Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Garage Brewed Motorcycles

I don't often post my otherwise published event photograph on this blog unless something ends up in an end of the year "best of" entry, but now and again i shoot an event that doesn't get the kind of treatment in the publication that i would like to see  presented. Such is the case with the Garage Brewed Motorcycle Show, an annual event at one of my favorite local breweries, Rhinegeist. I've done similar "director's cuts" with my coverage of the classic car show Concours d'Elegance, mostly because the publications i was shooting these events for are (understandably) far more interested in photos of the attendees than the objects, but for my own proclivities i just can't help myself from focussing of the beauty of the machines.
Frankly, i must admit that i don't ride myself nor do i have any real desire to do so at any time in the future, but i have always loved the machines themselves along with the culture and folklore attached. Symbols of freedom, raw power, sexuality and rugged individualism abound. Storied legends of infamous biker gangs living hard and fast on the outside of the law feed a certain romanticism on biker culture and our love of the "bad boy". But as the saying goes, we're not a gang, we're a club!

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Garage Brewed Motorcycle Show; Motorcycles, Rheingeist Brewery; Cincinnati; Harley-Davidson

Garage Brewed Motorcycle Show; Motorcycles, Rheingeist Brewery; Cincinnati; Harley-Davidson

Garage Brewed Motorcycle Show; Motorcycles, Rheingeist Brewery; Cincinnati

Garage Brewed Motorcycle Show; Motorcycles, Rheingeist Brewery; Cincinnati; Harley-Davidson

Garage Brewed Motorcycle Show; Motorcycles, Rheingeist Brewery; Cincinnati; Ducati

Garage Brewed Motorcycle Show; Motorcycles, Rheingeist Brewery; Cincinnati; Harley-Davidson

Garage Brewed Motorcycle Show; Motorcycles, Rheingeist Brewery; Cincinnati; Triumph

Garage Brewed Motorcycle Show; Motorcycles, Rheingeist Brewery; Cincinnati; Harley-Davidson

Garage Brewed Motorcycle Show; Motorcycles, Rheingeist Brewery; Cincinnati; Harley-Davidson

Garage Brewed Motorcycle Show; Motorcycles, Rheingeist Brewery; Cincinnati; Harley-Davidson

Garage Brewed Motorcycle Show; Motorcycles, Rheingeist Brewery; Cincinnati; Harley-Davidson

Garage Brewed Motorcycle Show; Motorcycles, Rheingeist Brewery; Cincinnati; Harley-Davidson

Garage Brewed Motorcycle Show; Motorcycles, Rheingeist Brewery; Cincinnati; Harley-Davidson

Garage Brewed Motorcycle Show; Motorcycles, Rheingeist Brewery; Cincinnati

Garage Brewed Motorcycle Show; Motorcycles, Rheingeist Brewery; Cincinnati; Honda

Garage Brewed Motorcycle Show; Motorcycles, Rheingeist Brewery; Cincinnati; Harley-Davidson

Garage Brewed Motorcycle Show; Motorcycles, Rheingeist Brewery; Cincinnati; Ducati

Garage Brewed Motorcycle Show; Motorcycles, Rheingeist Brewery; Cincinnati; Honda

Garage Brewed Motorcycle Show; Motorcycles, Rheingeist Brewery; Cincinnati

Garage Brewed Motorcycle Show; Motorcycles, Rheingeist Brewery; Cincinnati; Triumph

Garage Brewed Motorcycle Show; Motorcycles, Rheingeist Brewery; Cincinnati

Garage Brewed Motorcycle Show; Motorcycles, Rheingeist Brewery; Cincinnati

Garage Brewed Motorcycle Show; Motorcycles, Rheingeist Brewery; Cincinnati

Garage Brewed Motorcycle Show; Motorcycles, Rheingeist Brewery; Cincinnati

Garage Brewed Motorcycle Show; Motorcycles, Rheingeist Brewery; Cincinnati

Garage Brewed Motorcycle Show; Motorcycles, Rheingeist Brewery; Cincinnati

Garage Brewed Motorcycle Show; Motorcycles, Rheingeist Brewery; Cincinnati; Triumph

Garage Brewed Motorcycle Show; Motorcycles, Rheingeist Brewery; Cincinnati

Garage Brewed Motorcycle Show; Motorcycles, Rheingeist Brewery; Cincinnati

All Photos ©David Sorcher 2017