Veterans Charity Ride Welcomed at Sturgis Indian Motorcycle Dealership

Veterans Charity Ride lets vets decompress from post-war life

KEVN Black Hills FOX

by Katrina Lim

August 5, 2017

Bikers from the Veterans Charity Ride reached their final destination in Sturgis on Saturday.

Black Hills FOX Reporter Katrina Lim takes us to the welcome party at the local Indian Motorcycle dealership.

The 3rd annual Veterans Charity Ride, or VCR, provided veterans a chance to use motorcycle therapy as a way to relax from the challenges of post-war life.

VCR riders started in Los Angeles and stopped at eight additional cities on their journey.

Army Veteran Joshua Stein lost both his legs in 2006 while serving in Iraq.

And he says riding a motorcycle as an able-bodied person is not much different than riding as an amputee.

Joshua Stein says, "It's really all in the mind. Yeah physically, there are different things you have to change up here and there, but I mean riding's riding. Once you're on the back of the bike and you're going, you forget about the no legs, you forget about your injuries, you forget about your stress and problems. It's you and the motorcycle and the world, the country."
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Sanford woman dies returning from motorcycle rally

Sanford woman dies returning from motorcycle rally

The Associated Press

10:19 p.m. EDT, August 12, 2009


COLUMBIA, Mo. - A Central Florida woman heading home from a South Dakota motorcycle rally has died in a crash on Interstate 70 in Missouri.

Columbia, Mo., police said Evonne Manner-Wilson, 49, of Sanford was one of 13 people in a van that veered off eastbound I-70, struck a median post and flipped over about 7 a.m. Wednesday.
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Bruce Rossmeyer Killed In Motorcycle Accident in Wyoming

Bruce Rossmeyer Killed In Motorcycle Accident
Thursday, July 30, 2009 9:10:54 PM



Daytona Harley-Davidson at Destination Daytona
Destination Daytona
DAYTONA BEACH -- Bruce Rossmeyer, an icon in the motorcycle community and known for donating millions to charities, is dead.

Rossmeyer, who was instrumental in getting the bike events, such as Bike Week, that are so important to Volusia County's economy reportedly died Thursday in a motorcycle accident in Wyoming.
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Bruce Rossmeyer Killed In Motorcycle Accident

UPDATE

Bruce Rossmeyer, Harley-Davidson empire builder, dies in motorcycle crash in Wyoming
"World's Largest" Harley-dealership owner Bruce Rossmeyer killed in motorcycle accident on way to Sturgis biker rally

Ludmilla Lelis

Sentinel Staff Writer

July 31, 2009
Bruce Rossmeyer staked his claim as the world's largest Harley-Davidson dealer, amassing an empire of 15 dealerships and stores across the nation, including his crown jewel, Destination Daytona off Interstate 95.

He made his face and name synonymous with motorcycles on TV commercials and massive highway billboards. Using his blockbuster persona, he promoted Daytona Beach's Bike Week and his favorite charities.

On Thursday, Rossmeyer died on a Harley, riding a Wyoming highway with a pack of friends on his annual trip to Sturgis, the biker mecca in South Dakota.

Rossmeyer, 66, lived in Ormond Beach. He is survived by his wife, Sandy; five children; and several grandchildren.

"He was in that moment that he lived for. He was doing what he loved to do," said Richie Supa, a fellow biker and musician who performed at Rossmeyer's charity events. "How ironic it is for him to be on a motorcycle in one of the most beautiful riding territories in the U.S.
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McCain's Waterloo was Sturgis

This is approaching a daily dig at McCain for me. He just keeps doing it. While he talks about what we owe veterans, he ducks the fact he's voted against them even chance he had the opportunity to prove what he says. This is ridiculous. I heard his speech at Sturgis too many times and while it was being "sold" as a tribute to veterans, he made it a campaign speech instead. I wonder if any of his staffers let him know they show up every year and none of them were there just to see him? Does he think bikers are dumb or something?

He talked about needing to drill today, but didn't mention the fact most of them are fully aware that will do little for the gas problem today. He talked about giving the oil companies more leases to drill, but never mention the fact they already have a lot of leases they haven't touched or the fact that refineries have not been built. He also poked fun of the fact about inflating tires and tuning up our engines. That even though every expert says that saves gas and bikers, even though they get a lot of mileage on their hogs, they also drive cars and trucks as well. So much for that.

Then McCain went after congress for not being in Washington when we are suffering but forgot he's part of them and hasn't been there much in the last couple of years. Obama has not been there much either but Obama is not chastising them for it.

Now he tries to pass of PTSD as if he has any clue what it is. Fact:100% of people who have been tortured develop PTSD, so either he is in denial or he thinks the way he acts is normal. Maybe he just assumes he's better than all the other POW's who have been tortured through the centuries? They have been wounded and all of them at different levels but what most do not have in common with McCain is that they would not turn their back on other veterans the way he has and they would not then try to claim to be some kind of hero after doing it. Bikers are not stupid and McCain really should know that veterans aren't either.

Bikers roar for McCain at Rally


GOP candidate stops at Sturgis
By Tom Lawrence
Black Hills Pioneer
STURGIS - Politicians are used to hearing the roar of the crowd, but Sen. John McCain heard an entirely different roar Monday night at The Buffalo Chip.


McCain said he was also concerned about health care for veterans and service members. Some veterans and the South Dakota Democratic Party staged a rally in Sturgis Monday to criticize McCain for supposedly “rationing” health care for veterans and service members, but McCain said they were distorting his words. He said he wanted to send uniformed personnel to regular health care facilities with “a plastic card” to cover the costs while Veterans Administration facilities focus on veterans who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and wounds from improvised explosive devices.

“I'd love to have that debate with Democrats and that group,” he said.

McCain, who was a prisoner of war from 1967-73, said he didn't suffer from PTSD. “I never had a problem, believe it or not,” he said, attributing much of that to his age, since he was nearly 30 while many current service members are a decade younger. “It took me 15 minutes to readjust.”
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