Thousands of bikers and motorcycle enthusiasts are arriving now in the Colorado River resort town of Laughlin, Nevada and will be there over the next few days for a weekend motorcycle rally.
The 28th annual Laughlin River Run is one of the largest ride-in motorcycle rallies in the western U.S.
Attendance last year was 33,600, but in past years crowds have topped 60,000.
The weekend rally was marred by a fatal biker gang shootout in 2002 when three people were killed and more than a dozen were injured in a brawl between Hell’s Angels and the Monogols at Harrah’s Laughlin.