Photos: Todd Gill, Flyer staff
The 2012 Bikes, Blues & BBQ motorcycle rally is in full swing and will only continue to grow before the festivities end Saturday night.
Friday night’s events include the Car Cruise-In at the Northwest Arkansas Mall, the People’s Choice BBQ Competition at the Washington County Fairgrounds and live music on several stages around town.
Saturday’s events include the Bikes, Blues & BBQ Car Show at the Northwest Arkansas Mall, the annual Parade of Power motorcycle parade on Dickson Street and the 2012 Miss Bikes, Blues & BBQ finals at the Dickson Street Main Stage.
» See the full 2012 Bikes, Blues & BBQ event schedule
Friday afternoon photos – Sept. 28, 2012
Everybody knows that the most hardcore bikers carry digital cameras on their wrists.
we’re those funnel cakes man….
Culture!
This is not my party, but these photo are pretty fantastic.
Interesting comments here:
http://www.fayettevilleflyer.com/2012/09/27/2012-bikes-blues-bbq-rally-kicks-off-in-fayetteville/
Sorry JX but I call BS. If you’re a vendor at BBBQ and not making any money that’s on you. Dickson is packed and the vendors I see are selling, selling, selling. Perhaps if you worked your booth as hard as you are spamming this forum with the same post over and over you’d be doing a little better at the register.
The city should definitely have a festival committee to oversee such fraud. JC the event promoters have been taking advantage of this situation for way too long without thorough over site from local governing bodies. Our current mayor when he came into office made a motion of a “festival committee” with no follow through in four years. This is why you are losing money as a vendor, and being regarded as a fool by the event promotions. In stead of the mayor and his under qualified staff promoting such possible ventures to our city, we allow those to come as you say “rape” and pillage and disregard their obligations to the IRS/City of Fayetteville/Citizenry/Vendors a like. I’m sorry. The Mayor in turn decided to put a tax lien on our beloved Dickson St. for our everyday use by it’s street curb and make it his top priority, instead of the likes of yours.
Well– that was a desperate, incoherent, illogical and inopportune attempt to suggest that Mr. Jordan not be reelected. I can’t even give that a “nice try”.
Mr. Franks, that is a fair statement about the above rant. If rebuttal were of any consequence, it could be noted that Jordan did convene a festival task force to provide information to assist anyone interested in organizing a festival to celebrate whatever moved them, and it produced a festival guide that is online at the A&P website. I can’t say if it is helpful, because I have not tried to organize a new festival in Fayetteville, but it was hardly “a “festival committee” with no follow through in four years” or the reason why the alleged vendor cannot peddle his wares. Facts will be ignored by partisan attack dogs during the next six weeks and perhaps longer.
Dude. What a Frigin liar. If you can’t sell anything today or the last few days, then you should rethink what your selling. Dumb@$$ post.
Amen.
It’s apparent there are less than 50,000 people attending this. There aren’t even 1000 motorcycles in any of the pictures posted from this, when photos from Daytona Bike Week, Sturgis Rally, and other motorcycle festivals are able to post photos of 1000′s parked on their main drag. Seriously doubt there are more than 25,000 extra motorcycles in the region compared to a normal weekend here. The organizers have routinely grossly exaggerated the attendance of this festival, year after year.
i’ve seen exactly one police stop all week and it was a local car
HATE B, B & BS,
but these photos are great!
@Duh and @ICallBS
Both ignorant. My responses are at the link below:
http://www.fayettevilleflyer.com/2012/09/27/2012-bikes-blues-bbq-rally-kicks-off-in-fayetteville/#comment-71899
I agree with the posters above. I live by Dixon and I feel the number of attendees to BBB is grossly over estimated. If we really had additional 400,000 people to the region, on top of the 200,000 plus residents of nwa, I feel that traffic and congestion would be WAY worse than it was. It was still full of bikers and out of towners, but 400,000 seems excessive. It is difficult to prove true numbers since it is an open event, but being an open event is a good thing overall.
Really nice pics!