LA Calendar Custom MC Show
 Hot bikes, babes and sun!

Dennis with FixMyHog.com was able to head up to Long Beach, CA for the LA Calendar Motorcycle Show July 16th put on by PMI and Fastdates.com. It’s set up next to the old and beautiful Queen Mary. it’s the 15th year for the small show and they do a pretty good job at it. It was hot that weekend, very hot. That out of the way, all the players where there: PMI, Ron Simms, Big Dog, American Iron Horse, Bourgetts. Its a great location along the water with the Queen Mary to one side and the Aquarium to the other. It is custom bike central. These bikes are truly fine art and they were all lined up to be admired. If you are into custom bikes, you will not be disappointed. They also had: Bike Building Seminars, a Dyno shoot-out, a bike Auction, bikes, bands, food and drink and of course beautiful women. I spoke with some of the vendors; who said it was busy on Saturday and slow on Sunday. They were not sure if it was the heat or the $20 entrance fee. So if you plan on riding the CA coast next year in July, add this show to your list.

70,000 in Cash & Awards at America's Biggest & Best Custom & Performance Streetbike Show

Performance Machine presents the 15th Annual 2006 LA Calendar Motorcycle Show Weekend Calendar Motorcycle Show Again Blows the Lid Off Long Beach

The Queen Mary, Long Beach, CA July 15-16th, 2006 -The 15th annual Los Angeles Calendar Motorcycle Show Weekend presented by Performance Machine and produced by Jim Gianatsis of Gianatsis design Associates held annually every 3rd weekend in July at the Queen Mary Event Park in Long Beach/ Los Angeles continued to kick out all the stops again this year despite the long summer heat wave and the current attendance slump at most other motorcycle events to uphold the Calendar Shows' well earn reputation biggest and most exciting Custom and Performance Street Motorcycle Show in America.

The expanded Queen Mary Event park venue which has spilled out from the beautiful grass park alongside the Pacific Ocean into the Queen Mary parking lot again was again sold out of exhibitor space and standing room only for spectators both days, hosting 180 major custom bike and product manufacturers, top name custom bike builders and selected venders from across America added into the mix to keep it fun for the entire family. Spectator attendance reached 16,000 hard core motorcycle enthusiasts and celebrities at the exciting motorcycle weekend which features the sexy FastDates.com motorcycle pinup calendar girl theme with many beautiful spokes models throughout the Show.

Many of America's top Pro and Amateur street bike builders were in attendance to compete in the Performance Machine Calendar Show Bike Building Championship with a bulging purse of $70,000 in cash and awards. This year's Show Contest featured 3 new classes including Street Chopper, Bar Hopper and the new Road Bike Magazine Metric Class located in the exciting new Road bike Metric Midway

Japanese Cruisers, along with classes for European and Japanese Sport bikes. There were 10 Calendar bike Building Championship Classes including the premier Radical Pro Builder Class sponsored by American Iron magazine with a $5,000 cash purse up for grabs with the coveted Performance Machine Best of show Trophy.

This extremely intricate chopper that Russ built is a one of a kind with his co-owner stepson still in Iraq Tommy Wallace who is currently serving as a contractor will be home soon to help beat and shape metal with the best of them. Art Attack took a full 7 months to build from scratch and features a western show horse saddle motif with intricate gold, silver and ruby overleaf designs, a hand tooled saddle, and a beautiful wood over laid handlebar. Not just a show horse, "Art Attack" is powered by a thoroughbred 113 inch E Bruto 120 hp engine mated to a 6 speed tranny. Russ currently has two other bikes under construction which he hopes to premier at other top bike events before the end of the year. Many of the original bolt-on accessory components found on his bike like the exhaust system, carburetor intake, wheels and engine cover and available for sale from his shop CowboyCustomBikes.com.

All weekend long entertainment included a 2-Day Musical Festival on the Main Stage in the Queen Mary Park showcasing top sexy rockin' girl bands and singers including the Lead Zeppelin tribute band Zeparella, beautiful blues rocker Jesse Payo, with beautiful pop music harpist and singer Marnie Boyd performing with a huge classical harp near the park entry. The exciting Purrfect Angelz brought the Show to a standstill when they performed their exciting dance and musical stage shows both days, including three different 1 hour shows on Saturday featuring their USO performance for our troops in the Middle East, and their live performances with Trace Atkins on the CMT and CMA Country Music Awards.

Plus in the middle of the Show weekend on Saturday night on board the historical Queen Mary ocean liner in the art deco Observation Bar was the big Iron & Lace Calendar Builder's Party where you could hang with the builders, exhibitors, Show producer Jim Gianatsis and his staff, and dance with the Purrfect Angelz all night long to the cover tunes of beautiful Mary Fall and her band Reckless Driver. Bike Show spectators admission included complimentary admission to the historic Queen Mary ocean liner and the Saturday night Calendar Bike Builder's Party.