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« on: February 06, 2011, 02:02:46 PM »
This was a HUGE indoor swap meet and custom bike show indoors at the McCormick Center in downtown Chicago. They bill this event as "the world's largest indoor motorcycle swap meet".  There were lots of vendors with milk crates full of old HD parts, like you would expect. There were also the typical leather vest/chaps/t-shirt vendors and jewelry vendors and others catering to "the lifestyle" crowd.

There was ONE vendor from Kalamazoo, MI who dared to have sport riding gear, and they gave me a good deal on a new Epic riding jacket from Tourmaster, and a carbon fiber RKT101 Joe Rocket helmet. I can't believe how light this helmet is. I'll post a review of it when I get some miles logged in with it.

There were some of the coolest old-school choppers I have EVER seen there for the contest. I mean REAL DEAL old skool. Awesome! Also a few bikes from master builder Dave Cook. These Cook bikes are some of the most amazing works of motorcycle art I have ever seen in person. Stunning. Baffling. I will post some of these same pics in the  "weird motorcycles" thread because they are indeed weird.

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« Reply #1 on: February 06, 2011, 02:07:05 PM »
1. Jack Daniels theme.
2. Sopranos theme
3. Obama theme. (yes, really)

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« Reply #2 on: February 06, 2011, 02:09:11 PM »
More Sopranos bike. Amazing engraving and bullet holes. Bada-bing!

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« Reply #3 on: February 06, 2011, 02:12:05 PM »
Indian Larry tribute bike. Gotta love the ? drive belt and ? rear brake disk. Now THAT'S detail! Something tells me Larry himself would not have liked this bike. I don't think it's really his style.

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« Reply #4 on: February 06, 2011, 02:14:11 PM »
Belt.

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« Reply #5 on: February 06, 2011, 02:17:33 PM »
More customs.

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« Reply #6 on: February 06, 2011, 02:19:08 PM »
There was a shitty hair band with an AWESOME Winnebago. Although it looks like the 'Bago may have dumped its coolant at some point. HAH! They should probably remove the cardboard from the grill.

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« Reply #7 on: February 06, 2011, 02:24:17 PM »
Old School chops. I loved the various barely-ride-able handlebar set-ups.

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« Reply #8 on: February 06, 2011, 02:25:51 PM »
Chops.

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« Reply #9 on: February 06, 2011, 02:27:32 PM »
Mo.

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« Reply #10 on: February 06, 2011, 02:28:48 PM »
Newer customs

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« Reply #11 on: February 06, 2011, 02:30:44 PM »
Dave Cook bikes. Awesome.

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« Reply #12 on: February 06, 2011, 02:32:10 PM »
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« Reply #13 on: February 06, 2011, 02:33:27 PM »
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« Reply #14 on: February 06, 2011, 02:34:26 PM »
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« Reply #15 on: February 06, 2011, 02:40:46 PM »
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« Reply #16 on: February 07, 2011, 07:34:15 AM »
Looks like that was a cool show.  Cool


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« Reply #17 on: February 07, 2011, 02:45:10 PM »
Awesome show and awesome pics. Haven't you become part of that "lifestyle" crowd yet?  Wink
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