mr.cycleplane
Riding my Motorbike
Good question-time aside there are expenses. Yes-several years ago the IRS tried spying of the hobbies(car-bike-motorcycle) and was trying to generate revenue for the state-like we would knowingly not pay our fair share! (shame on them!) I can tell you based on a meet i threw in the early 90's.....Anyway printing posters and flyers, purchasing trophies(we charged nothing for the show entry), running ads in the local paper etc. Bonnie Simonian knew all the local news people and arranged for complete nightly coverage-interviews at the swap, local radios got our message out also. We passed out flyers at a few previous bike meets. Jerry Germeau of Washington was the roving reporter for the C.A.B.E. at the time and gave us a very generous plug in the then monthly Xerox copy of the C.A.B.E.! Then the Simonians had t-shirts made up and they went over/sold way bigger than planned-she made a ton of them-people gobbled them up the first year-before the swap happened-bought them at the end of the whizzer ride the first day-awesome! Although I get credit for putting on the meet the real hero's were the very generous Bonnie and Dennis Simonian(and his lovely daughters!)-your hosts at the meet. Wonderful people-backed me up at every hint of 'we need to do this/can we also do this'-unbelievable. They also arranged for a catered barbque guy(Charles-remember him?) both days-great food at a reasonable price put the icing on the cake. I'm not saying you need to have a pile of money to start a meet in your area-but it helps. Now with the internet and the C.A.B.E. being the pulse of the hobby-its a winning combination for a successful meet in your area!
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