The 2014 Buffalo Chip Student Build Challenge™ has now been under way for one month, and keeping on schedule has become an uphill battle for its participants. Each week the Sturgis Brown High School class meets with mentors, Keith Terry of Terry Components and Randy and Nick Cramer of Dakota V-Twin, to transform their 2014 Harley-Davidson® Street Glide into a powerful and eye-catching custom bike. But because custom parts don’t yet exist for this new-year model, each step of the build has brought on its own set of challenges. Check out the photos below to see what the motorcycle mentorship program has been up against.
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Can They Do It? Motorcycle Project Faces Biggest Challenge Yet
The students participating in the 2014 Sturgis Buffalo Chip® Student Build Challenge™ certainly have their work cut out for them. Class officially started for this enterprising group of Sturgis Brown High School students on Monday, Jan. 6, and already the motorcycle project has turned into an intense race against the clock.
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Living Proof the Open Road Can Change Your Life – Iron Cowgirl Missy
Missy Covill, known to her fans as Iron Cowgirl Missy, is the embodiment of everything Buffalo Chip. Her passion for music is just as strong as her love of riding motorcycles. The two go hand in hand.
Missy’s story has captivated audiences during the Chip’s August music festival for four years, and our fans can’t seem to get enough. Shortly after confirming Iron Cowgirl Missy will be joining the band lineup for the 2014 August music festival, we caught up with Missy at her home in Napoleon, Michigan for this exclusive interview. Pull up a chair, folks…It’s story time!
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12 Safety Tips Seasoned Riders Swear By
Living on the edge is part of what makes riding a motorcycle so gratifying. But when your safety is on the line, do you know everything you should about when it's important to play by the rules?
You can learn a lot about motorcycle safety from a safety course, and we certainly suggest every rider take one. However, there's a lot to be learned from experienced riders that you might not pick up in a safety course. That's why we've compiled this list for you that includes 12 motorcycle safety tips from some of the industry's top professionals, as well as seasoned riders. Keep reading…they may just change the way you ride!
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Exclusive Interview Gives You Backstage Access to The Living Deads
The Living Deads are not your typical rockabilly band. Its members, Randee McKnight and Symphony Tidwell, live full time in their RV, have been on the road touring for three years straight, and make their living by kidnapping guitarists along the way.
We wanted to learn more about The Living Deads, but it's hard to track down a band that's always on the road. So we gave them a taste of their own medicine by hijacking their RV and tying them up to get this exclusive interview…
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The 13 Most Memorable Buffalo Chip Moments of 2013
Who says the number 13 has to be unlucky? We happened to think that 2013 was one of the best years the Buffalo Chip has seen yet! So as the year draws to a close, we are reliving the 13 most memorable Buffalo Chip moments from the last year.
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Rev Your Engines for the Miss Buffalo Chip Highlights Videos!
Make no mistake about it…the luscious ladies of the International Bikini Team are some of the hardest working girls of Sturgis, and the legendary party at the Buffalo Chip just wouldn’t be the same without them. It seems everywhere you look you find these beautiful biker babes greeting campground guests, pouring a stiff drink at your favorite watering hole or, of course, strutting their stuff across the Wolfman Jack Stage during the annual Miss Buffalo Chip Pageant.
Pull up a seat and enjoy the view from the front row of Sturgis’ sexiest beauty pageant as you watch the rally’s hottest videos!
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What Makes Café Racers So Hot Right Now? Find Out When Café Racer TV Features Motorcycles As Art Dec. 4
In 2013, the allure of the Sturgis Buffalo Chip® attracted the attention of numerous TV shows, including that of Velocity’s “Café Racer TV.” The show’s camera crews were on hand to document the Buffalo Chip’s annual Motorcycles As Art exhibition, curated by famed motorcycle photographer, Michael Lichter, and café racer expert, Paul D’Orleans. The hour-long special featuring this footage airs on Velocity on Wednesday, Dec. 4 at 10 p.m. ET.
It was no surprise that Café Racer TV was drawn to this year’s Motorcycles As Art exhibition, since the theme was “Ton Up! – Speed, Style and Café Racer Culture.” The exhibit explored the origins of the Café Racer movement by featuring 32 famous café racers and a collection of Lichter’s photography from the original café racing scene that had never before been published.
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New Plans Unveiled for 2014 Student Build Challenge™
The Buffalo Chip’s groundbreaking Student Build Challenge is returning for its fifth year, and the question on everyone’s mind is, “How can the program possibly improve upon what it did last year?”
With the bar set high, the Buffalo Chip kicked off the 2014 Student Build Challenge on Tuesday, Nov. 26 with a press conference to answer this very question. The event introduced the public to this year’s group of enterprising student participants, as well as the teachers, administrators, mentors and sponsors who make the motorcycle project possible. Sturgis Brown High School principal, Jeff Simmons, kicked off the conference by announcing that this will be the first year the students will customize a brand new motorcycle—a 2014 Harley-Davidson® Street Glide.
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Revealed: Fuel Gives Inside Scoop on New Album and Working with Doors’ Robbie Krieger
The Sturgis Buffalo Chip® had the chance to chat with the members of Fuel, one of the Rock the Holidays Guitar Sweepstakes bands, just before their Sturgis Rally performance on Aug. 10, 2013. Check out this exclusive interview and hear the band give Buffalo Chip owner, Rod Woodruff, the inside scoop on their new album.
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