Me and Harley-Davidson go together like Manny Ramirez and calculus. After all, my only bike is a 24-speed Specialized Sirrus.
But when a motorcycle event involves a sunny Sunday afternoon, free food, cheap booze and hot bartenders in leather chaps, I'm there. And so I put my camera in overdrive last week and posted 29 photos from the annual Harley Davidson Fashion Show at Red Rock West, a bar so popular it attracts customers that range from bikers to business execs, from sailors to celebs, from the tattooed to the toasted, to those god-awful, cheesy bachelorette parties from Long Island to the (worse!) carloads of nimrods from Jersey on their weekend jaunts to Manhattan.
Anyway, back to the show: One-by-one, the bartenders strutted and danced across the bar, showing off the latest and tightest Harley Davidson apparel. Ten-by-ten I took photos — nine-by-nine of which were blurry, since I don't know aperture from apricots and ISO from UFOs.
The mistress of ceremonies was none other than Tracy (pictured in red), one of my favorite bartenders, whom I interviewed last year and who maintains the official Red Rock West website, where you can read the latest bar news, meet the staff and view photo galleries that thankfully don't include any of me doing something retarded.
The highlight for me was winning a benefit raffle and being awarded a long-sleeve Red Rock t-shirt, plus a $100 gift certificate to the Harley-Davidson of NYC store. You know I'm no biker when I was more psyched to get the shirt. Well, looks like it's gonna be more shot glasses for the PK.com world headquarters.
Other New York Links:
• New York Press Best of Manhattan — Best Gay Bar for Straight Guys to Pick Up Chicks, Best Orgies, Best Movie About New York, Best Use of Tits at a Rock Venue, Best Place to Buy Bootleg Movies and more.
• Gotham Menu — Online menus of NYC businesses that will send short men who speak little English to your door. But that bag of food you don't have to cook is worth it.
• Daily News Posts Pics of Martha Stewart on Bahamas Beach — I don't think she has to worry about being hit on by prison guards.
• Vibrators Come to Madison Avenue — A sex shop opens at the corner of Madison Ave. and 69 Street. There were no leases available at the corner of Madison Ave. and Bite the Pillow Street.
Once again--great pics! Tracy is absolutley gorgeous. I can see why she is your favorite bartender.
Had I known that there was a sex shop on Madison Ave. selling a new toy called "the bone" I would not have spent so much time shopping at Gucci, Chanel and Sephora when I was in NYC last week. The bone would have been a better way to spend my money.
Speaking of shirts...Everyday I great the mailman topless in anticipation that my PK.com shirt is in the mail. Everyday, I walk away disappointed and he drives off very pleased. It is getting cold here in NJ so let me know ASAP whether or not I should stop this.
Posted by Cass at October 5, 2004 9:52 AM