One of the biggest spectator draws throughout the weekend was again the Calendar Show's exclusive S&S Cycle World Championship Horsepower Dyno Shoot Out hosted by Kerry Bryant of Area P Exhaust Systems. World Record runs are open up to anyone, including the change to see just how strong your streetbike really is, with Classes & Awards for all stock and modified American V-Twin and Metric Sportbikes. The most spectacular run during the weekend proved to be John Cabral's Suzuki Hayabusa American Turbo Powered 500hp +! Engine Blow Up at full throttle that saw titanium, aluminum , oil and coolant flying everywhere in spectacular fashion, forcing a shutdown of the dyno for about an hour while it was cleaned up. The S&S Cycle staff used the lull in the action to answer engine building questions from the crowd and hand out free t-shirts.
Snakes and Kittens on a Harley! This year's Calendar Show treated visitors to an exclusive unauthorized World Premier of the newly redesigned 2009 Harley-Davidson V-Rod in front of the California Harley-Havidson and FastDates.com Calendar display - a full 2 weeks before the unveiling at the 2009 H-D Dealers Show back east!
Included with admission both days was the exciting 2-Day Calendar Girl Music Festival with beautiful girl bands and singers including singer songwriters Kari Kimmel and actress Elizabeth Nicole, pop rockers Taxi Doll, AC/DC Tribute rock band Whole Lotta Rosies, Lead Zeppelin tribute band Moby Chick, Reckless Driver, Absinthe Women, plus the sexy Purrfect Angelz dance shows jammed fans to the Main Stage both days.
The weekend's stage activities were hosted by beautiful singer songwriter Kari Kimmel, with Ted Sands from Performance Machine co-hosting with Kari at the Awards Presentation Ceremonies on Sunday afternoon. Also on stage were the FastDates.com Calendar Kittens including Mary Riley and Jessica for the annual world premier of the new 2009 FastDates.com Motorcycle Pin Up Calendars.
Other exciting activities during the weekend include the S&S Cycle World Championship Horsepower Dyno Shoot Out; free Calendar Bike Building Seminars with celebrity Iron & Lace Calendar builders including Todd Silicato of Todd's Cycle, Dave Stinsen of Edelbrock Engineering and Yasuyoshi Chikazawa of Chica Custom Cycles.
This year's Show featured a big sportbike turnout in the Metric Midway with the Big Rig display from Triumph Motorcycles brought in by SoCal Triumph, Ducati in Brea, CA. The West Coast Presidents Association of sportbike clubs also had a bike display of club members bikes, plus there were the Metric Cruiser and Fast Dates Sportbike Contest classes located here. A lot of sportbike wners took the opportunity to run their bikes on the Calendar Show Dyno in one of 5 Sportbike Classes to see how much horsepwoer they really made. The most spectactular run of the weekend came when John Cabral's "Big Boy" turbo Hayabusa was in the process of exceeding well over 500 horsepoer when it blew up spectactularly, with connecting rods ejected out the front and bottom of the engine cases, along with lots of oil, coolant, aluminum, steel, and titanium.
And don't forget the theme of the entire LA Calendar Motorcycle Show Weekend which is the world premier of this year's new 2009 FastDates.com Motorcycle PinUp Calendars: the SBK World Superbike and Performance Machine sponsored Fast Dates superbike, Performance machine and Mikuni Carburetor sponsored Iron & Lace custom bikes, and Garage Girls together with the beautiful Calendar Kittens selling and autographing the Calendars and pose for photos with fans.
There was also the Calendar Girl Model Search Pageant each day with beautiful winners Andrea Hilaro, Kseniya Kseniya Strizhenko and Penny Mentred on Saturday, then Erin Yarbrough, Kseniya Strizhenko again and Petra Moos on Sunday winning $600 in cash awards each day, along with a possible paid booking to shoot for the next FastDates.com Calendars.