Every Wednesday night a restaurant about 85 miles (137km) away from me has a Bike Night with a band playing music and cycle related vendors selling LED lights, detailing services, etc. I decided to jump on the Downtown and go for a ride to the Quaker Steak & Lube in Pinellas Park / Clearwater, Florida.
On a typical Bike Night there are 400-500 bikes parked with up to 2500 passing through during the evening. According to the security guard fellow I spoke with the busy nights have over 4000 bikes..
Last night it was a mix of about 70% V-twin cruisers, 20% metric sport bikes, 5% 70's/80's, 4.9% BMW/Ducati/etc, and .1% scooters..
I counted at most only 6 scooters there at one time.. All the different "groups" seemed to get along with each other which was nice..
I arrived around 5PM and started taking some photos - it didn't get very busy until after 9PM when it was dark..
Many nice custom bikes such as these:
More showed up after dark - I can only catch about 25% of the parking area in any one photo:
And a few videos - the bike at very end (0:38) of first video has a Chevy 350ci (5.7 liter) V8 in it:
During the trip I had to cross the 4-mile long, 5% grade, 193ft above water Sunshine Skyway Bridge. The Downtown was able to maintain 69mph up the grade, which was better than I expected. (I will not say what mph was reached going down the other side)
