1st Place Custom, 3rd Place Dresser (yup dresser)
The wife and I went to a motorcycle and car show this past weekend. The Tradesmen Motorcycle Club hosted the event to raise money for the Cystic Fibroses Foundation. The show itself was in rural Maryland, you would never know we were 50 miles or so from downtown Washington, DC due to all the countryside we saw. We road through miles of farmland when “SHA’ZAM” a small strip mall appeared in the community of Monrovia, MD.
On the ride out the weather was great but that was hiding the fact that the temp was going to be in the upper 90s… and boy did it! We drank a lot of water during the day and as much as we like the show we were looking forward to the ride home and cool showers!
As for the show itself there were about 25 cars and about 20 motorcycles on display. The one thing that surprised me the most was…what is up with Batman? There were two Batman themed Camaro’s one of which had a matching motorcycle.
As you can tell from the pictures below there were some really nice cars and bikes in attendance. The wife and I both favorite and voted for the same vehicles, in particular we loved the late 1960s Pontiac Grand Prix Convertible and the Chevy El Camino.
We also met a guy taking a leap into the motorcycle industry and starting his own shop. He is creating his company, “Sick Sledz”, and is hoping to open it in this part of Maryland in the near future… we wish him luck!
We did quite well in the contest part of the bike show! We won two trophies for the Army bike. The first trophy kind of surprised us, 3rd place in the “Dresser” category! That had to be people selecting the wrong spot on the voting form or not knowing what a dresser really looks like.. oh well.
Our bike did take 1st place in the custom motorcycle category. We have done well in the few shows we have presented and we have not got around to finishing it yet. There are a few more things we want to do to call it finished!
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- Batman 1
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- Batman 2
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- Sick Sledz entry
I JUST WANT 2 RIDE!! 
This is what car and motorcycles shows are supposed to be. I’ve gotten so disillusioned with the cookie-cutter-custom-trailer-queen-specials at bike week, that I sometimes forget that there are still true customs out there. Thanks for sharing.
I agree, even though most of my bike is “bolt-on”. This was a ride in show, I did not see any trailers in the lot. Mine has 30K+ and gets rode, but not as much now that we have an Ultra.
Some folks sneer at the bolt on bikes in some of the different shows I have attended either as a participant or viewer. But, I look at it from the POV that it allows EVERYONE to make the bike theirs. If you take the time to think out a project you will have a one of a kind bike no matter what you started with.