Top 10 Sturgis facts

Estimated rally beer consumption?  See below.

Can't go to Sturgis but want to know more?  Already at Sturgis but passed out?  Here are the ten facts you need to know about the nation's biggest motorcycle rally:

1. In 1976 the average attendee spent $50.
2. In 2009 the average attendee will spend more than $1000. 
3. 1/3 of western South Dakota's motorcycle accidents connected to the event.
4. The rally features hundreds of thousands of bare, saggy breasts.  And that's just the men.  
5. Sturgis businesses make 95% of their annual revenue from the rally.
6. South Dakota collects approximately $1,000,000 in sales tax from the event. 
7. The town of Sturgis, population 6,000, adds $200,000 of taxes to its coffers. 
8. The first rally was in the summer of 1938, and has been in Sturgis every year except during WWII.
9. In 2005 a rider was killed by a flying toilet. 
10. A conservative estimate of beer consumed in the two weeks surrounding the event:  3 million gallons