we attend the thirty second annual two thousand and twelve two thousand and thirteen progressive international motorcycle shows in seattle we are at the progressive international member cycle show and they are listed for several several months over the across the country for they two thousand and twelve two progressive is the title sponsor so they have a very large booth here interactive you can get a photo taken a top model cycle and have it emailed to you facebook or whatever as well as sign up for insurance or just rest there are also various companies touting all kinds of motorcycles and motorcycle products so over this way we have a lot of people washington state convention center we're now back home for the second year in a row previously states will eventually wind its way back here for the two thousand and thirteen fourteen season and it will likely also be in december usually about the first two weeks maybe about the second or third weekend of december to definitely before christmas that does is that it's going to line should be breakers so that you can break the be so i'll press down here press down all the way around break to be flip it over and break the other side so the rest of brother get most of that off i actually just about six months ago had major heart surgery and i've been recovering from and i've got some nice battle scars on my chest and i'm still here today to show you how to change a tire so no excuses that's during this competition  gets a chance to compete and this competition features different classes freestyle modified harley davidson modified three questions and share your experiences what you guys have offered as well so  there right something here for everybody so all of that detail is with a sharpie my understanding is  or getting into the two thousand but that's one of the fun things to do right here as a check out more as i was walking around a little bit i came across a familiar face on t o of the evergreen safety council and for those that don't know what that is and who you are  nonprofit safety and training organization one of our main programs are motorcycle safety program which we use for training for learning how to ride a bike or to get more advanced training on riding a motorcycle what is your title take classes on monday tuesday and wednesday when we run and why is it important that people take these kinds of classes i think the best specially for new writers the best way to get started start with good habits so you can you say doing the wrong thing and continue the wrong things what does that typically and fail to be many things not knowing how to take a quarter properly breaking well in a corner and incorrect spots  not understanding the dynamics of the motorcycle when you're writing and stuff when you're doing something wrong in your writing i personally as i'm as i'm driving around i see more often that those writing crotch rockets as they're called compared to say like a harley have a tendency to do some grandstanding or feed class and we try to change the mentality office to talk to anybody on the phone not your typical motorcycle i have a gentleman with me his name is tony hello and tell us a little bit about this is the twenty twelve morgan freewill comes from malvern england got a two thousand lots of vehicles have been in business for more than a hundred years they originally created a pretty well around to get around the tax laws in england and the timing was taxing for real cars because cars was kind of a new thing in england at the time they were taxing it really high sort of a luxury tax what are the rules about owning one of these and washington is that it's considered a motorcycle but it registers as a motorcycle but when you go to a department of motor vehicle they don't require a considered a motorcycle probably to your insurance company but probably a car to the department or a well very interesting and i know that downtown vendors our bikes show hogwarts we have two local breweries in town and if you come you're going to have a great time we can guarantee you if you can have fun in our rally just give up there you've got to watch the plymouth family going through the small town absolutely well in oregon you have to keep it under one hundred or becomes a felony you don't want to get that hit that mark thank you for the place where you get a chance to actually sit down on the bike get the feel of it  earlier pointed out we actually can start one up and try it out over there in the background there their own pictures to get an idea of maybe what they want i came across another health canyon blues and i found my attention and then i found out it's a little bit different and you are my name's course and how is it different from the other hells canyon that we just talked to we promote the entire eastern oregon central oregon area a little bit in the washington idaho and montana ok and then what kind of routes and things do you suggest folks well we don't suggest any routes because motorcyclists are kind of free wheeling when it comes to that kind of thing what we do is we provide maps that take you to different areas of the of our state in washington oregon and idaho they're made a motorcyclist for motorcyclists sold there they're pretty basic but they cover a lot of the roads that you might want to take in in your adventures around the country so  of the roads are and besides maine are tiriel zur yes third a lot of them are or off to the side that road did you see and you go i wonder what's up that road that's kind of the things that we do here if in our mantz they show all the little side roads and in the little twisty roads and things like that that all of us motorcyclists are looking for is a lot of this information online too we don't know where that was a question we've been asked and we're going to talk to the guy that makes the maps and find out for me on that so it's going to be really disparate interesting to see what he said  the needs you think you might have kind as it turns out we're pretty close to ending and it turns out the folks from the libby motor we talked to earlier in the program were and for anybody who may not recall that the two young rainier burry was in downtown seattle right along i five and and and it be pretty cool but we will have to and this group are checked out dated in next year it's a three day show typically happening about the second weekend in december so if the two thousand and thirteen two thousand and fourteen dates are not at the end of the credit then it just room that it will be sometime in december broccoli the second weekend and as far as i know it's going to still be at the washington convention center is a believe they have a several year contract for this location learn more about the thirty third international motorcycle shows for seattle now occurring in february not december as in previous years on the fourteenth valentine's day to the sixteenth 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