Aloha!
Have fun OP. Never been to Sturgis, but have been to Daytona many times. But let me tell you about rain on a bike;
I rode from Florida to Michigan the year a Hurricane came ashore but scaled back significantly in power leaving only torrential downpours and low temperatures behind it. I tried to outrun it going north. Big mistake. Not horrible wind, but big wind, perhaps 40-50 mph. Still, it poured cats and dogs and alligators when the rain caught me at the Florida/Georgia border. I distinctly remember being in southern Georgia riding about 20 miles north of the Florida border on I-75 and it was pouring so hard I had my 4-way flashers on going about 20 mph with my eyes on the white line on the side of the highway so I could make out where the road was. A truck was actually following ME on the bike with his flashers on.
As luck would have it, about 10 miles in that horrid stuff I pulled off on a rural exit that through sheer luck had a Super 8 Motel and a restaurant and gas station. Nothing else. It was like an oasis in the desert. I had to spend two nights there until the rain and wind passed. The owner took pity on me and let me pull my bike into his storage shed for the duration.
My riding gear was water "resistant" but not water "Proof" and it never dried out fully and I rode north in significantly lower temps after the hurricane passed in damp riding gear. By the time I hit Kentucky it was 55 degrees and by Michigan it was about 45. I froze my butt off. I've never been so cold on a bike.
So after that fiasco, rain doesn't bother me much, unless I am foolish enough to try to outrun another hurricane.
-Zip
1995 Triumph Trophy 1200 (AKA - Hurricane Bike)
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