Mad Jap Kustoms

Mad Jap Kustoms

Mad Jap Kustoms is a bike shop located out of Calgary, AB.  Yes...Calgary.  I've still never been to their shop but next time I'm up in Calgary I plan on stopping by and taking a look.  They have a lot of custom parts including rolling chassis, gas and fuel tanks, frames, fenders, bars, pegs and anything else you could think of that you could use to customize or build a bike.  Their rolling chassis would be a great way to start a bobber build without having to throw down a lot of cash and you wouldn't have to waste time finding a frame, bars, tanks and tires.  This is something that I will be looking into come fall/winter.  I'm not a pro and I've never built a bike but I think this would be the best way to start.  I'm sure I could learn my way through a build but it would be tough...I'd like to leave it to the pro's but I think it would be very cool to rip on a bike that I built.

If you get a chance, stop by their shop and take a look at around...

Here are some of the bikes that have been built at Mad Jap Kustoms...



Mad Jap Kustoms Website

"The Buck Nutty" - For Sale

"Lucky Charm"

"Funk Master"

"Sweet and Sour"

"Root Beer Bike"

"El Pecadora" The Sinner

"El Santo Uno"

"Viva Las Vegas"

Isle of Man TT 2010 Goes To Electric Zero MotoCzysz

The annual Isle of Man TT races can certainly be described as electric. Manufacturers and riders view the 37.7 miles of narrow twisting road as a proving ground for engineering and skill.

More than 200 riders and several spectators have lost their lives to this chase to push the performance envelope.


But there is now another electric element to the races. Starting last year, the event introduced a zero-emissions race. At the moment, zero emissions means electric.

Last year’s winner was the British-Indian team Agni, with an average speed of 84 mph and a top speed of 102 mph. With conventional bikes, an average of 100 mph is considered the benchmark of indisputable proficiency. The fastest lap ever recorded by any bike was set this year by John McGuinness at 131.578 mph.

This year an American team brought to the fray a unique machine built from the ground up: MotoCzysz’s E1 PC.


MotoCzysz  (pronunced Moto-sizz) sported proprietary batteries, hand-built by a company that also supplies NASA, and an oil-cooled electric engine. The bike won the zero-emissions race with a lap speed of 96.820 mph and a top speed of 135 mph.


We could well see the zero-emissions race turn in times that rival standard races within a few years. And like all such races, this is a proving ground for the technologies and designs that will eventually make their way to the average consumer.


MotoCzysz holds several patents on this advanced electrical technology, and rumor has it the company is in talks with manufacturers, including Indian automobile giant Bajal.


Truly, the electric motorcycles at the TT races are giving us performances that can be described as, well, electric.


—  Isle of Man TT 2010 by Guy Wheatley, the author of  TEXARKANA GAZETTE.COM - a source for motorcycles and bike riding in Texarkana.


Highlights of the 2009 Isle of Man TT & 2010 Isle of Man TT 


Following the success of the inaugural clean emissions motorcycle race on the Isle of Man in 2009, the Isle of Man Government Department of Tourism and Leisure became the official promoters of Zero TT 2010 on the TT Mountain Course, as part of the 2010 TT Race program.


As well as the usual prize money available to teams and riders, the Isle of Man Government created a £10,000 prize fund for the first TT Zero Race team to record a 100mph lap (160.93kph) around the 37 and 3/4 mile course. This landmark was achieved for the first time by a conventional bike in 1957, when Scotsman Bob McIntyre lapped the TT Course in 22 minutes 24.4 seconds for an overall average of 101.03mph. Rob Barber and Team Agni recorded a fastest lap time of 25 minutes 53.5 seconds (87.434mph) in the 2009 clean emissions race.





TT Zero 2010 - The Zero TT clean emissions race on June 9th was an integral part of this year's Isle of Man Time Trials, with the Isle of Man Government offering a £10,000 prize to the first team to record a 100 mph lap. Isle of Man TT racing was established in 1904.


There was no one to challenge John McGuinness as the HM Plant Honda rider dominated all six laps to take the 2010 Isle of Man TT win, setting a new outright lap record and a new race record.


McGuinness is now a 15-time TT winner, with three 130mph+ laps on his way to victory – including a new outright lap record of 130.442mph on lap two, despite slowing down to pit.


The clean emissions race in 2009 was widely credited with accelerating the development of clean emissions transport and many of the technical innovations that were introduced in the Isle of Man are expected to become an integral part of future mass market transport. The event was conceived with the support and involvement of numerous Departments of the Isle of Man Government as part of the Island’s Freedom to Flourish program.


The 2010 clean emissions race on the Isle of Man was renamed "TT Zero" and has become part of the core TT programme, featuring riders from all race classes. The one lap race was open to clean emission motorcycles at 4:30pm on Wednesday June 9th, following the Royal London 360 Superstock and Supersport Races. Qualifying was on Saturday June 5th and Monday June 7th.


Hon Martyn Quayle, MHK, Minister for Tourism and Leisure, Isle of Man Government, released this statement :“We are delighted that the Isle of Man was the first country to run an electric bike race and the fact that there are now events scheduled around the world is a tribute to the Island’s entrepreneurial, innovative spirit and shows what an achievement it was for the Isle of Man to run the groundbreaking inaugural event. We are now building on this fantastic start by properly integrating the clean emissions class into the race program - this really does send a clear signal that electric motorsport is fast evolving and that the TT Races remain at the forefront of motorcycle sport.”


The next Isle of Man TTs are May 28 to June 10, 2012.

WW2 NSU motorad before and after

Fotos courtesy Jan @ Kradriders, NSU motorads in Czechia

Very Rare German motorcycles

Diamant

RMW

Schutthoff

Tornax

Viktoria KR-6

Wanderer

fotos courtesy Dietmar @ Kradriders

A few bikes seldom encountered, few produced and few survived.

Laconia 2010: Biker Chicz TV Trailer

The East Coast Biker Chicks (ECBC) filmed at Laconia Motorcycle Week and will continue to film in New England this summer. More than 130 women riders from Maine to Vermont, and the greater Boston area belong to ECBC, said club founder Lucky Belcamino. The 1st episode was shot in Boston and on the road to the 2010 Laconia Motorcycle Rally.

Biker Chicz TV will debut worldwide in the fall of 2010. Produced by Blockhead City Entertainment and created by biker author Edward Winterhalder, "Biker Chicz" is a docu-reality TV series featuring the colorful, entertaining and engaging women who are members of an all-female motorcycle club known as the "East Coast Biker Chicks" (ECBC).

Their 47 second trailer was shot in Metro Boston and on the road to Laconia.

Laconia is known as "The Riding Rally" because everyone rides, every day of the rally, and there are so many wide, curvy mountain roadways.

There are more registered motorcycles per capita in New Hampshire than any other state in the USA and nearby, Loudon is the home of motorcycle racing. There was a lot going on at the 87th Annual Laconia -- the oldest motorcycle rally in the country.

Biker Chicz TV will focus on the positive aspects of the Harley-Davidson biker culture and the everyday lives of the East Coast Biker Chicks, based in Metro Boston. The empowered women riders are from all walks of life: a social worker, a scientist, a stock broker, a mortgage broker, a chiropractor and others who are in many ways average everyday typical American women. The members of the club are bound together by their independence, love of motorcycles and the open road, and the camaraderie and fellowship which the ECBC provides.

In the series, we will see the women at home with their families, at work with their colleagues and socializing at motorcycle events, charity functions and club meetings. They will also be featured on various motorcycle rides around New England and in the communities in which they live.

For details, visit their new website: BikerChiczTV.com

Greatest Biker Radio Interviews

I am listening to some really great interviews on BikerRadioMagazine.com. You can listen to the latest radio show on their site. You can also subscribe to the RSS feed and download some of their best interviews, so that you can listen to them when you're working in the shop or chillin' in the den. The downloads are FREE and high quality... MP3s (so give them a few minutes to download to your media player.)

Here are links to some of their best:

July 9th, 2010


This week on Biker Radio Magazine.... Part II of our interview with Marc Mazerolle as he preps a couple of students for a bike build in Sturgis, Lock Baker of Eastern Fabrications joins us, as does Rick Fairless and Bean're. Biker Radio Magazine for Friday, July 9, 2010.  7_9_10.mp3


June 25th, 2010

This week on Biker Radio Magazine, Kevin Baas talks about teaching kids to build bikes, Dan Lawson of the Dan Lawson Band talks about the Service and playing for well known artists before we knew them, Jeff from Bars4Bikers.com talks about... well, Bars and Jack McIntyre takes pictures of bikes and women. For a living. That's Biker Radio Magazine for June 26,    2010.6_25_10.mp3


June 18th, 2010

This is Biker Radio Magazine for June 18, 2010. This week... Chris Croft, Jeff Starke from the "International Master Bike Builder's Association, Belt Drive Betty and some non-scientific noise testing on motorcycle exhaust systems at bike night. Sorry about the wind noise during that segment but there wasn't much we could do about it. You'll get the idea all the same. 6_18_10.mp3

June 11th, 2010

This week, The Canadian Biker Build Off, The Biker Coffee Company, Cindy Rutherford from Century Cycle in California and Irish Rich all join us as we look at Build Off's, refreshments, Father's Day and just building customs... PLUS a top 10 list! 6_11_10.mp3

Carros Tunados, Tuning, Equipados, Rebaixados, Som e Socados (HD)

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e todos os adjetivos semelhantes.

The Future of the Oilers

Time for an Oil Change...

Draft day.  For the first time in their team history, the Edmonton Oilers will select first overall in the NHL draft.

So it all comes down to this.  Hall or Seguin?

Both players will one day be superstars in the big's, Hall is said to be able to make an instant impact while Seguin might take a little longer to develop.  Hall is being compared to a 'Mark Messier' type player that hates to lose and wants the puck.  Seguin on the other hand has landed comparison's to the former Red Wings great, Steve Yzerman, a quiet leader who leads by example.

This will be one thing that the Oilers can't lose at, both players are great, there is no 'wrong' pick.

So who will it be? Taylor or Tyler?

I'm on team Taylor...

Fotos de Tuning de Cuatrimotos

Estuve revisando las visitas al blog y me he dado cuenta que hay varios que se interesan por las cuatrimotos y el tuning. En un afán de compartir brevemente les dejo estas fotos de cuatrimotos, algunas de tamaño listo para fondo de pantalla, de lo que tengo sobre cuatrimotos modificadas y extremas. Espero les gusten.

Empezamos con la GG Quadster, un monstruo de motocicleta producido por GG Technik (de origen Suizo) con un motor de 4 cilindros y un diseño espectacular

También de GG Technik está la GG Quad, un modelo muy similar a la quadster pero de diseño mas conervador, aquí con un par de chicas edecanes bastante simpáticas


Luego una Yamaha modificada de llantas y rines


Y finalmente una con spinners de killa Kustomz

Carros tuning e som

Veja essas Maquinas

turbinadas e com sons

de Peso

Manute Bol

RIP - Manute Bol


AP -Manute Bol, who became a basketball sensation in the 1980s as a skeletally thin shot-blocking giant with the Washington Bullets and other professional teams, and who devoted his post-basketball life to improving the lot of his fellow natives of Sudan, died June 19 at the University of Virginia...


While I was growing up playing basketball in my back yard with my best bud Kent Kerkhoff, I would pretend to be either Scottie Pippen or MJ, Kent on the other hand would be Manute Bol.


Here's a sick 80's rap video of Manute Bol.  You need to watch the whole thing.  Great lyrics...

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Sturgis - 22rd Rat's Hole Bike Show Moves to Buffalo Chip

It’s time for Sturgis and the 22nd Annual Rat's Hole Custom Bike Show.
 

"The Buffalo Chip is the new home of the Rat’s Hole for the next 6 years," said Ted Smith, owner and producer of the world famous bike show. "This will be the largest show in Sturgis and the Best of Show will receive his award on the main stage before Ozzy comes on stage in front of thousands of cheering fans."

Fans from all over the world come out to share good times with Ted & Pam Smith and the Rat's Hole Gang.

"We will also have a Rat’s Hole Bar and you can pre buy a collector mug at 386.454.3496 and receive half price beer all week long at the Buffalo Chip," said Ted.

You can also get your Sturgis Mugs at the Rat's Hole eBAY Store.

The Rat's Hole Bar will be the only place serving draft beer. the mugs are double-insulated and hold draft beer equal to 3 cans... perfect to avoid consession lines at concerts. The mug will be picked up at the Rat's Hole Bar at Buffalo Chip and comes with the first "fill up."

To pre-register a bike in one of 20 Classes, go to ratshole.com.

Ozzy will cap off this year's music at The Buffalo Chip! 

Immediately after the World Famous Rat's Hole Custom Bike Show, Ozzy Osbourne will take the stage to  cap off this year's Biker Music Festival at the Legendary Buffalo Chip.

Ozzy Osbourne, the hipster of dark thoughts and dark music was lead vocalist for the British heavy metal band, Black Sabbath in the '70's before becoming a multi-platinum solo artist.

"The Buffalo Chip is offering more activities, more exhibits and shows than ever before," said Ted, who agreed to bring his big show to the Chip as soon as a large enough paved staging area became available.

The music lineup includes ZZ Top, Kid Rock, Motley Crue, The Doobie Brothers and The Scorpions.

You will also be able to see Michael Lichter’s 10th Annual Motorcycles as Art exhibit, entitled "Eternal Combustion  - 30 in the Wind" that explores the explosion of interest and passion for custom motorcycles. The exhibit features the work of 30 custom builders.

To check out the music lineup and find special deals on camping  for Sturgis Bike Week 2010, visit the buffaochip.com.

Summer Ride

I think Summer is finally here...until it rains again.  I've managed to get in two solid weekends of riding, the first being last weekend where I rode to Fernie and back.  The weather was a little sketchy on the way out, windy and overcast.  I rode back to Lethbridge on Sunday, and the weather was gorgeous.  The bad thing about it was that I had to do the ride on my own, it woulda been nice to have a few buddies along side me for such a nice ride.  The good thing about riding on your own is that you have a few less things to worry about, such as when someone wants to stop, if your going to fast or to slow,  who needs fuel up, who needs to pee, who's hungry.  It can be very relaxing to get out on your own and just ride.  

This  past weekend myself and my buddy Mur went out for a little southern Alberta ride.  We headed out to Taber, East on Highway 3 then headed up to Vauxhall on the 36.  We stopped in Vauxhall and had a burger at Wendys drive-in.  From there we looped around threw Iron Springs and Picture Butte and back into Lethbridge.  It was a nice short ride for a Saturday afternoon.  I finished off the weekend golfing out in Picture Butte for Fathers Day with my Dad and my brothers Kevin and Craig.  It was nice to have some good weather finally, hopefully it sticks around... 

Myself and Ryan Fletcher (Mur) at Wendys in Vauxhall

Riding back from Fernie...Pic taken by world famous photographer, Andy Houtheys

2010 Ride To Work Day, Monday

Motorcycle Commuters Unite! Monday is "Ride To Work Day," which is celebrated every year on the 3rd Monday in June.

On Ride to Work Day, there are an estimated 150,000 additional Ride to Work Day commuting motorcycles and 150,000 less commuting car, light truck and SUV’s. This results in an estimated savings of 60,000 gallons of gasoline on Ride To Work Day -- annually this would reduce USA gasoline consumption by 15 million gallons.


NUMBER OF MOTORCYCLES COMMUTING
If you ride your bike to work on Monday, you will be joining 129,141,982 commuters in this country (USA, 2003,) who ride motorcycles to work regularly, according to the US Census Bureau -- 11% of all commuters.

More than 6.5 million motorcycles are registered in the USA and 4.3% of them are used as primary transportation, year-round, according to the Motorcycle Industry Council. Totally, almost 15% of all registered bikes are used as primary transportation to work on at least a seasonal basis -- That's a total 932,542 seasonal and year-round motorcycle commuters.

NUMBER OF MOTORCYCLES ON THE ROAD
The most current data from the US Department of Transportation (2003) reported 5.4 million motorcycles in regular use, each traveling an average 1,800 miles per year / 9,539,000,000 total annual miles.

TRAFFIC CONGESTION
The average roadway delay per person in 2001 was 26 hours per year and in 2003 that number had risen to 47 hours per year, an increase of 81%. The average commute time one way is 25 minutes - according to the Texas Transportation Institute.


JOURNEY TIMES
The average United States driver travels 29 miles per day, on average 55 minutes per day - according to the US Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics.

Tests comparing car and motorcycle performance on real journeys suggest that traveling by motorcycle can shorten journey times by as much as 33 minutes of every hour for town centre and city travel, and 20 minutes of every hour for travel through a mixture of built-up and non built-up areas. These are facts that are measured by the Motorcycle Industry Association (UK.)

POTENTIAL AGGREGATE BENEFIT
Motorcycles cover 1-2% of the total distance traveled by road, and cars cover 86%. If 2% of car commuters switched to motorcycles or scooters, the current level of motorcycle utility use would effectively double. Motorcycle Industry Association (UK)

This would also result in an annual household savings of more than $7,000 per year, per vehicle when comparing the costs of motorcycle transportation and auto transportation -- $3,665 for vehicle purchases, $1,235 for gas and oil and $2,471 for insurance and misc. US Department of Labor Statistics, 2002 Consumer Expenditure Survey.

PARKING SPACES
3 - 5 motorcycles fit per automobile parking space. RideToWork.Org/

Jesse James Moves To Austin

Monday, June 28th the divorce filed by Sandra Bullock in Austin, Texas became final, ending her 5-year marriage to bike builder, Jesse James.

The divorce has not altered Jesse's plan. He is moving his family to Austin in July, after he finishes taping a special for the History Channel. The move will allow his children to remain close to Sandra, who owns a house in Austin.

This could be good news for the Austin Republic of Texas (ROT) Rally -- Jesse intends to permanently move to Austin.

He will continue to operate West Coast Choppers in Orange County, California but also intends to open a Cisco Burger restaurant in Austin. The announcement was made earlier in June at a child custody hearing in California.

Bullock left the couple's home in Seal Beach, Calif. before the divorce.

There is even speculation that (Jesse's 6-year-old daughter) Sunny's biological mother, Janine Lindemulder will move from LA to Austin.

Tuning é a arte de se ajustar ou personalizar carros

Tuning é a arte de se ajustar ou personalizar carros

Tuning em inglês significa "ajuste fino" . Tuning é a arte de se ajustar ou personalizar carros para torna-los mais bonitos e com um estilo unico. OTuning no Brasil nunca foi tão difundido como agora. Temos uma das maiores feiras do seguimento que é o Salão de Tuning e Acessorios para Carros Tunados de São Paulo. Encontrar equipamentos para tunar carros agora esta cada dia mais facil. Encontrar desde o mais simples adesivo até peças de motor inteiras cromadas é muito fá¡cil, e isso pode ser feito ate mesmo sem sair de casa devido a proliferação de sites especializados no assunto "Carros Tunados" e peças para Carros Tuning.

No contexto costuma-se imprimir no carro tuning um pouco da personalidade do seu dono. OTuning e feito no carro quando se quer uma carro esportivo e personalisado, tornando-se assim, a arte de dar ao carro tunado mais performance, mais segurança, mais beleza, tornando-o diferente e único. O tuning é aplicavel a praticamente todos os componentes de um carro: rodas, pneus, suspensão, alterações no motor, interior, carroçeria, tubos de escape e o Som e um item essencial aotunar um carro. Há quem gaste um valor acima do próprio preço do carro original com peças e acessórios para tuning, como para-choques, asas, saias, neon, sistemas de NOS (Oxido nitroso), etc. Todos estes componentes podem ser revistos de forma a terem um comportamento superior ou um aspecto que torne um carro "de série" em algo exclusivo e único.

Mas o Carro Tuning não deve apenas tornar os carros tunados mais bonitos. As alterações feitas, além de ter preocupações estéticas, devem acrescentar características ao carro tunado de forma a torná-lo mais potente e mais estaveis, não desprezando a segurança e o comportamento do carro tunado, sendo estas as características principais a conseguir. Normalmente estas alterações inspiram-se na competição, tendo os campeonatos de Super Turismo Europeu, contribuindo significativamente para a disseminação do Tuning a nível mundial. Lançado em 2001, o filme "Velozes e Furiosos", desencadeou essa tendência pelo mundo inteiro.

Na Alemanha dá-se mais importância às alterações mecânicas dos Carros Tunados, mas não esquecendo os elementos principais, como as saias laterais, as rodas de perfil baixo, os pára-choques "racing", e a suspensão rebaixada que deixa o carro quase encostando no chão, coisa que aqui no Brasil dificulta muito a direção do carro devido a má conservação do asfalto e inumeras lombadas.
O Tuning Francês é mais radical no aspecto visual, dando mais importancia as carenagens e pintura do Carro Tunado.
Já o Tuning Brasileiro e o mais completo usando na maioria dos carros grandes rodas, pneus de perfil baixo, e na pintura incluindo os radicais, tribais que dão grande estilo ao carro, alterações mecânicas, elevando a potência do carro a mais de 300cv(!!!), o nitro e o neon tambem são muito usados por aqui.
O Tuning Português usa principalmente carros como BMW e Audi de grande cilindrada. Em caso especial, Portugal e os outros países sem o Tuning legalizado, devem lutar pela legalização e pelo direito de ter seus carros tunados.
Carros Tuning é uma forma de expressão, isso se expande com os jogos para PlayStation e PC: Midnight Club 3, a série Need For Speed - Most Wanted, Underground e Carbon e a série Burnout - Burnout 2: Point Of Impact, Burnout 3: Takedown e Burnout: Revenge e Need for Speed Prostreet.

O desenvolvimento dos Carros Tunados no Brasil teve maior reconhecimento após o lançamento e consagração pública do filme "Velozes e Furiosos". Até então, apersonalização dos Carros era limitada, tanto pela pequena variedade de acessórios e equipamentos disponíveis no mercado para tunar carros, quanto pela própria cultura. Antes da estréia de "Velozes e Furiosos" em 2001, o grande foco eram as competições de som automotivo, sendo a principal tendência automotiva para aqueles que se interessavam por carros personalizados. Gradualmente, esses admiradores passaram a dispensar uma atenção maior à estética do carro: rodas, saias aerodinâmicas e outrosacessórios tuning, entravam na composição da nota dos concorrentes em algunscampeonatos de som, enquanto cada vez mais na arrancada os competidores e patrocinadores preocupavam-se, de forma ainda discreta, com a estética de seuscarros de arrancada.

The Juice

June 17, 1994

Where were you?

Apparently Arnold Palmer was playing his final round at the U.S. Open, the New York Knicks were battling the Hakeem Olajuwon's Houston Rockets, the World Cup was kicking off in Chicago, and the New York Rangers were basking in the glory of their Stanley Cup victory with a ticker-tape parade in Manhattan.

Most famously, it was the day that, with former teammate Al Cowlings at the wheel, O.J. Simpson, charged with the murder of ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman, took his slow ride around the freeways of Southern California in a white Ford Bronco, holding a gun to his head. 

I bet some of my buddies from L.A. have some better stories about where they were when this went down...

I was in grade 9, and I was most likely rockin' a pair of overall's with the left strap hanging off my waist.  I remember getting home and as we flipped through all the channels, all that was on the TV was OJ.  Who the fack is OJ?  I grew up in Picture Butte, Alberta, Canada.  I didn't have a clue about the NFL.  OJ?  Is that the guy from Naked Gun?  I had no idea he even played football,  let alone was an All-American, a Heisman trophy candidate, or was the only player to rush for over 2,000 yards in a 14 game season.  He was a 6 time pro-bowler, an actor, and he even hosted SNL at one time, I'd love to see that episode, I'm sure he killed it...

Megan Fox en Moto

Ahora que ya se rumora la salida de la película de Transformers 3 seguro nos viene a la mente a la sexy Megan Fox que protagonizó a Micaela en la primera y segunda parte de Transformers.
En la primera parte fue muy circulada la foto de esta guapa morena abriendo el cofre del auto de Shia LaBeuf y en la segunda parte nos dejó pasmados con su belleza en la escena donde se la ve subida en una moto haciendole algunos ajustes.
Pues si esperaban ver a Megan Fox en Transformers 3 se dice que no será más la protagonista de Mikaela y se rumora que sera Rosie Huntington, la sensual rlaubia de Victoria Secret, quien tome el papel de la novia de Sam.
Sea o no el caso, lo que nos interesa es recordar a la Sexy Megan Fox en Transformers 2 con este wallpaper de Megan sobre Moto.


Au revoir Megan.

Bikes & Blues Roll Into Biketoberfest 2010

Great News, Biketoberfest 2010 kicks off with Daytona Blues Festival, Fri. Oct. 8th, Sat. Oct. 9th and Sun. Oct. 10th with VIP and After Parties at City Island and downtown Daytona Beach.

Three Days of National Blues Concerts at Jackie Robinson Ballfield on the water at City Island in downtown Daytona Beach -- with VIP parking for hot rods and hot bikes to kick off Biketoberfest in style with some great Blues!   


 Bikes & Blues Biketoberfest!
  Click above link for details

This event is being produced by Dominic Benecasa, a former New York bike builder in the style of Indian Larry. Many of you may know him from his days of owning bike shops and turning out some of the fastest Harley Sportsters in the industry. His love of bikes and blues is shared by many bike fans.

Dominic has just launched a personal blog to connect with Blues fans and potential sponsors of this event and he is offering discount tickets to groups of 10 at DaytonaBluesFestival.blogspot.com/


The 2010 Annual Daytona Beach Blues Festival will be hosted the weekend before the official start of Biketoberfest with a lineup of the best talent in Blues music from all over the country.

Three-day passes, day passes and special festival room rates can be found at the official website - annualdaytonabluesfestival.com.

Here's a direct message from Dominic Benecasa about Daytona Blues Festival
I started the Daytona Blues Festival as a non-profit organization several months ago to bring great national acts to the Daytona Beach, Florida area into a 3 day weekend festival setting. We are working real hard to make this a great weekend and give everyone who attends a feeling of money well spent for a great time.



We have 14+ acts set for the weekend with the first one starting about 6:00 p.m. on Friday night, that would be acoustic blues great Ben Prestage, followed by Tampa's own Damon Fowler, then Blues music award winner for best song of the year Mike Zito (Pearl River) and finally that Blues Guitar Legend that you remember from the movie The Blues Brothers, Matt"Guitar" Murphy backed the unique and very talented South Florida Band, The Nouveaux Honkies.


Saturday will be a long day for all you blues aficionado's, we are starting at High Noon with the swing/blues sax playing 6th Street Rhythm and Blues Review, followed by the Nouveaux Honkies doing what they do best. Next coming by way of France via Chicago/ South Florida Harmonica extraordinare Nico Wayne Toussaint his band is followed by Daytona's own Homeboy Victor Wainwright and the Wild Roots who have become the boogie piano band from Beale Street. Finally our "double Headliners" Smokin' Joe Kubek and Bnois King, the Texas Bluesmen who will get you rockin' with there new album that's been the most highly downloaded album off of the "net".

And finally that special Lady who really sings the blues all the way from California, cancer survivor Candye Kane, who we absolutely love, her voice will get in your head and just stay there.


We have a VIP after party on Saturday night for VIP ticket holders with a very special performance planned. Sunday begins at noon with Albert Castilgia, replacing Samuel James on the lineup. Followed by Sean Carney's band out of Ohio, Sean started Blues For A Cure. Then little miss Boogaloo from Mississippi, Pinetop Perkins award recipient, Eden Brent, followed by South Florida's own J.P. Soars and the Red Hots. And finally the harp player of harp players all the way from California, Rod Piazza and the Mighty Flyers.


Source: Daytona Blues Festival Blog