You would have to see it to believe all the motorcycles that showed up to the Carlisle Bikefest here in Carlisle, PA. The fairgrounds were packed full of parked bikes while riders enjoyed the motorcycle rodeo, the MX jumpers, Biker Billy, all the bands, and shopping at the over 100 motorcycle vendors set up at the show.
New that Harley Davidson had just laid off 1200 more folks closeby here at York, PA on top of the earlier in the year layoffs, had us worried about sales. And while we did run into a few of these folks, it didn't seem to effect buyers all that much. We were down some but considering we came off a big spike year last year, it's fully understandable.
Carlisle Bikefest is an all bike rally and has more entertainment at one venue than most of the shows we attend each year. It's family oriented, they give away new motorcycles and trailer, and the organization of the entire event is outstanding. If you ever have the chance you should go.
We had our www.gearuphelmets.com sign up but due to rain and storms forecast we had to take it down...we gave out plenty of business cards though and hope we'll see some folks dropping into our webstore after the fact. We sold quite a few Scorpion EXO 100's and VEGA Summit II's and NT200's...and surprisingly enough, we sold alot of the VEGA Merit Mesh Jackets. VEGA and Scorpion both offer products direct from the factory which cuts out about 40% markup from having a distributor. I think this helps the average rider to afford alot of riding gear they may not necessarily been able to afford.
It's Sunday and the last day of the show. We're gonna help all the folks we can and then pack up and head to Tennessee. We have the Maggie Valley Women's Sportbike show coming up as well as the Virginia BMW District rally this weekend. After that we are off to Atlanta Motorspeedway for the 2009 Biker Roundup.
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