Miss Tigerlily, Miss Liberty and Miss Motorella of the Motoroadeo M/C at Sturgis 2008. Go to www.libertyletsroll.com for more info on the statue!
At the Broken Spoke with friends...and lo and behold, when I looked at the photo...there's Bean're!!!!! We LOVE Bean're!!!
Taking Conner Sheets for a whirl on Tigerlily!
Hairdresser extraordinare, Marla Browning, strikes a striking pose!
Dan rode in from North Carolina on his knucklehead -- 1,700+ miles in two days. That's a hardcore biker. This is a bike he built from all kinds of parts. Dan is one of my new riding heros!
Bean're joyfully tending bar at the Broken Spoke on Lazelle.
My sister, Jasmine Cain, rocks that crowd hard -- all week at the Broken Spoke Saloon.
My Sturgis family (l-r) Conner, Dena, me, Rick, Cork...and there's a bunch more!
Bean're finds himself a lil' Pixie to call Mrs. Bean're.
Jasmine with John Greene of the Broken Spoke Saloon! We love John!!!!
Ozzy stormed the stage at the Broken Spoke!
A little advice.
This is living. He lives to ride...literally living off of his scooter, riding around the U.S.
He's a happy guy...on his way to Texas from Sturgis.
Even has a fan behind his head for some additional AIR conditioning. What a rig.
Folks from all over the country visit Sturgis every year!
People from all over the WORLD come to visit Sturgis. There are more pins on there than are visible on this photo!
During Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, there are approximately 1/2 million visitors! This is the donut shop on Main Street
Early mornin' Sturgis, Main Street
He's spiked his parking spot early...
Sturgis...Zen in the morning.
Just an ol' Western town of riders....from pony express riders to bronco busters to chrome cowboys and cowgirls
We line up for Michael Lichter's Celebrity Ride. www.lichterphoto.com - dig this legendary photographer!
Michael Lichter, Jay Lightening from American Motordrome Wall of Death, and Jay Allen, owner of the Broken Spoke Saloon...hosting the Lichter ride.
"If it ain't long, it's wrong..." Sugar Bear www.sugarbearchoppers.com
Tattoo Duke of Cycle Source Magazine. He LOVES to rodeo!
Betsy listens to the whispers of a doggie. She is truly a dog whisperer!
Ah Sugar....Ah honey! me & Sugar Bear
Sugar Bear and his real honey...
I found me some REAL cowboys at the ranch during Mike Lichter's ride to the ranch!
Lining up for grub after a long run and photographing a bunch of wayward bikers.
Photographer Colleen Swartz http://www.digitalmagicbigshots.com/ me, and biker builder CJ Hanlon of Guilty Customs www.guiltycustoms.com
Betsy and her man James
Michael Lichter on the job!
Chrome horses at a rodeo.
Betsy & me.
Lil' cowgirl shows us how to ride a horse and save a cowboy.
And this, folks, is an ol' skool passenger seat...
Betsy's greatest passion in the arts is photography!
Keino arrives on an Indian Larry legacy motorcycle.
Jay Allen shows off his autographed shirt.
Colleen, Jay and there's ZAK attack! We love ZaK!
Have cell phone, will giddy up!
Spectators getting a rise out of the insane rodeo activities happening this day.
Oh, lookie! There's Laura Klock of Klockwerks.
She's a chrome cowgirl and a real cowgirl! I wonder if she can ride that horse like she races on the Bonneville Salt Flats! That record-breaking gal!
Jay searches for his next victim to drag around on a piece of leather behind the horse!
Laura is timid to brand a baby calf so is hiding behind the horse hoping no one will see her...
Kick start your life the liberty way! www.libertyletsroll.com
Fabulous rides at the ranch.
Still beauty.
Oh yeah.
Mike Lichter captures Irene eating some fried Rocky Mountain Oysters...for real!
Me and Irene Deely, artist who created Miss Liberty!
Two of my favorite folks....Conner and Dena Sheets! My Sturgis family!
My MOST favorite location in all of South Dakota...is Bear Butte... Mother Earth.
Some members of our Sturgis family, Cork, me, Conner, Dena, Rick. We are all brothers and sisters!
Brothers Rick and Conner Sheets grab a cliffside chuckle!
South Dakota Black Hills.
The little roarring hamlet of Sturgis during rally.
Folks arrived in RVs, buses, cars and trucks pulling their motorcycles.
More trailers...
Greg Nolan and me....he's a hero to many!
Greg, Scott, Danielle Gil and Virginia in Conner and Dena's famous front yard on Lazelle Street
Lounging on Lazelle at the Sheets homestead.
The long, long, long line heading out to the Buffalo Chip, Glencoe and Full Throttle...
The gas prices sky high as soon as rally began.
Dena makes lasagna for everyone! She's always spoiling us!
Conner in his work shop tinkering!
Tigerlily gets some petting from the boys.
Cork meets up with some ol' friends in the backyard of his Lazelle street home.
Bella! Rusty's lil' pup.
Scottie digs in before the rush.
More petting to Tigerlily.
Greg Nolan leaves the Sturgis homestead to head on to Yellowstone.
Danielle Nolan and Scottie heading out with Greg. We love you all!!!!
Departing the Sheets front yard...see ya next year!
Goodbyes are always really hard after rally.
Bye friends!
Cork clears traffic like he always does....road captain that he is!
Bad Ass Floyd.
This was my feeding ground at Sturgis.
I love the bandana for a fender.
These folks road hard to get to rally.
Real riders....
She came in from Dallas...packed and ready for fun.
Jasmine Cain Band throws down!
Folks dancing in a tire burn circle...
Soundman extraordinare, Teo, commands the soundboard! We love TEO! Way to GO!
Jasmine croons while a couple slow dances.
Tattoo John....
Me and my brother Bean're
Two of my favorite wind sisters, Sara Liberte and Betsy Huelskamp!
Rick Fairless! The most rockin builder!
Team Diva!
Ms Team Diva with a nice lookin' fellow there!
Marjorie from ThunderPress at the Cycle Source run!
Gettin' ready to roll for the big Cycle Source ride!
Lots of awesome bikes on the Cycle Source ride...
She's a Led Sled girl.
Another Led Sledder with Jay Allen.
More family members, my sister, Jasmine, with brother Bean're.
My two best windsisters, Betsy and Jasmine.
Marjorie is ready to party now.
Vibes editor from Japan!
I found me a cowboy again!
Cool ol' skool.
Now it's time to horse around!
Back at the ranch for some more hell raisin' fun.
Me and Vibes editor from Japan, Minoru Uemura.
Getting ready to ride the barrel race.
Tattoo John slathers on the sunscreen.
Out of the gate and down around the barrel!
Shouting for more eager participants!
Bean're tackles the barrel with his chopped out Road King.
There's Dan on his knucle. He's the cat that road in from the Carolina's.
Banjo from Nash.
Bean're directs rodeo traffic! He is the maestro!
Jay Allen and Dan at the ready to rodeo!
Jay Allen gets ready to try his hand at the race...
It ain't no real rodeo until a real cowgirl shows up!
That's Tyler Fyre, Jay Allen, and Thrill Kill Jill!
I don't know who this fellow is but he's just so chrome cowboy!
Bean're! Go!
The guy from Cook Customs awaits an okay to tear it up on the rodeo course.
So much hot excitement. Two up on a dirtbike was a hilarious sight.
Chris from Cycle Source is preparing to get drug around the rodeo ring by Bean're....
Dynamic duet. Barrel racing dude with a biotttch!
chrome horses in the stable.
Chris is ready to ride now.
So is this feller.
Hee Haw. Yee Haw.
Chris Callen draggin' Bean're around!
Now Chris draggs Bean're around the ring.
It's Jay Allen's turn now.
surf's up!
Chris Callen, editor of one of the BEST biker magazines, Cycle Source!
James wants to get ridin' and Betsy wants to stay and party.
Hot fun in the summertime!
Autographing the ride shirt for Jay Allen who's too busy getting crazy in the rodeo!
Holy Cow, dude!
I don't need no stinkin' bandana. I'm a rodeo girl, says Jasmine.
And there she goes in nothing more than a bikini and daisy dukes gettin' drug 'round the rodeo ring...haha!
Faster Bean're! Faster, she's yells!
Roundin' the big corner.
This is the part where she slams into a parked bike that shouldn't have been in the rodeo ring....that's right folks...she bailed just as that leather slapped into the bike's front tire. The bike is off to the left of this photo.
Now, being the concerned sister that I am, I basically put the camera down and ran to my little sister's rescue...but Bean're got there first ...throwing down his bike while it was still running and picked the hysterically laughing Jasmine up off the ground.
Rock on! Yells Jasmine!
What a ride!
Dan is captivated by it all.
Gimme a six speed margarita any day!
Poolside with Jay.
Bean're's snake....
Cork buys Dena a lovely ring because of her deep TLC for our Sturgis family....she loves us all so much!
Charlie St. Clair gets inducted into the Sturgis Motorcycle Hall of Fame! He's the bad boy of Laconia Motorcycle Rally, that's right...the big gun.
Becky Brown, founder of Women in the Wind, inducted into the Sturgis Motorcycle Hall of Fame 2008.
Brian Klock, emcee for the Motorcycle Hall of Fame breakfast, awards Malcom Smith.
Cris Sommer Simmons on the big screen for her profile prelude to receiving her induction into the Hall of Fame.
Cris gives thanks to all of those who have encouraged her to be on the forefront of promoting women and motorcycles.
Bob Ellingsworth speaks about his longtime contribution in motorcycling.
Cris and Becky are pioneers in the world of women and motorcycling!
Betsy Huelskamp has encouraged many women to saddle up on their own rides too...and NY MYKE owner of San Diego Harley-Davidson is happy to cater to the ladies!
Cris, Becky, me, and Leah Whaley - regional director for Harley Owners Group.
All the inductees... (my camera is kind of not the greatest folks)
David Uhl captures Sara Liberte on canvas...
Jeff Decker and NY MYKE kick tires and talk Harleys. Jeff is a bike builder and works in metal art...he created that sculpture, and a lifesize version is at the Harley-Davidson museum in Milwaukee. He is a licensed H-D sculptor.
She's just toolin' around Deadwood, SD.
Taking the family out for a ride through Deadwood, SD.
A dude stood by to watch me park Tigerlily into the line up. He was impressed...I just did what guys do...park.
A bike at the AMD Champion show.
a glass gas tank...innovative.
at the ACE Cafe...brought in from London.
Bikes from CMT's Chopper Challenge...
Amy Skaling of Team Diva...now this is what Tigerlily aspires to be COVERED in Swarovski Crystals..oh yeah!
Brenda Fox and Betsy Huelskamp. Ready to ride for Brenda's charity fundraiser...
The lovely Gevin Fax with darling Laura Klock.
Rusty! You are soooo handsome!
Amy and Marjorie during Brenda Fox's ride.
Malcolm Smith and his wife. Malcolm is a famous stunt rider... you may have seen his work in On Any Sunday. www.malcolmsmith.com
The Diva sitting pretty.
Gevin Fax and Brenda Fox.
Karen is beautiful.
NY MYKE and Brenda Fox.
NY MYKE, Brenda Fox, Malcolm Smith.
This is Scrapey and this is his rat bike...
Some interesting items on his rat bike!
That tiny figure up there on the stage is Steven Tyler of Aerosmith promoting his new line of motorcycles called Red Wing Motorcycles.
New Zealanders having a blast at Sturgis.
These fellows stuffed bartender Colleen with $20 bills but she remained modest the whole time. They kept uping the ante to get her to flash...but no go and she walked away with a bucket of cash.
The New Zealand boys get me a Bud Lime. Don't worry folks, I could walk to where I was staying in Sturgis.
The guys from my Sturgis family. Rick, Steve, Cork, Ron, Conner, Ed. and there's more, too!
Hanging out at Nemo Ranch.
Mike Lichter on the job at Nemo Ranch!
Ed and me!
Cork and Conner.
Cork is a heaven's angel.
Waiting to ride...
Home sweet home.
Dena and me.
John Greene's wife is stylin in pink! Where's the disco!?
Betsy has a dance with her friend on the last night of rally.
