{"id":9375,"date":"2016-07-14T13:30:09","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T04:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mooneyes.co.jp\/en\/?page_id=9375"},"modified":"2016-07-15T18:04:42","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T09:04:42","slug":"born-free-8","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mooneyes.co.jp\/en\/photo\/trip-reports\/born-free-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Mooneyes Staff Steve’s Born Free 8 Trip Report"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(\u65e5\u672c\u8a9e\u7248\u306f\u3053\u3061\u3089\u3067\u3059<\/strong><\/a>)<\/div>\r\n
\r\nMOON Space Agency Steve's BORN FREE 8 Trip Report<\/strong>
\r\nBorn Free 8 - June 25-26, 2016 at Oak Canyon Ranch in Silverado, California<\/strong><\/div>\r\n
\r\nGreetings! This is MOONEYES Steve. I had the pleasure of attending Born Free 8<\/a> held at Oak Canyon Ranch in Silverado, California at the end of June 2016. This is the fourth time in five years for me to attend the Born Free Show and it gets better every time! Grant, Mike and the entire Born Free Team continue to present a top notch vintage bike show every year.
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\r\nThe day we arrived in California, we headed to the Born Free preparty that evening. The Invited Builder bikes were lined up together in front of the stage area. As the sun went down Grant came on stage to say a few words and the party was over. It was great to chatch up with a lot of old friends there and see the new bikes on display.
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\r\nSETUP DAY<\/strong>
\r\n\"Friday<\/a>
\r\nAfter we completed the setup of the MOONEYES Booth, I took a quick look at the Invited Builders area.
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\r\n\r\n\"Show<\/a>
\r\nSHOW CLASS MAGAZINE PARTY - COOK'S CORNER<\/strong>
\r\nIn the afternoon, we finished everything we had to do. After a quick bite to eat, we headed to the annual Show Class Magazine party at Cook's Corner. This is another highlight of the Born Free Show and officially kick starts the weekend for many attendees. For a change, we got there very early, before it was dark. It was an amazing sight to see as there were already hundreds of bikes there and more riding in.
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\r\nWe made it inside through the crowd. Live music was playing inside the bar area. The Show Class Magazine People's Choice Award bikes were lined up in the outdoor area. There were eight bikes in the final round surrounded by the crowd of people. The winner of the Show Class People's Choice Award secured a spot inside the Born Free Invited Builder's area. As the night came, we headed back to the hotel.
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\r\n\r\n\"Saturday<\/a>
\r\nBORN FREE 8 (SATURDAY)<\/strong>
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\r\nFirst thing we did Saturday morning was prepare the MOONEYES BOOTH. As previous years, the MOONEYES BOOTH was located on \"lake front\" real estate which is so great!
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\r\n\"Ryan<\/a> \"Uwe<\/a> \"Kiyo's<\/a> \"Max<\/a> \"Arie<\/a> \"Show<\/a>
\r\nThe Invited Builders were in the process of cleaning up and preparing their bikes so I took a walk around the Born Free grounds. It was still quite early. Swap meet vendors and other booths were still getting ready.
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\r\nSpectators with \"Grass Passes\" were making their way into the on-site parking. All types of bikes were rolling in.
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\r\n\r\n\"Born<\/a>
\r\nJust as the crowds started to come in, I took more photos starting with the Invited Builders Area. They were all incredible bikes to see and you can easily spend hours in the sun gazing over each one.
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\r\n\r\n\"San<\/a>
\r\nSpecial areas inside Born Free included San Diego Customs FXR Show as well as Arlen Ness show bikes and digger competition. Making my way back to the Invited Builders area I noticed very long lines forming. It was time for the WALL OF DEATH, a major attraction and crowd pleasing performance by Death Riders!
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\r\nThe afternoon came and it was time for the Saturday awards and give-away. The main awards were the Invited Builders Awards. First place would win a trip to Japan for HCS2016!
\r\nAnd the winner is...
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\r\nKiyo's Garage and his twin engine Honda CB750!
\r\nSecond Place: Arie Van Schyndel 1941 Knucklehead
\r\nThird Place: Jeff Leighton 1942 Harley UL
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\r\nAfter the Invited Builders Awards, it was time to raffle this awesome Chopper Dave built Panhead! Lucky winner was so thrilled!
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\r\n\"Born<\/a> \"Born<\/a>
\r\nThe two responsible for making Born Free what it is today.
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\r\nSUNDAY at BORN FREE 8<\/strong>
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\r\nI started off Sunday by browsing the Art & Fuel gallery.
\r\nThen I made my way around checking out everything.
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\r\nTime flies when you are having fun and suddenly it was time for the awards. Sunday featured all the awards including BF8 Best in Show. After the awards two bikes would be raffled off!
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\r\nAnd after Grant & Mike spent hours going through everything, the Best in Show award for Born Free 8 went to Jeff Leighton and his 1942 Harley-Davidson UL.
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\r\nAfter the Best in Show award was announced, there was more! Two bikes waited to be raffled off. This year, there were many no-shows! They had to pull out so many tickets. Finally, someone in the audience was called and a joyous couple scored an awesome Knucklehead! Another lucky winner scored a brand new Harley-Davidson. Congratulations to all the winners this year at Born Free 8.
\r\nStart making plans now for Born Free 9! We'll see you there!\r\nThank you for viewing.\r\nGo! with MOON\r\nSteve...\r\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(\u65e5\u672c\u8a9e\u7248\u306f\u3053\u3061\u3089\u3067\u3059) MOON Space Agency Steve's BORN FREE 8 Trip Report Born Free 8 - June 25-26, 2016 at Oak Canyon Ranch in Silverado, California Greetings! This is MOONEYES Steve. I had the pleasure of attending Born Free 8 held at Oak Canyon Ranch in Silverado, California at the end of June 2016. This is the fourth time in five years for me to attend the Born Free Show and it gets better every time! Grant, Mike and the entire Born Free Team continue to present a top notch vintage bike show every year. The day we arrived in California, we headed to the Born Free preparty that evening. The Invited Builder bikes were lined up together in front of the stage area. As the sun went down Grant came on stage to say a few words and the party was over. It was great to chatch up with a lot of old friends there and see the new bikes on display. SETUP DAY After we completed the setup of the MOONEYES Booth, I took a quick look at the Invited Builders area. SHOW CLASS MAGAZINE PARTY - COOK'S CORNER In the afternoon, we finished everything we had to do. After a quick bite to eat, we headed to the annual Show Class Magazine party at Cook's Corner. This is another highlight of the Born Free Show and officially kick starts the weekend for many attendees. For a change, we got there very early, before it was dark. It was an amazing sight to see as there were already hundreds of bikes there and more riding in. We made it inside through the crowd. Live music was playing inside the bar area. The Show Class Magazine People's Choice Award bikes were lined up in the outdoor area. There were eight bikes in the final round surrounded by the crowd of people. The winner of the Show Class People's Choice Award secured…","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":15,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooneyes.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooneyes.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooneyes.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooneyes.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooneyes.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9375"}],"version-history":[{"count":52,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooneyes.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9794,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooneyes.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9375\/revisions\/9794"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooneyes.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooneyes.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}