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OF 5 8 ZZ Top Wednesday Florida Georgia Line Aug. 6, 2014 Jeremiah James Korfe

® Sturgis Rider Daily Sturgis Local Weather Wednesday Thursday Friday 8/6 8/7 8/8 Bikes revealed at the CrossRoads Don’t Miss History Biker Battleground at The Chip - History Channel Channel filming Shooting Today Page 1 & 2 Winner on the TORC Racing Rocks Page 8 Chip’s main Today’s Bike Show stage Cycle Source Grease & Gears Page 4 Today’s Ride Trike Owner’s United Ride Season Finale: Biker Page 10 & 11

Sturgis Buffalo Chip’s Wolfman Jack Stage Battleground Phoenix Tonight Biker Battleground Phoenix, the reality and the opportunity to vote for their favorite. Dubbed The Legend, Paul’s role as the known 10:30pm...... ZZ Top television series currently on the History Celebrity judges then move in to perform their leader the others are gunning for allows him 8:30pm...... Florida Georgia Channel, pits five rival bike-builders from scrutiny, culminating in the announcement of to take the high road, but people who know Phoenix, Arizona, against each other to see the winner on the Chip’s main stage about 8:00 Paul Yaffe will tell you he’d do that anyway. Line who can design and build the best bagger and PM. As it happens, Paul is being inducted into the 7:00pm...... Jeremiah put an end to their rivalry and smack talking. To keep Biker Battleground viewers engaged, Sturgis Museum’s Hall of Fame during Rally, an James Korfe If you’ve been watching, and who hasn’t, you’ll there’s plenty of drama pumped into the TV indication of his industry stature. “Normally I want to be at the CrossRoads today to see the episodes. The builders say that cameras are would never compete against these guys, but if Tomorrow builders unveil their bikes. Then tonight on the running all the time and they have no idea we don’t interact there’s no show,” he said. “And 10:30pm...... Train Chip’s main stage celebrity judges convene to what bits are likely to turn up when programs the show is a great opportunity for the newer 8:30pm...... Pop Evil announce the winner in the hotly contested air. That’s fine with Paul Yaffe, who’s been and younger guys to brand themselves.” 7:00pm...... Pistol Day competition. down this path before with Discovery’s Biker Cameras roll at the CrossRoads this afternoon Build-off, and he credits the History Channel . Parade Continued on Page 2 when fans gets a firsthand look at the bikes for top-notch production and promotion. PAge 2 Sturgis Rider Daily Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014 Brash and unapologetic, Risk Taker John Shope is the hothead/cool dude. He’s been around a while and has made a name for himself, not always in a positive way, and he hasn’t yet put the pedal to the metal for solid industry traction. Maybe this time he will. Kody McNew, labeled The Young Gun, is fresh off a prestigious win in Sturgis last year. He has an opportunity here to prove himself, but does he actually have the chops or will he be a one hit wonder? Meanwhile, Canadian Len Edmondson, The Outsider, is known for his deep pockets and calculated business sense. He’s not afraid to take on anyone but he may need to learn: money can’t buy you love. Rounding out the Phoenix Five is Brian Jenkins, called The Rebel. Brian embodies the no-frills one-man operation, the underdog Paul Yaffe Kody McNew with plenty of talent but scant resources. “Brian is someone I’d go have a beer with, a person I really like,” said Yaffe. When we pointed out that Brian was seen in one of Yaffe’s Bagger Nation cap in at least one episode, Paul said, Think judging bike shows is easy? “If I had a Hatred Customs hat I’d wear it too.” Think again. It’s a job where you’re Biker Battleground episodes have unfolded guaranteed to make someone—in fact, through July and August and now the intensity probably a lot of people—unhappy. is ramping up. The final show of the season The best show judges are people with is being filmed during the Rally, including hands-on experience because they know announcement of the victor on the Buffalo what it takes to produce an exceptional Chip’s main stage tonight. All five builders custom motorcycle. Here’s the panel of will be there along with a panel of celebrity judges responsible for selecting the Biker judges (see sidebar) for the announcement Battleground Best Bagger Builder: that cinches the title: Best Bagger Builder in Keith “Bandit” Ball was executive Phoenix. Then stick around for concert with editor of Easy Rider magazine twice and Florida Georgia Line and headliner ZZ Top at is the main man behind Bikernet, the the best party anywhere®. largest on-line biker information site. He Led Edmondson Brian Jenkins currently manages a Bonneville racing effort and authors biker fiction. Scott Hakins, a.k.a. The Count, is the man on the road for S&S Cycle. Scott uses his uncanny diagnostic skills to service dealers across the country and now turns his technical prowess toward the Phoenix Five. Pat Jansen has been involved with custom bikes for decades, helping establish Titan Motorcycles and completing many of his own builds. Today Pat travels the country as spokesperson for Progressive Motorcycle Insurance. Ron Harris is a renowned motorcycle painter, builder, parts designer and owner of Chop Docs in Michigan. Ron is often on the road as a co-founder of the Chop- in Block traveling road show and builders co-op. New breed builder Pat Patterson has redefined old school customs, earning a reputation for fabricating cool custom Sportsters at his shop Led Sled. The company’s parts and bikes are built to ride, and ride hard.

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5 Minutes with American Pickers’ Frank Fritz When were you last at the Sturgis Rally? made a lot of them and people are making café racers and Well, this is my 31st year at Sturgis. I come out here to see choppers out of them. That’s one of the reasons I like to go the bands and enjoy myself for a few days. I work 20 days to Sturgis, to see the new models and new stuff. a month between 12 and 17 hours a day, so I gotta have a little break now and then. I like seeing the new products What’s America’s fascination with picking? and it’s nice to be around other enthusiasts. It hits home with a lot of different people. There’s a little bit of the collector in everyone. And we don’t throw around So I hear you have a new book. F-bombs on the show, we’re not confrontational—I think Yeah, How To Pick Vintage Motorcycles with Frank Fritz. people enjoy that. It’s got a picture in it of my first Harley that I bought when I was 15 and I still own, and talks about what motorcycles It looks like you and your partner Mike have fun. What impacted me back in the day. I’ve had bikes all through my are the challenging aspects viewers don’t see? life. I started out as a little kid on mini bikes, then I went to For me the most challenging thing is keeping well. There’s dirt bikes, then street bikes. I like all brands. I’ve definitely a lot of climbing and physical stuff. The snakes and rats made bikes a way of life. I don’t have Kawasaki tattooed on don’t bother me; it’s the little things like fleas, chiggers, my arm but I do have Harley-Davidson. mosquitoes and no-see-ums. Getting 50 or 60 bites all over your legs can be annoying. I’m very susceptible to Tell us about some of your bikes. catching poison ivy, poison oak. People don’t see any of I’ve always been into all types of motorcycles, I never that. pigeonholed myself to one brand. If you ride motorcycles you’ve got something in common with me. I have a big What’s the weirdest thing you ever found picking? variety of bikes, from Triumphs to Hondas to Indians, to What might seem weird to me might not seem weird to Harleys, a little bit of everything. I even have a Ninja sport somebody else. Probably some of it I wouldn’t be able to bike and dirt bikes. I’ve been a motorcyclist my entire life. talk about, cultural stuff that’s not politically correct but is still part of our history and part of America. If you get a break at home, what bike do you ride on a whim? Do you ever feel like the “other” Picker guy, or that Mike I like the Heritage Softail. It’s low to ground and I’m a short gets more attention? guy so it’s easy for me to handle. I’ve always liked sport Yeah, but that’s the way we are, we have different bikes but a lot of them today are so tall. We all gotta work personalities. One person needs to be in the limelight all with what we got and I don’t got much! I have a Kawasaki of the time, look at me, me, me. Then there’s the guy who’s Ninja and a Triumph, I’ve had a lot of different sportbikes happy with not as much limelight and doesn’t need to be over the years and I appreciate that style of riding. on the cover of every magazine. If I just want to buzz around town I have a Honda 600 Silver Wing, which is a big scooter. It’s powerful, easy to What question do people always ask you? ride and convenient. You might see me on anything! The People always ask me about the most expensive thing I’ve next day I might be on a VL Harley. found, but I’m not the guy who makes the $10,000 find. I’m more the guy that finds the normal stuff. I’m pretty You’re astute about buying and selling. What do you much the normal guy from Iowa, the guy who drinks think about the prices vintage bikes are selling for now? Busch lite on the weekends, gets a pizza and rents videos. My partner buys a lot of the expensive early motorcycles I don’t sell three thousand dollar signs, I sell three hundred but I wonder if those bikes will hold their value 10 or 15 dollar signs. I’m still driving the same old truck I had, I years down the line. I see a lot of 1970-’71 Hondas coming still live in the same old house, and my phone number’s back around now. That’s a 40-year-old motorcycle a still in the phone book. I haven’t personally changed a lot. younger person can get into relatively cheap and work on it themselves. They’re affordable and obtainable and they PAge 4 Sturgis Rider Daily Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014 Ride-in and enter FREE Cycle Source Magazine Nighttime Chopper Show This is how it was done back in the day: One added bonus: the winner is presented you rode your bike into the show and could on the Buffalo Chip’s main stage tonight, enter it even if you didn’t have a dollar. Get just before Big Sturgis Gig winner Jeremiah down and dirty at the Cycle Source free ride- James Korfe takes the stage. There are tons in show at the Buffalo Chip CrossRoads of other prizes, too, thanks to sponsors such today, Wednesday, August 6. Enter in as S&S, JIMS, Biker’s Choice, Bikernet, and one of 15 classes for your chance to win a more. handmade trophy from Kevin “Teach” Baas. “The Buffalo Chip is the epicenter of Thanks to GEICO Insurance, Best of all things that rock in Sturgis,” said Cycle Show wins a rolling chassis outfitted by Led Source editor Chris Callen, “We would like Sled Customs, Metzeler Tires, Ridewright to see Sturgis become the centerpiece of all Wheels, Lowbrow Customs and Biltwell— our bike shows rolling into the 75th next and a full feature in Cycle Source Magazine. y e ar.”

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There are almost no trees in the Badlands which can make There are so many great rides in the Black Hills, it very hot in the summer so bring along plenty of the Badlands are often overlooked. Its location on the water. Other than Interior there are no towns in the eastern plains further compromises its availability to National Park. Fill up with gas in Rapid City and Black Hills visitors. This area is so unique, however, again in Interior. Wall is another fuel stop if you’re it will be on your favorite rides list once you’ve going in the other direction. today. near Ellsworth Air Force Base. There are indoor experienced it. The surreal moon-like topography The sun will be in your face on early morning rides In the 55-mile ride back to Rapid City on I-90 west and outdoor exhibits of the B1-B Lancer and its carved from millions of years of wind, water and from Rapid City. Similarly, a late afternoon ride ride you’ll drop down into the Cheyenne River Valley predecessor the B 52, plus a variety of WWII prop erosion has evolved the area into chiseled spires, west can cause glare problems with the setting sun. where wagon trains hauled supplies to prospectors planes. deep canyons and jagged buttes now known as the Sunsets and sunrises in the Badlands, however, are and miners over 140 years ago. When you climb out Badlands National Park. spectacular, producing a reddish aura combined with of the valley you will see the Black Hills looming in Black Hills Motorcycle Rides by Paul Mitchell is a A route locals like to take starts on Hwy 44 east from the colors and hues in the rock. the distance. 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“Friend” the Chip! Are you part of the extended Buffalo Chip family that stays connected all year long on social media? If so, you enjoyed Fan Fest on Sunday, August 3, the Chip’s way of welcoming fans back and kicking the rally into high gear early. FEEL THE POWER! If you missed it, get on board for next year. Simply “like” the Legendary Buffalo Chip Test ride a T124 equipped motorcycle Facebook page, add us to your circle on Google+, or follow the Chip on Twitter, Pinterest down the Sturgis Dragway 1/8 mile! or Instagram. It’s that easy. Do it now, because for the 75th anniversary rally in 2015, you won’t 20523 Hwy 79, Sturgis, SD want to miss a thing. August 5th & 6th • 10:00am - Noon For more details, visit sscycle.com/demo-days Come visit us at the S&S Display during the Sturgis Rally Fri. Aug. 1st - Sat. Aug. 9 th at 1535 Lazelle Street

S&S T124 Demo Days is open to licensed drivers 21 years of age or older. Riders must have their own safety equipment – helmets, jackets, The Rat’s Hole Bike Show is the fifth and final show at the CrossRoads this year, and boots, gloves, and eye protection. Anyone under the influence of drugs or alcohol will not be allowed to participate. S&S reserves the right what a way to wrap! Legendary in scope and reputation, this is the one to see if you’ve to deny access to anyone in the interest of safety. Riders will be required to sign a liability waiver. missed the rest. Be there tomorrow. Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014 Sturgis Rider Daily PAge 7 2014 inductions are today Have Breakfast with Hall of Famers Hall of Fame Inductee Clyde Fessler. If you haven’t had breakfast yet, don’t! There’s have made a long term positive impact on the still time to get to the Lodge at Deadwood for motorcycle community,” added Diers. this year’s Hall of Fame Breakfast with friends Nominations are also accepted for the and supporters of the Sturgis Motorcycle Freedom Fighters Hall of Fame to honor those Museum. It starts at 9:00 AM. who have fought to protect motorcyclists’ rights. Inductees for 2014 include: Clyde Fessler To learn more about the 2014 inductees and whose dynamic 25-year career with Harley- all of the Hall of Fame members, visit www. Davidson spanned breakthrough transitions; sturgishof.com. You’ll find the nomination form Jesse Jurrens known for the innovation and there, too. And don’t forget to visit the Sturgis quality of his Legend Suspension products; Motorcycle Museum while you’re here. It’s a American Motordrome Wall of Death rider must-do every year! Hall of Fame Inductee Jay Lightning. Hall of Fame Inductee Bonnie Truett. Jay “Lightnin’” Bentley; Terry Components owner and Student Build Challenge Mentor Keith Terry; drag racer Bonnie Truett of Truett & Osborn; and custom builder Paul Yaffe. The 2014 Freedom Fighter inductee is Deb “Tiger” Chandler, honoring her decades of work on behalf of riders in Colorado. Serving as emcee for the Breakfast this year is Mark Blackwell. In addition to being the first AMA 500cc Motocross champion, Blackwell more recently helped put Victory motorcycles Hall of Fame Inductee Keith Terry. Hall of Fame Inductee Deb Chandler. Hall of Fame Inductee Jesse Jurrens. on the map. “From V-twins to dirt bikes and everything in between, Mark has helped shape the face of motorcycling in America for the past four decades,” said the Museum’s Executive Director Christine Paige Diers. Each year the board members of the Sturgis Sturgis Rider Daily Motorcycle Museum & Hall of Fame review Co-Publishers Editor Advertising Sales Design and nominations that are submitted by people Sturgis Buffalo Chip Marilyn Stemp Rapid City Journal Production within and outside of the motorcycle industry. Rapid City Journal Paul Mitchell, Sturgis Rapid City Journal Anyone can nominate a person or group they Buffalo Chip think is worthy of consideration. “We focus Contributors on recognizing individuals or groups who Chris Yushta, Jordan Axtman, Christine Paige Diers, Paul Mitchell, Aaron Packard, Jessica Nelson, Rachael Omps, Mary Panerio, Kurt Shaw, Marilyn Stemp. Other material contributed by staff of the Rapid City Journal.

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PRINTED IN USA PAge 8 Sturgis Rider Daily Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014 Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014 Sturgis Rider Daily PAge 9 TORC Day I Results: Racing Continues Today TORC: The Off-Road Championship ® Presented by AMSOIL christened the new track at the Buffalo Chip Powersports Complex yesterday, providing spectators with a taste of some of the most adrenaline- packed racing in the country. Despite light rain, a strong crowd was on hand to see Mark Jenkins (PRO 4), Chad Hord (PRO 2), and Jerett Brooks (PRO Light) earn victories in their respective classes. There was drama in all three classes as Keegan Kincaid’s five-race PRO Light win streak was broken, CJ Greaves saw his four-race PRO 2 streak broken, and Mark Jenkins was able to make a late-race Big Sturgis pass of defending PRO 4 champ Johnny Greaves to earn his win. Tuesday was round 11 of TORC’s 14-round season. The second day of The Battle at The Chip (round 12) happens today with gates Gig Winner opening at noon and racing at 3 PM. Catch the high-flying no-holds-barred action while you have the chance. What a Jeremiah James Korfe is an show! Photos by Chris Yushta. authentic fit for this gig Singer/Songwriter Jeremiah James Korfe, winner of to it, with grittier guitar tones that I love, and that cool for the Buffalo Chip to put a hand out to up-and- What’s the Big Deal About the Big Sturgis Gig contest, is a native of Minnesota, suits me. Now I get to sing about what I do and make coming musicians. not exactly a state associated with country music. it rockin’. the Big Gig? But Korfe doesn’t see it that way. “It’s more realistic You were on the reality TV show, Sweet Home singing country music where I come from – there’s Blending music genres and doing it well must be Alabama. Other than getting the girl, what was the more open land, more back roads and farmland,” he harder than it sounds, though. best part of that experience? The Big Sturgis Gig, new this year, is an online, said. And he has a right to that opinion: he grew up I’ll tell you, the first live country music concert I It did build a very unique and fast platform for my interactive band-submission platform that in a big family, near a tiny town, on a legacy farm, and went to was Dirks Bentley. He was using an Orange music, because I’d just started recording. I went from allows artists to showcase themselves among still helps out doing chores there, spring and fall. You amp and a Marshall stack, and a DW drum kit 800 to 10,000 likes on my Facebook page, a huge might say it keeps him grounded. and I thought, dang that’s exactly what I’m using! fan base. In hindsight, since I’m not dating the girl the community of bands for a chance to play at Korfe sees winning the Big Sturgis Gig contest He was singing about things that are close to my anymore and music really is my life, I wish I would the Buffalo Chip’s annual Sturgis Rally festival. as a huge opportunity, a springboard to bigger and heart and I realized I needed to start writing some have played that better. Bands upload material into a profile page and better things. But he’s no stranger to playing and country music. So I went to Nashville in 2011 and it performing. Here’s what he had to say when we was absolutely eye opening. I met some of the best Do you ride? fans visit to vote for their favorites. Once the caught up with him: musicians and best songwriters I’d ever met! They do I’ve ridden my Harley to Sturgis the last 6 years. My pool is narrowed down, celebrity judges take it like they’re sleepin’. dad still has his ‘75 SuperGlide. When I was a kid he over to select the winner. You’ve been playing and performing for a while, told me: “The day you‘re strong enough to kick start it right? How’d you hear about the Big Sturgis Gig? (See you can take it for a ride,” and for some reason, when Said Daymon Woodruff, Director of Showcase Biker Belles: Yeah, it’s like I’m starting a new career in the country sidebar) I was about 10, the thing must have been lined up Entertainment for the Buffalo Chip and music world after I lived and worked in LA for eight My fiddle player mentioned it to me. And I thought, perfectly because I laid into that sucker and she fired! architect of the contest, “The Buffalo Chip is Follow-Up years. In LA I went through a label, playing more why not? It scared the crap out of me! both a music festival and a motorcycle rally. As When unpredictable weather rock inspired music, and returned home when the How did you learn you’d won? When I was 16, I bought an Ironhead and rebuilt it, label went under. It woke me up to the business side When Woody called, he really had me going. He then took it to the H-D 100th. I got a Crossbones in conspired to alter the Biker Belles the perfect overlap of those two elements, the of things. said, “We want to tell you we’re really stoked about 2008. Big Sturgis Gig was more of a success than I Ride yesterday, participants this submission process, how many musicians All my aunts and uncles and cousins ride. Two years refused to let it dampen their Was there a good side to that experience? participated, how many people it reached, how ago, 23 of us rode together on a family vacation up imagined it would be.” energy or the spirit of the day. The time in LA helped me hone my craft in happy the sponsors were and how it all went. We were near the Canadian border. The first prize of $10,000 was only part of the Women riders enjoyed the performance to be a better entertainer. And I looking for someone really great who has a future attraction to enter this year. The other? A chance symposium, comfort zone, and randomly met Jesse Spencer who was on the TV show ahead of them.” And I was just thinking, okay, dude, What can music fans expect from your show? each other’s company at the Lodge House. I learned so much from him about talking to just tell me I didn’t get it! I like to throwdown, like it’s still rock n’ roll at its best. to play the opening set on the Chip’s Wolfman at Deadwood before riding in people and being pleasant. He’s from Australia, you Then he added, “That being said, that’s why we picked People are there to hear the rawness, they want to be Jack stage ahead of Florida Georgia Line and know, and we both hunt. He talks about wanting to you!” It was really awesome! entertained. Heck, we want to keep it fun and real. It’s small groups to the Buffalo Chip hunt deer and I say we should swap cause I’d like to I’m looking forward to flat out looking him in the eye gonna be a full moving set the entire time. ZZ Top, as part of the best party anywhere™! for a reception, fashion show and hunt kangaroo. and thanking him, because these are the moments Sponsors include: Jivewired/AXIS auction. Proceeds benefit Helping that really do help artists. This gig is not just an So have you gone kangaroo hunting? entertainment, Mapex Drums, D’Addario and With Horsepower and the Sturgis So you have rock roots that you’re bringing over to opening act somewhere. The people who come to No, not yet dang it. Motorcycle Museum and Hall of a more country sound? the Buffalo Chip are from all around the world and Coldcock Herbal Flavored Whiskey. Fame. Photos by Aaron Packard. So much of country now has that rock and roll spine it couldn’t be a better venue! I’m so grateful. 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BUFFALO GIS CH R IP Roadsmith’s Trike Owners TU ’S S ® United Ride (T.O.U.R.) Made for presented by three – and FREE! TRIKE OWNERS UNITED RIDE™ Trike riders of all stripes are invited to the Doug Lindholm, “This year’s T.O.U.R. event only trike-specific ride during the Sturgis Rally, promises to be even bigger and better than last the second annual T.O.U.R. event. Hosted by year’s, with more trikes, more prizes and more the Sturgis Buffalo Chip and presented by fun. We’re proud to work with our friends at Roadsmith, it’s today, Wednesday, August 6. the legendary Buffalo Chip to sponsor this Last year’s riders represented a cross-section event for the second year in a row.” of the trike community and they’re still talking The day begins in Hill City with a group about it, “I thoroughly enjoyed last year’s ride photo, followed by a self-guided 50-mile all- through some of the most scenic parts of the trike ride. It culminates with a trike procession Black Hills to the Buffalo Chip, and I can’t wait through the Buffalo Chip to a private reception for another memorable event this year,” said at the Russ Brown Events Center from 5:00- 2013 participant, Paul Marquardt. 7:00 PM with complimentary hors d’oeuvres, According to Roadsmith General Manager cash bar, and plenty of prizes—including tires

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F Scottamily Von Minden was only eight-years-old andM Scott McAfee,ile set out on theirs matchingtone This year, Scott is in Sturgis when he was first hit with Sturgis fever. That new Honda motorcycles and headed off to with one of his best friends, was the year he and his dad packed up Sturgis, a whopping 440 miles from their Bob Dodds, also of Lincoln. their brand new 1964 Honda Dream 300 hometown. The Van Minden’s bike was red, Dodds is celebrating an motorcycle and hit the road to the Black Hills and the other bikes were white and black, anniversary, too. Forty years of South Dakota for the annual Sturgis rally. representing Honda’s entire color scheme for ago, when he was 17, Dodds There was hardly room on the bike for little that year. and his family traveled from Scott, since they carried all their gear for the Long before it became an international Lincoln to Sturgis. His mom trip, too. “And believe me, that bike is small. I tourism destination, the Black Hills area made him trailer his 1973 know, because that sweet little beauty is sitting was one of America’s best kept secrets. In forest green Kawasaki 400 in my garage this very moment,” said Scott, the 1960s, the Sturgis rally was minuscule Triple, which his friends who lives in Lincoln, Nebraska. The 2014 rally compared to what it is today — the largest bike nicknamed “the popcorn marks the 50th anniversary of that first trip to rally in the world with an estimated 400,000 machine” because of its Sturgis. people expected to attend this year. Scott’s distinct sound, and he rode Part of the joy of the annual motorcycle rally fondest memory of that first trip is when they in the back of the station are the relationships and traditions that are pulled their bikes off the road under Mount wagon with his three younger created, and Scott’s first trip a half-century Rushmore, tossed their sleeping bags on the siblings. Scott camped at the ago remains etched in a special place in his grass and slept all night under the watchful Sturgis City Park that year, memory. Scott still recalls how he and his dad, gaze of four presidents. “Back then,” he said, and might have even run Merle Von Minden, and two other father-and- “no one cared if you did something crazy like into Dodds, who was there Scott Von Minden, then 8, and his dad Merle on the 1964 Honda son teams, Herb and Mike Ellis, and Larry that. Now, we’d go to jail.” camping with his family. Dream on their journey to the Sturgis Rally 50 years ago Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014 Sturgis Rider Daily PAge 13 But since that was back in 1974, they really can’t recall. By that time, Scott had graduated to riding his own Tyrolean green metallic Honda CB450 and attended the rally with friends. The two friends have been back to the rally many times over the years. They haven’t counted, but both say that they’ve probably made the trip about 25 times each. Since then some things have changed. They rent houses instead of camping and they guys switched to Harleys long ago. Still, every year Scott uncovers the Honda Dream, starts it up and, just to show it off, rides it to the neighborhood bar for the annual bike show. Scott keeps the many trophies that bike has won inside the house, but the Honda Dream is relegated to the garage. “I’d like to display Scott and Cate Von Linden of Nebraska, shown here in Sturgis it in the house,” Scott says, last year, come to the Rally many times. This year marks the Take advantage of the chance to ride a new 2015 Victory Magnum or Gunner at Victory’s “but my wife says no.” 50th anniversary of Scott’s first Sturgis journey. Demo Ride depot located at the CrossRoads. Enjoy the Chip’s just-paved roads and skip the annoyance of clutch-and-go traffic for a guided demo ride, today through Saturday.

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Indian Model O In 1916, Hendee Manufacturing and simple for any boy to handle, moderate Company introduced the Indian Model in price, low in operating cost. O – also known as the Indian Light Twin. At the time, the price for a Model O This opposed cylinder motorcycle was was $165. Unfortunately for Indian, these meant to be an entry-level motorcycle. The smaller lighter weight bikes didn’t sell that Model O has a very unusual layout with the well. The company only made the model opposed twin cylinder mounted with the for three years, 1917-1919. World War cylinders facing front and back rather than I may have been part of the reason as the sticking out each side. Indian had hoped company moved to producing and selling to attract a new younger audience with motorcycles to the military. In addition, these lightweight bikes and the company these lighter weight bikes really didn’t advertised these light weight motorcycles in appeal to enthusiasts who actually took to magazines like Boys Life. One such ad – run nicknaming them the “Model Nothing.” around the Christmas season - encouraged Like all motorcycle production at the time parents to give their sons either an Indian the availability of mass-produced cars also Bicycle, or this Indian Twin, advertised this had a part to play too, as more people could way: afford to purchase cars and they answered Or you can give him an actual the need for inexpensive transportation. motorcycle – not a big, powerful one, but the You can see this example of a 1918 Model Indian Light Twin, with low riding position, O in the Sturgis Motorcycle Museum. just enough speed and power to make it easy

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See the Museum’s Women Rider Exhibit at the Buffalo Chip Russ Brown Event Center, located at the Chip’s east gate. Free and open to the public all week. No ticket or wristband needed. PAge 16 Sturgis Rider Daily Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014 Sturgis Rider Sweepstakes One person is about to be very happy! It’s a super partnership that gathers smokin’ hot paint job from Custom Design together the Sturgis Buffalo Chip, Arlen Studios and PPG, and comes with a Les Ness Motorcycles, Victory Motorcycles, Paul Studio Epiphone guitar to match! Epiphone Guitar, Custom Design Studios, The winner will be announced from PPG and Pepsi to please just one motorcycle the Chip’s Wolfman Jack stage between rider. But that’s what the Sturgis Rider performances by Pop Evil and Train the Sweepstakes is all about and tough the bike evening of Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014. So visit has toured to rallies for several months you the Victory displays at the rally and sign can still enter to win until Thursday. up. If you registered at a Rider Friendly The winner of this Ness custom Victory and matching Epiphone guitar will be drawn on the Chip’s Renowned builder Cory Ness customized Business on the way to Sturgis, you’re main stage Thursday night before Train takes the stage—and it might be you! But you have to the 2014 Victory Cross Country® 8 Ball so it’s already entered. (Sorry, pretty ladies not enter to win. So visit the Victory displays at the rally to sign up. If you registered at a Rider Friendly one-of-a-kind and chock-full of distinctive included!) Business on the way to Sturgis, you’re already entered! Ness parts. The motorcycle also features a Last Night’s Concert

Dude (or diva?) of shock rock Alice Cooper, touring as part of Mötley Full-on, flat-out, it was one last wild ride for Mötley Crüe. The Chip amphitheater throbbed with energy and Crüe’s “All Bad Things Must Come to an End” tour took command of the revving V-twins as appreciative fans hung on to the bitter end. Photo by Jordan Axtman. Wolfman Jack stage. Photo by Jordan Axtman.