MOTORCYCLE MADNESS

I know this is technically out order chronologically speaking but I wanted to post something about Motorcycle Madness. This is an event we just did a couple of weeks ago in Santa Maria. It's promoted by HP Productions, they do Hollister now as well as several other events on the west coast. I've done their Grand National Show in October a few times and always liked that event. We had been told how huge this event was and how we just had to do it. It's not a huge deal to pull our trailer down there so we decided to give it a try.
Well huge it ain't. It's maybe average to me but then again I like to see crowds like you see at Sturgis and Daytona. There were only 4 builders in the builder's plaza. There was Todd's Cycles from Huntington Beach. Santa Clarita Choppers, a fairly new operation from what we could tell was next to us. There was us and then Scott Long, our friend from Central Coast Cycles in Santa Cruz. There was a lot of indoor smaller vendors, some food people, Hoppe was there with their really cool bagger fairings and some exhaust guys I'd never heard of. That was really about it. Oh yeah, Meguiars had a huge ass trailer there for their products.
Apparently we were also at the same hotel with most of the builders as well as a bunch of others from the event. The weather was beautiful, we can't complain about that but the crowds really weren't there.
I'm still on the fence whether or not I'd do this event again. In a few months I may decide it wasn't too bad but then again I may decide with the ridiculous price of diesel fuel, high hotel and food bills that this event just wasn't worth it. Right now the jury is still out on this event.
We'll be at Corbin's place for the Hollitser Rally July 11-13 so stop on by and say howdy, aloha, hola or whatever you wanna say as long as it's civil.

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