The Carolinas’ Full Throttle Magazine
46
Biker Trash Nation’s Camel City Bikefest 4.0 By: Lincoln Infield Photos By: Lincoln & Maggie Infield inston-Salem has a pretty chill downtown. Eclectic storefronts keep locals and visitors busy with high end eats, art, and naturally, craft beer. There is a lot going on in Downtown Winston-Salem, but on September 7 Biker Trash Nation owned the downtown area. Liberty Street, between MLK Jr. Dr. and 7th St was the destination of Biker Trash from all over the Carolinas and beyond. Wayne Pinnix, President of Biker Trash Nation had a goal, to create an event that bikers of all creed, color, make and model could congregate at and have a good old fashioned Biker street party and with the help of First Lady, Vandee, and a host of sponsors and loyal biker trash, the dream was realized. Vendor load in was Saturday morning and just as soon as the streets were cleared, they began to fill up with chrome. It was apparent very early on in the day that this was going to be a real barn burner. The two blocks of Liberty St. were lined with vendors hawking jewelry, custom motorcycle parts, cigars, pinstiping, custom paint jobs, apparel, custom motorcycles and everything you could imagine. The 6th street intersection was the center of the promenade and was home to Radical Randy’s Baggerz and Tailz bike show and sound competition. Radical Randy is a real pro and does a hell of a job putting on a bike show. He puts on world class bike shows up and down the south east. Show bike owners are obviously aware of this and the caliber of bikes that showed up were jaw dropping. Big wheels, tail draggers, baggers, choppers and everything in between rolled in dripping with chrome and custom paint were lining the streets waiting to be judged in hopes of taking home top honors.
W
The Tom McGrath’s Motorcycle Law Group sponsored the band stage that was situated at the top of the rally area where SmasHat got the party started and set a pretty high standard for the 3 other bands going on later in the day. Jukebox Re-
vival was up next, followed by Sok Monkey all warming the stage up for National Recording Artists Eve To Adam to bring the house down. In between music sets, Lady V took the stage to kick off the Pin Up contest that has become a real staple of Camel City Bikefest. at least a dozen beauties took the stage one by one to be introduced by Wayne and give out a little information on themselves. The girls all gave fun facts about themselves and I thought it was particularly interesting that a number of the ladies had some hands on vocations like welding and mechanics, really giving the contestants worthy credentials. These ladies weren’t just putting on a show, they were living the pinup life! The judges really had a tough job this afternoon, but after careful deliberation, Sara Smith was named Ms. Camel City with Jessica Lory and Sammi Trusler bringing in 2nd and 3rd place respectively. Directly after the Pinup Contest, Radical Randy started handing out the awards for the Baggerz and Tailz Bike Show. Randy does it up right and has plaques and big trophies to call out all the winners and grand champions. As mentioned before, this was no easy task as the street was lined with show bikes that came to bring home some hardware. When all was said and done Mike Meaut of Sothern Boy Baggerz took home
