We wanted to do something to honor not just a ‘chopper builder’ but a great man who would give anybody the shirt off his back. He’s made a name for himself as one of the nation’s top builders, and widely respected throughout the motorcycle industry. As many of you know, Bill managed West Coast Choppers for many years and decided to move to Daytona to do his own thing. Called the ‘Bill Dodge Award of Excellence’, This prestigious award is named after our long time, legendary friend, Bill Dodge of Daytona’s own Blings Cycle. The Invitational is to be capped on Sunday with the Builders Choice Award.
We’ll have more than 50 mind boggling custom choppers of pure excellence. Our impressive list includes Kyle Ray Rice, Jared Weems of Weems Motor Co, Richard Ruckus of It’ll Ride Choppers, Del Morte Customs, Alleyway Kustoms, Good Looking Customs, Turners Cycle Shop, Freakshow Fab, Ronin Vintage and Yogi’s Garage.
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The fun kicks off Friday the 19th at 5pm in our own building right smack dab in the middle of Thunder By the Bay! You’ll be able to experience a motorcycle builder’s invitational full of some of the country’s top builders and bikes. Our goal at Born to Ride is to bring you an incredibly fun three day immersive ‘experience’ complete with a motorcycle builders invitational featuring some of the countries most respected builders, to unique vendors, a chopper only ride-in chopper show, a Choppertown Marketplace called ‘The Chop Shop’, great music and some sweet custom cars on display courtesy of Roosterz Rods.
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The event was filmed and airs tonight on KSL.What happens when you mix an award-winning series of Chopper Documentaries under the Choppertown name, add about 50 world class chopper builds, a few hotrods, an amazing 11,000 square foot venue in a topical climate like Sarasota Florida? You get an awesome event called ‘Choppertown Live’! This three-day event is brought to you by the good people at Born to Ride Media and will be held at Thunder By the Bay at the Sarasota Fairgrounds Feb.19 th, 20 th and 21st. Every child will get a book to take home and the rest will go to the AmeriCorps tutoring program at each school to be used to help struggling students improve their reading skills. The AmeriCorps tutoring program has worked in the schools to improve and encourage reading in all the Carbon County elementary schools. Cox also was thankful to the Carbon School District Transportation Coordinator Kerry Jensen for everything he did to pull off busing the students in and getting them back to school without a hitch. Castle Height’s Principal Jan Cox was also instrumental in coordinating with KSL to make the event happen. KSL’s Read Today program director Lizzy Reano, helped arrange the visit with the Carbon School District. KSL’s Deanie Wimmer flew in with Santa to help celebrate the reading success in the area schools. The reward was for the students recording over 442,379 minutes of reading in 12 days in December.
Well over 2,000 elementary school students as well as parents, dignitaries and others gathered at the Carbon School District grounds to welcome Santa and KSL’s Chopper 5 to Price on Wednesday.