it is friday morning now a lot of the campground also being emptied out there are a lot more tense trailer we're going to take a look around a little bit here writer with me and you are wall he walker i write for the american motor drum company we have a lawless despot up here at the broken spoke camp grounds in sturgis south dakota  guys took down the tents cover because well we're on the edge of the prairie we're just outside of town about seven miles and when the wind blows here it gets up to fifty sixty miles an hour so instead of having tornado force winds tear up our top we take it down and we ride topless or some of the bikes you're looking at in one nine hundred twenty eight one o one indian scout that's balance motorcycle ever made we ride this is the trick riders bike the owner builder truck writer jerry lightnin who built this building and started in ninety eight we took it out for the first year in two thousand he writes as he rides with no hands to take the stand up and take his hands completely off the controls and the handlebars and ride the machine by the weight of his balance alone then this one these two bikes are a m f harley davidson dangerous dips and dives of he'll start out low and slow right here at the top of the track starting tracks will feet throttle to the motor he'll go straight up to the redline right when you think he's going to hit the still safety cable put there for the audience protection he'll do a whip hike in three freestyle jumping and he'll dive right back down to the arena to the top of the bottom of the floor again we also for right a go kart and a motorcycle on the wall at the same time the all new australian criss cross pursuit race they right above below in front of behind they crisscross as a race around the inside that's the final act of this so there is five four riders to our show we have one of the largest  cruise this is one of probably the largest building right now although it would all would be very expensive would if you noticed there's no knots in the wall this is number one douglas for clear tongue and groove this is if you have a choice on writing service this is the surface you want as you can see the oil spots the old indians working on the last total loss of oil system death and he put the front tire above or on that redline you're going to have a motorcycle clipping along at probably point by fifty miles an hour and it's going to go by a less than a foot from your elbow it's how many people jump back close to a race to a machine that if you were actually quick enough you could read the numbers on the case no i take nothing away from all the rest of sports in the great athletes with too but the audience will never get any closer to a racy motorcycle than they will here so they get the adrenaline rush of this four hundred pound regime coming in your face at over fifty miles an hour they jump back the oldest writer how old are you i'm sixty one and most i started late but most people and their careers long before that but there's so few of us left in the united states i think and it's probably less than a dozen people that actually do so i'm kind of confident that i'm the oldest one that goes out on a yearly schedule and continues and does continuous performances and does the  motor motor drone motor dramas to probably name does it have a website for more information yes you can go to the american wall of death dot com and you'll come up on our home page there is a page for the crew if you want to get in touch with any other writers you just click on your picture and give your e mail address you can send the right home you have any questions feel free to email us we love hearing from people some of you folks have actually seen  show and have pictures send them to us we'll post them and give you credit for this is a true piece of american history which i need keep it alive ok well i thank you for your time i know you guys are kind of busy i saw you moving stuff around i just took it rally and for those that don't understand what that is we're doing a motorcycle rally for president whereas you veterans issues i think our military issues in washington d c area here this past year we had over five hundred closer look at that shortly but on the other side you also have more stories and while this is obviously  will either know nothing about the vietnam war or those that might have served or any like a thing like that what do you want them to understand about them while the vietnam war and of the troops who came back from vietnam were treated very well by the by the public and never had a welcome home who built the wall in memory of those who were killed in vietnam is over fifty eight thousand names you know and just like the kids but you know they're all young decided a lot here are just pictures of people whose names are on a  quickly realized that are coming home experiences so vastly different than the vietnam era is coming home experience and that was a direct result of their work and effort the vietnam vets generation has fundamentally changed the way america treats  veterans and i'm really here to give back to them yet how many names are on this wall there's fifty thousand two hundred fourteen on this wall of fifty thousand two hundred seventy two on the wall in d c this one just hasn't been updated in about five or six years we are constantly adding names on the wall around but averaging between five and six a year added the wall these are mostly individuals that that were not originally included on the wall that should have been still bodies being found correct yes so there's a j pack the is the military unit that is constantly over there trying to find the remains so yes they are there's an entire team all throughout the country i mean they're constantly every name on the wall and that's going to be included in the new center which will be directly across the street from the vietnam veteran washington d c it will feature the face putting in face the names the collection which is all the items that more than one hundred fifty thousand items that have been left out of the wall over the years tell an amazing story and also a timeline of the vietnam war because that being lost in history and and being able to tie the war to the names to the faces to the likely to grow at the end of no will the set of the walls the original design the brilliance of it is that the first and last names meet in the middle of the apex the starting in one thousand and thirty nine right in the middle the names go down and taper down at the end and then start again on the other side on this wall and meet with the very last name the one hundred seventy five so the you know the beginning and the end coming together and  being as one said the names are actually filled in as close to where they either died or were seriously injured on the wall so they could be with with the people that were in a commander in the  what do you want the viewers that are not veterans to know and appreciate about the will just says that the vietnam the vietnam generation and the veterans that came home and were treated that they that the way that they  did they didn't stop and they didn't go home they came they decided that that no generation of veterans ever be treated like that again so as my generation the people are coming home now we're raised we're taking care of and we're saying to every single day and now we're sacrifice even if it's not all of it and and we incredibly appreciate all that love and support that we get from rest of america and that is because of the vietnam generation as vietnam veterans like a moment no made a pact with themselves that no other generation be treated this way again because i mean you hear a lot about a lot of veterans make it back but have psychological issues and things like that very much and sometimes  unfortunately sometimes the government system is supposed to be helping you guys it's not all it's up to be there and that the veterans administration is catching up now but it's really because of because of the way that the rest of the country has really gotten behind veterans and now that there's thousands of nonprofit organizations that fill in those gaps where the government is unable to or is working too slow to fill their needs and and again i go back to that you know most of the guys that are there are leaving those organizations that started those are organizations or supporting those organizations are the foundation of those organizations are vietnam veterans is there was ever more information that we don't we don't v v m f dot org vietnam veterans memorial fun well in sturgis camping combinations provided by j ohn owner of the broken spoke in broken spoke campground learn more about all the entertainment bands and camping broken spoke campground dot com please visit my our kind of page at seattle community media dot org slash node slash point two three seven four slash list shows my website is being updated or shoot me an email and i'll send you a gentleman and his bike and you are dave gross from rochester indiana i see from this new one first place for the rat class yes explain to the  sorts of great compliments saying i'm an artist and this is i gather i don't consider myself an artist but i just put a stop on it now whatever looks cool i leave it on there i put a lot of stuff wrench to be holding something in place that's my starter button my starter button went bad a couple weeks ago before i came out here and i went to town and got that start button i need a place to mount it and  probably eighty percent of the bike i completed in probably about a month in my garage and and then the rest of it just kind of as i go along i tend to have a kind of the sort of a rat by well i wanted a flat block by going and i knew i was gonna you know put some stickers on it and because i done this back in the seventy's i had a sixty six elector glide that i bought in seventy six i was nineteen years old and i rode it around and kind of tore it up because i was a kid you know and next thing you know i thought well i'll just blab i can put stickers on and it turned out that a lot of pontoons got a lot of attention and this thing air when i bought it  left the bike a lot for all those years and my buddy gets divorced needs a place to camp out of he comes over he's right man on a big electraglide tells me i need to get a bike again i'm like yeah you're right i do and i design i really don't want to go on than i'm going to the point him franco i'll go get a japanese buy and but i said the thing of it is before i can write it i'm going to flap black and take the name of the tanks because you know back in the seventy's we were  the deal i said cool so i went bought it and started hanging stuff on and painted it and then springtime come around that i really want to work on and i spent the winter putting the swap meet stuff on like defenders in the bags and a guy asked me i went down to see rushmore and there's a tail way campground just past there i stopped in for a coke and and some guy was looking at it taking pictures you guys now are you done hanging stuff on this bike and i kind of looked at him then i looked at by and i shook my head i said yes yeah yeah i'm done i am completely done hanging stuff on this bike an hour to nadir i'm buying this i'm a real turn as i can  i stayed at it for thirty one and a half hours i stopped in ames iowa to get a motel they were booked up i stopped at another motel and burned they wanted too much money so i just got really aggravated it just aggravates me so i got my driving going almost and i get up on twenty it's rough or so i'm really stoked and i'm like by the time i got up on the twenty nine i say i got on interstate twenty nine produced a little way so i got to route fifty and i knew once i was going to do this year i was going to do the same thing as a stop in and then make my way to winners where i stayed last year and then finish off the trip and it didn't work out that way so strange things happen when you get a little lad stayed  of the prestige shows i won was last june down at the horse magazine course back street choppers magazine they have a smoke out in rockingham north carolina i went on the ride called the long road  inside the car we haven't been here in the day bikes travel through here and what they are so inside this cafe i have one of four owners with me and you are richard diner and tell us a little bit about this campground well it's a campground that we started this our second official near the campground and we've had three camping this year and and last year and last year is well  next year we are going to charge a little bit camping it will be up to twelve days to stay for only fifteen dollars a person and this is just to cover our operating costs of running  and then we have live entertainment over here on our bed on our bandstand and just have a wonderful people come in here and they rent the building from this and put food for all the poles breakfast dinner and supper and leave for all i can and i see this kind of a line  here that's a quarter one quarter of a mile wide and half mile the sole so it's pretty good size so it goes up that hill there a little bit where all the green is yeah yeah this we're looking at now is to the west flying you have room to expand oh yes yes currently i have generally about how many we have probably three hundred fifty people here this year in and out  bit of savings from some of the other places and towns and things like that yes yes and what are you there plans for the future of this place pulled up a few moments ago of course we'll come back to this on the next so have all of your travels there come an adventure while in sturgis camping accommodations provided by jay allen owner of the broken spoke in broken spoke campground learn more about all the entertainment bans and camping at broken spoke campground dot com please visit my ar page at seattle community media dot org slash node slash one two three seven four slash list shows well my website is being updated or shoot me an email and i'll send you a