America's Greatest Motorcycle Rallies



Joe The Plumber said 'you've got to watch this video!' So, I did.

I thought it funny how everyone waxed poetic about the freedom of riding on the open road when every motorcycle rider there was clearly in thrall to Big Oil. But that's just how we Americans are: soft, happy, dumb, and convinced we have have greater autonomy than we do. We wouldn't have it any other way.

The DVD spent a lot of time - way too much time - on scantily-clad dancers and exotic fashion shows at the motorcycle rallies. That was OK though....

I liked the documentary's focus on the annual motorcycle rally at Laughlin, Nevada, and the side trip into the mountains outside the Colorado River valley, to the active gold-mining town of Oatman, AZ, where the burros walk freely down the main street (U.S. Highway 66). I've driven through there before: Oatman is one strange and interesting place for supposed rugged individualists (which is why so much of the investigation of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing was focused there). Oatman must be gun nut heaven!