Shoppers can buy leather jackets and chains that jingle or just walk around and mingle. Custom fuel tanks for the hogs are always a popular item at the show. It is as inevitable as it is uncomfortable, that at some point during your driving career you find yourself sharing a street or highway with a motorcycle. The bikes, or Hogs as Harley Davidson aficionados call them, may be weaving in and out of interstate traffic at breakneck speed or cruising the streets in packs. However, the most disturbing motorcycle to many people is the one next to them at the traffic light, the Hog with exhaust gurgling raw power so loud your car windows vibrate.
More action is in store a little later in the spring.
It might seem rather insane to invite a few hundred of these bikers and their machines over, but that is just what the local Harley Owner's Group, or H.O.G., chapter is doing. While many people might believe this event is grounds enough for local evacuation of women and small children, the truth of the matter is that Waco H.O.G. chapter and their Memorial Day guests are just a group of fun-loving motorheads who share a Harley Davidson passion. More and more people are catching motorcycle fever and joining the ranks of Hog owners, which has created quite a diverse local motorcycle scene. With business people and kids and women becoming more involved, Harley fanatics are swelling beyond the motorcycle owner stereotype. Everyone will be welcome to come and join the fun during the rally, but preregistration is required for those who would also like to enter their Harley's.