Re: Ace Cafe, Cafe Racer TV, DO THE TON and Dime City Cycles Take OVER Barber!
Guys and gals, we need your bikes, no matter how 'show' ready you think they are or aren't. You'll see my XS650 there in all it's oil leaking greasy grimy glory. I don't keep it polished and while I might wipe it down a bit for the display, I'll be riding it into the show every morning and out at night.
The alloy tank is dull, dented, it leaks oil... and people love that.
We need piles and piles of bikes! More the better. Let people know that there is a vibrant and varied community out there (here)!
Last time we did a bike show here in Toronto, we were in the same hall as the museum bikes. They were all sitting on red carpet, shined out the wazoo. I saw guys take plastic wrap off their board-tracker tires (white tires, so I guess I understand
). Our greasy grimy bikes were sitting mere feet from some of the most incredible bikes out there, including a huge collection of Vincents. Gunga Din was maybe 50 feet from my XS.
And one of our most popular bikes was a friends ratty XS650 with a GSXR inverted front end on it, seat covered in liquor bottle labels clearcoated (they were keeping it in one piece), and a flat tire from the burnout he did in the parking lot of the show. People were lined up to take pics with it.
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me.
I lift my lamp beside the golden door."