Palm Harbor Bike Fest

Saturday night had an awesome turn out for Palm Harbors bike fest! If you didn't know about it, well you missed a great event! There were plenty of vendors, I bought a very nice long sleeve shirt from one spot and an hat from another. There were so many bikes packed into one area! I have never actually been to that side of town so this was a great excuse to venture out.

I live in Tampa and decided to hop on my Bandit and ride over to Palm Harbor. I had no clue it was straight down Hillsborough Ave. When I got there around 7pm it was already crowed and the motorcycles that were entered into the bike show were all lined up. All of the bikes that entered the show were all unique in their own special way. It is amazing how different each one is in their own way.

So I have come to a tradition of picking out my bike of the night to post here on the website. So after looking at all of the bikes there was one in particular that caught my attention and I wanted to know more about it.

My bike of the night is a creation by Erik from New Port Richey.

If you notice he had his bike painted with the scrubbing bubbles characters. The detail on this bike is amazing and there is so much chrome even the windshield is chrome. It really is a "clean" bike. I wouldn't expect anything less with scrubbing bubbles!

The detail is phenomenal.

Even the back cover was made exceptionally well! Not to mention the actual seat was stitched with the scrubbing bubbles character. My pictures (taken on my camera phone) don't do the bike justice. Who would have thought to make their bike like this.

This is an 2007 Hayabusa and while Hayabusa's are not my favorite type of motorcycles this by far is the coolest one I have ever seen. The paint job was done by Soft Touch Studios.

That night Erik won 1st place in the sports bike division for his scrubbing bubbles. He also has tattoos of scrubbing bubbles on his upper arms! I stated that he is a walking billboard for the product. He mentioned that he is in touch with the marketing company in charge of the scrubbing bubbles and that he sent them pictures of his motorcycle.

Well being that I am a student studying Advertising, Design & Marketing & a motorcycle enthusiast, I really hope the company uses him and his motorcycle to incorporate in their next marketing ploy. The motorcycle industry is a huge market and I've yet to see a company that has nothing to do with motorcycles actually use one in their campaigns.

Good luck Erik hope it all works out. It was nice to meet you and congratulations on winning first place. Hope to see you at future shows.  

Stephanie