Sturgis 2015?

[Novice_imp]

I'm just too embarrassed to go back









J/K not me

[Pterodactyl_imp]

I certainly wouldn't go again. Been to them all. Perhaps lake George....Circa 1980...but that memory is something I cant relate without Ferret finally showing me the door. Leave it at that.

Sounds like Assen. To paraphrase someone else, if you remember it, you probably weren't there.

Cheers

[username_imp]

Almost went a few years ago. But, after going to the Galveston rally one year, I realized that I like the ride more than all of the "togetherness". But I always have wanted to visit the Bkack Hills.

[JustPassinThru_imp]

I'm not a good person to ask - I'm not a crowd guy or even a people guy. I'm a solitary type.

But I stumbled into Sturgis, a week before Bike Week. Long story...it had me, my new R1200GS, and a week off, all parked in South Dakota. I thought a ride to Rushmore would be a great thing; and it would be neat to ride through Sturgis as they were setting up.

Little...did I know.

It was MOBBED. Imagine a county fair on opening night...that was the sidewalks. The streets? PLUGGED with bikers. Couldn't move about - I overheated in traffic. Hotel room at the Super 8 was $270. I didn't have camping gear and I'd have had to go a ways, probably to Pierre, to find some in stock.

The roads were packed all the way to Rushmore. Oddly, the actual monument wasn't so full; and a lot of the visitors were family; but the roads...it was like a never-ending parade.

I didn't hit the bars. Years ago I had a liquor problem - so I try to stay away; and liquor and riding don't mix. I suppose I could have gotten in line for a Diet Coke...but...not realy.

That's my take. Other riders who're more attuned to that sort of scene, will tell you drastically different.

Even with the new wet head motor? I thought that was cured now!

BMW=Bikes Made Weird

Even with the new wet head motor? I thought that was cured now!

BMW=Bikes Made Weird
I don't know about the old airheads. This was the first BMW I owned; and the other one was also an oilhead.

But...sure, you can overheat it. If you idle it in traffic for 45 minutes in 85-degree temperatures.

Fortunately there was an oil-temperature gauge to let me know things were getting warm. I rolled it off onto a dead-end alley and let it cool - along with about five Harleys and their frustrated riders.

WOW,
I would think the electric fan would work like all other liquid cooled bikes in traffic and turn on.

What year bike were you on?

WOW,
I would think the electric fan would work like all other liquid cooled bikes in traffic and turn on.

What year bike were you on?
No electric fan. The oil cooler was high up, under the headlight housing...no fan.

It was a 2009. You say the new ones have electric fans? I wonder if that would be enough...cooling the oil is great but the jugs still would get hot without air flowing over the fins.

With the new water-boxers, that problem is gone...sure, there'll be an electric fan on the water radiator.

[JustJohn_imp]

I certainly wouldn't go again. Been to them all. Perhaps lake George....Circa 1980...but that memory is something I cant relate without Ferret finally showing me the door. Leave it at that.

Sounds like Assen. To paraphrase someone else, if you remember it, you probably weren't there.

Cheers

Sounds like Assen. To paraphrase someone else, if you remember it, you probably weren't there.

Cheers
What are you trying to say? What is Assen?

[Cormanus]

JustJohn, maybe a reference to [url=http://cb1100forum.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=6287&pid=96334#pid96334]this earlier post, although I'm not sure quite what the reference to the quote about the 1960s is about.