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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> spike@rainier66.com <spike@rainier66.com> <br><br><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>…Shall we start a betting pool? If so, I would wager that the Biketoberfest crowd will be healthier than the stay-at-homes, even if I will be damned if I can figure out why. I can’t think of a single plausible explanation for why the Sturgis crowd did so well, but whatever that was, I would bet the same mojo applies to Florida.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Other than being out in the sticks, what differences are there between Sturgis in August and Daytona Beach in October?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I do know that Sturgis is hot, dry and dusty. The chart below describes the percent chance of each kind of weather. In the first week of August, typically there is about 3% chance of muggy conditions, about 12% chance of humid, about 25% chance of comfortable and about 60% chance of dry conditions:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img width=657 height=391 style='width:6.8437in;height:4.0729in' id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image003.jpg@01D6836A.D0EE79B0"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>OK. I don’t have a similar chart for Daytona beach, so do let me just offer a subjective description: 100% it will be at least muggy, but good chance it will go right on over to oppressive and miserable (ey, I didn’t make up those terms (the Sturgis people did (and they are good descriptions of Florida in general for much of the year (see above.)))<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>So… both places are hot, but Sturgis in August is really dry hot and Daytona Beach in October is jungle-humid hot.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Both are hot, but Sturgis is very dry and dusty, whereas Daytona Beach is more soggy and mildewey.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>All those bikes rumbling around, there would be dust hanging in the air constantly in Sturgis, and now that I think about it, what if… airborne virus particles in a liquid suspension (such as from a sneeze) somehow encounter a dust particle also in suspension, form a virusey mud ball which somehow doesn’t infect other bikers? Could dust in the air be a virus neutralizer? <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If so… the Biketoberfest in Daytona will be a super-spreader and we will see the opposite of the Sturgis experience.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If I can’t think of a better explanation, I retract my wager that Biketoberfest will somehow protect proles. But if Biketoberfest is a super-spreader, perhaps we can dust ourselves to health. I have thought of arbitrarily many get-rich-quick schemes, but this is the first time in my life it ever occurred to me that desert dust could have some useful purpose.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>