Calendar News - August 2004

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Costa Mesa, CA - Our official FastDates.com apparel designer and supplier , Feelin' Lucky, is opening its first retail consumer store with a big Open House Party this coming weekend at its new location in Costa Mesa, CA. The grand opening celebration for O.C. Roadhouse takes place this Saturday, August 21st from 11am - 5pm. In attendance will be FastDates.com Calendar photographer and publisher Jim Gianatsis, together with one of the beautiful Calendar Angels to autograph and sell the new 2005 FastDates.com Calendars. The OC Roadhouse is located at 1660 Placentia Avenue in Costa Mesa, CA 92627. Phone 949-645-3550. Additional details and map online at OCRoadhouse.com

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It was Our Best Show Yet!
Sexy Models, Incredible Bikes, Blues 'n' Rock 'n' Roll and a record turnout highlight the
13th annual FastDates.com and Performance Machine presents the
2004 Los Angeles Calendar Motorcycle Show

Jardine Dyno Shootout Shatters World Record, World’s Top Custom Bike Builders with free Builder's Seminars, The West Coast’s premier Bike Contest, Rockin’ Concerts, Iron & Lace Calendar Saturday Night Party, Purrfect Angelz gone wild, Beautiful FastDates.com Calendar girls and more!

Click this picture for an incredible full panoramic view of the Show from the front stage. Go Big.

Long Beach, CA, July 17-18th, 2004 -The Los Angeles Calendar Motorcycle Show Weekend presented by Performance Machine at the Queen Mary Event Park in Long Beach, CA, continued to grow again this year as the most popular consumer street bike show in America catering to custom, cruiser, classic and sportbike enthusiasts. Always the 3rd weekend of July, this year’s show featured a incredible weekend of activities and our first ever sold out participation by 165 major motorcycle and product manufacturers, exhibitors and venders, leading custom bike builders from across the world, together with a 2-day jam-packed crowd of motorcycle enthusiasts.

For this years Show director Jim Gianatsis of Gianatsis Design Associates, also producer of the renown FastDates.com Motorcycle Pinup Calendars and Website for which the Calendar Bike Show marks the Calendars’ annual season premier, focused on increased visitor parking in cooperation with the City of Long Beach for continued growth in spectator attendance.

The Show weekend included an incredible lineup of activities including the Jardine Performance West Coast Horsepower Dyno Shootout - now an exclusive feature attraction at the Show. In a stunning climax on Sunday afternoon to an already record-breaking weekend at the Show, JE Pistons' John Noonan on his Suzuki GSX1300R Hayabusa land speed bike obliterated the existing North American record for horsepower registered at a Dyno Shoot-Out on Sunday at 545hp, Noonan surpassed the current world record by 31 hp!

The LA Calendar Motorcycle Show again supported an important charity, the Iron Works Magazine Readers Ride to benefit Olive Crest Children’s Shelters - the biggest shelter for orphans, abused children and families in Southern California), as its ride-to destination. On Saturday morning riders start ed at the Olive Crest Children's main facility in Santa Ana, CA, and then rode to the Calendar Bike Show in Long Beach, just 25 miles away, where for the Ride’s charity donation, participants got to enjoy all the Show’s weekend’s activities and be treated to lunch and VIP up front parking.

Shinya Kimura from Zero Engineering, Japan, flew in just for the Show and took the coveted Performance Machine Best of Show Trophy. His bikes are back ordered 4 years! He's flanked by Roland and Ted Sands from PM, plus FastDates.com Calendar Cover Angels, Miss Great Britain Nicki Lane and Laura Niles.

As always the LA Calendar Show offers one of America’s premier Custom, Sportbike and Classic Bike Contests featuring many of top bike Pro and Amateur builders in America -and now from around the world vying for the prestigious Performance Machine Best of Show Trophy. Winning the coveted top spot this year was Shinya Kimura founder of Zero Engineering of Japan (now with a 2nd shop in Las Vegas) who flew to America to enter his bikes in the Contest, confirming the LA Calendar motorcycle Show as now a world caliber event. Shinya’s winning bike “Masamune” was a ‘50’s Panhead street hotrod with a sheet aluminum fabricated frame rigid frame, ‘74 springer front end, and bodywork befitting the retro style bike. Zero has a 4-year customer waiting list for their highly regard retro rods which actually use new replica components like the engines. Upon accepting the Best of Show trophy from Performance Machine’s Ted and Roland Sands, Shinya posed with FastDates.com Calendar Angel 2005 cover girls Miss Great Britain Nicki Lane and Laura Niles, then fired up the bike with just one kick to ride off into the sunset.

In contention for winning Best of Show for the 3rd year running was Jesse Rooke, now sponsored by Rock Star energy drink, who still took home 1st place Pro Builder in the LA Calendar Bike Show’s premier feature class against some 30 other professional builder bikes including bikes from Mitch Bergeron, Jesse James’ West Coast Choppers. Rooke’s winning bike was a development from his last year’s highly innovative Best of Show winning Kali Kruiser bicycle concept.

The Show’s title sponsor Performance Machine bolstered the already huge $60,000 Bike Show awards purse with an additional $5,000 Award Check for the Best PM Equipped Bike at the Show which was won by Sean Gibbs of Wild West Choppers with his all new 2004 special construction chopper featuring all Performance Machine components.

FastDates.com Calendar Angel and Mikuni Carburetor advertising campaign model Andra Cobb with the world premier of DreamcraftStudios.com's incredible V-Twin Chopper. Look for more pictures of the world's most inovative new chopper in The Iron & Lace Garage.

Fans got to meet many Discovery Channel and Speed TV featured builders including Mitch Bergeron, Paul Yaffe, Mike Stafford, Harold Pontarelli plus West Coast superstars Ron Simms and Mike Powers showcasing their latest rolling hardware. Also making their first ever motorcycle show appearance just on Saturday were builders Larry Nagal and Paul Yang of DreamcaftStudios.com with their industry shattering hi-tech chopper that would have been a contender for Best of Show if it didn’t have to put in a press appearance with their bike at the Pasadena Art Center of Design on Sunday. Other exciting new bike premiers at the Show included MotoCreations.com's production oriented Ducati Chopper, and the Italian Poggipolini Group's $160,000 Macchia Nera naked superbike which won Best Sportbike at the Show and the $60,000 Millona 1000NE.

Exciting new attractions this year included the free Iron & Lace Calendar Bike Builder's Seminars held hourly throughout the weekend in a midway tent located in the center of the Show Park conducted by the leading custom bike builders in America as featured in the Iron & Lace calendar. Featured builders included Harold Pontarelli, Russell Mitchell, and Cyril Huze who made the 4-day drive from his shop in Florida, Jesse Rooke and Paul Yaffe, each explaining their own personal style for building world class custom bikes, and then they answered questions from enthusiastic fans. This was probably the first ever opportunity for fans to discuss bike building techniques with top celebrity builders in an open forum. The Iron & Lace Calendar Bike Builder Seminars was a big hit among fans and will remain a regular feature at future Shows.

On Saturday night Show producer and calendar photographer Jim Gianatsis hosted the Iron & Lace Calendar Builders Night Party from 9pm to 1am 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, venders 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 musical entertainment was provided at the party by the beautiful country rock band Elle3.com featuring sisters Allison, Ashley and Lauren Lawry backed up by their dad Jon on a wicked lead rock guitar.

This year’s the LA Calendar Bike Bike show featured different musical themes each day by incredible bands that played all day long. Saturday featured an all day Mini Blues Festival headlined by 2000 lbs of Blues, one of Los Angeles’ most popular blues bands, together with the hugely popular Unauthorized Rolling Stones out of San Francisco and the rock/blues vocals of the beautiful Boudeeka.

But really bringing down the house both days and jamming fans to the park's main Stage were the the beautiful Purrfect Angelz with their sizzlin'’ Las Vegas style stage shows. One of the Angelz' skits involved bringing builders Jesse Rooke and Russell Mitchell on on stage, seating them in chairs, and then the girls lap danced , abused, slapped and kicked them to the beat of pounding of the music and the cheering crowds. .

Showcasing the Calendar Girls theme of the Calendar Bike Show will be the premier of the 2005 FastDates.com Calendars with the beautiful SBK World Superbike Calendar Angels in attendance including Miss Great Britain Nicki Lane and beautiful new Calendar Angels Andra Cobb and Laura Niles. Plus the beautiful Corona Extra and Archie’s Ice Cream Girls,

Associate Sponsorship support for the premier streetbike event weekend in America was provided by Iron Works magazine, Jardine Performance, Corona Extra, Trader Publications, FastDates.com Calendars & Website, The Los Angeles Times / ReCycler / Cycle Buys, Quick Throttle and SPEED TV’s American Thunder. The 2005 LA Calendar Motorcycle Show is scheduled for July 16-17th. Spectators and Exhibitors can find out more about The 2004 & 2005 LA Calendar Bike Show HERE.

World's Best Custom Bike Builder? Jesse Rooke took Best Pro Builder this year with his Rock Star Kruiser, garnering his 3rd straight win in 3 years at the LA Calendar Motorcycle Show. He's flanked by Roland and Ted Sands from PM, plus FastDates.com Calendar Cover Angels, Miss Great Britain Nicki Lane and Laura Niles.
Show Contest judges included 2 other top name builders featured in the Iron & Lace Calendars together with Calendar photographer and Show producer Jim Gianatsis. See more of Rock Star Kruser in The Paddock Garage.

2004 Bike Show Contest Results:
Best of Show: Katsuhi Kumagi, Zero Engineering “Masamune”.
Pro Builder: 1. Jesse Rooke, Jesse Rooke Customs “Rock Star Kruiser”; 2. Rick Bedford, Y2K Chopper; 3. Brian Hardin, Mitch Bergeron Custom.
Best PM Equipped Bike at the Show: Sean Gibbs of Wild West Choppers with his all new 2004 special construction chopper featuring all Performance Machine components.
Street Custom: 1. Rick Kyker, Special Construction; 2. Rick Moran, Diamond Softail; 3. Rick Wahlberg, 2003 CFL.
Street Performance: 1. Mike Cook, American Cafe Racers Super Manx; 2. Keith Drum, KD Kustoms, 115ci Pro Street Drag Bike @8.62 sec.; 3. Keith Drum, KD Customs 1952 Panhead blown.
Classic Early Twin: 1. Bob Carrillo, 1952 H-D Panhead, 2. Mike Dunn, stock 1936 BMW R12 750cc Wehrmacht WW2, 3. Larry Ramos, stock 1954 H-D FL.
Classic Late Twin: 1. JR Keeble, 2003 H-D FLHT Standard Glide; 2. Dave Reichman , 2002 H-D Road king; 3. Chris Stabb, 1979 H-D FL.
Sportster: 1. Bob Neff, 1967 stock Sportster XLCH; 2. Dave Arnold, rigid Sportster chopper; 3. Larry Winkleman, performance modified 2000 Sportster.
Sportbike: 1. Poggipolini Macchia Nera; 2. Eddie mccoy, Kawasaki ZX12; 3. Glenn Castro, Suzuki GSXR1000.
Jardine West Coast Horsepower Dyno Shootout Winner: John Noonan, J&E Suzuki GSX1300R Hayabusa land speed bike, new World Record at 545 horsepower.

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