Category: 2008 Rallies & Events
Hollister 2008: Hot Time, Summer in the City!
The weekend of July 11-13 consumed the complete downtown area of Hollister, where this year’s rally started promptly at 9AM with three stages rocking and the vendors rolling out the latest industry products.
As a promoter for almost 40 years, entertainment is the business Horse Power Promotions focuses on most. For instance, the Hollister Rally hosted three stages of contemporary...
Hollister 2008: Hot Time, Summer in the City!
The weekend of July 11-13 consumed the complete downtown area of Hollister, where this year’s rally started promptly at 9AM with three stages rocking and the vendors rolling out the latest industry products.
As a promoter for almost 40 years, entertainment is the business Horse Power Promotions focuses on most. For instance, the Hollister Rally hosted three stages of contemporary...
Biketoberfest ’08
Over 100 bikes were entered and the crowds were a massive as ever making history once again with the response, party atmosphere, and over all ambiance. The Internationally famous judge of bikes, Roadside Marty, was brought in at great expense to handle the picking of the winning bikes. Marty had just returned from judging duties in Cottonwood at the Smoke Out where he was chief...
Sturgis Motorcycle Rally 2008 Reality Returns — And that’s OK
Strangely, many parts manufacturers, production custom builders, and pro builders had great things to say about the rally, regardless of the lack of people. I spoke with a representative from Big Dog Motorcycles who said that they sold more bikes during Sturgis than they had sold in the entire first half of the year. Parts manufacturers selling wares at the event, like the guys...
Daytona Bike Week 2008
My Bagster had a couple of weeks vacation sitting in Daytona waiting for Southwest Airlines to deliver me to Bike Week. As I’ve mentioned before, as I get older I ride much less, averaging around 10K a year (more or less) for the past few years.
I’ve been flying a lot on Southwest (never crashed) Airlines, my carrier of choice, and I never listen to the flight attendants’...
2008 European Bike Week
The event was five days of non-stop music, fun, partying, and a lot of other motorcycle-rally stuff, some that can’t be mentioned in this family-friendly motorcycle publication. The music lineup included a well-diversified arrangement of groups and individuals that provided listening entrainment for everyone’s favorite tunes. Musical groups like Trio Valore, and Never the Bride...
Legend of the Motorcycle 2008
I’m at the 3rd annual Legends of the Motorcycle International Concours d’Elegance, overlooking the green lawn filled with the history of the motorcycle against a background of the waves of the Pacific Ocean beating against the shore. The weather was partly overcast making photography easier by eliminating shadows, but a little sun couldn’t have hurt.
Last year I stated the...
Laughlin ’08
Laughlin claims 10,000 hotel rooms. So assuming four people per room maxes out at 40,000 people. Now deduct the 1,000 or so vendors and their help and the organizer’s claim of 70,000 bikers seem preposterous. And add in the hundreds Metro police from Vegas. Ya think they stay ten to a room? Guess again, I bet they’re comped.
So on arrival I stashed my Bagster in the parking...
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