Cycle Source Custom Bike Show Sturgis 2015, The CrossRoads - The Legendary Buffalo Chip

Cycle Source Custom Bike Show Sturgis 2015 

The CrossRoads - The Legendary Buffalo Chip

Oh yeah baby! The Cycle Source Magazine’s Annual Custom Chopper Show is headed back to the CrossRoads at the Buffalo Chip with its 8th annual Sturgis bike show. And if you thought you had fun at this event in previous years, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

Cycle Source Magazine’s Annual Chopper Show Returned to the Chip's CrossRoads big time indeed, with many custom bikes in various classes. With handmade trophies handed out by Kevin Baas, the winners were more than happy!

Many old school choppers attended the Cycle Source bike show. 

In perfect weather conditions dozens and dozens of stunning bikes stood lined up. Many hours were spent just checking out the bikes. It was a great day, thanks to all the participants of the Cycle Source bike show, Cycle Source Magazine and Buffalo Chip's CrossRoads!

Biker Belles, Historic Deadwood - Sturgis 2015

Biker Belles - Historic Deadwood

 

Featured Speaker Gloria Struck, lifetime member of the Motor Maids, 

told us about her most daring adventures on motorcycles in the US and Europe

While Gloria Tramontin Struck came from a motorcycling family, she didn't originally have any burning desire to ride. In fact, in 1941, when she was 16, her older brother decided to teach her to ride while she told him tearfully, “I don’t want to know how to ride.” Well, he won out, and since then she has owned 14 bikes—three Indians and 11 Harleys. 

She now rides a 2004 Heritage Softail Classic.

Me and my 'Grandmother of Motorcycling', Gloria Struck

Gloria was born in 1925 behind her family's business, the Lexington Cycle Shop, in Clifton, NJ. The business had been selling bicycles and Excelsior-Henderson motorcycles since 1915. When she was only three years old, her father, Ernest, died at the age of 32, leaving her 28-year-old mother, Pierina, to take over the shop. Pierina became an Indian dealer in the ‘30s until her retirement in 1947 when Gloria's brother, Arthur "Bub" Tramontin, took over as a Harley Dealer. Bub's son is now the third generation to operate the business that will celebrate its 100th anniversary in 2015.

In 1946, at age 21, Gloria joined the Motor Maids. She and the founders’ daughter, Betty Fauls, are the club’s longest standing members still riding. Two years ago, the two were the first in the Motor Maids’ history to be honored for 65 years of active riding.

 

Gloria has logged over 500 thousand miles, riding all 48 continental states many times over. She has made the trip to Daytona Bike Week numerous times since 1951, and she attends many Rallies, Motor Maid events and conventions from New Jersey to California.

Celebrating Gloria Struck's 90th birthday. 

Legends Ride - Sturgis Bike Week 2015 - Buffalo Chip

Legends Ride - Sturgis Bike Week 2015 

Start at the Franklin Hotel in Historic Deadwood to end at the Legendary Buffalo Chip

The Legends Ride, a 50-mile ride from Deadwood to Sturgis, helps to raise money for regional charities. Celebrities lead the ride to the legendary Buffalo Chip, where a private reception was followed by a headlining concert! 

The Legends Ride 2015 started at the Franklin Hotel in Historic Deadwood. A nice ride through the beautiful Black Hills South Dakota area ended at the Legendary Buffalo Chip, where we had a great party! 

 

Buffalo Chip - Sturgis 2015

Welcome at The Legendary Buffalo Chip!

Sturgis Buffalo Chip 2015

The best bands, the biggest stage, the best bike shows, 

the biggest campground, the greatest party ever!

The Buffalo Chip keeps getting better and bigger. 

The Cross Roads, the area in front of the entrance of the Chip, there's so much FREE entertainment every day, and more and more is added every year. 

Bike shows every day, a bikini bike wash, concerts, a great bar, and much much more. 

Yes, it does feel like coming home when you arrive at The Buffalo Chip!

At the Buffalo Chip, the campground is enormous and it's the place to be during Sturgis Bike Week. Enjoy all the concerts, the madness, the crazy people and the good thing is: you don't have to ride your motorcycle back after a good night of partying, you just stay at the Chip!

The Naked Truth Motorcycles as Art Exhibition by Michael Lichter, Sturgis 2015

The Naked Truth 

Motorcycles as Art Exhibition by Michael Lichter, 

Buffalo Chip - Sturgis 2015

The Michael Lichter Motorcycles as Art Exhibition is one of the most inspiring shows during Sturgis Bike Week. No paint - no chrome. Just a basic custom bike, showing off it's beauty and pure craftmen's work. 

Cool King Kenji Nagai

Cherry's Company Team from Japan

The Easyriders Saloon Custom Bike Show Sturgis 2015

Easyriders Saloon Custom Bike Show Sturgis 2015

Easyriders Saloon, Lazelle, Sturgis 

Many Baggers but also old school custom bike attended the Custom Bike Show 

at the Easyriders Saloon during Stugis Bike Week 2015

Cyril Huze checks the seating position of this huge high neck chopper

The Sturgis 2015 FXR Show

The Sturgis 2015 FXR Show

City Park Sturgis

Sorry, due to some technical problems we were not able to publish all our Sturgis and 2015 USA Road Trip photo's. But here they are, enjoy them!

  

The Hamsters FXR Show in the Sturgis City Park showed great FXR's, still the best handling H-D ever made, the FXR enthousiasts claim.