Maybe this should be in General Discussion, but I thought those that frequent this part of the forum would find this interesting. Click the link below the intro to read the full article from the NY Times.
Ko Sasaki for The New York Times
Published: July 8, 2007
BY now hardly anyone in South Dakota is surprised when a half-million bikers, a good many on Harley-Davidsons, roar into the Black Hills each August for the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally........
By contrast, the spectacle of 20,000 Harley owners gathering here last month for an annual rally at a racetrack in the shadow of Mount Fuji, Japan’s tallest peak and most sacred mountain, was jarring.......
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/08/automobiles/08HARLEY.html