Garage Brewed Motorcycle Show

OK, so I'm still a gearhead at heart and this custom bike show was pretty cool! An invitational show featuring some of the best local bike builders in the area. The talent on display was amazing. Rhinegeist was slammed wall to wall with people and cars were backed up a couple blocks looking for parking, luckily it was a warm February day and I rode my bike right up to the door and locked it up. If anything proved how valuable the streetcar is going to be its events like this. A ton of out-of-towners could have jumped on downtown and rode it right up to the door. And talking about out-of-towners, I got a kick out of overhearing one conversation after another about how awesome OTR is and how they never expected the neighborhood to be as cool as it is. Inside, the amount of people walking around with a camera would put the City Flea to shame too. I saw one guy with an old school camera I didn't recognize and made the mistake of asking what he was shooting with. He got all snobby and gave me his life story that ended with the fact he never edits his pictures. I just grinned and thought what ever dude, if you're too lazy to edit your damn pictures you ain't impressing me. And I never did find out what the camera was, it was too cool for him that's for sure.

This reputed to be Shinichi Ito's GP bike. If it is that is quite a coup considering these things usually end up in the crusher. At any rate Ito was a wildly popular racer, more popular than his results warranted, but he was consistent. Whether it was his or not you only get so many chances to see a MotoGP bike in real life.


They had a strict no touching the bikes rule. But no one can say no to a pretty girl right Kim?
that's the plan Stan

I talked to the guy who built this bike and he told me he was having fun standing back listening to people criticise things he had done on the build. F#@K that I said I bet none of those a55holes have ever built a bike before. But he assured me he didn't care and was having fun with it. I wish I could be more like him when people who don't have a blog tell me why my blog sucks.

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