Sturgis Mississippi
#3
08-08-2011 | 06:29 PM
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Nothing on their website about it being cancelled yet...they are pushing preregistration to make sure they have enough people to make it worth their while. I have been a few times...it is more like a state fair...way too many kids and half the people there don't even have a motorcycle...I won't go back
http://www.sturgismsrally.com/flash/index.php
http://www.sturgismsrally.com/flash/index.php
Last edited by Tom84FXST; 08-08-2011 at 06:33 PM.
#4
08-08-2011 | 10:05 PM
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From: MADison County, Mississippi
About two months ago they said, through an e-mail response, that they weren't having a carnival this time. There was an article in the August edition of Rider News that talked about the Sturgis Rally suing for copyright infringement and such stuff. They talked about Kentucky and Mississippi, and said one closed up. They didn't make it clear who actually closed up. I know the Kentucky rally was renamed. I'd go to the Sturgis South website and send them an e-mail asking if it's still on.
#5
08-09-2011 | 06:24 AM
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From: Kentucky
About two months ago they said, through an e-mail response, that they weren't having a carnival this time. There was an article in the August edition of Rider News that talked about the Sturgis Rally suing for copyright infringement and such stuff. They talked about Kentucky and Mississippi, and said one closed up. They didn't make it clear who actually closed up. I know the Kentucky rally was renamed. I'd go to the Sturgis South website and send them an e-mail asking if it's still on.
#6
08-09-2011 | 06:46 AM
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The Sturgis on the River Rally in Davenport, IA (The Midwests Largest Biker Event) looks like it has been renamed to the Mississippi River Motorcycle Rally.
http://mrmrally.com/
http://mrmrally.com/
#7
08-09-2011 | 07:39 AM
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From: SE Louisiana
Have fun.... Not much to do in Sturgis without the rally, but you can still ride up to Starkville and watch the coeds.
Link to local paper:
http://www.starkvilledailynews.com/node/6720
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#9
08-09-2011 | 07:05 PM
I lived in Starkville for ten years while my wife was in college and we went one time. It's to dam hot in Mississippi when they had it before. Nothing going on once you got there either. I am sure the local's will not be sad to see it's demise either. Nothing but a bunch of whining every year from them. Good riddance.
#10
08-10-2011 | 08:51 AM
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From: Union, Mississippi
In the American spirit of cantankerous sedition, such as was on display in Boston on March 4, 1770 when Herman Byrd, a lone patriot on horseback, happened upon a squad of British regulars vainly laboring to free a wagon load of medical supplies hopelessly mired in a boggy road and asked whether they needed assistance, only to be told "Bugger off, Yank", then responded with an extended middle finger, so it is with loosely-knit cells of rogue bikers throughout the Old South who have sworn a blood oath to go to Sturgis, Mississippi on Saturday, October 8th, 2011 whether or not their presence is officially sanctioned by some self-proclaimed authority. And the lesson of March 5th, 1770 is not lost on us, when that same company of redcoats asked shopkeeper Thomas Eddington the meaning of the gesture given to them by Byrd, demonstrating thusly and sparking the Boston Massacre. I'm just sayin'.