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Pages in category "Motorcycle rallies in the United States" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The Quail Motorcycle Gathering is a motorcycle rally and Concours d'Elegance held annually since 2009 [3] at Carmel, California.Quail participants show bikes, and 100 of them ride the California Highway Patrol motor unit escorted 112 mile Quail Ride around Carmel Valley, which includes three fast laps on the track at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca.
A motorcycle rally is a gathering of motorcycle enthusiasts. Rallies can be large or small, and one-time or recurring. Rallies can be large or small, and one-time or recurring. Some rallies are ride-in events, whereas some like the Iron Butt Rally involve days of riding and an actual gathering only at the end of the ride.
The event has been described as "the biggest single-day motorcycle event in the world," [5] a title also claimed by the Rolling Thunder rally in the United States. [6] Although hundreds of attendees arrive during winter months, [ 5 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] attendance is at its highest when the date falls on a summer day.
Around 10–15 percent of motorcyclists in the US are women, [8] [9] while at major African American motorcycle rallies, such as Black Bike Week or the National Bikers Roundup, women make up close to half of participants. [10] From 1940 until 2008, Myrtle Beach had also hosted a predominantly white motorcycle rally, called Harley-Davidson Week ...
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[10] When Huey P. Newton went to jail for the 1967 shootout between the Oakland cops and the Panthers, many members of the Dragons attended Free Huey rallies at De Fremery Park. A lot of the members attended weekend rallies to show off their bikes and to listen to speeches given by prominent Black Power movement leaders of the day.