Anybody can drive. To ride, you need passion. Join Suzuki at the Carlisle Bike Fest to demo their latest models to experience life on a Suzuki. Manufacturer representatives and dealers will be on site all-weekend. More than ever, Suzuki is a Way of Life!

• www.suzukicycles.com

Kawasaki Motorcycles will be on the grounds during the 2009 Bike Fest featuring demos of their latest models. Check their web site for featured 2009 models. Ride in to Carlisle ready to ride!! Check back for hours and other details.

• www.kawasaki.com

Star Motorcycles will be on site during the 2009 Carlisle Bike Fest. Look for a few Yamaha sport bikes in their site as well. The latest on Star Motorcycles is available on their web site, so check in and then check them out at Carlisle.

• www.starmotorcycles.com

The Largest Motorcycle Road Show on the Planet is Riding with you into Carlisle and Rolling Big! Kuryakyn is back and they are bringing a few friends along: All the major brands in one place, Immediate 5-star installation avaliable, and Factory Semi's and Representatives

Saturdays Ride In Bike Show will host over 25 classes for V-Twin, Metric and Sport Bikes. This is a 1 day show held in the Carlisle Pavilion. Classes and registration available online. Be here AM hours on Saturday if you register at the event!

• Register online for the Ride-in Bike Show

The Big Smokey eating contest is back for 2009! Carter’s Concessions, friends and partners are pleased to bring the Big Smokey to Carlisle bikers and invite you to bring on your best eaters. The Big Smokey has been a Carlisle Fairgrounds staple for 30 years, brought to you buy Carter’s Concessions and their families of restaurants in Central PA. They are offering the winner of this contest a $500.00 cash prize, a case of Big Smokey’s and a few other miscellaneous prizes. Seats are limited, so register early at our Guest Services trailer near the stage! Don’t want to miss this one! While you are in the area, please do some riding and visit our friend on the Susquehanna River for river views, cool drinks and good food.

• Big Smokey Flyer PDF

Go for the gold in Field Game competition at the Carlisle Bike Fest! Slow Run, Plank Ride and Barrel Roll are just a few of the competitions. Registration is Saturday from 12-1 with competitions following. Medals will be awarded for place takers.

The Garage Girls will be back at Bike Fest this year hosting the Garage-Girls Ultimate Biker Makeover and participating builder roundtables and Q&A sessions. Laura Klock will be joining Sara Liberte and Jody Perewitz to meet with fans and share her awesome stories and experience in breaking land speed records and helping to run a successful custom bike shop and design team.

• More on the Garage Girls

Biker Billy is bringing it back to the Carlisle Bike Fest in 2009. Fresh off an appearance on Regis and Kelly, Biker Billy will be presenting recipes from his new book: Adventures in Roadhouse Cuisine. Make sure to check our event schedule for Billy’s presentations; this is the chance to watch the master at work!

• BikerBilly.com
• Biker Billy Video Archive
• Live with Regis and Kelly - Recipes in the Live Kitchen

Cumberland Cycle Center and Koup’s Cycle Shop will present a new Kawasaki ER-6n to a lucky attendee at the 2009 Carlisle Bike Fest! Many more great bikes are on their show room floors, so visit them today. No Purchase Necessary, Must Be Present To Win, Color Subject to Change.

• Kawasaki ER-6n Video Action!

You will always find BMS Choppers at the biggest events in the country Bike Week, Biketoberfest and Carlisle! Sam Nehme and his crew at BMS Choppers are recognized as one of the leading custom builders of metric choppers (sorry Harley Owners). Their goal is always, “build the hottest metric customs while still having the reliability we have come to expect.” Sam’s art with metrics will be on display at the Carlisle Bike Fest and we expect to see him on builder roundtables and other activities at the event.

• BMS Choppers

Extreme Home Makeover meets Trick My Truck and Pimp My Ride at the Carlisle Bike Fest this summer as the ladies of custom motorcycles, the Garage-Girls featuring Sara Liberte and Jody Perewitz and the sponsors of the Carlisle Bike Fest offer two lucky riders the opportunity for a rider and motorcycle makeover.

If you are still sporting the same riding gear that you bought brand new back in 1986 or your bike is still stock and lacking the unique touches that make it your own, then the Garage Girls Ultimate Biker Makeover Carlisle Edition is no doubt what you need this summer.

If this describes you or a Biker you love, you’re going to want to submit your story and photo for a chance to win a “Garage-Girls Ultimate Biker Makeover”. The Garage-Girls will be accepting submission until May 15th, 2009. Contestants must submit a 200 words or less essay along with photo– describing why they are most in need of a biker makeover to bikermakeover@garage-girls.com before May 15th, 2009 Submissions will be narrowed down to a few finalists, then narrowed down to the final three, via on-line voting here at www.Garage-Girls.com and www.CarlisleEvents.com. Two winners will be selected for the Rider Makeover, including all-new gear and accessories with one grand-prize winner, who will win the Ultimate Biker Makeover with killer parts and accessories for his or her ride!

Winners must be present at the Carlisle Bike Fest on Saturday, July 18th to collect their prizes. Check back soon for more info!

• garage-girls.com

We are pleased to present a 2009 Harley-Davidson Sportster Custom - XL883C with a custom paint scheme of light and dark root beer as the Sunday giveaway. This Sporster is powered by a rubber-mounted 883cc engine. New features for 2009 include a lighter cast aluminum 16-inch rear wheel, recalibrated suspension and a low profile front fender. The giveaway will be presented on Sunday afternoon of Bike Fest, no purchase necessary, must be present to win. Give-Away courtesy of Appalachian Harley-Davidson.

Bushtec Performance Sport Trailers is joining Bike Fest for the Sunday Giveaway, offering a new trailer to one lucky Bike Fest attendee. The Bushtec giveaway will be a retail value of $4,500 for a Bushtec Trailer built for winner’s specifications. Visit Bushtec online before Bike Fest to check out their inventory. They will be installing on the Midway during the show. To schedule your appointment, call (423) 562-9900 or email Bushtec at INFO@Bushtec.com. No purchase necessary, must be present to win. Give-Away courtesy of Bushtec Performance Sport Trailers.

• Bushtec Performance Sport Trailers

Vaters' Monster Motorsports will be at Carlisle with high flying freestyle motocross riders to thrill the Carlisle Bike Fest fans all weekend long. Riders defy gravity while performing stunts in mid-air, jumping 65' gaps from steel ramp to steel ramp.

• 2008 Carlisle FMX Action

This year welcomes the return of two of the most famous motorcycles of all time back to Carlisle Bike Fest. Come to Building Y throughout the weekend to see one of the finest collections of “Easy Rider” memorabilia and of course Captain America and Billy Bike!

• Easy Rider Traveling Road Show Video

Carlisle’s Mid-Atlantiv V-Twin show will host some of the best custom building in the Mid-Atlantic. This is a show that you don’t want to miss. Participants in this show are vendors and custom builders, many offering much more at Carlisle. This event is only a sampling of their art of the motorcycle. Builders be sure and register early. Attendees be sure to see this one and support our friends building bikes for Carlisle Bike Fest.

Interested Builders, please email us at info@carlisleevents.com

Visit the Central Pennsylvania Chapter of the National MS Society on the Manufacturers Midway to register for their poker runs on Saturday and Sunday (Sat. leaving the fairgrounds at 10 A.M. and Sun. at 10 A.M.), sponsored by Market Cross Pub of Carlisle and Shippensburg. Don’t forget to register for their fund raising raffles for your chance to win Hersheypark tickets and other fun prizes.

• The Market Cross Pub
• Poker Run Flyer PDF

Nothing comes close to the adrenaline fix delivered by the StarBoyz at Carlisle. Schedule your day at Carlisle to include the best motorcycle stunt show on the circuit. Kevin, Scott and the crew deliver fans at Carlisle some of the best edge of your seat stunts! Check them out before Carlisle Bike Fest at www.starboyz.com.

The Carlisle Bikefest is all about pushing limits and on Sunday we take that to an extreme with the Rat Rod Revival. The Carlisle Rat Rod Revival is for fans of form follows function. If you are pushing the engineering and design limits of rat bikes and rat rods this show is for you. Sunday’s Ride In show is open to Cars and Bikes. No Bling required!

• Register Online

Brian Klock and the crew from Klock Werks Custom Cycles have been featured in numerous magazines and on the Discovery Channel for customizing sporsters, choppers, bobbers, custom baggers and any other bike they can get their hands on. Located in Mitchell, South Dakota – Brian and his team have figured out they need to be “ready to work on whatever comes through the door”. One of the many specialties for the Klock Werks crew is custom baggers which are hot right now; don’t miss some of their incredible long-haul rides.

• Klock Werks Custom Cycles

The fighter bike passion has made its way from Europe and Australia to the states and last year hit Bike Fest. The Carlisle Fighter Fest sponsored by Karns Performance was a hit in 2008 This judged show and showing returns in 2009 for another round. Put your bike in the ring as part of the ride-in Fighter Fest Bike Show on Saturday (July 18, 2009. Advanced registration is recommended. You may register via phone, online, or day of show.

• Karns Performance
• Register Online

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• Motorcycle Cavemen Video

Lawrence and “Harley Davidson” won the 2008 AWI Frisbee Dog World Championship Title November 2nd at Knott’s Berry Farm (Los Angeles). This dog lover, Harley-Davidson Rider and former human Frisbee World Champion, brings his kennel of stars, including Harley-Davidson and Easy Rider to the Carlisle Bike Fest.

• K9 Frisbee
• AnimalAttractionsTV - From Rescue to Riches
• Harley Davidson
• Easy Rider

Appalachian Harley-Davidson of Mechanicsburg, PA along with regional dealerships, Susquehanna Valley and M & S Harley-Davidson plan to fill Building T with so much Harley-Davidson products that rename the building for this event. Stop by the Appalachian Harley-Davidson Dealer Mall at Carlisle for one of the finest presentations of Harley-Davidson gear!

Be sure to visit their web sites below for events and specials throughout the year. The staff at Carlisle has worked with these family owned dealership, since the Carlisle Bike Fest started. We know that you’ll feel welcome in their stores.

• www.appalachianharley-davidson.com
• www.susquehannavalleyhd.com
• www.msharleydavidson.com

No Carlisle show would be complete without a burnout contest. If you missed them here in 2008, no worries! They are all over YouTube. Carlisle Burn Outs or Carlisle Bike Fest will bring them up real quick like. Check them out there and see them live at Carlisle in 2009.

• Delkron
• Koups Cycle Shop
• 2008 Burnout Competition - Harley Video

This is a very unique machine that replicates a stunt wheelie! Wheelie Ride uses a real motorcycle without the risk factor of being on the street!

• www.wheelieride-md.com

The 93.5 WTPA Stage at the Carlisle Bike Fest will be host to entertainment all weekend long. A full line up of bands all weekend as well as the Big Smokey Eating Contest, Give-Away Bikes, Stunt shows and more. Make your way around the stage and grandstand where there’s always something going on

• www.wtpafm.com
• Band Flyer PDF

Cycle Solutions will be on hand at the Carlisle Bike Fest, with two rolling service facilities featuring their Dynojet 250i dynamometer and extensive product lines. Many of which will be available for install and tuning at Bike Fest, while you enjoy the best Bike Show on the East Coast. Cycle Solutions will also be debuting their Lift & Lube - full service mobile oil change facility, featuring top-notch oil brands and filters.

• Cycle Solutions

Kids at Carlisle features fun activities that parents and kids can enjoy together. Craft activities, indoor play and outdoor play areas and more. Hours: Saturday, 10am-4pm. Don’t miss the Carlisle Cuties Contest: Babies and Toddlers, up to age 3. Tots dress to impress in Biker and/or Carlisle apparel! Meet at the back of the stage on Saturday at 4:30 pm. Cuties will be introduced to the audience at the grandstand. Photo-ops with Mandy the Mechanic and Motorhead Max, the Carlisle Mascots. All participants receive a small toy. The cutie with the best outfit (selected by staff) receives a US Savings Bond. *Attention Parents: Please be advised that Kids at Carlisle is not a child care service. Parental supervision is required at all times. All activities are free of charge!