Biketoberfest 2011 a Bust
Posted on 14. Oct, 2011 by admin in Biker News
Speculation is swirling around the biker community, in the latest salvo across the biker community bow. We have been seeing a steady decline in the numbers of bikers showing up at our most revered motorcycle rallies, and those declines are becoming greater.
Will our favorite rallies find themselves on the block, a victim of a graying community? Will the lack of attraction to a younger generation be the death knell of biker rallies around the country?
In the latest of a series of tragic declines, we read the latest news from nsbnews.net:
NEW SMYRNA BEACH — Biketoberfest was quieter than a lawn mower on the first night of the four-day weekend at what is soon to be an extinct Pub 44. Just after midnight there were three Harleys in the parking lot and one bicycle. Last year’s Biketoberfest recession is this year’s depression at least through the first 24 hours at what for the last couple decades or so has been the ground zero for bikers, babes and booze.
Mike Catchings of Lake Mary was very stoic about his vast surroundings with a lady friend, saying they’d make the best of it, even if opening night was any indication of what’s ahead over the next three days.
He readily acknowledged what he saw on the first day is a continuation of last year’s steep decline at both the four-day October rally and the larger 10-day Bike Week in February.
Even Pub 44, a 31-year biker staple at 1889 State Road 44, is going away after Biketoberfest to formally make way for JJ Fin’s, a more upscale restaurant hoping to cash in on a broader clientele with sushi and other delicacies replacing burgers and fries offered to the dwindling year-round biker crowds.
Opening Night Barren at Pub 44
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