12 June - July ‘21 - CYCLE SOURCE MAGAZINE
like family, and hey, who doesn’t love Steel City Pizza and Wings!! We had Monday off to get our shit together. Since this was the first time we had seen the mobile command center in a year and a half, we took a little time to settle into the groove of tiny house living where it was set up and waiting for us at Nova Campground (Thanks Missi & Camel). Tuesday was the Cycle Source Bike Show, now in its eleventh year in Daytona. Co-promoted this year again by Bling’s Cycles and sponsored by Spectro Oils, Stevensons Cycle, Cycle Stop USA, Twisted Tea, Alleyway Kustoms, S&S Cycles & Twin Power. Thanks to them all for their help in keeping such a great Daytona Tradition alive. We changed things up this year and brought the winners and their bikes up for awards, which caused a little back up in the band schedule, for which I have to apologize to Stone Senate. Best of Show was taken by Brock Bridges for an incredible Ironhead that was separated, divorced, and rotated. Not sure what that means? Watch for a feature in an upcoming issue. You can see all the winners on page 16. Wednesday, of course, was the Perewitz Paint Show, and the Spoke was packed again but with an entirely different crowd. Jeff Holt held a V-Twin Visionary show at Destination that kicked ass, and Chop Docs threw a Chopper Show at Last Resort. To say it was a crazy day is keeping it light. We took the day mostly to work at Willie’s to prepare for the insanity that Thursday morning would bring. Thursday came, and it was on!!! The greatest chopper show on earth started to fill up to what would be a record crowd by day’s end. Chopper Time at Tropical Tattoo was all it had been speculated to be… an f’n madhouse. This was the first time I can remember having to shut down registration at Willie’s for lack of space. He had just installed nice cold patch blacktop, so even the backyard had plenty of clean bike parking, and brother, they used it all. You can see all of Willie’s winners on page 28, but on behalf of everyone from Tropical, thanks to all who attended and made Willie’s efforts for the Veteran’s Support Fund so successful. If you missed it, here is a link to some live coverage we did - https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=sOfoX3nhyhY. Friday, we hit the Dennis Kirk Garage Build Show at the Broken Spoke. This year we did things a
