 2014 LA Calendar Best of Show winner Imagine Vehicles International with Calendar Kittens Petra and Jitka, singer Katie Cole.
New Builder Image Vehicles International takes Best of Show
with a radical Honda CBX 6-Cylinder Cafe Racer
2014 LA Calendar Motorcycle Show Concourse d' Elegance & Calendar Girl Music Festival
Malibu, CA, Sunday July 20th 2014 - The 2014 edition of the LA Calendar Motorcycle Show continued its now 23rd year tradition as the premier outdoor streetbike event in America with producer photographer Jim Gianatsis moving the Show this year to the beautiful green lawns of the Malibu Golf Course among the twisty canyon roads in the Santa Monica Mountains alongside the Pacific Ocean. Highlighting this year's exciting activities was the emergence of another new and soon to be renown custom bike builder to the sport for which the Calendar Show is known for cultivating.
Taking Best of Show in this year's in the Calendar Bike Building Championship was Calin Senciac's Imagine Vehicles International / ImagineVehicles.com motorsports fabrication shop with an incredible custom billet aluminum designed chassis built by Terry Ward and the shop crew, housing a legendary 1979 Honda CBX 1047cc air-cooled in-line 6-cylinder engine. Image Vehicles now joins other celebrity builders including Jesse James, Russell Mitchell, Jesse Rooke, Roland Sands, and Shinya Kimura among many who first premiered their bikes at the Calendar Show and went on to have their winning bikes featured in the FastDates.com Calendars to assure their place in history among the premier custom bike builders in the world.
This year's Calendar Show supported the American Cancer Society with a portion of the ticket sales going to find a cure for cancer and support those affected by the deadly disease. Builders Adrian and Ruth Packett of Canyon Motorcycles together with their spokes model, Calendar Kitten Lindsay Hancock, also raised money for the cause with Lindsay posing for pictures on a custom Canyon Triumph with spectators for their donations.
FastDates.com SBK World Superbike Girls Jitka and Petra from Prague,The Czech Republic were at the Calendar Show
following the Laguna Seca USA World Superbike races the weekend before. And the they shoot with photographer Jim Gianatsis both events' top factory races and customs bikes for the next FastDates.com Calendars.
A special treat this year were the personal appearances of SBK Fast Dates World Superbike Girls Jitka Pralinka and Petra Ruzickova from the Czech Republic. Just the weekend before they were featured at the SBK World Superbike USA round at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca where they worked on the starting grid and victory podium as the official SBK umbrella girls for the race and World TV broadcast. During their first ever trip to America the two beautiful Czech super models also got to shoot with Jim Gianatsis at Laguna Seca with all the top factory race bikes for the next Fast Dates World Superbike Calendar, and the following week in Los Angeles with the top class winning bikes from the Calendar Show. Both Jitka and Petra are featured in the current 2014, and new 2015 FastDates.com Calendars which premiered at the Show. Fans had the chance to buy the new Calendars, have them personally autographed by the two Czech Calendar Kittens, and pose with them and their bike for pictures by Victory Jon of HighwayPhotos.net.
Together with the Calendar Bike Building Championship & Concourse d' Elegance, this year's Show again featured top Celebrity Builders premiering their latest custom builds. Included were previous Show winners Jim Giuffra / AFT Metric Customs, Richard Pollock / Mule Motorcycles, Ron Baldonado / Rock Bottom Customs, with special appearances by Russell Mitchell / Exile and Chris Redwing / MotoGPwerks.
Calendar Girl Music Festival performers included recording artists Katie Cole, and Lily Elise with Sebastien Bentley.
Other selected Builders, Vendors and Exhibitors, together with 4 hours of live music with the Calendar Girl Music Show featuring the Japanese girl band Nylon Pink, singer songwriters Katie Cole and NBC TV's The Voice finalist Lily Elise added to the day's entertainment. And not to forget the Calendar Show always kicks off the world premier of next year's new 2015 FastDates.com Motorcycle PinUp Calendars photographed and produced by Jim Gianatsis, featuring the world's top road race and custom motorcycles with the beautiful Calendar Kittens featured in the Calendars in attendance at the Show.
The Calendar Bike Building Championship included the popular Pro Builder class with owner Jim Giuffra / AFT Metric Customs and his crew of female builders that including Natalie Jackson and Shelby Thompson taking their 7th consecutive win with a Honda CB 750 Cafe Racer. Samuel Kao / JSK Custom Design took Special Mention in the class with a Harley Sportster Cafe Racer featuring hand built frame and bodywork and single sided swingarm.
Other class winners this year included Street Custom: Daniel Patino / custom Road King; Cafe Bike / Bobber: Adam Gaspic/Gasser Custom,/ Honda 550; Sportbike/Racebike: Richard Pollock/Mule Motorcycles, Sportster XR1200; Classic Imported: Chris Carlson, with the last surviving 1934 Husqvarna TT500 factory road racer; and Classic American: Ron Baldonado/Rock Bottom Motorcycle Company, 1932/1937 Harley custom.
Overall and Class winners received the coveted Mikuni Carburetor trophies featuring real Mikuni VM44 Carburetors, and all top three class winners received product gift bags from Meguiar Care Care Products amd ProLong Lubricants. Spectators with special interest custom, sport bike and collector bikes were also invited to park inside the Show grounds and display their bikes for the day.
Pro Builder 1st Place was Jim Giuffra of AFT Metric Customs and his all-girl fabricators who included Natalie Jackson and Shelby Thompson shown here on the right with their Honda CB 750 Streetfighter named "Cimmeron". On the left are Jitka and Petra, and co-hostess singer Katie Cole.
CALENDAR BIKE BUILDING CHAMPIONSHIP RESULTS
Best of Show: Image Vehicles International, Calin Senciac and Terry Ward, 1979 Honda CBX
AFT Customs Visionary Award: Imagine Vehicles International (http://imaginevehicles.com), Calin Senciac and Terry Ward, 1979 Honda CBX
Special Mention: Samuel Kao / JSK Custom Design, Harley Sportster Cafe Racer
Pro Builder: 1. Jim Giuffra / AFT Metric Customs, Honda CB 750 Cafe Racer; 2. Jim Tiltz, Big Twin Custom; 3. Adrian Packett / Canyon Motorcycles, Triumph Cafe Bike.
Street Custom: 1. Daniel Patino, custom Road King; 2. Unkle Al's, Harley custom; 3. Adrian Packett, Triumph late model cafe bike.
Bar Hopper: 1. Adam Gaspic / Gasser Customs, Honda CB750; 2. Michael Cooper / Gasser Customs, Honda CB550; 3. Unkle Al's, Triumph old skool custom.
Sportbike: 1. Richard Pollock / Mule Motorcycles, Harley XR1200 Streetmaster; 2. Brandon Holstein, H-D Sportster; 3. Ralph Bauman, Honda CB550.
Classic American: 1. Ron Baldonado / Rock Bottom Motorcycle Company, 1932 H-D VL Antique Bobber Custom w/ 1937 ULH engine; 2. Unkle Al's, H-D Shovelhead Cafe Bike; Geraldo Montano, 1969 Sportster cafe bike.
Classic Import: 1. Chris Carlson, 1934 Husqvarna TT500 factory road racer; 2. Kent Riches / Race Tech, Rickman Honda 750 cafe racer; 3. Michael Cooper, 1971 BSA B54 cafe racer.
SBK Fast Dates World Superbike Calednar Kittens Petra and Jitka with the new 2015 FastDates.com Calendars. |
Best of Show: Imagine Vehicles International
http://imaginevehicles.com |
AFT Customs Visionary Award: Image Vehicles International - for the most inovative custom bike |
Pro Builder: 1st Place . Jim Giuffra / AFT Metric Customs, Honda CB 750 Streetfighter |
Street Custom: Daniel Patino, custom H-D Road King |
Bar Hopper: Adam & Lisa Gaspic / Gasser Customs, Honda CB750 |
Sportbike: Richard Pollock/Mule Motorcycles, Harley XR1200 Streetmaster |
Classic American: Ron Baldonado / Rock Bottom Motorcycle Company, 1932 H-D VL Antique Bobber Custom w/ 1937 ULH engine |
Classic Import: Chris Carlson, 1934 Husqvarna TT500 factory road racer |
Special Mention: Samuel Kao / JSK Custom Design
Harley Sportster cafe racer |
Show producer Jim Gianatsis with Petra and Jitka stop by the Canyon Motorcycles display where Adrian and Ruth Packett and Calendar Kitten Lisa Hancock have helped raise money for the American Candcer Society. |
Kent Riches of AirTech fame came to the Show with this beautifully restored 1969 Suzuki TS125R production roadracer and a 1974 Rickman Honda 900 which took 2nd in Classic Import. |
Kent Riches of AirTech fame also brought this beautiful Rickman framed 1979 Honda CR9000 to the Show. |
Famed Calendar Bike Builder Russell Mitchell / Exile Cycles spent the afternoon at the Show with his family including wife Rachel, a former Calendar Kitten herself, who is now expecting a new baby boy. |
Calendar Girl Music Festival performers included recording artists Katie Cole, and Lily Elise with Sebastien Bentley.
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Mark Catano from ProLong Lubricants had a nice display of his company's great products with a cool retro Harley, and proudly shows off his copy of the new FastDates.com 2015 Cafe Racer Calendar. |
Phillipe Danah from Frog Specialities displayed his great line of Beringer Brake and Hand Control proudcts used my many of the top Fastdates.com Calendar builders like AFT Customs. |
Part of the Classic Import Class which had a wonderful group of bikes on display. |
Some of the entries in the Sportbike class which included a number of Sportster cafe racers. |
Famed Calendar Bike Show Builders and former winners, Chris Redpath / MotoGPwerks and Jim Giuffra / AFT Customs helped with the judging again at this year's Show. |
This old retro hot rod from the good ole boys of Nitro Garage added to the day's ambiance of cool bikes and beautiful Calendar Kittens. |
Calendar Kittens Petra and Jitka pose for selfies with some of the Pro Custom class bikes as Easyriders photographer Kit Maira sneaks in from behind. |
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 Phillipe Danah from Frog Specialities displayed his great line of Beringer Brake and Hand Control proudcts used my many of the top Fastdates.com Calendar builders like AFT Customs.
Show attendees were also treated to great food from the Baby's Badass Burgers and The Grilled Cheese food trucks, Mike's Italian Ice. The Malibu Golf Course's own Malibu & Vine Restaurant offered a full beer, wine and soft drink bar. Plus there was ample seating on the grass field to enjoy the live music, and dining tables with umbrella shade. Riding or driving to the Show brought you on the beautiful motorcycle road of Mulholand Highway, and spectator bike and car parking was free. In all a great day of excitement for motorcycle fans for the low $20 admission.
Sportbike class winner Richard Pollock / Mule Motorcycles, with his latest Harley XR1200 Streetmaster. Richard's LA Calendar Show winning bikes have been featured in the FastDates.com Calendars for nearly 20 years!
"This year was one of my favorite LA Calendar Motorcycle Shows ever, " said producer Jim Gianatsis. "We had a great venue with incredible bikes and celebrity builders, beautiful Calendar Kittens, great music, tasty food and beverages that everyone said they really enjoyed," "People kept coming up to me all day saying it was one of their favorite Calendar Shows ever, and that they looked forward to future Shows returning to The Malibu Golf Course. I look forward to making that happen. I'd also like to thank my Show assistants Lee Chapin, Craig Boone, Apple Price and Katrina Kazarez for helping make it all come together so smoothly again this year, and beautiful singer Katie for helping with sound mix for all the performers."
 Famed Calendar Bike Show Builders and former winners, Chris Redpath / MotoGPwerks and Jim Giuffra / AFT Customs helped with the judging again at this year's Show.
Show producer Jim Gianatsis with Petra and Jitka stop by the Canyon Motorcycles display where Adrian and Ruth Packett and Calendar Kitten Lisa Hancock have helped raise money for the American Candcer Society.
Benefit to Fight Cancer - 2014 LA Calendar Motorcycle Show Concours d' Elegance & Calendar Girl Music Festival Moves to Malibu, CA on Sunday July 20th
The 23rd annual LA Calendar Motorcycle Show sponsored by Russ Brown Attorneys is pleased to announce that the American Cancer Society will be the 2014 Show's designated charity recipient. Each year, the American Cancer Society funds a select group of researchers, doctors, and nurses – those who have presented the best ideas with the most potential – to pursue new avenues, as well as strengthen existing ones, in the fight against cancer. This month the Society announced its first set of new 2014 grantees, awarding a total of $42,899,000 to 103 scientists and health professionals, both to find a cures for the many types of cancers, and to support and care for the facilities that treat and care for cancer patients.
"Everyone knows of friends and loved family members, or possibly themselves who have been impacted by cancer", explained Jim Gianatsis, producer of the LA Calendar Motorcycle Show and the Show's themed FastDates.com Motorcycle PinUp Calendars. "I, myself, was cured of cancer 4 years ago, thanks to diagnostics, cures and surgeries, discovered by researchers funded by important charity organizations like the American Cancer Society. Motorcyclists are renown as a community for coming together to support important causes, and none is more important than curing the cancers which affect more people than any other disease. The LA Calendar Show will be giving $1 of each Spectator Admission purchased on-line at FastDates.com to the American Cancer Society.
Ron Baldonado / Rock Bottom Motorcycle Company in Thousand Oaks, CA (ph 805-701-5290) , returned for the 2nd year in a row to claim 1st Place in the Classic American class with this 1932 H-D VL Antique Bobber Custom chassis w/ 1937 ULH engine. Below: Ron's 2013 Calendar Show class winning bike is featured in the new 2015 Iron & Lace Calendar - Click the photo to order.
World Premier of the New FastDates.com Calendars!
The Show features off the premier of next year's new 2015 FastDates.com Motorcycle PinUp Calendars featuring the world's top road race and custom motorcycles with the Bikes. Builders and beautiful Calendar Kittens featured in the Calendars in attendance at the Show. Click above to find out more and to order.
Nylon Pink, Lily Elise and Katie Cole -
Performing at the 2014 LA Calendar Motorcycle Show July 20th!
Headlining the live Calendar Girl Music Festival entertainment again this year are three incredibly talented and beautiful girl groups - the Japanese girl rock band Nylon Pink, Lily Elise and Katie Cole. back by popular demand for the 3rd year
Click for Hi-Res Photo - http://www.FastDates.com/BikeShow2014/CalendarGirlsMusicFestival.1825.jpg
Katie Cole "I Cant Wait" on YouTube - http://youtu.be/Ghryh1oGc2A
Lily Elise "Domino" on YouTube - http://youtu.be/_mWLuU1lwpw
Nylon Pink "Every Heart" on YouTube - http://youtu.be/XqBctfXsGCA
The performer line up for the Calendar Girl Music Festival at this year's 23rd annual LA Calendar Motorcycle Show Concourse de Elegance on Sunday July 20th 2014 as always the day's line up of live musical entertainment sharing the day with many of the world's Top Custom Bikes and Builders includes some of the finest female singer songwriters and bands in America to compliment the Calendar Motorcycle Show's beautiful Pin Up Model theme. Headlining the live Calendar Girl Music Festival for the 3rd year was talented and beautiful Japanese girl rock band Nylon Pink performing both their own original songs and some very sexy cover tunes. Returning for the second year was beautiful pop vocalist Lily Elise, a finalist on TV's The Voice, accompanied by guitarist Sebastien Bentley. Along with country pop signer songwriter Katie Cole who just debuted her second album last month. The ladies each performed two sets on Sunday between 11am -3pm, and were available to fans afterwards to pose for pictures and autograph their CDs.
Kent Riches of AirTech fame also brought this beautiful Rickman framed 1979 Honda CR9000 (above) and a beautifully restored 1969 Suzuki TS125R production roadracer (below) to the Show.
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Part of the Classic Import Class which had a wonderful group of bikes on display.
Some of th Classic Custom bikes featuring the two CB750 Hondas from AFT Metrick Customs.
Angel Bartels from Bartels' Harley-Davidson in Marina Del Ray, CA, one of the largest Harley dealers in America, helped organize a dealer discount ride to the Show and displayed some cool new Harley motorcycles.
Spectators were treated to great eating from Baby's Badass Burgers and The Grilled Cheese trucks.
The beautiful women from New Creation Behavioral Healthcare Foundation were on hand to raffle off a new Harley Sportster to support their efforts to help Addicts in recovery. More at http://NewCreationDetox.com/
Some of the good looking crew from Imagine Vehicles International, the Best of Show winners.
A closer look at the Imagine Vehicles Honda CBX1100 Best of Show winner with its billet aluminum frame and foot controls, and using a single-sided Ducati rear swingarm setup.
 
Legendary FastDates.com Calendar photographer and Calendar Show producer Jim Gianatsiswith beautidul singer siongwriter Katie Cole. Right: Adrian Packett, Canyon Motorcyles took 3rd Place in Pro Buider with a custom Triumph.
Calendar Kittens Katerina and Apple greeted everyone with their smiling faces as they handled Bike Contest Registration and Spectator Admissions.
Can you guess what kind of bike they're building for the 2014 Calendar Show?
Jim Giuffra and the spokesmodels at AFTcustoms.com are hard at work on their latest custom bike build Cimeron premiering at the LA Calendar Motorcycle Show in Malibu on Sunday July 20th. And don't forget their special AFT Visionary Trophy Award presented to the most innovative new custom at the Show. Download hi-resolution photos of the build from the AFT Customs Facebook Fage Photo Album at - https://www.facebook.com/aft.customs/media_set?set=a.550354648368176.1073741832.100001809367951&type=3
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