J&P Cycles open house

[bagobones]

I'll post my pics from the big open house here. All I can say is.. those guys know how to throw a party! Free food, free ice cold bottled water. Every custom part from the catalog right there in the warehouse. All the custom parts dealers had booths. Everyone from Hoppe fairings  to Metzeler. Awesome bikes, awesome babes.

And one more thing...  Don't let anybody tell you Iowa is flat and sucks for scenery. Not true. I found the roads to be winding and hilly and quite serene, and the pavement to be well maintained and smooth. If you want flat and SUCKY scenery, try riding in central Illinois.

Look at how many riders were there! These gravel parking lots all had little wood blocks in every spot for your kickstand. Now that's hospitality! Theres my Black Goldwing right in front. It seems so small in this picture!

[bagobones]

Two more parking lots - full o' bikes as far as the eye could see.

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 A random chopper trike. Notice the other type of chopper in the background.

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Shots from the bike show. There were some real beauties here.

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More show bikes.

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This bike made me thirsty.

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Looks like this was the winner.

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Heres one that had a heavy back-story. The owner built it for his wife, a lifelong and fervent biker, who had terminal cancer. She was really weak at the end of her life and walked with a cane. She died before the bike was finished. Look closely and you will see that her glass-handled cane is now the shifter for the bike. The second picture shows the engraving on the chrome toolbox. It has her life and death dates on it, as well as the engraving "ride in peace". Her ashes are now in this toolbox. Holy shit. Awesome. I was speechless.

[dt]

Jeebus, that’s a lot of freaking motorcycles. The chopper-chopper photo was a good catch.

[mrbones]

Wow! That is a LOT of bikes!

[Croz]

Yeah, but you also said 'babes.' But there's a disturbing lack of pictures of them...