Bike Week Daytona

kdog · September 2, 2015

Cool! Everyone looks so serious..? Keep 'em coming!!

Stumblebum · September 3, 2015

Nice! Yeah serious......but pretty cool!

David_S85 · September 3, 2015

2nd shot's rider looks a little like Paul Sr., but can't be due to what he's riding.

These are good! More, more, more.

Thelensspot · September 3, 2015

I agree with David. I did a double take on the Paul Sr. look alike. You did a great job bringing out the cycles themselves.

black mamba · September 3, 2015

I don't know of another spectacle quite like Main Street in Daytona during Bike Week. I've been going for years....wouldn't miss it. The guy in #4 is riding a Boss Hog. I saw one of those last year that had a Chevy 502 cubic inch crate motor stuffed in it. The guy riding it must have been pushing 400 lbs. Like a lot of things there, it was quite a sight.

Nice work,

Tom

TonyCooper · September 3, 2015

Looking at #3, I couldn't help but think that this photo:

https://tonycooper.smugmug.com/Bikers/i-FLK2gJ2/0/X2/2010-04-24-24-X2.jpg

is what that woman will look like in a few years.

(The linked photo was taken at the Leesburg (FL) bike week event in 2010)

A link, rather than an embedded photo, because I think it's rude to add my
photo to someone else's thread. It would bring down the quality of the average
photo in the thread.)

torags · September 4, 2015

black mamba wrote: »

I don't know of another spectacle quite like Main Street in Daytona during Bike Week. I've been going for years....wouldn't miss it. The guy in #4 is riding a Boss Hog. I saw one of those last year that had a Chevy 502 cubic inch crate motor stuffed in it. The guy riding it must have been pushing 400 lbs. Like a lot of things there, it was quite a sight.

Nice work,

Tom

Yeah, quite a sight and nice hdr toning on the shots Fly

I went for 5yrs or so and was disappointed when the Speedway people spread the moto races out

It used to be dirt track, supercross and superbike races within three days. Nowhere on the planet could you get one week of quality races in one place. It was worth the trip from CA.

And of course the dog races (FL one of the last places to hold them)

Then women's wrestling in cabbage

Then there was the time a gal marched on the last Sunday.... topless. It was quite a hit

BTW nice shots

black mamba · September 4, 2015

torags wrote: »

Yeah, quite a sight and nice hdr toning on the shots Fly

I went for 5yrs or so and was disappointed when the Speedway people spread the moto races out

It used to be dirt track, supercross and superbike races within three days. Nowhere on the planet could you get one week of quality races in one place. It was worth the trip from CA.

And of course the dog races (FL one of the last places to hold them)

Then women's wrestling in cabbage

Then there was the time a gal marched on the last Sunday.... topless. It was quite a hit

BTW nice shots

Sadly, Rags, in the last couple of years they have really cracked down on gratuitous nudity in the streets. You can still have loud pipes on the bike but you best be careful where you choose to really get on the throttle....the cops will now ticket you for excessive noise. I happen to be in full support of that measure. If you want to see what it was like in the old days, hit some of the outlying bars where anything you can imagine is still the order of the day. Gotta love Bike Week.

I share your feelings about the racing scene. Too bad about the changes they made there.

Tom

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