Mama Tried Motorcycle Show 2017

The buzz begins early on social media and, on the weekend of the Mama Tried Motorcycle Show in Milwaukee, bike-pics fill the feeds of many, many online moto channels. It has earned a solid reputation among the handful of top custom bike events in the country where people go to see and be seen. Here are our photo highlights…

If you ever wanted to send a ‘thanks’ to the guys that host this fun, cool, interesting, rad event, look ’em up here: Scott Johnson and Warren Heir, Jr. To learn more about next year’s event, visit their site here: Mama Tried Motorcycle Show.

Old and new, funky and weird, dirty and sparkly; it’s all here.

Only invited builders are featured here. Some bikes you’ll look at and wonder “why?”, to which the builders might say, “why not?.

Above: A custom Honda CB450 by CROIG.

Above: A custom BMW by Analog Motorcycles.

Above: A custom CB750 by Federal Moto US.

Will this scene be around decades from now? Maybe this kid will carry the torch.

There were a lot of comments like, “there are a lot of choppers” and “I saw more Harley-Davidsons this year.” Maybe so, we just saw a lot of neat stuff to look at.