Salina Tech – Vehicle Extravaganza 2011

What: Salina Tech – Vehicle Extravaganza 2011.

When: Saturday, April 2 from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm

Where: 2562 Centennial Road, Salina, KS

What Else: This show includes vehicles from custom choppers to race cars and everything in between including a custom bicycle class.

The registration fee is $15 per bike and includes a shirt and dash plaque if registered before March 25th.

Registration form here.

More info at their website and Facebook page.

El Torreon Winter Swap Meet – Kansas City

What: El Torreon Winter Bicycle Swap Meet. This is Kansas City’s first winter swap meet.

When: Sunday March 6, 2011. 10:00PM ? 3:00 PM.

Where: El Torreon is at 3101 Gillham Plaza, Kansas City, Mo. Same place as our summer swap meets, but indoors.

Cost: Free to attend. Vendors $15.

We are asking people to reserve a space so that we don’t leave anyone out in the cold, we believe we can get about 25 or so vendors in, there’s an upstairs Cowtown Mallroom where there’s about 40 more vendors set up every week, selling any and everything. There’s a live band every Sunday @ 2pm, So if you are looking for a winter road trip or just have to get out for a good swap meet come on and join us.

More info here.

TREK Demo Day

What: TREK Demo Day. TREK Bicycles will be in town to provide the public a chance to demo their high end 2011 Off -Road, Road & Triathlon Bicycles.

When: Saturday, April 2, 2011.

Where: Miller?s Meadow. Located just west of the corner of Pawnee and 143rd East, Wichita, Kansas.

Why: This is a great way to test out that bike that you have always wanted to ride – on real trails and roads and not just the LBS parking lot. Lee?s Bike Shop will be there with drinks and food, as will the Bicycle Exchange and bicycle clubs, to make sure that it is a great time for all. Come out and ride these “future classics”. Bring your “klunker” and ride Millers Meadow.

2011 St Patrick’s Parade



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The Coasters will be riding in the 5th Annual St. Patrick’s Parade on Saturday, March 12th, 2011.

The parade starts at noon. Please be at the staging area in the Metropolitan Baptist Church/Lawrence Dumont Stadium parking lots no later than 11:30am.

As is our tradition we’ll follow up the parade with a pub Pedal.

In order to continue to be asked to participate in this great parade please follow these simple rules…
You must decorate your bike and/or yourself in a St Patrick’s Day/Irish theme.
No fast or trick riding allowed!
Do not throw candy or gifts. You can hand these things out.

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The title is one of many strange search queries that ended up at the Coasters website. I thought that would get your attention better than “Web Site Stats”.

Here’s some Coasters website stats from 2010…

11,513 Visitors

20,377 Visits from 101 countries/territories

77,361 Pages viewed

Top 5 visited pages…
1. Coasters main page
2. Midwest Bicycle Swap
3. Midwest Bicycle Fest
4. Art Of The Bicycle
5. Classifieds

Top 5 referring websites…
1. Google.com
2. Direct (i.e. bookmarked)
3. Locojoe.com
4. Facebook.com
5. Ratrodbikes.com

Top 5 search keywords
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