They shoot FJRs, don't they?

[Lee B.]

https://www.sturgis.com/2008pics/prerally01/index13.html

I like to look at the pictures from Sturgis each year. Great for people watching and seeing some great machines.

This year I've only made it through Mondays pictures. I've only seen two FJRs in the bunch. The link above has an FJR on picture #32, an '07. Then if you advance on the same day (pre-rally, 01) which I guess is Sunday, and go to page 16 picture #85 you'll see another. Who knows, maybe someone from the forum?

 

[Low Level FJR Pilot]

They would of shot an FJR in the old days, now its just a bunch of posers that trailer their bikes in for show.

 

[Barabus]

Where are the topless beeaches??

 

[dj bill]

They would of shot an FJR in the old days, now its just a bunch of posers that trailer their bikes in for show.

he said posers,thats so wild hogs.....lol

 

[Big Sky]

I was at Sturgis in 1980. First an outhouse was dynamited; then it was the turn of a Kawasaki 750 LTD. I could go on about the flashing and women having simulated sex with... oops, this is a family site... and I suspect maybe Sturgis is more of a family show than in the good old raunchy days. I doubt they assassinate Jap bikes anymore.

I haven't gone back there since 1982 - too many people, too many motorcycles, too slow traffic (not moving at all), too long lines for food, beer, toilet, too much noise, too high prices... Just not my idea of a good time, and now its five times bigger (though early reports are that attendance is off significantly this year). These days, when everyone Sturgis-bound is heading southeast through my locale, I'm heading northwest. My wife counted last week - about 3-4 bikes per minute on I-90 in SW Montana - probably 2,500 per day, not counting all those in trailers and in pickups, and we're 750 miles away!

Incidentally, when I went in 1980 I was riding a brand new Yamaha 650 G Maxim (my second bike - boy was THAT a torture rack!) and when I went in 1982 I was aboard a new Honda 750 Sabre (a little better than the Yamaha for distance riding). Man have we come a long way in terms of comfort, performance and reliability.

 

[JRO]

... Just not my idea of a good time

Yah. You couldn't pay me to attend that mess.

 

[VanHarlan]

now its just a bunch of posers that trailer their bikes in for show.

Yep - $15,000 and 15 miles doesn't make you a biker.

 

[SockMonkey]

Forget shooting the FJR, somebody needs to start shooting some of those, uh, "women"(?) and put them out of their fugliness..! :trinibob:

 

[Lee B.]

https://www.sturgis.com/2008pics/prerally01/index13.html
I like to look at the pictures from Sturgis each year. Great for people watching and seeing some great machines.

This year I've only made it through Mondays pictures. I've only seen two FJRs in the bunch. The link above has an FJR on picture #32, an '07. Then if you advance on the same day (pre-rally, 01) which I guess is Sunday, and go to page 16 picture #85 you'll see another. Who knows, maybe someone from the forum?

The shooting was in reference to shooting pictures of the main drag parade of bikes.

So far I have not been to Sturgis. I think if I did go it would be 1-3 days before. But there are lots of other places I want to go first.

 

[DaveInMn]

I was at Sturgis in 1980. First an outhouse was dynamited; then it was the turn of a Kawasaki 750 LTD. I could go on about the flashing and women having simulated sex with... oops, this is a family site... and I suspect maybe Sturgis is more of a family show than in the good old raunchy days. I doubt they assassinate Jap bikes anymore.
I haven't gone back there since 1982 - too many people, too many motorcycles, too slow traffic (not moving at all), too long lines for food, beer, toilet, too much noise, too high prices... Just not my idea of a good time, and now its five times bigger (though early reports are that attendance is off significantly this year). These days, when everyone Sturgis-bound is heading southeast through my locale, I'm heading northwest. My wife counted last week - about 3-4 bikes per minute on I-90 in SW Montana - probably 2,500 per day, not counting all those in trailers and in pickups, and we're 750 miles away!

Amen to that. I was up there several times in the late seventies and early eighties. In the afternoon, we'd get some beer and park across from the campground and people-watch. Very entertaining. Then, in the evening, went to Gunner's for more entertainment. Last time I was there (early, mid-eighties), the yuppies/posers had started taking over. Many big RVs pulling bike trailers. As stated above, now its mostly just a big, overpriced carnival.

 

[ShawnKing]

But there are lots of other places I want to go first.

Yeah, there's a *long* list of places I want to go and things I want to do before I even think of going to the Sturgis Rally. My wife really wants to go though - her tolerance for the weird is higher than mine.

 

[GunMD]

From the looks of those pix you may need a tolerance for ugly in addition to your tolerance for weird.

Yikes!

Scary stuff.

 

[Scab]

I've seen better-looking heads on a cabbage.

 

[Aasland]

too many people, too many motorcycles, too slow traffic (not moving at all), too long lines for food, beer, toilet, too much noise, too high prices... Just not my idea of a good time,

oster_stupid:

I rode through a few years ago, on my way cross country. It was the last Saturday of the rally, and as we continued east on I90 there were more bikes being hauled than ridden.

... pirates ...

 

[Warchild]

From the looks of those pix you may need a tolerance for ugly in addition to your tolerance for weird.
Yikes!

Scary stuff.

Oh, I dunno, there seems to be some righteous babes there..... :blink:

For example, what a splendid.... "tan" this babe has:

And it you look close at the tramp-stamp on this classy, svelte babe, I believe it says "Place beer here"......

 

[ShawnKing]

From the looks of those pix you may need a tolerance for ugly in addition to your tolerance for weird.

I was at a Charity Ride in Indianapolis a few years ago - 15,000 Harley riders and me...I was at the World Center of Ugly for 3 hours...

 

[Geezer]

Haven't I seen those, um, her on SPEEDTV?

 

[boogahboogah]

Sturgis - where more people show skin that shouldn't be seen ...

 

[ShawnKing]

Haven't I seen those, um, her on SPEEDTV?

Those are store bought - you can see them *everywhere*.