I didn’t spend a lot of time at this year’s show so I only have about 50 pics to share. Still, there were some awesome bikes to see.

I’ll start with the nicest of the show, these two from MV Agusta (they also had two other bikes that I didn’t photograph). I don’t know if my camera does them justice but I can say they were absolutely stunning in person.

The Supervoloce…a great match to the Paganis I saw at the autoshow yesterday.

The Tourismo Veloce RC SCS…or “racy tourer”

Continuing in my order of preference

Harley Fat Boy

Harley CVO Pan America

Honda Africa Twin

Honda competition bike

You know I wont do a bike show review without taking a pic of the Hayabusa

Last year I found a Honda mini-bike. This year, KTM

Lots of great variations of the Duke

Triumph Daytona

Triumph Tiger

Check out the aero on this Aprilia…craziness!

Aprilia Tuareg

Yamaha R1M…mmmm look at all that carbon fiber!

Royal Enfield was quite prominent at this show. They did A LOT of social media promotion and brought in a speaker to talk about the history of their swinging arm suspension.

This Classic 350 was a little Fat Boy-esque

Suzuki gixxer 8R

Honda Transalp

Honda NX500

Kove 450, now available in Canada

That covers it for this year. Hopefully I will be able to spend more time at the show next year.

RL

What better way to start off 2024 than with the North American International Motorcycle Supershow!

Let’s start off with my show favourites…how about a five wheeler! In addition to the quad real wheels, I love the overall lines on this one.

I have always been into car/home audio and this bike fused two legendary brands, Rockford Fosgate and Focal! I used to have Rockford Fosgate gear back in their “if your mirrors aint shaken, you got taken” days and recently heard the $350,000 Focal Grand Utopia speakers at Toronto Audiofest 2023.

Overall I think this booth was the best display of the show. I loved all their bikes.

the wheels on this one were just stunning…as was the paintjob

nice touch on the green screen

amazing paintjob on their custom Springer

go-kart made from parts off a 1967 Porsche 911!

Not as many custom Hayabusas as past shows but this one is certainly a unique take

vs. the original

the Livewire looks awesome in its naked form

vs. with its clothes on

lots of blacked out Harley baggers

and CVOs

Lots of Fat Boys, custom, stock, new and pre-owned

and just as muscular, the V-Max

A few more customs before I get to sportbikes

Ok on to sportbikes…let’s start with the Italians, Ducati!

Aprilia

Not as many Japanese superbikes as past shows

Vintage sportbikes

More vintage

Adventure bikes seemed to be quite popular

Interesting to see bicycles from Ducati

and Harley

Leave it to me to find knives at a motorcycle show lol…customs from Ash Gears

Lots of clothing and accessories

So all I need now is a custom bike with Rockford Fosgate/Focal stereo and an Ash Gear custom knife strapped to my side….

RL

The North American International Motorcycle Supershow, aka “the Big One” claims to cover 500,000 square feet, feature 500+ vendors and 1000+ bikes. While these numbers may have been true for their pre-covid shows, this one definitely felt smaller. In fact, it seemed to me that there was more gear than bikes. It definitely felt more like a dealer show than a manufacturer show.

Case in point, the “Harley-Davidson” booth was run by a local dealer, not the manufacturer. It had TONS of clothing and maybe 10-15 bikes, some of which were already sold so you could not sit on them. Such was the case with my favourite, the Fat Boy

The Terminator may have been here

I love this bike.

This CVO Road Glide was also sold

Vs. the standard Road Glide

Another beautiful CVO, this time a Street Glide

The Heritage Classic lives up to its name…it certainly felt nostalgic with that windshield and reminded me of the old CHIPS tv show…I liked it a lot better in real life than in pics, in fact it was one of the biggest surprises of the show.

The new Sportster S looks great

A couple of Pan America

Livewire electric bike

Fat Bob

There were lots of crazy customs competing for a $50,000 prize

I have seen this John Deer bike at a previous show

But he has added a matching Challenger lol

Crazy paint jobs

Another one of my show favourites, a great winter bike

There were also lots of vintage bikes on display

Switching gears to sportbikes, the BMW S1000RR

And M1000RR

Ducati Panigale

899

This modified Edition 1 was my favourite

Actually there were quite a few modified sportbikes on scene

And some modified adventure bikes

Minimalist helmets seemed to be a thing…they were all over the place

Lots of bike art

So all in all it was an ok show but there is still some work to do to get it back to pre-covid glory days. I did feel that there weren’t enough bikes or at least a shortage of the ones I wanted to see. Just to recap my favourites (almost all Harleys)

• Harley Fat Boy
• Harley CVO Road Glide
• Harley CVO Street Glide
• Harley Heritage Classic
• Harley track bike
• Ducati Edition One

RL

Wow that was certainly one of the better motorcycle shows that we have had in a while. Soooo many beautiful bikes and lots of new intros. I admit that I have not been reading up on the latest and greatest so there were a lot of new surprises for me.

Let’s start with Harley Davidson…

Tons of new product, such as the new 500 and 750 Street…including several customized with factory parts. I really liked this one

Although it looks really small next to me lol

More variants

One of my favourites at the last show, CVO Street Glide

Lol, I always manage to find something to match whatever shoes I wear to the show

Perhaps I need this buckle too

Equally sparkley…Sparkley Davidson?

This is certainly the Hoover Davidson..wow the electric Harley sounds like a vacuum! Check out the vid

Badass trike

Moving on to Ducati…they had several Diavals, sadly no AMG variant but they did have the carbon…good thing I wore black and white lol

The new 1299

And smaller brother the 899

Hypermotard

Multistrada

Monster

A complete surprise for me..the Scrambler! Looks great in person

More high end Italian bikes from MV Augusta..every one of them was beautiful. Every single one.

Dragster

Brutale

Aprillia also had a nice lineup

Including the RSV racer

And RSV4 street bike

Tuono

Moto Guzzi

Stunning race bike from Triumph

Rocket

Speed Triple…somehow it seems more conservative and less hooligan

Daytona

Bonneville

Tiger

Another stunning race bike, this time from BMW

S1000RR

K1300S

R1200GS

Next, KTM

RC8 1190R

Duke 690

Super Adventure

The fit and finish on Indians is incredible

One of my favourites of the show, Indian Scout

More great bikes from Indian

On to the Japanese bikes, I thought Kawasaki had the most impressive lineup.

In fact, the new Ninja was one of my favourites of the show. It reminded me of the Pagani Zonda R.

More Ninjas

My favourite Japanese bike, the Hayabusa

Love the R1

And the even crazier YZF-R1M

R3

V-STAR 1300 DELUXE SE…all 80 inches of it lol

And from Honda

The CBR900R

I am a big fan of Arai helmets, I have their GP-5W, designed for touring car racing.

And finally, something completely different, the Polaris Slingshot…this thing was wild! And bigger than you might think.

All in all a great show.

RL

Sorry i am behind by about 4-5 show reviews so i will cover two of them in this post. As i have said in my past reviews, we have about 4 motorcycle shows per year here in Toronto, including the dealer, manufacturer, spring swap, and bike and tattoo show. This review covers the first two of these shows.

The Motorcycle Supershow

As usual, I will post pics in my order of preference. For some reason I have become re-enamoured with the Harley Street Glide and was happy to see they had a few of them at the show.

FINALLY the AMG variant of the Ducati Diavel! While there have been Diavels at past shows, they were not the AMG versions.

More beautiful Ducatis including the 1199 corse, Monster and Hypermotard

KTM Super Duke

BMW RR1100

Well if i didn’t already love the R1200GS…they go out and make it in camo!

MV Agusta

Hayabusa

Luckily this “police” bike is for the track only

Ninja 1400

Ok on to the crazy customs

and crazy helmets

because you always ask, some biker babes.

The Motorcycle Show

Wow this is the longest lineup i have ever seen for this show.

Once again, i went straight for the Harleys

More beautiful Harleys

MV Agusta

Ducati

Aprilia

The Aprilia girls

Moto Guzzi

I did not get the right angle here…the lights look evil!

KTM

BMW

new R nine T…reminds me of Cyborg

Triumph

Hayabusa

new GSXR1000

and its closest competitors

Kwak 1400

Yamaha R1

I prefer the original vmax

A retro Yamaha

Speaking of retro…Royal Enfield

Indian

A very Harley like Victory

A little Mad Max

Honda racing

and Honda not racing

Honda from the inside out

That’s all till the next show..next month!

RL

I discovered this show last year and was looking forward to the next one…although this year’s show was not quite as good, there were still lots of cool things to see.

Too bad these guns weren’t real

one of the cleanest trikes i have ever seen

a more extreme trike

t-rex…wonder what douchebag put the pizza on the rear wing

this one matched my shoes

another gold one

at the other end of the spectrum, stealth black

more cool custom bikes

and of course, biker babes

i couldnt decide which pic i liked best..so i am posting all three lol

repent after looking at those pics

more good causes

ok now on to the tattoo and art part of the show…some cool art for the “black collar” crowd

custom t-shirts

air brushing

piercing and tattoos on the spot

this guy got a whole back tattoo!

that’s all for now.

RL

I took these pics exactly a week ago before heading out to Vegas…i am back home now but after posting 800 vegas pics, i am a bit too lazy to do a full review with comments and the bikes organized by brand etc…so i hope you are all ok with a lazy picture dump…also i just got the Nikon D600 and am still learning how to use it…

2013 Toronto Motorcycle show..yet anther LAZY review

I posted a “lazy” review of the last motorcycle show of 2012 a couple of weeks ago and you all did not seem to mind…so here is another lazy review of the first 2013 show lol…sadly I did not have time to stay and do a brand by brand, booth by booth review

I will start with my favourites, MV Agusta and Ducati

My favourite Harley of the show

Triumph Speed Triple R

A krazy kwak with nitro!

and the “regular” version

BMW R1200GS

KTM

Honda CBR1000RR Repsol edition

Ok, now we move to the “interesting” stuff…I LOVE these riding suits lol

nice helmet

crazy paint jobs

crazy customs

and finally some biker babes

these guys had awesome posters and gear

RL