Bike Registration
Bike registration forms are now available at the Chamber office or below. Registration includes entering your motorcycle for the Saturday events in the Bike Judging contests (Best Paint, Best Custom, Best Vintage, Best Trike, Best Touring, and more), and other contests such as slow ride, ball drop, tire toss, and hot dog. On Saturday, August 16, the stadium will be turned into a street festival with a variety of activities, including the bike contests, bands, foods, and vendors.
On Sunday, August 17, the bikes will take to the run and complete an approximate 150-mile Advanced Monolythic Ceramics Dice Run ending at Bradner Stadium with a food, music, prizes and more. The bikers will compete for $2,000 in dice run cash prizes. Registration for both days for one motorcycle is $25. Separate registration for all Saturday events is $10.00, and all Sunday events is $15.00. If you have a passenger for the Dice Run on Sunday and they wish to participate, the passenger registration is $10.00.
BIKE JUDGING on Saturday -- First place awarded in each category:
Best of Show: Automatically entered with entry into any of the following classes, and if you win this, that's it; there is no higher or additional honor.
Touring: Goldwings, Harley FL series, BMW LT's, V-Rods with bags, etc.
Cruiser: Honda VTX, Harley Dynas, Honda Valkyrie, Suzuki Boulevard, bagless V-Rods, etc.
Sport: Yamaha FJR, Aprila Futura, Suzuki GSXR, Yamaha R1, Honda CBR's, most Ducati models, etc.
Custom: A bike from any category that the owner or others have altered (i.e., made 'custom') and wish to compete against similar
Radical Custom: Big Dogs, one-off hand builts, etc.
Trikes: Obviously, three wheeled, including bikes with sidecars attached.
Best Paint: Just what it says and regardless of whether it came out of a factory or someone's paint booth.
Vintage: Over ten years old or out of production.
Special Interest: For any bike the owner considers unique. Examples: Very high mileage or very high mileage considering the year of manufacture, very low mileage considering the year of manufacture, very rare motorcycle in some significant respect, off-road bikes; in other words, a category for special bikes not fitting a category above or perhaps a second chance for bikes that do fit an above category.
Farthest Traveled: will be determined by actual address of where participant started from before arriving at the Rally. Participant has to actually ride their bike to the Rally.
All decisions and awards assigned by the Judges are final. Bikes can only be judged in one category.
For more information on the Annual Rally in the Valley, call Greater Olean Area Chamber of Commerce at 716-372-4433 or email tourism@oleanny.com.