Motorcycle Events 2023

[Steve G.]

 I thought i'd start this thread, with the first event being an official cancellation for 2023. The Vancouver Motorcycle Show at the Abbotsford Airport Tradex, January 19-21, 2023.
https://www.vancouvermotorcycleshow.ca/

[Steve G.]

  International Norton Owners Association Rally, June 21-24, 2023, Winthrop Washington.
 https://www.nwno.org/Rally/

[Steve G.]

Bellingham Moto Night at The Cabin Tavern, every 2nd Monday year-round.

https://washingtonvintagemotorcyclists.org/public-events/2018/1/14/bham-moto-monday-nights-cabin-tavern-bellingham-gfjnn-737m7-ddy69-45pja-esk34-lrg5r-4568n-fg96n-f2bkl-dpxfs-nm9h4-ryyc4-622r3-65en8-2k4kk-y84hz

[Steve G.]

Northwest Motorcycle Classic:Vintage Motorcycle Expo, April 23, 2023 , Northwest Washington Fairgrounds, Lynden, WA.

https://washingtonvintagemotorcyclists.org/public-events/northwest-motorcycle-classic2022

[Steve G.]

Touratech Rally West, June 22-25, 2023, Plain, WA.

https://www.touratechrally.com/

[Tytan]

Looking at the Vancouver show website and who shows up in the pics ?

Bummer that another show is cancelled I wonder if a trip to Calgary would be worth it.

[Steve G.]

Looking at the Vancouver show website and who shows up in the pics ?

Bummer that another show is cancelled I wonder if a trip to Calgary would be worth it.

    Unfortunately, all shows including Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton are all cancelled in 2023. Toronto and Montreal only.

  Yeah, I can't remember that picture, when it was. I know that's the guy who runs Checkpoint Abbotsford.

[Steve G.]

  AMA AFT Flat Track Championship 2023  https://www.americanflattrack.com/news/view/ama-pro-racing-announces-provisional-2023-progressive-american-flat-track-schedule#:~:text=The%20provisional%202023%20Progressive%20American%20Flat%20Track%20schedule,-%20DAYTONA%20Flat%20Track%20II%2C%20Daytona%20Beach%2C%20FL

   Local AMA AFT stop, August 23, 2023, Castle Rock TT, Castle Rock, Washington.

[Steve G.]

https://www.acemotoshow.com/?mibextid=Zxz2cZ&fbclid=IwAR0RS4eYo5dEs-jbuWeOa2HA7Ipf8SpyGkl2NDKWUqPkSKsRp6z3mYl0fo0


  Ace Moto Show
  January 27-29, 2023.
 Downtown Vancouver

[Bucko]

https://www.acemotoshow.com/?mibextid=Zxz2cZ&fbclid=IwAR0RS4eYo5dEs-jbuWeOa2HA7Ipf8SpyGkl2NDKWUqPkSKsRp6z3mYl0fo0


  Ace Moto Show
  January 27-29, 2023.
 Downtown Vancouver

Website states: Vancouver's largest motorcycle show.  Probably accurate since there doesn't seem to be any other Vancouver motorcycle shows.  At 150 West Hastings St. - I don't think they could have found a more dodgy location.

[Steve G.]

  140 West Hastings, but yeah, sketchy area to say the least. I'd really like to be involved with this show, I've actually been contacted specifically to show my bikes.

   Two things are making me not commit. One, the $25 entry fee. Nuf said on that one, other than that would not include Van City pay parking in incredibly sketchy areas probably a decent walk away from the location. The main thing for me however is this show location surrounded by DTES SRO's, in other words, living accommodations for people suffering from mental illness, drug addiction, and with that the serious danger of fires in the neighbourhood buildings. Heck, last night, Dec15th, there was a fire at 44 W Hastings, they are saying 2 fires a day in the immediate neighbourhood. I know the show organizers will have 24/7 security, and say they will have contents insurance. Heck, they say they will even supply free transport of my machine/machines to and from the show. Which is quite a generous offer. The problem is I guess for me, I don't trust hardly anyone with my machines. I've been burned twice in my life by well intentioned people, that cost me 1000's in repairs because of various levels of human incompetency. I worked the DTES for 29 years, I know what goes on inside those buildings, I assure you it's way worse than what's going on out on the sidewalk on Hastings and Main.
    Then there's the picture burned in my mind from 15 years ago when I put my Norton in the Vancouver show in Abbotsford, of a family that walked around the barriers, and saw daddy holding his toddler sitting on the fuel tank , mummy taking cute pictures. That's the last time I put my bike in that show.

  I'm sure there will be cool stuff at the show and I encourage anyone to go.

[Galactica]

Personally, I avoid going into Vancouver like the plague.  I won’t be going anywhere near that area for any reason.

[Steve G.]

  I’m not intimidated or scared of too many places. Heck, I rented a motorcycle and took pics of ‘El Chapo’s ‘ residence up in the hills above Mazatlan 10 yrs ago. Locals called me a loco gringo. All good. Downtown Vancouver East Side I find fascinating, as this is a canary in the coal mine to the entire western civilization, and I personally want to study this visually, to be ahead of this, and be ready to back away to a better safer place should the melt down encroach upon me or mine.

[hardrockminer]

East Hastings makes me nervous too.  I ran the BMO half marathon in 2007 and we went down Hastings past all the people living on the street.  It made me nervous despite being in a large crowd of runners at the time.  East Hastings is a statement about how society treats its weakest members.  I can't imagine that anyone would WANT to live like that if they had alternatives.  Seems clear to me that our drug laws aren't working and we need to find other ways to deal with drugs.  And we need to put a hell of a lot more resources into mental and physical disabilities. 

[Steve G.]

East Hastings makes me nervous too.  I ran the BMO half marathon in 2007 and we went down Hastings past all the people living on the street.  It made me nervous despite being in a large crowd of runners at the time.  East Hastings is a statement about how society treats its weakest members.  I can't imagine that anyone would WANT to live like that if they had alternatives.  Seems clear to me that our drug laws aren't working and we need to find other ways to deal with drugs.  And we need to put a hell of a lot more resources into mental and physical disabilities. 

   "Society" locally, should never have shut down Riverview. The majority of persons living down there require a padded room for the rest of their life. Cost comparison, and the new leftist rethink dictated it would be 'better' to let the rubber room residents to enter back into society with suitable medication to make them viable contributors to society. This has not worked out as planned. Riverview has been replaced by jail, and death by overdose. The only winners in all this have been the "poverty pimp" companies which have been gifted lucrative contracts through political contacts to set up free injection sites, run down apartments, and set up very lucrative pay scales for the management teams of these organizations.
  The future will include more of the same, innocent people getting assaulted, drug habit fires, business theft, business vandalism, business evacuation, from all left leaning jurisdictions. Observance of the slow death is crucial.