Sturgis Mississippi Motorcycle Rally
August 19-21Sturgis, Mississippi Motorcycle Rally
What can I say. 950 miles for 95 to 103 degree heat and just to be at a town festival. They can call this event what it wants, ibut it is simply a town festival without the carnival. I guess that is why they invite the motorcycles, kind of like a side show for the local farmers, or rednecks, or whatever you call the slow talking, smug, Yankee hating, southern inbred we encountered.
So let's get this straight, this is not a motorcycle event. Sure, there are some motorcycles. The town claims 35,000 to 40,000. I would suggest more like 1500 to 2000. Let me write that out so you don't think I missed some zeros accidently...fifteen hundred to two thousand bikers.
Ok, now that we have that straight, what was it, then. I already said it...A town festival. For vendors, it is what we call a real-estate show...meaning they make their living selling spots to vendors. The only local restaurant said her turnout for the past couple of years has been much below expectation. She thought it was because there were too many vendors. Maybe, because there were a lot of them, but if the only restaurant in town isn't making it with 35 to 40,000 bikers in attendance, then there wasn't that many there. We were set-up so we could look down the street with most of the food vendors. Except for Saturday, most of the time you could easily count the number of people that were in this street at any time. Most of the time it was less than 10. On Saturday there were more but the street was never crowded.
I am getting disgusted with people trying to make a buck off the bikers and not delivering anything for it. Sturgis, MS decided a few years ago since their town name was the same as the Great Sturgis in South Dakota, they would have a "bike rally" and the bikers would flock there and they would make a ton of money. Guess what...The show has progressively been getting worse, because they aren't delivering anything.
We were told they chose the hottest days of the year in Mississippi, even though they know it is so hot it becomes dangerous to be out in it, because it follows the Sturgis North show and they thought that would draw the bikers down. Obviously they have spent too many years cooking their brains in the heat and drinking straight whiskey to understand that if it is the hottest days of the year, many (could I say most) people simply won't come. Why would they? To watch Cletis and Zeb playing banjo on their broken down, leaning to the left, porch, whilst Auntie Ethyl and Uncle Mort do a diddy on the dirt front yard? Give me a break.
We won't be back. I don't do fairs and festivals. I do motorcycle shows. I offend the ignorant, inbred, outright stupid, what some call the "regular" people, just being me. I don't offend anybody at a bike show. Don't invite me to your fairs and festivals and I won't insult you......Mick
What can I say. 950 miles for 95 to 103 degree heat and just to be at a town festival. They can call this event what it wants, ibut it is simply a town festival without the carnival. I guess that is why they invite the motorcycles, kind of like a side show for the local farmers, or rednecks, or whatever you call the slow talking, smug, Yankee hating, southern inbred we encountered.
So let's get this straight, this is not a motorcycle event. Sure, there are some motorcycles. The town claims 35,000 to 40,000. I would suggest more like 1500 to 2000. Let me write that out so you don't think I missed some zeros accidently...fifteen hundred to two thousand bikers.
Ok, now that we have that straight, what was it, then. I already said it...A town festival. For vendors, it is what we call a real-estate show...meaning they make their living selling spots to vendors. The only local restaurant said her turnout for the past couple of years has been much below expectation. She thought it was because there were too many vendors. Maybe, because there were a lot of them, but if the only restaurant in town isn't making it with 35 to 40,000 bikers in attendance, then there wasn't that many there. We were set-up so we could look down the street with most of the food vendors. Except for Saturday, most of the time you could easily count the number of people that were in this street at any time. Most of the time it was less than 10. On Saturday there were more but the street was never crowded.
I am getting disgusted with people trying to make a buck off the bikers and not delivering anything for it. Sturgis, MS decided a few years ago since their town name was the same as the Great Sturgis in South Dakota, they would have a "bike rally" and the bikers would flock there and they would make a ton of money. Guess what...The show has progressively been getting worse, because they aren't delivering anything.
We were told they chose the hottest days of the year in Mississippi, even though they know it is so hot it becomes dangerous to be out in it, because it follows the Sturgis North show and they thought that would draw the bikers down. Obviously they have spent too many years cooking their brains in the heat and drinking straight whiskey to understand that if it is the hottest days of the year, many (could I say most) people simply won't come. Why would they? To watch Cletis and Zeb playing banjo on their broken down, leaning to the left, porch, whilst Auntie Ethyl and Uncle Mort do a diddy on the dirt front yard? Give me a break.
We won't be back. I don't do fairs and festivals. I do motorcycle shows. I offend the ignorant, inbred, outright stupid, what some call the "regular" people, just being me. I don't offend anybody at a bike show. Don't invite me to your fairs and festivals and I won't insult you......Mick
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