Thursday, February 9, 2017

2017 Minneapolis Motorcycle Show

This month the International Motorcycle Show came to Minneapolis. I worked the MMSC booth encouraging riders to take training and handing out the coveted “Start Seeing Motorcycles” bumper stickers. I had a great time chatting with all the current and future riders who stopped by.
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The highlight of the show for me was the freestyle motorcycle stunt show. I tried to capture a few pictures and posted a short video to twitter. They barely do the show justice. The flips and tricks were really impressive.
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Watch the video here if the embed below doesn’t work: https://twitter.com/EverydayRiding/status/827938935292755968
There were quite a few interesting bikes in the custom bike show contest. These are some of my favorites.
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Overall, the show was decent. Sadly, I wasn’t very excited about any of the new bikes the various manufacturers had. I also don’t need any new gear, so many of the booths weren’t interesting. I did pick up some brochures for a couple track day events and some new more advanced rider training. I’m looking forward to those.
Did you attend an IMS show recently? What did you think?

6 comments:

  1. No IMS around here but then again I'm not looking for anything...

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  2. Glad they still came to town and you could attend. I bet you saw a lot of people working the booth.

    The closest to us is now Long Beach, CA. They took away Seattle/Portland and San Mateo. Sigh.

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    1. Wow, bummer. That is a ways away. You could always come visit MN 😉

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  3. Looks like a pretty good show. I was recently at the Indiana Motorcycle Expo and I agree with you. I'm not super excited with many of the new bikes there. There were some cool vintage ones that I liked, though :)

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