BORN TO RIDE TV’S 1,300TH EPISODE
Plus, Choppertown Live, Daytona Bike Week and more!
HOWDY BROTHERS AND SISTERS!
There are big doin’s around here at Born To Ride as we celebrate the 1,300th episode of America’s longest-running biker lifestyle TV series, Born To Ride TV. Ron and Deb Galletti started Born To Ride TV over 25 years ago and the little show that could, just keeps on rollin’ down the tracks! Imagine creating thirteen hundred incredible episodes. Catch Born To Ride TV on Facebook, Choppertown and YouTube. It’s biker TV, made by bikers, for bikers.
We have to say, this year’s Thunder by the Bay and the Choppertown Live bike show was a huge success on February 19th through the 21st out at the Sarasota Fairgrounds. The mighty Choppertown Live show hall was packed to the seams with hundreds of killer custom creations by over 50 amazing builders. Catch all the farout action in this Special Issue.
Born To Ride magazine was the proud presenter of Choppertown Live, an all-out 1960’s-style chopper show. When the dust cleared, the two top winners were James Alcorn of Alleyway Kustoms out of Jacksonville for his astounding root beer panhead. James did everything on this bike, from the fabrication and hand-casting of many of the one-off parts, to the mind-blowing paint and even the one-off seat. He won Best of Show, the Bill Dodge Award of Excellence, Builder’s Choice 1st Place as well as a custom-made springer front end by none-other-than Mondo Porras of Denver’s Choppers.
Second Place went to the equally-talented George Casale of Good Looking Customs out of Edgewater, Florida, for his stunning rigid shovelhead with its chrome frame and psychedelic paint job. George won a custom-made rigid frame from Paughco Motorcycle Parts.
We also want to thank Joe Smallarz the welder from FTW in Plant City for throwing in $1,000 cash for the winners and Mid-USA for giving out gift certificates. Find out about all this and more in this edition of Born To Ride. It’s our Choppertown Live Special issue with ten-pages of killer coverage. If you were there, you might just see yourself in this scorchin’ hot issue!
Born To Ride is also working with the High Seas Rally, the world’s only biker cruise of the Caribbean. When the band Molly Hatchet took to the Thunder by the Bay stage on Saturday night, they gave out a free cruise to Louis Bavaro, a member of the Blue Knights of Sarasota. Louis and a guest will get a complementary cruise this coming October on the one and only High Seas Rally.
This issue has it all, including another punch to the throat from Nefarious James and more piratical plunderin’ from Spyke & Mike. It’s all burnin’ rubber your way in this miraculous March issue Tribute to Choppertown Live and the 1,300th episode of Born To Ride TV.
But wait, there’s more! Join Born To Ride at Daytona Bike Week, March 5th to the 14th and come out to the Rat’s Hole Bike Show. We’re picking the winner and handing out the trophy for Editor’s Choice. You don’t wanna miss that! The Run to the Sun in Daytona is the kick off to riding season and this is going to be one kick ass year, brothers and sisters.
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