8-7-12 Day 11 DearFish Canyon & Full Throttle Saloon

Today we planned an easy day so that we can get back to the hotel and get ready for tomorrows departure. We left the hotel about 8ish and took 44W out of Rapid to 385N to 14A which is the Spearfish Canyon scenic byway and goes through the town of Lead. Today I shot GoPro video of Spearfish canyon so I don't have any pics and still haven't figured the video posting thing out. 14A brings you back to 90 which we took east to go through Deadwood again to look around a little more but the town was so busy that we blew it off and decided to go have lunch at the Full Throttle Saloon. This place is unique as it basically mostly an outdoor mega-bar. They claim it's the worlds largest biker bar. From the look of the parking lot we expected the place to be mobbed as we parked a long ways away with what I thought had to be 5000 bikes. Amazingly it wasn't that crowded and could easily have twice the crowd. They have vendors set up throughout the place (I bought a carbon fibre half helmet) as well as bands playing, several food courts, and different games/contests going on. They have all kinds of vehicles scattered around including school buses planted vertically, another bus cut horizontally at the window level and sunk in for an ice cold beer bar, semi trucks up on poles and motorcycles all around, some hanging, some up on shelves. They have 2 thunderdromes (motorcycles in a cage). The only pics I have is of the huge bike sculpture they have out front by the entrance.

Closeup to see the detail

We left there about 3 and headed back towards the hotel. Smurph stopped at Black Hills Harley again to get a new helmet headset. Steve/Sue went into Rapid to do some shopping. the rest of us either did laundry, made some blog entries, finished up some shopping and began packing up. We went out for dinner about 8:30 and are planning a 6:45 departure to start heading east.