winner Take All Show presented by Awards 5:00 PM Sailor Jerry / Sturgis Buffalo Chip Top Builder Competition Buffalo Chip CrossRoads The Rat’s Hole Show Tuesday, August 5 51 The incomparable bike show of bike shows Entry Fee: $40 returns to the CrossRoads at the Buffalo Chip on Registration Before 1:00 PM Thursday, August 7. With the famous Rat’s Hole Judging & Public Display 1-3:00 PM International Judging Team and 16 classes including Awards 5:00 PM the Black Hills Bagger Showdown, you can count LAST Night’S CONCERT LIST LUST 10 BIKER FILMS WORTH SEEING by Tim Watson 10. The Wild One 9. On Any Sunday 8. Electra Glide in Blue 7. Choppertown: The Sinners 6. Hells Angels on Wheels 5. The Motorcycle Diaries 4. Stone 3. Dust to Glory 2. Closer to the Edge There’s nothing casual about The Cult and that was evident on the Chip’s Wolfman Jack stage last night as the British boys rocked fans on a journey 1. World’s Fastest Indian through their decades of decadence. Photo by Aaron Packard SUNDAY, AUG. 3, 2014 STURGIS RIDER DAILY PAGE 3 5 MINUTES WITH ACTOR KRISTY SWANSON Why do you ride? My husband (Olympic Medalist Lloyd Eisner) has been riding for 40 years. So I got this bug to get a Spyder, a three-wheeler. I felt safe and comfortable on it as a new mom and I fell in love Kristy in her role as Buffy the Vampire Slayer. with the whole feeling of being on the road. I rode it for a year and a half and I was on the phone with Woody one day and we didn’t allow them to pay me until I saw the final images and we were talking about motorcycles. I said I was thinking of getting turned them over to Playboy. It was funny, Hugh Heffner told off the spider and asked him if he thought Victory made a three- me there were Swansons in his family! wheeler. And he said, “Kristy, just get on two wheels, go take the course and see how you feel, what do you have to lose?” So are you two related? My husband was saying the same thing, so I did! It was really Here’s what happened: in the mid ‘90s I was up at the Playboy Woody and my husband who inspired me to get on two wheels. mansion shooting The Phantom. It was the first time the mansion I borrowed a Victory in Sturgis two years ago and fell in love was ever used in a film and it fit because the film was set in with the feel and look of it. I’m comfortable on it. the 1930s. I was in costume, driving a vintage vehicle up the driveway and there he was. He looked at me and said, “Swanson, That’s so important, right? Swanson, you know my mother’s maiden name was Swanson. It really is. A motorcycle is kind of like a bra, it has to fit you Where are you from? I told him the Midwest, Chicago.