For 18 years the Quad Cities has been blessed to have its
own motorcycle rally. But it has always been so much more than a motorcycle
rally. With a humble beginning in the Village of East Davenport, musicians and
motorcycle enthusiasts all got together for a whole lot of rumbling – that
wasn’t entirely Harley engines. I’ll spare you all the history – as some
reading this know far more about the history and the inner workings of this
event that I can ever know. Eighteen years ago I walked to my
first Sturgis on the River, as I lived just a few blocks from the Village at
that time. What has now become the Mississippi River Motorcycle Rally is far
larger than anything some of us ever imagined it would become.
