LA Calendar Motorcycle Show offers Huge Spectator Value and Exhibitor Media Coverage
The LA Calendar Motorcycle Show Weekend offers its visitors a weekend full of entertainment at great value for the low $25 1-Day / $35 2-Day admission price
- the same cost as attending a 2-hr movie for admission, popcorn and soda, and parking.
Included with the Calendar Show are the S&S World Record Dyno Shoot Out, Calendar Bike Building Championship, Calendar Bike Builder Seminars,
2-Day Calendar Girl Music Festival, Saturday Night Iron & Lace Calendar Builders Party and complimentary Queen Mary ghost ship admission (normally a $12 separate admission).
Located right on the beautiful cool Pacific Ocean next to party central downtown Long Beach,this is the premier streetbike event in America with all the major motorcycle and parts manufacturers, top name bike builders, and a full weekend of exciting activities.
Plus the Calendar Motorycle Show a located within walking distance of many quality hotels and the exciting downtown Long Beach night life on Pine Street with its wonderful bars, music clubs and restaurants. We draw more affluent motorcycle enthusiasts from across America with money to spend on high end custom bikes and parts than any other consumer show in America, plus we are among the top 3 motorcycle events in America for print and TV media coverage.
For the best possible product sales, marketing value and spectator entertainment, motorcycle companies and enthusiasts will always choose the LA Calendar Motorcycle Show - Thanks for your continued support of the Street Premier Motorcycle Show
in America!
- Jim Gianatsis, Director
A Few Exhibitors Tell Us:
"Its to expensive for customer to get in, they all complained to us the past 2 years... and half or more left before entering the gate.If they don't want to pay over $40 to get in, why should we display?" - Chuck, C&C Motorcycle Seats
Chuck,
Just to clarify what you said: "customer" - is singlular, "all" is the 10,000+ paid spectators who attend our Show each year - which did you mean?
Our $25 1-day / $35 2-day admission and just $5 bike parking is not the reason some people might say are not buying from you...
Our LA Calendar MC Show crowd is THE SAME bike crowd that goes to and spends:
• Laughlin Bike Week they take half the week off work (-$500!) , and spends $500+ for rooms, food, gas and expenses - and now Laughlin is also $25 admission this year!
• Love Ride minimum $80+ for admission, plus extra for the Dirt Track and Drag Races - $150+! plus extra beer and vendors...
• Easy Riders Pamona, and the
• International MC Show, Long Beach costs $25 ($15 admission, $10+ parking) plus $10 beer and vendors...
• A Movie! Goes to a 2 hour movie any day in Los Angeles and expect to spend $40! $12 for a ticket, $10 popcorn & Coke, and $10-$15 parking.
Our LA Calendar Motorcycle Show is local, costs just $25 for 1-day / 9 hours of full entertainment including Concerts, Bike Show. Free Queen Mary Admission. The best event location in America.
We are the lowest cost premium Bike Event on the West Coast!!!!
"...and half or more left before entering the gate."
Bull Shit. I stand at the front gate every morning, every year for the 1st hour, and throughout the day. I HAVE NEVER SEEN ANYONE TURN AROUND AND LEAVE or complain of the ticket price. This is the truth.
If people have an interest in buying your product, which is significantly more expensive than our Bike Show admission, they will buy your product. If people want to use the show admission price as an excuse, then they have no interest or can't afford your product, anyway. The admission price is just their lame excuse to give you a reason.
I closing...
Every other competing Bike Event in SoCal California has gone out of business -- Hot Bike Show at Irvine and the Rose Bowl, The Beach Ride, The Quick Throttle Show at OC Fair Grounds, and now Holister - and they had lower $10-15 admissions or were FREE. So it is not the cost of admission that drives buying customer away.
People come to the LA Calendar Show because we are a quality bike event with real value. And the less manufacturers and venders like yours who don't support us, the smaller the motorcycle enthusiast market will become and the sooner all of us will be out of business.
I hope I have changed your mind. Best regards, Jim Gianatsis, producer
The Bike Industry
and the Economy is Down What Do You Do?
Venders, Buiiders ask....
Not so sure the crowd will be there...it seems the high price of fuel and a changing economy will create a lower attendance? Do you have any predictions of what to expect?
Do you have a discount for top builders if we show up?
Why isn't your show free to spectators like other events, Spectators tell me they don't have the money to buy a T-Shirt from me after spending $25 to get into the Calendar Show.
Show Comments
from Jim Gianatsis
Calendar Show Producer,
Gianatsis Design Associates Motorsports Advertising
Unfortunately the custom motorcycle market started declining back in 2006 before the gas prices went up in 2007. Most smaller bike events in California have gone out of business by then - the Hot Bike Show, The Beach Ride, Holister, et all - while major events like Daytona and Sturgis have seen attendance drop by 50-70%!
At Laughin in 2008 some 35% of the companies and the spectators were gone over the year before, which was down 20% in 2007 as well.
The custom motorcycle industry began its decline in 2006 almost 2 years before the general economy collapse in the spring of 2008.
All the Rich Urban Bikers (RUBs) and Baby Boomers who bought custom bikes starting back in the late '90s because of all the TV shows and media coverage... they rode their cool looking customs once and quickly realized how impractical and unreliable most of them were. And if their bikes broke down on the road, there was no factory roadside assistance to call. They then parked their customs and never wanted to buy another.
Still, other premium brand mass production bike including Harley-Davidson, Ducati and BMW continued to see record sales increase another 2 years right into 2008 before the real estate banking collapse and the economy turned down in the spring.
Our LA Calendar Show on the other hand, despite the poor economy and the devastated custom bike market, has only dropped 10% in attendance from our best year in 2005 because, we provide spectators and the industry the best quality event at the best venue in America, along with with huge media coverage in the bike magazines and on TV,
We offer great value for bike and product companies and venders because our space rates have not gone up in 10 years, our space prices are significantly less the any other major bike event. As for gas prices keeping people away, we are based in Los Angeles, the motorcycle population center of America, so fuel cost for spectators to come to our show is not a concern.
The only concern is if they have money to buy big ticket items like custom bikes. And as far as gas prices go, remember America still is the richest economy in the world. Gas prices in Europe have been at $6 a gallon for the last 40 years and they get alone just fine. The American V-Twin market is now seeing a huge growth in Europe despite gas prices now reaching $9 a gallon there, while H-D sales in America have declined.
Europeans just don't buy $60,000 Cadillac Escalade's to drive to work like us. They buy sensible $20,000 cars and spend the difference on higher fuel and higher taxes.They also don't own huge homes like us, but live in duplex's and apartments, and smaller more affordable homes. Its just going to take Americans a while to figure it all out.
Meanwhile, we can sit at home and watch as our business continues to fall off, or we can be pro active and go out and promote and sell even harder, offering more practical bikes and apparel that people really want and really can afford. And being an exhibitor or vender at the LA Calendar Motorcycle Show to put yourself out in front of the biggest bike market in America.
The only discount we offer on our already low Vender Space prices is a 33% travel discount if you are coming from over 250 miles away. We do work with our Venders, unlike many shows. Plus we haven't raised our vender space costs in 8 years. Other events like Lauglin or Holister charge 3-4x what we do for the same vender space. Those promoters have to charge their venders more, because the quality of the event isn't good enough to charge spectators an admission fee. Or because its held on a public street. While the city or the hotels makes their money off the high room prices, restaurants and gambling.
We also give discount credits to our Calendars Bike Builders, as they have to travel to our photo studio or location and take another day off of work to bring us one of their bikes to photograph for the FasDates.com Calendars. And we ask them to conduct the free Calendar Bike Builder Seminars at the Show.
As for the complaint from some spectators that the $25 admission price to the LA Calendar Show has left them broke and not able to buy a T-shirt from a vender just doesn't hold water. It costs us the promoter, a lot of money to produce a quality event weekend with top name live bands, the best location in America, Builders Seminars, Dyno Shootout, $86,.000 Calendar Bike Building Championship and so much more.
That same spectator has no problem riding to Laughlin, Sturgis, Holister or The Love Ride and sending $500 - $1,000 for the extended weekend on traveling expenses, restaurants and hotels, paid entry concerts and bike contest exhibit halls where the bike builders are signing autographs. And because those same spectators are stuck in a remote location for 3 days, they don't have much else do but shop and spend money on souvenirs and T-shirts, and get drunk and party.
For a local local spectators attending the LA Calendar Motorcycle Show Weekend, the challenge for the venders is to have an attractive display with quality products, that makes spectators will want to come into and make a purchase.
I look forward to having you join us at America's premier Streetbike Show Weekend!
Best regards,
Jim Gianatsis, Producer
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