The Purrferct Angelz heat up the main stage. Beautiful girls were everywhere.

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the 14th annual FastDates.com and Performance Machine
2005 Los Angeles Calendar Motorcycle Show

Stage activities were hosted throughout the weekend by FastDates.com Calendar Angel, Miss Texas and Miss Harley-Davidson “Rockin’ Robin" Cunningham. Robin was assisted for the trophy presentation on Sunday by Performance Machine marketing director Ted Sands and Bikernet.com’s Keith “Bandit” Ball. Both Ted and Keith all served as Bike contest judges earlier in the day, together with Iron Works editor Dain Gingerelli and FastDates.com Calendar photographer and Show producer Jim Gianatsis.


Kerry Bryant twists the throttle on the Jardine Dyno as Scottt Rouseau announces results to the crowd which was 400 people jam packed throughout the weekend.

The Show weekend offered an incredible lineup of activities including the Jardine Performance West Coast Horsepower Dyno Shootout - an exclusive feature attraction at the Show. The dyno was hosted by Jardine Marketing Director John Gunter, together with Kerry Bryant and Cycle News editor Scott Rousseau. The dyno ran some 80 bikes non-stop thoughout the 2-day weekend to a standing room only crowd of spectators. The strongest running Harley was East Side Performance’s Turbo Nitrous Harley 107 ci with 283.7 hp. World Record holder John Noonan returned to try and breakhis record of 545 hp, but could only manage this year to get his Turbo Nitrous Suzuki Hyabusa up to 339.0 hp to win the unlimited sportbike class.

Calendar Angels Christina and Dominique mug with TV star builders Russell Mitchell and Jesse Rooke.

Fans got to meet many Discovery Channel and Speed TV featured celebrity custom builders from the programs American Thunder, Great Biker Buildoff, and Build or Bust including Russell Mitchell, Jesse Rooke, Roland Sands, Mitch Bergeron, Mike Stafford, and Harold Pontarelli. The builders were featured in Iron & Lace Calendar Bike Builder's Seminars held hourly throughout the weekend in the midway tent located in the center of the Show Park. Each builder explained their own personal style for building world class custom bikes, then they answered questions from enthusiastic fans. The Iron & Lace Calendar Bike Builder Seminars were a big hit among fans and are a regular feature of the Calendar Show.

Roland Sands discusses custom bike building at the Iron & Lace Calendar Bike Builder Seminars. Roland's bike "Glory Stomper" will be featured in the 2007 Iron & Lace Calendar and is profiled now in Iron & Lace Garage.

The LA Calendar Bike Bike show featured 2 days of incredible live music and entertainment. Both days featured classic rock with the hugely popular Unauthorized Rolling Stones out of San Francisco, together with the Janis Joplin style rock/blues vocals of the beautiful Boudeeka. Alternating with the Stones on Saturday was beautiful blues rock singer Jessie Payo from Jessie and the Rain Dogs, On Sunday it was sexy Pat Benatar stylings of Heather of the band Balentine who traded sets with the Stones.

And really bringing down the house in 2 different performances each day to showcase the PinUp Model calendar theme of the Calendar Show were the the beautiful Purrfect Angelz with their sizzlin'’ Las Vegas style stage performances. Along with a Calendar Girl Model Search Pageant each day with $70 0 in prize money that revealed beautiful bikini girls Holly Webber, Natalie Green and Candice Curtis as the winners. Candice’s beautiful attributes also earned her a paid calendar shoot the following day with photographer Jim Gianatsis for the next Iron & Lace Calendar. Bikes selected from the Show for the Calendar shoot included a retro hot rod from Zero Engineering of Japan, and a just completed pop stylized bar hopper built by Bob Phillips of Wizard Creations for actor Brad Pitt.

Jesse Rooke with Calendar Angels Christine and Dominique. The Dunlop sponsored V-twin racer was commissioned to commerate Yamaha''s 50th Anniversary celebration this year at Laguna Seca MotoGP.

And what would the Calendar Bike Show be without world the premier of the 2006 FastDates.com Calendars with beautiful SBK World Superbike girl Calendar Angels Calendar Angel Andra Cobb, along with newest Angels Christina Linderman and Dominique Lafayette. Plus a plethora of beautiful girls where ever you looked from Hooters, Feelin’ Lucky, Archie’s Ice Cream, and dozens of other Show exhibitors and venders.

On Saturday night Show producer and calendar photographer Jim Gianatsis hosted the Iron & Lace Calendar Builders Night Party to another capacity crowd aboard the historic Queen Mary ocean liner in the ship’s Observation Room Bar. Many of the top Iron & Lace Calendar bike builders were there to party with the Show staff, exhibitors and fans And what would the Iron & Lace calendar builders party be without the beautiful FastDates.com Calendar Angels who were also in attendance with the Purrfect Angelez. Live rock blues music was provided at the party by the Shari Puorto Band.

Incredibly, despite the Show’s continued growth, past years’ problems with parking and long food lines were now fully resolved. Spectators’ motorcycles were parked on site in a secured check-in and fenced lot. While spectators in automobiles were routed, when necessary, quickly into nearby downtown Long Beach parking structures then shuttled in a 5 minute bus ride to the Show.

A look down one of the jam packed midway isles with the Amateur Class Custom V-Twin Class bikes.

A wide array of food venders including the Queen Mary BBQ, Hooters Restaurants, Big Mamma’s Hot Dogs, Barnett's Lemonade, Archie's Ice cream and mexican food in 2 different Show locations. This included the new Metric Roadhouse in the Show’s expanded Paved Lot assured spectators were taken care of quickly with great food choices. The Roadhouse also featured live music both days by beautiful DJ Samantha Lee to make sure exhibitors and fans weren't left out of the action.

Associate Sponsorship support for the premier street bike event weekend in America is provided by Iron Works magazine, Jardine Performance, Hooters, Trader Publications, Bikernet.com, FastDates.com Calendars & Website, ReCycler / Cycle Buys, Quick Throttle magazine, CaliforniaHostess.com, Events by Noonan and SPEED TV’s American Thunder. The 2007 LA Calendar Motorcycle Show is scheduled for July 15-16th. Spectators and Exhibitors can find out more about The Show, the Bike Contest and all the available weekend activities online at www.FastDates.com.

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