Daytona’s Bike Week is a motorcycle spectacle of the highest order, serving up a cornucopia of radical bikes and eccentric characters. It’s a pilgrimage of bikers that kicks off the springtime motorcycle season, bringing in an estimated $300 million to the local economy of Daytona Beach and the surrounding area of Florida.Fonzie and I flew out to Florida in the Motorcycle.com G5 to attempt to capture the flavor and excitement of the annual riding-season-busting event. If you’re not much of a reader and just want to check out the Bike Week scene in pictures, you’ll want to go directly to our ultra-extensive gallery full of babes, bikes, stunts and the many oddities seen this year.
The chatter surrounding the 2009 edition of Bike Week centered on how the current dismal economy would affect attendance at Daytona. In its best years, Bike Week drew in somewhere up to 500,000 riders and race fans. Although official (and/or accurate) figures are impossible to come by, this year’s event definitely saw a reduction in attendance. The majority of hotels along the beach’s A1A had vacancy signs illuminated, which wasn’t the case a few years ago.
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