Welcome to the 70th Annual Daytona Bike Week coverage by me, Jack Cofano. You know the drill: beer, babes, bikes, repeat. Yes, just another great week at Daytona Beach cavorting with the crowds, cursing in traffic, and enjoying every minute of it.

As happens every year for good reason there are some great bike shows. Willy’s Tropical Tattoo starts thing off the middle of the week followed by the AMD show, now part of the Progressive International Motorcycle show that runs from Wednesday to the end of the week. Then we have the Boardwalk Show with a good number of entries and a great place to photograph a bike show. Finally, we have the Rats Hole Show on Saturday capping off a week of generally great weather, nice and cool with sunny skies. Just the way I like it.

I am mentioning this because as you drool over the photos of the event today and tomorrow you will notice that there are a lot of what I call “Goddess Photos”. Wait — that’s what Charlie Sheen would call them. I guess I’ll have to come up with another politically correct term. The reason for this is that next week we will be featuring three days of bike shows. All the bikes you want to see and then some. I know that viewing a gaggle of bodacious babes (that could work) is a chore, but I’m sure that y’all can deal with it. Some may actually force themselves to view some photos a few times just to make sure you get the full affect and oh yeah, make sure you’re not in the photo with the girl. Shame on you!

I try to get as much of the rally in photos as I can, but alas I am the only one and I can only be at so many places. I wanted to check out the bike shows at the Volusia Fairground and actually gave it a shot on Thursday morning after the rain and drove into a mud bog with very few bikes. Oh well, can’t get them all. As far as covering a lot of the other venues, the traffic put the kibosh on that as it just takes too long getting around and I hate burning daylight on the road.

I hope you enjoy the photos and I will be back tomorrow with my only negative report, not dealing with Florida and Bike Week but with the state of Georgia and their disgusting un-American biker profiling they set up on their border with South Carolina on I95. Pisses me off!