Great American Motorcycle Show

Welcome to another episode of Born to Ride TV. This is Debbie and we're at the Great American Motorcycle Show in Norcross, Georgia. And this is Rhonda the promoter. Welcome Rhonda. Thank you. I can't wait to tell you all about the show I've got going on. All right. Stay tuned. We've got it all coming up at the Great American Motorcycle Show. It's great to be an American in this town today. Stay tuned. Born to Ride is a multimedia marketing and promotional machine with TV, magazine, streaming, radio and internet advertising opportunities. There are tens of thousands of motorcycles. We reach the people who ride them. Born to Ride. Find out more at borntoride. com. Born to Ride. Well, every great motorcycle show starts off with a great promoter. And this one happens to be a female. And this is Rhonda Sadell. Sadell. Well, welcome to Born to Ride TV. Rhonda, you did a great job putting on this event. But this event is kind of Year after year? I wouldn't say it's easy. It's fun. And it's different every year. But it's all about every make and model. And what we find with our show has been going on since 23, for 23 years now. And people come out, they schedule rides, they bring their friends, and they spend the entire weekend. And you can actually get your entire motorcycle gear that show everything, from your helmets to your jewelry to your tires to your motorcycle. So what we find is that your one-stop-chop, and we've been doing it for so long, it's just evolved over the years, and it's just become a really great show for all kinds of riders, from a novice to an expert rider. It's right in the middle, dead winner of Atlanta, Georgia. But that's great, because the enthusiasts are ready to come out and see something. It definitely is. And we've got really lucky this year. It was 70 degrees yesterday, and it's about the same today. And everybody's just excited. They're getting ready to get out and get ready for riding season. So we find that we have really good weather, a lot of the time in January. But people are definitely ready to get their motorcycles ready for the season. Now, the title of the show is The Great American Motorcycle Show. But American, it's not limited to the products here. It's just for the people. Absolutely. It's everything from BMW to Harley-Davidson. I mean, you name it, all types of motorcycles and manufacturers are at this show. And same with the categories for, All types of riding gear for every type of motorcycle as well. A lot of sponsors have been with you several years, and they say they just love this show. They get great response. It's worth the investment with you. Well, It's all about them doing new product. Every single year, you have to make it different every single year, and we really strive to do that. And our vendors understand that, and they really work with us on that. And everyone is enjoying themselves because they can walk around, have a cocktail, a snack, and look at everything. So you can actually come in the morning and stay all day, not have to leave, have a couple drinks, and then, So, yeah, it's a really cool event that you can actually come out and spend the day with us. I also noticed too that a lot of the vendors, they had so much stuff to give away just to, There's a lot of swag, I call it, Like, if you want to come out and walk the entire show, and just, So it's kind of cool that you don't, you can leave the door with your hands full, but you don't have to buy a thing. Chuck Watwood showed up this year. He's got his RV. He's got a blimp at the top. He's got Michelle Smith in the booth. Celebrity's all over the place. That was an exciting display there. Yeah, he's wonderful. We love Chuck. He's all over. He'll do bags at the front door, koozies everywhere. I mean, he's just great. And he's always got somebody really interesting in his booth. And we've been really happy to have Michelle this year. She's been wonderful. And also, a lot of the vendors, The displays look great. And they're just, they brought their key top sales people out, and also their management people. No one stayed inside for this show. The key people are here. Yeah, the show is so big. And we do find that it's kind of nice that, And that's important to be able to answer everyone's questions, So we're happy about that. Well, Born to Ride was glad to be a big part of this event this year. We had you on the cover of our magazine, made the tour up here, brought the family and we all got together and really experienced what North Georgia had to offer. It was a great experience. Well, We're just happy to be on the cover because we've never been on the cover before. So this is pretty special for us this year. Well, we hope we brought a lot more attendance, brought a lot more awareness, because it's definitely a worthy show and a great time, great event. No, we're happy to have We couldn't have done it without you. Well, I have to tell you, you don't want to miss this show. If you're in the Georgia area, or outside of the state of Georgia, you don't want to vent in this area. But Rana does a great job marketing, advertising this show and promoting this show. So But Rana, tell them how they get a hold of you if they're interested. It's the Great American Motorcycle Show dot com. We're at the North Atlanta Trade Center in Norcross. Just look up the Great American. It'll pop up on the Internet. And Rana's been doing this show for 15 years. She's no stranger to the show and she knows how to make it over the top each and every year. She's a lot of great sponsors com that have her back. And Steve Myrne, he's got a great bike show going on back there too. Yeah, the bike competition is wonderful. Every year it's different. And this year we actually brought in We've never done that and Steve was a big part of that. Old school was cool this year at the Great American Motorcycle Show. Stay tuned. We've got it coming up on Board and Ride TV. We'll show you everything happening here. The Great American Motorcycle Show.