Today was Marcus Dairy Cycle Sunday at the O’Neill Center, on the Western State Connecticut University’s Westside campus in Danbury, Connecticut. The scenic Westside campus, located off exit 2 of I-84, has a 32,000-square-foot arena for indoor vending and activities, multiple paved lots for outdoor vending and plenty of parking — perfect for a motorcycle day and just minutes away from Marcus Dairy, which has been home to Cycle Days for quite a few years. It has been mentioned in a number of motorcycling books.
Dan Powers from IBM and Dan Smith from General Motors and I left from Newtown, Ct. and rode to the campus (and then afterwards rode around Candlewood Lake). The admission fee was $12 and the proceeds support local charities. Last year, Marcus Dairy distributed more than $75,000. The event lasted from 8:00am to 4:00pm and featured a bike show with cash prizes and trophies, leather fashion show, live music, dyno testing and vendors selling everything from custom bikes to leather to new and used parts and everything in-between. There was an incredibly interesting assortment of bikes and many very nice people. The weather was perfect. Afterwards, Dan Powers and I stopped by "Down the Hatch" for lunch.
On the day prior to Cycle Day, I rode the Fatboy from Pennsylvania to Connecticut. Here are a few pictures I took along the way. And, here are the pictures from Cycle Day.