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I had a very busy weekend and was away, so here is a quick happening catch-up on what is going on.

* Biketoberfest

With all the hype on this Daytona Beach event in recent media coverage, we would be led to believe that it was going to be spectacular.

2006 Biketoberfest turnout was light

My observations, however, say the numbers for this year’s event were down. I had read that a record number of 100,000 visitors were expected to turnout for the annual Florida weekend motorcycle event. Today is the final day of Biketoberfest and it may be too early to take count, but my estimation is the numbers dropped.

The way the city of Daytona Beach runs this type of event needs to be overhauled. The Daytona Beach Chamber registered the trademark to the word that was created by a biker giving him very little or no credit at all. It’s time for them to give the event back to the people. The way the event is publicized to include their “ride quietly” campaign, it’s no wonder that bikers are finding other places to visit.

* Billy Lane

Many had questioned and wondered if Billy Lane would be present at the Choppers Inc. booth at Destination Daytona during Biketoberfest.

Billy Lane at Destination Daytona during Biketoberfest 06

He was on hand 3 times a day to sign autographs for the public. However, the really big announcement on Lane is that 2 of his pending criminal charges were dropped. You can read more on this at Bikers Voice.

If the number of motorcycle enthusiast that showed up for bike week 2006 in Daytona Beach are a gauge of events to come, then this year’s Biketoberfest will be huge.

I wrote an article back in April and posted it in the article section of the biker links at www.bike-weekdaytona.com. The article, entitled Biketober promises to be bigger than ever predicts a record number of bikers at the annual event.

Daytona Beach and surrounding area hotels are filling quickly with Biketober less than a month away. Bikers are gearing up for favorite events like the Boardwalk Classic Bike Show, Concerts and fun activities like coleslaw wrestling at the cabbage patch bar.

Speaking of bike shows, don’t miss out on the biggest and most popular bike show during biketoberfest. I am speaking of course about the Rats Hole custom bike show on Saturday the 21st. Winners from the 2006 rats hole show-off tour will be there for the crowning of the people choice award.

Don’t miss out on this years Biketober motorcycle rally.

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My Biketoberfest or Biketober as I refer to it site. I had a little problem with the city and the Daytona Beach Chamber about using the word fest with biketober and had to remove it from all the pages and graphics. You can read more about that in my post remove the fest or face legal action.

www.biketober.com is a great place to get biketober hotel accomodations

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It’s not funny how the web sites on the Internet related to motorcycle events compete for your money as a motorcycle owner, enthusiast and biker. Especially when it comes to the city Daytona Beach, Florida the Chamber and  visitors bureau. A city that is continually barking about motorcycle events and the debilitation that it brings upon its character. The city of Daytona Beach has announced more than once that they intend to promote more of a family and corporate eye for tourism and wish to downsize events. The web sites that they build and have created would leave you to believe differently, and why not? They are only after the biker buck!

 I am amazed at the flat out plagiarism that has been going on with the sites that are run by paid developers. At a point in time I was flattered at the idea that these so called designers followed me around like a puppy starving for attention, but it has just got out of hand. You all know what I mean. It is like when some guy decides he wants to show off by picking on you because you are the badest looking guy in a crowd. You try real hard to hold your temper and not pop the guy in the face, but he just keeps pushing your buttons any way he can. That is what is going on with these wanna bes. They are pretending to be your friend and mix in with the crowd, the whole time they have their eye on your wallet.

 I tried to communicate and develop a relationship with these people. They refused, stating we primarily promote the Daytona Beach area to families and corporate markets.  The Daytona Area Convention and Visitors Bureau tells me this because I had pictures that did promote family and corporate values. Later as my Biketober site became more popular, and in an act of jealousy, Janet Kersey from the DBCVB writes to me Certified and states that I must not use the word biketoberfest. Biketoberfest is a registered trademark of Daytona Beach and I must remove the word fest from all of my text and graphics.
To be continued ….

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Back some time ago, I received a certified letter from the Daytona Beach Area Convention and Visitors Bureau ( DBACVB ) advising me to remove the “fest” from my Biketober site. The letter stated that the word Biketoberfest® is a registered trademark owned by the DBACVB. This letter was different of previous correspondence coming from the non-profit organization in that it did not give a reason why. Previous communication with
the DBACVB stated my site did not promote Daytona Beach as they wanted. The email went on to state ” we primarily promote the Daytona Beach area to families and corporate markets.” Oh really! Recently the cover page of one of the domains that is approved and associated with the DBACVB looked like this:

Read: Daytona Beach, city without a vision

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Bike Week Daytona was one of the first motorcycle event pages I created. You can read the story about how all my biker sites started at MNO Photo Bike Week is a 10 day event that is held in Daytona Beach, Florida every year and attracts one of the largest amount of bikers and motorcycle enthusiast. Over the past few years the event has spread out and headed north upwards to the Ormond Beach area.

That is not to say that visitors do not still end up on Main Street in Daytona Beach and the Daytona Beach Hotels still get booked solid every year for the motorcycle event. But the activities have spread out and there are an ever growing number of popular bike week destinations being added to the list of places to go and stay.

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