The one day festival features a mix of Euro, Japanese and American vintage café racers, choppers, sport bikes, racers, super motos, scooters and sidecars. Last year, the five block show boasted 2,000-3,000 motorcycles and 7,000-8,000 people along with 50+ dealers and vendors of all things motorcycling. The day includes a bike show, ride-in-show competition, local and regional motorcycle vendors, swap meet, trials demonstration, food and beer.
Check out this video on the shared anniversaries:
Rockerbox Motofest | August 3 2013 | Rockerbox.us from CJ Foeckler on Vimeo.
Besides the fact that I found my current motorcycle there last year, I am a big fan of the festival's welcoming aspect - this is not a show for any one bike manufacturer or style. If you just like motorcycles in general, or even just design whether industrial or graphical, it is so cool to see so many different interpretations of two wheels and an engine.


While there you can see the work of another great non-profit project - the Iron Horse Hotel's BUILD Moto Mentor Program. Teams from local high schools organize each year under the program to design and rebuild a vintage “barn-condition” race bike to American Historic Racing Motorcycle Association (AHRMA) racing standards. Each team is been matched with at least one Faculty Advisor from their school and a pair of experienced Mentors who will act as coaches and team leaders, encouraging the students to plan, design, and complete their build. The BUILD program not only builds bikes, but teaches the students valuable life, trade, and interpersonal skills. where high school teams are given the opportunity to make custom bikes learning a trade skill and valuable life lessons in the process. This year's project bikes will be on display and they are raffling off a pair of Chrome level Harley 110th Anniversary passes to help fund the program at Rockerbox.

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