2nd Bangkok Motorbike Festival 2010 @ CentralWorld: Inside
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The 2nd Bangkok Motorbike Festival 2010 has taken place over the last four days at the city’s vast CentralWorld mall, with an array of motorbikes and accessory booths lining the numerous gleaming aisles of shopping center while even more bikes and related activities filled up the vast deck outside. The theme of this year’s second edition, the first running in fact took place here almost exactly a year ago, is Sense of Journey, reflecting the event’s emphasis on conveying the unfettered joys of biking to the many casual visitors thrust into the event simply due its favourable location.
Running from 28-31 January, the 2nd Bangkok Motorbike Festival 2010 is the concept of Nattaboon and Nattapon Trinathy, two brothers and motorbike enthusiasts who dreamed up this event. “We got good feedback from the 1st Bangkok Motorbike Festival 2009 from both bikers and people who came to join the event,” they said, and this positive reaction to the inaugural event drove their efforts to make this year’s even bigger and better. The importers of eight globally-renown motorbike brands – Ducati, Harley-Davidson, Triumph, BMW, Sachs, Honda, KTM and Yamaha – formed the centrepiece of 2nd Bangkok Motorbike Festival 2010 and they set up flashy booths to show off their extensive and diverse product ranges, alongside more stands from tuners, customisers and classic bike firms, with these including: Ultimate Custom Bike, Chopper, Sport, Touring, Big Scooter, Naked and Motorcross, while Vintage Bike Thailand rolled out fondly-remembered historic machines. Dotted in amongst all these booths were spaces devoted to accessories, clothing, leathers and components.
Most of these booths were set up on the first floor, zig-zagging up and down the aisles that stretch from the Zen department store on one side of the CentralWorld mall to the similar Isetan on the other side. In between the stands significant bikes were lined up in rows and on the ascending floors above there were even more bikes, arrayed in focused clusters, on display. It all added up to a rambling walk around the mall, taking in the world of motorcycling around each turn. Harley-Davidson seems to be the bike in most favour with Thais, its stand was big, bright, brash and very busy, and as well as the official booth, there were highly customised and chome-polished examples of these legendary American machines to be seen just about everywhere. A ‘Harley’ cannot be easily missed and its rich diversity was clear for all to see. The famous orange-and-black colours of KTM were in evidence: its stand was washed in this corporate ID; while the beauty and style of the machines that emanate from Italy’s evocative Ducati meant its products were quite unmistakable and pretty much unrivalled. With retro-to-modern bikes, the British Triumph brand’s booth also made a big splash, although Honda, situated right opposite and with one of the best spaces in the house, turned out a pretty anonymous booth, although several attractive pretties helped to keep visitor attention focused. MotoGP legend Valentino Rossi seems to be popular in just about any place on the planet and Bangkok appears to be little different: there was a booth stacked with array of helmets for sale in the many – and often outrageous – designs he has sported, while elsewhere there were Yamaha bikes dressed in the red, white and blue livery of the factory Fiat Yamaha Team, sporting the famous number 46 as well as the 99 of team mate Jorge Lorenzo, who in fact visited this city last autumn.
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