Calendar
News - April- July 2004
FastDates.com
and Performance Machine present the 2004
Los Angeles Calendar Motorcycle
Show Weekend July 17-18th 2004
Iron Works Charity Ride, Jardine Performance West Coast Dyno Shootout,
America's Top Builders, Live Blues and Rock Concert Festivals
featured
The Los Angeles Calendar Motorcycle Show Weekend
sponsored by Performance Machine held at the
Queen Mary Event Park in Long Beach, CA, continues to grow every
year as the most popular consumer street bike show in America
catering to custom, cruiser, classic and sportbike enthusiasts.
Always the 3rd weekend of July, the 13th Annual Show is scheduled
for Saturday July 17th and Sunday July 18th, 2004.
The Show features a huge weekend of activities with over 160 major
motorcycle and product manufacturers, exhibitors and venders,
together with the leading custom bike from across America. This
year Show producer Gianatsis Design has focus
on increased parking for continued growth in spectator attendance.
Associate Sponsorship support for the premier streetbike event
weekend in America is provided by Iron Works
magazine, Jardine Performance, Corona
Extra, Trader Publications, FastDates.com
Calendars & Website, The Los Angeles Times
/ ReCycler / Cycle Buys, and SPEED TV’s
American Thunder.
There’s
an incredible lineup of activities including the Jardine
Performance West Coast Horsepower Dyno Shootout - now
an exclusive permanent feature attraction at the Show, new bike
demo rides from select motorcycle manufacturers, and complimentary
admission to the Queen Mary historic ocean liner (Normally a separate
$26 charge, Queen Mary admission is included free to Bike Show
spectators with their low $20 admission to the Bike Show).
The
LA Calendar Motorcycle Show again supports an important charity,
the Iron Works magazine Readers Ride to benefit Olive
Crest Children’s Shelters (the biggest shelter
for orphans, abused children and families in Southern California),
as its ride-to destination. Saturday morning the 17th riders will
start at the Olive Crest Children's Home in Santa Ana, CA, from
where they will then ride to the Calendar Bike Show in Long Beach,
just 25 miles away and receive VIP parking, a complimentary lunch
and weekend admission for their charity donation.
As
always the LA Calendar Show offers the premier Performance
Machine Custom, Sportbike and Classic Bike Contest on
the West Coast featuring many of top bike Pro and Amateur builders
in America vying for the prestigious Performance Machine
Best of Show Trophy. Jesse Rooke will
return to premier his latest cutting edge custom in a bid to secure
Best of Show for the 3rd year in a row, but competition will again
be intense.
Party
and Attend Free Seminars with America's Top Custom Bike Builders
!
Many
of America's top celebrity custom bike builders are planning to
attend including Cyril Huze Custom from Florida
in his 1st ever West Coast appearance, along with such such stars
as Paul Yaffe, Don Chica, Ron
Simms, Mike Stafford, Roger
Goldammer, Harold Pontarelli, Jesse
James of West Coast Choppers and many others. The Calendar
Show, its bikes and builders, and exhibitors receive more national
media coverage in major motorcycle magazines including Iron Works
and in TV programs on Discovery, Spike, and with our Show's associate
sponsor Speed TV’s American Thunder.
A new attraction
this year will be free Bike Builder's Seminars
held both days at the Show, conducted by the leading custom bike
builders in America as featured in the Iron & Lace calendar.
And then on Saturday night aboard the Queen Mary in the historic
Observation Room Bar will be the Iron & Lace Calendar
Builders Night Party from 9pm on with all the top calendar
bike buiders in attendance. For additional details go the Bike
Show.
Above:
Russell Mitchell of Exile
Cycles with his excitng new Discovery Channel Buildoff Custom
which premiered at Daytona 2004 Speedweek. Admittedly his best
bike yet. Russell's Discovery Bike was shot this month by photographer
and Show producer Jim Gianatsis for the next Iron & Lace calendar
with beautiful model Paige Anderson who will also be this year's
Bike Show Master of Ceremonies onstage all weekend. Russ and his
"Take No Prisonors" gang of basic black bikes will be
at this year's LA Calendar bike Show. And making his first ever
West Coast appearance at our show will be master builder Cyril
Huze coming 3,000 miles all the way from his headquarters
in Florida!
Each
year’s Show features exciting live on-stage entertainment.
This year will there will be different musical themes each day.
Saturday the 17th will feature an all day Mini Blues Festival
headlined by 2000 lbs of Blues, one of Los Angeles’
most popular blues bands, together with a number of special guests.
On Sunday the 18th the Show will shift to a Classic Rock ‘n’
Roll Festival with the hugely popular Unauthorized Rolling
Stones out of San Francisco, together with the Janis
Joplin style rock/blues vocals of the beautiful Boudeeka.
Joining
us for the first time this year will be the Purrfect Angelzs
with special on-stage performances both days. The Angelz are a
group of 5 beautiful girls performing dance, gymnastic and comedy
magic routines, and interacting with the spectators.
Also
making a special appearance all weekend long will be the Las
Vegas Extremes team, famous for their wild sportbike
stunts and videos, staring the crazed Pauly Sherer and the beautiful
21 year old Jolleen "JoJo" Farmer. They promise a lot
of smokey burnouts followed by exploding rear tires to keep things
exciting all weekend long.
Showcasing
the Calendar Girls theme of the Calendar Bike Show will be the
premier of the 2005 FastDates.com Calendars with
the beautiful SBK World Superbike Calendar Angels in attendance
including Miss Great Britain Nicki Lane, Comedy
Central’s Janelle Perzina, The Man Show’s
Chandi Mason, and beautiful new Calendar Angels
Andra Cobb and Laura Niles.
Plus there will be the FastDates.com Calendar Girl Model
Pageant both days, the beautiful Corona Extra
and Archie’s Ice Cream Girls.
Also planed are special promotions from Playboy, Penthouse and
Maxim magazine with appearances by their models and Hometown Honeys.
“Motorcycle
enthusiasts love The Los Angeles Calendar Motorcycle Show because
of its quality of attractions and weekend long excitement, plus
the participation of many of the major bike and product manufacturers,
and top custom bike builders in America. Plus our beautiful FastDates.com
Calendar models!” explains event producer Jim Gianatsis
of Gianatsis Design, a motorsports advertising design agency which
also produces the popular FastDates.com Motorcycle Pinup Calendars.
“This outdoor event located on the ocean’s edge at
the beautiful Queen Mary Park, in the heart of America’s
motorcycle industry makes our Show even more significant. With
everything that Long Beach has to offers including the ferry boat
to Catalina Island, the Aquarium, the downtown restaurants and
clubs, and the attractions Los Angeles has to offer, the LA Calendar
Motorcycle Show is a must do weekend for streetbike fans.”
Spectators and Exhibitors can find out more about The LA Calendar
Motorcycle Show, the Bike Contest and all the available weekend
activities online at www.FastDates.com.
Our
sexy new LA Calendar Bike Show MC Paige Anderson gets up close
and personal with Russ Mitchlel's Discovery Channel Build off
Custom during herrecent Iron & Lace Calendar shoot.
You can see more of Paige in Meet the Models
and Members Corer, and more of the
cool new Exile bike in the Iron &
Lace Garage
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