Memorable bike events.

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Sturgis, 2019.

Yeah yeah, say what you will about the big rallies and Sturgis in particular, but it was cool to say I'd been there, even if in reality we spent a grand total of maybe 60 minutes on the actual strip, and the other 99.99% of the time out riding the black hills and such, just using Sturgis itself as a home base for sleeping at night.

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Having been there and done that now, I wouldn't go back *during* the rally itself but would go back any day just to use it as a base again for the black hills. Sure was a cool area and I enjoyed the ride to & from as well - I think we did close to 6000k in the 8 days we did the trip in.
 
Lightcycle said:
Don't think so, I would have been on my R1200GS in 06, not a sport bike.

I think I remember a ride we were both on back around the same time though, it was an early morning ride on Hwy 7 to the casino in Port Perry for breakfast and some guy in a truck tried to intentionally run us all off the road.

Was that with you?

So long ago, can't remember.
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I don't remember going there for breakfast, or on my bike, but anything's possible.
 
Lightcycle said:
Don't think so, I would have been on my R1200GS in 06, not a sport bike.

I think I remember a ride we were both on back around the same time though, it was an early morning ride on Hwy 7 to the casino in Port Perry for breakfast and some guy in a truck tried to intentionally run us all off the road.

Was that with you?

So long ago, can't remember.
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Probably a Chiller- Rory ride if it involved port perry casino breakfast.
 
I was at Laguna for Nicky Hayden’s first MotoGP win, and in Valencia 2006 when he won the championship after Rossi crashed.
 
Lightcycle said:
2008 inaugural MotoGP race at Indianapolis.

Cheering on Nicky Hayden while he led for almost the entire race. But after Rossi passed him, he immediately called the race from the front due to a silly little thing called Hurricane Ike.

Robbed!

I remember riding back to Toronto after the race during the hurricane, bike leaned 40 degrees into the wind the entire way.

Crazy!

But very memorable.

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Ducatis in the parking lot blown over by the hurricane because some riders left their bike cover on and it became a sail.
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I was there as well, but didn’t ride back until the next day! 😁
 
Rode down to the Barber Vintage Festival a couple of years back. That was nice.
 
Showing up at the Trenton beer store just before heading over to Ride for Sight and having the titty trike pull into the parking lot fully loaded. "There you go Martin! That's the impression we're going to leave on Kingston"
 
Grog's Chili run.
 
I watched this whole thing being filmed in 1982 and it seems like yesterday.
 
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Paris rally back in 2017 i think. Very cool feeling (fathers day no less) watching my daughter ride over a Pontiac.
 
Bobo said:
That museum is awesome. I’m going to try to make it to the Vintage Festival this year.
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You'll probably need your longjohns for the way back, if you're riding.
 
I saw Evel Knievel jump 13 Mack trucks at the CNE in 1974.
It was a HUGE deal back then.
I was only ten years old at the time.
 
shadowman said:
I saw Evel Knievel jump 13 Mack trucks at the CNE in 1974.
It was a HUGE deal back then.
I was only ten years old at the time.
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I saw Super Joe Einhorn brake the world indoor record, jumping I don’t know how many cars at the International Centre. He did it two nights in a row so it couldn’t have been that hard. Howard Cosell and Evel Knievel were there the first night as commentators for Wide World of Sports. I was there the second night and minutes before the jump four streakers ran out in front of the crowd. I think that was 1974. What always amazed me about Evel Knievel was not only distances he was jumping but that he did it on a Harley
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