Daytona Bike Week

"Bike Week is a rite of spring, a ritual almost every motorcyclist worth his or her oil and leather aspires to. Some in colder climes ride out while snow drifts and ice still make sidewalks impassable; others throw on a T-shirt and make the balmy putt along deep southern roads and byways. Daytona usually attracts a few more enthusiasts than Sturgis, but when there are some 500,000 rumbling motorcycles in town, who keeps counting? This is the annual pilgrimage, the winter bust-out so many true motorcyclists have been waiting months for, chomping at the bit to ride into warm sunshine again. This is Daytona, a Mecca for motorcyclists waking from winter hibernation with a big hunger for serious fun. Everything you can imagine a mega biker event can be, this is it. Streets lined with vendors and beer girls, wet T-shirt contests, bike shows, riding the hard-packed beach, professional racing at Daytona International Speedway, boardwalk games and arcades, bike games, bikini contests, and of course, the endless parade of motorcycles of every make and model imaginable, and some unimagined as the occasional coffin- or burger-shaped bike rolls down Main Street."