THIS WEEKEND - Bottoms Up Bike Fest (Minnesota)

[MN_Jeff]

Bottoms Up Bike Fest 2008 held at the Dakota County Fairgrounds in Farmington, Minnesota. Gates open Friday, July 18th at 5:00 pm. $20.00 per person (Must be at least 21 years old with valid ID)

Friday night we have a DJ and will be selling COLD beer and HOT BBQ! There will be a meet and greet held under the Bottoms Up - Big Top Tent. Come Friday and camp all weekend!

Saturday, July 19th there will be a motorcycle show/contest at noon with many categories - trophies for the winners. Tattoo show/contest at 1:00 p.m. - trophies for the winners. Biker rodeo games at 2:00 p.m. - trophies for the winners. Saturday evening we have special guests “Kick The Dog” band playing the main stage! Kick The Dog band is a high-energy rock band playing a wide variety of danceable music, with a distinct focus on today’s rock. Kick The Dog band entertains all ages and satisfies your musical tastes with an energetic performance!

Wet T-shirt contest and a Sexy Male contest after the band!!! ($100.00 prize for the winner of each contest)

There will be motorcycle vendors from all over the Midwest. We have MC Dyno Tech, the official Dyno tuner of the AMA Dragbike Championship Series, Fury Motorcycles and Pro-Tune Cycle. Fury will be bringing a trailer loaded with custom motorcycles for viewing and for sale. We also have leather vendors, Lucky 13 apparel, Bone Yard Art Gallery and award winning BBQ will be served from BBQ Doug with “Red, White and Que.” You can wash all that BBQ down with cold beer we are selling on site!

• NO attitudes, NO Weapons, NO pets!
• COLD BEER SOLD ON SITE!!!
• All bikes welcome

Thank you and we look forward to seeing you!
http://www.bottomsupbikefest.com

[swodo]

Spent a few hours at this bike fest Saturday afternoon.

Maybe 100 attendees.
Vendors consisted of a tattoo shop, a t shirt stand, a leather glove stand, an animal head wear stand, and some guy in a robe selling his jewelry.

Unless the evening picked up this was a massive waste of $20.00.
More than a few others turned around and left.

[MN_Jeff]

Swodo,

Thank you for showing up and supporting Bottoms Up Bike Fest. Yes, this was the first year so we did expect low numbers and it was hard to sell a first year event to vendors and to the general public but we did have OVER 300 PEOPLE in and out of the gates the whole weekend, that's pretty impressive for a first year event. We did have some quality vendors for the first year. We had Divine Darkness out of Pipestone slingin’ ink, we had Fury Motorcycles show up with multiple Big Dogs for showing and for sale, we had a ceramics vendor, a jewelry vendor, a leather guy that was also selling patches, Pro Tune Cycle brought some very nice bikes, we had Lucky 13 clothing line, Boneyard Art Gallery, a leather gloves vendor and food vendors as well as ice cold beer on sale. We did have 3 vendors that couldn’t make it last minute, one was a Honda/Yamaha dealership, one was a guy that makes custom parts for Yamaha R1 and R6’s, and we had a food vendor that had mechanical problems and was unable to attend.

I hope you were able to see the quality of bikes that entered the bike show ( pics here http://bottomsupbikefest.com/index.p...ery2&Itemid=32 ) as well as the quality of the tattoos that entered the tattoo contest. The biker games were an absolute blast and everyone had fun, we even had games for people that didn’t ride. You certainly missed a great evening with the band. Everyone was dancing and having a good time.

I won’t even tell you about the wet t-shirt contest you missed then 

You mention “More than a few others turned around and left” It’s funny you mention this. We had a large number of people “wanting to know what it’s all about” and wanting to get in for free to “see”…I don’t get it, it’s $20.00. If you stay for 20 minutes yeah $20 may be a little steep for some but I’ll tell you about the people that got there Friday at 5:00p.m. that camped all weekend, the meet and greet under the tent Friday, the awesome live music, one of the best bike shows, partied with some of the best people and made life long friends would say $20 was a very small price to pay!

Once again Swodo, I do thank you for showing up and supporting a local 1st annual bike event. Hopefully you will change your mind next year, it will be bigger and better!

-Minnesota Jeff
http://www.bottomsupbikefest.com

[ERSRC Prez]

Are you serious that you did not have a good time? Jeff...we had a blast. For the first annual it was an excellent turnout and the dozen or so people that were with us all had an excellent time. The games were great, music was awesome, people were very nice, bikes were mint (though you should've had a fastest class for mine) but I do have one complaint...my girl didn't win the wet t-shirt! Waaaaaaa. Just kidding brother. Something else that was sweet was cleaning house on trophies! We had to get a cart to haul all of ours out. No joke...the best part was the people and the time we had with them. We met a ton of good peeps and quite a few that want to join our club. Peace brother. Good job. Can't wait for the next. Maybe some people need to spend a little more time out there to get the full effect but don't let it get to you. It was an awesome time.

[oh1deuce]

I did end up missing it. I think Saturday's weather didn't help the turn out, and there was also a TON of rides going on Saturday as well. I think the events calander had at least 10 rides going on around the state.