Article By: Savannah Rose @sscycle @themouseandthemoto
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nce again, my day job at S&S Cycle had allowed me to attend an event I’ve been patiently waiting. Err, well, impatiently waiting to attend. Fuel Cleveland has been on my mind for as long as I’ve been following along with Lowbrow Customs - and I had never gotten the chance to attend. I knew it was an invited builder show with a cool Rust Belt atmosphere, but I had no idea how awesome it really was! Rolling into the show, after a long night of watching indoor flat track racing at the first Flat Out Friday in Cleveland just up the road, and a killer after party at Harbor Inn, you enter an area of Cleveland that’s all old brick buildings, with a hint of urban decay really setting the atmosphere. In one old building the Hamilton Collaborative, next to a scrapyard, lies the show itself. The lot filled up with all kinds of bikes, from crazy chops to club Dynas, classic Knuckleheads, metric chops and stockers, and everything in between. The parking lot of this show
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alone was a full show in and of itself that I could have wandered through for hours. I almost forgot that the real
show was going on inside As inside, you know that this is more than just a bike show, it’s art
