Since the early fifties, The Asbury Park Convention Hall, on the famous New Jersey boardwalk, has hosted countless doo-wop, punk and rock shows. And in 2016, the Convention Hall added the Cheap Thrills Motorcycle Show and Swap Meet to its roster.
Each year since, Walter (@kickstartcycle) and Dusty (@dusty_nj), with the help of a small army of friends and sponsors, like Old Bike Barn and Lowbrow Customs (to name a few), have been filling the convention hall’s Grand Arcade with 60-80 custom and vintage motorcycles.
New England winters are no joke. They can be brutally cold and it snows a lot. These conditions usually lead to a few months of hibernation, for both man and machine. Fortunately, for all of those North-Easterners fighting off the mid-winter blues, a few years ago, Joe Weiss and Jay Roche from the New Tradition Company together with John Repetto of The Eazy Company decided to throw the first New Tradition Motorcycle Show. Now in the fourth year, the show is a welcome dose of motorcycles and friends during a time of year when everyone is spending more time in their garages than on their bikes.
As the Mama Tried motorcycle show progressed they sought to include the option of a variety of entertaining spectacles surrounding the event happening in all different parts of the city of Milwaukee. From the pre parties, after parties, Flat Out Friday, Harley Davidson Museum and several other "moto-happenings" you would think, how could it get any better?
If you’re looking for a reason to attend the Mama Tried Motorcycle Show in Milwaukee, Wisconsin this March 14-15? Look no further, the crew at Mama Tried have stepped it up once again! As if a weekend jam packed with high speed thrills and motorcycles from all walks of life isn’t enough for you, then maybe this will be your tipping point!
Now in its seventh year the Night of the Troglodytes vintage bike show hosted by Harley Carrara of Tradition Cycles and Mel Stultz founder and organizer of The Race of Gentlemen has grown to become one of our favorite events every year. It perfectly captures the aesthetic of a specific era of custom bikes shows long lost since the 1970s.
