The Long Beach International Motorcycle Show

Just a few photos, folks, from the Long Beach International Motorcycle Show, in no particular order.   I walked around a bit with the Nikon, saw quite a few friends, made a few new friends, and saw the latest and the greatest.  Interesting stuff, to be sure.   We had a great booth and we saw a lot of people.   Most folks said they had been following us online, every one loved the bikes (the RX3 and our new RC3 and TT Special motorcycles), and I sure had a good time.   Okay, I know….enough talk…let’s get on to the photos…

A KTM…not my cup of tea, but a good photo subject.

A Ducati Scrambler.   Nice bikes.  Big bucks.

A Yamaha flat tracker.   The colors work.  I like it.

The vintage motorcycle display.  There weren’t as many bikes this year in this display as there were last year.   The Beemer was cool.  So was the 450 Honda (in red, no less…you almost never see them in that color….come to think of it, you almost never see a 450 Honda in any color).  And that’s a 305cc Super Hawk in the background.  My Dad rode one just like it.

One of the models in the Indian booth.   Indian and Ducati bring in drop-dead gorgeous models every year (the ladies, and maybe the bikes, too).    More photos coming up, folks…

A custom Indian in the Geico area…

There was a tattoo booth at the show.   Nice sign.

Another custom Indian…

The Russ Brown ladies…I’ve talked to Russ Brown a couple of times and I think he is a square shooter…

Yours truly with Glenn Heggstad.   His book, Two Wheels Through Terror, is one of the best.  It talks about his travels through South America, including his being kidnapped by terrorists in Colombia.  That’s where I’m riding next month.

I was surprised to see that Lifan had an exhibit at the Long Beach show.  Lifan is one of the three largest motorcycle manufacturers in China (Zongshen and Loncin are the other two).   All three companies are in Chongqing.   These are a couple of Lifan’s models…interesting, but they are certainly not in the same league as the Zongs we bring to North America.

A CB-360 Honda from the 1970s…

Folks, that’s it for this morning.  Susie has a few things lined up for me today.    I have a lot more Long Beach photos, and I’ll post a few more this evening.