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ABATE of Florida Inc SOUTHWEST CHAPTER
12
2009 Easyriders Custom Motorcycle Show
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
America rides again! Our Managing Editor, Bart
Madson, saw this cool replica at last year's show.
Easyriders don’t think Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda will be at this weekend's 2009 Easyriders V-Twin
Bike Show in Sacramento, CA, but I wouldn't be surprised to see a replica of Captain America there.
Seeing how this is the first custom motorcycle show of 2009 for me, I'm stoked. Didn't catch the IMS
show in Long Beach, but that event caters to a different crowd anyways. I'm ready to see some serious
one-off craftsmanship, see some old school designs with contemporary components, and to search for
the up-and-comers who haven't been discovered yet. Bart
Madson had a good time at the Portland Easyriders Show
last year, and did a feature on both the Detroit Bros and
Nash Motorcycle Company after meeting them in Portland.
This year's show has Erick Ackley and Dave Sekman of
Tempest Cycles, Jerry Burrow of Roadhawgs, Shannon
It is, after all, an Easyriders show, so we expect to see a little
of this in additon to cool custom motorcycles. Davidson of
The Chopp Shop, John Dodson of Gangster Choppers and
Bruce Mullins of Skunkworx on the list of featured builders. I
also know that Jim Guiffra of AFT Customs, whose work we
recently featured, will be on hand with some of his custom
metric motorycles and hopefully a few of the beauties from his other enterprise, Powersports Modeling
Agency. It looks as if the energetic and entertaining Purrfect
Angelz are scheduled to perform, which is always a crowd-
pleaser, so I'm hoping it will be a good show.
It will be interesting to see how many custom builders attend
and to see what the turnout is like. According to a blog post
by Easyriders Events President, John Greene, the Pomona
show last week was a big hit. There were 210 bikes on
display, up from 90 last year, and attendance was up by
25%. As he put it, that's "A little good news for the industry."
I hope the turnout for the show in Sac is the same if not
better. Check in next week as we'll have video as well as
plenty of killer photos to go along with our event coverage.
Captain
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