Motorcycle rallies attract all sorts of characters from different parts of society from around the world. There are vendors and support staff, hardcore long-distance riders, weekend warriors, hotrodders, weirdos, groupies, hippies, mountain men, and city-slickers who attend.

Bikes of all ilk show up. From new bikes off-the-lot to over-the-top customs, and silly show bikes. Some of the wildest photos are staged and those people like attention. Others are taken during the action and are spur of the moment.

19 A Sea Of Bikes At Lake George NY 2019

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You can see acres of cruiser motorcycles in this photograph. What a scenic day to take advantage of warm weather. Just North of Saratoga Springs this is a nice area to visit during late spring and all summer long. Its climate can be cold during the winter.

The Americade Rally occurs during the first week of June and approximately 50,000 people attend the event each year. The event has occurred annually since 1983 and all makes of cycles are welcome.

18 Sturgis SD 2019

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Sturgis started way back in 1938 to showcase Indian Motorcycle manufacturers show, race and stunt teams and their bikes. The event runs for 10 days, starting the first Friday of every August. The 75th rally had an estimated 715,000 people in attendance, and in the late 2000s there are usually almost half a million people in attendance.

The bikes include all makes, but Harley-Davidson has become the dominant brand. The original club that sponsored the event was the Jackpine Gypsies who were local to that area.

17 Bosuzoku Sportbikes Japan

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Bosuzoku bike clubs are a subculture that is similar to a cult. The groups ride at slow speeds of less than 25 MPH, sometimes without helmets, and often carry Japanese Imperial Flags.

Sometimes they engage in provocative behavior. Other times they goose the throttle and do things to attract attention such as speed through city streets for a few moments. The groups will often ride in numbers up to 100 and engage in impromptu rallies.

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16 Women In Sturgis

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Female riders have become more of a presence and their numbers have increased. No longer relegated to sitting on the back of the bike, they even have their own event called the Wild Gypsies Tour during Sturgis Buffalo Chip Rally August 4th-7th.

This woman is riding a motorcycle with full ape hangers which is difficult for people under 6' tall to handle. You can tell she rides a lot because the chrome is worn on her forks.

15 TexoHoma Rally On The Red

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Sadly this rally is canceled for 2020 but will return the first week of June 2021. The event is a combination of music, arts, sports events, and even a car show. Monster-truck exhibition is included along with motorcycle silly-sports.

The event is held outside of Denison Texas near the Oklahoma border. It's held in a similar fashion to a rodeo. Stunt riding is also a big part of the program.

14 Friday The 13th Port Dover Ontario

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This is a huge 1-day rally with an average of just under 100,000 people who attend every year. The event is mostly long-distance cruiser bikes, but not limited to them or any single brand.

The event started in 1981 and the July 2018 event is believed to have had over 150,000 in attendance. The event is as much about people watching and spending money in the local economy as it is a riding event.

13 Snow Dogs Unimoto-Rocket Sled Russia

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According to Wired Magazine, the event is a copy of a water-based competition that started in Florida but was picked up and moved to Togliatti Russia and it's done in sub-zero weather.

People eat, drink, and sing in between sporting events on through the night. Despite being frigid weather the majority of attendees sleep in tents or in their vehicles. Some riders come overland via cycle or scooter across the country to attend.

12 Buffalo Bike In Attendance Of Buffalo Chip Sturgis

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An older FLH has been modified to pay tribute to wild Bison for which the event is named. This is a party inside a party. It's basically a hippie playground camping event held at The Buffalo Chip Playground during the Sturgis Bike Rally. The campground started doing this in 1981. Music, Arts, Sports, and biker culture in an all-inclusive background are the theme.

11 Wall Of Death, Riding A Wall

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A popular event similar to a circus cage ball motorcycle exhibition, this is a popular event for years during the Sturgis Rally where teams and solo riders work their way up to ride the inside of a verticle wall inside a motordrome using centrifugal force to maintain their position. It's always fun to watch. In this version of the stunt, the riders also do various tricks while being held firm by centrifugal force.

10 Buffalo Chip Indian Tribute Racing

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Harking back to the original Indian Motorcycle Rallies at Sturgis, the Buffalo Chip Campgrounds has various motorsports such as MX racing and stunt riding to memorialize the original "stunters" of the Jackpine-Gypsies Riders Club that started the Sturgis Rally for the purpose of promoting Indian as a medium for early motorsports. Other events include hillclimbing contests.

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9 Sturgis Rat's Hole Custom Bike Build Chopper Entry 2015

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Over-the-top show bikes are a big part of the Rat's Hole Area of Sturgis Buffalo Chip annual celebration. After 2017 Rat's Hole also holds a custom bagger bike show as well at the same time. The older "custom" bike show typically consists of choppers and show bikes, along with a few muscle bikes.  Here we have a triple carbureted Shovelhead chopper with extensive bodywork added to it.

8 Custom Bike Contest Before Rat's Hole Separated Baggers Into A Different Category

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After the mid-2000s, baggers became a serious thing for customizing. No longer relegated strictly for long highway rides, these bikes began to become show bikes as well. So much so that by 2017, Rat's Hole began to run this as a parallel custom bike contest with an exhibition and judging in addition to its regular custom bike contest. Here you see two beautiful custom bagger/lowrider conditions with thousands of dollars of customization.

7 Yamaha SRX Unimoto Contest Conversion

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Here you see another contestant that attempts to skid across the ice on one wheel. Steering this thing must be hard as we can't see anything but a set of reigns to hold onto. This is the big event in Tagliotti Russia and it's a party day and night with lots of vodka and partying. The bike bust buck like a wild horse judging by the springs and angle of the bike.

6 Customized Hayabusa Spotted At Sturgis

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Not all bikes that show up for Sturgis are American cruisers. This customized Hayabusa has an extended swingarm, modified bodywork, a jeweled clutch basket, extensive chrome, and polished aluminum.

This Suzuki is all about going fast while being able to cover long distances. Even the seat pillions are original and completely different from production pieces. The airbrushed artwork is extensive and the paint probably took hundreds of hours to produce.

5 A Daytona Inspired Trike

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The owner and his spouse have his/hers Stars and Stripes outfits to match the trike. While the main theme is American colors, the stinging wasp is a sort of tribute to the Road-Runner, Super Bee characters that were popular on ScatPack and Rapid Transit Chrysler Muscle Cars. We aren't sure why the Daytona style wing was added to the trike, but the owners sure do like it, look at those smiles.

4 Another Buffalo Themed FLH - With A Buffalo Themed Rider

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This is not the same bike as above. Look at the front brakes! This rider is one giant ball of fur, including his headgear. We suppose you could prop your feet up on side of the bike and take a nap on top of all that brushed fur.

Even the highway-bars have fur on this bike. We wonder how many miles the owner actually traveled with all those pieces of bison hanging from the motorcycle.

3 400CC Class Bosuzoku Rally

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400CC sportbike and UJM styled 4-cylinder high-performance bikes are the more common size for this club. Whereas the previous picture were liter-class bikes, the Japanese typically prefer mid sized bikes because they are physically smaller people.

What is interesting is there are also Bosuzoku car clubs as well, but it would seem the motorcycles and cars do not intertwine very much.

2 Bosuzoku Club Slow Riding Into Gas Station

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As stated previously, this club is more frequently seen bypassing toll booths in the hundreds without paying and deliberately driving slow down city roads ina sort of ad-hoc parade event style. What do you think of the 5 trumpets for the horn on the bike in the foreground?

You can see that the preferred riding position in straight-up with no leaning at all. The handlebars on these bikes are typically changed to enable upright riding as well. You can see the up-angling of the fairings to aid in riding straight up.

1 BMW Powered Unimoto

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Another Unimoto in the frozen skid contest about to scrape across the ice. You are probably looking at a 50-year-old drivetrain, as these style engines were popular in all their cruisers from WWII on to the early 1990s. We imagine the rider is full of enough vodka that he won't feel any pain if he falls off while he's trying to balance this beast.

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