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Great Touring Bike Deals Coming To An Estate Sale Near You, Sturgis Motorcycle Rally Hopes To Welcome 250,000
Bradley Brownell
Yesterday 10:00PM Filed to: STURGIS
The town of Sturgis, South Dakota is about to swell its capacity for a week starting this Friday. Despite the global coronavirus pandemic which has killed nearly 700,000 people worldwide as of this writing, the famed Sturgis Motorcycle Rally will go on as planned. The towns population of around 7,000 will swell by an expected 250,000 bikers this week. The steady stream of thumping V-twins has already started, and it will continue unabated until August 16th.
With an estimated quarter million participants, the 80th Sturgis promises to be certainly among the largest public event held since the pandemic began, if not the largest. In a normal year the rally would expect to host nearly half a million bikers, but conservative estimates see that number halving.
South Dakota residents, despite the state never having locked down at all, are rightfully worried that the influx of riders from all around the country are going to bring an unmanageable coronavirus outbreak to the rural region. More than 60 percent of the towns residents were in favor of postponing the rally out of fear for the virus, but following threats of legal action on behalf of local businesses which make a large portion of their annual income during the rally, the City Council ruled in favor of going forward with the rally regardless.
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Bradley Brownell
Yesterday 10:00PM Filed to: STURGIS
The town of Sturgis, South Dakota is about to swell its capacity for a week starting this Friday. Despite the global coronavirus pandemic which has killed nearly 700,000 people worldwide as of this writing, the famed Sturgis Motorcycle Rally will go on as planned. The towns population of around 7,000 will swell by an expected 250,000 bikers this week. The steady stream of thumping V-twins has already started, and it will continue unabated until August 16th.
With an estimated quarter million participants, the 80th Sturgis promises to be certainly among the largest public event held since the pandemic began, if not the largest. In a normal year the rally would expect to host nearly half a million bikers, but conservative estimates see that number halving.
South Dakota residents, despite the state never having locked down at all, are rightfully worried that the influx of riders from all around the country are going to bring an unmanageable coronavirus outbreak to the rural region. More than 60 percent of the towns residents were in favor of postponing the rally out of fear for the virus, but following threats of legal action on behalf of local businesses which make a large portion of their annual income during the rally, the City Council ruled in favor of going forward with the rally regardless.
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Great Touring Bike Deals Coming To An Estate Sale Near You, Sturgis Motorcycle Rally Hopes To ... (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
Aug 2020
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Thomas Hurt
(13,925 posts)1. Yet another roll of the dice with freedumb...
DBoon
(23,031 posts)2. More people die so business can make a buck
capitalism requires its usual human sacrifice
Srkdqltr
(7,617 posts)3. Having been there several years ago. This is stupidity.
AllyCat
(17,044 posts)4. Idiots. You are right. Estate sales will be the perfect place to pick up
a great Harley-Davidson bike!