Bike Week

The picture above is called the burning bike, the last Friday of the event they burn it.

Wow, What a Week!

This is the first time I’ve attended a bike week for the whole event.  I’ve gone to Laconia Bike week for the day as it’s only a couple of hours away from where I live in Maine.  About two years ago I attended Daytona for a couple of days, and was lucky enough to catch up with a friend and ride on the back of his bike and see the area and events.  This week I was able to see and participate in the whole thing, a lot different when riding it.  When I got into town on Friday there were so many bikes, the energy was fantastic.  Everywhere you looked there was a line of bike!  We stopped on Route 1 where there were tents and vendors set up.  After walking around I talked to a vendor doing sewing and asked if they could fix the zipper in my chaps.  She said yes, so I went to my bike and got them.  She said it would be a day or so before they would be done, I was fine with that.  I know I will need them heading back to Maine later, I will be heading towards cold 😢.  About an hour later I got a text saying my chaps were done – wow that was fast.  They even texted me when they were closing so I didn’t stop by when they were closed.  Chaps & Bags LLC has fantastic service, my chaps came out great.  Highly recommend them, there is a photo included with all there contact information on it.  There were events set up all over Daytona area, we hit swap meets, car show, checked out vendors in all the different areas.  We went to Iron Horse Saloon, River Grille on the tomoka, Black Sheep bar, Hanksters Hot Rods and so much more!  Met up with others along the way, and rode over 1,200 miles during the week. That’s with one day off as it was raining in the morning and got a little windy in the afternoon.

Just seeing all the different bikes, and the paint jobs so many of them have is totally amazing.  I’ve tried to capture just some of them in the pictures above.

Cars, Cars and More Cars!

We stopped at Hanksters and checked out all the old cars.  There were a few that I wouldn’t mind having and riding around in.  Most were for sale too!  We also stopped at a local Sonic when they had a small car show.  I know some of my friends will enjoy seeing these cars.

 

Rolling with Ronda

Ronda Brown is the new ambassador for Law Tigers.  I contacted her a while back knowing that she was going to be attending Daytona Bike Week, hoping we could meet up.  I got a text from her one day saying she missed me by one day at the Ocala Harley dealership.  We made plans to meet at the dealership in Daytona, the traffic was backed up for quite a ways.  I looked over and saw her license plate Lucee, so I pulled up beside her and introduced myself.  We both chuckled and chatted the rest of the way.  We later left that area and went out for a late lunch, early supper.  It was great talking to someone doing the same thing, out on the open roads traveling across the U.S. alone on our motorcycles.  Check out her Facebook page and follow her journey on Rolling with Ronda.

 

Women Riders World Record Meetup

On Saturday, March 17 we met at Skips Western Outfitters on International Speedway Blvd. to attempt the World Record for the most female motorcyclists.  We had 516 ladies and the record was 1,133.  We didn’t quite make it, but we had fun and I got to meet a lot of great women!  Here are some pictures of the event and bikes!  Maybe next year will be the year, how great would that be!

 

ScootinAmerica

I have been following Adam Sandoval with ScootinAmerica for about a year now.  When I decided to take this trip I was hoping that I would run into Adam somewhere along the way.  When I frirst got into Florida every dealership that I stopped at I had missed him by a day.  The day after I did the Keys I found out that Adam and Ashley were out there the same time.  Well today I finally caught up with him at the Daytona International Speedway.  I had so many things I wanted to ask him, but I ended up not….I think because there were so many people there to see him.  It was still great to finally meet him.

Well, that sums up bike week for me, now I need to catch up on some sleep!

Live and Light to you all!