Top 10 Bikes of Slimey Crud Cafe Racer Run, Fall 2014

Описание: Top 10 Bikes of Slimey Crud Cafe Racer Run, Fall 20014 – Unofficially, of course

The temperature was 36°F at 7 a.m. Sunday at my house in southern Wisconsin. The forecast called for partly sunny skies but a daytime high temperature of about 52°F.

Partly cloudy skies with no wind — a blanket of white frost covered my lawn. My guess was attendance at the fall running of the Slimey Crud Motorcycle Gang Cafe Racer Run would be light — at least much lighter than when warm, sunny weather is in the forecast.

I must admit I was wrong. The turnout for the start of the run in Pine Bluff, Wis., was huge — nearly as big as any I’ve seen over the years. Never underestimate the devotion of motorcyclists to a good ride.

If you’ve been reading our coverage of the Crud Run in recent years, you know it is a completely organic event that is driven by word-of-mouth publicity – it has no official sponsor, no corporate ties, no official route to follow, no entry fee and basically no rules except that it begins in Pine Bluff, Wis., and ends in Leland, Wis., and that all participants relax, behave and have a good time.

Founded by the Slimey Crud Motorcycle Gang somewhere back in the mists of time, it has taken on a life of its own, becoming what is probably the largest spontaneous motorcycle event in Wisconsin on the first Sunday of May and first Sunday in October each year.

For our coverage of this year’s event and in keeping with the unofficial nature of the Crud Run, we present our picks for the Top 10 Best Bikes on this year’s fall run.

The picks are unofficial, not recognized as having any meaning or value except by us and the reader and entitle the owners of said top pick bikes to absolutely nothing except bragging rights to say their bike was once a top pick of Ultimate MotorCycling staff, subject to their biases, interests and opinions.