As usual, it was a rushed visit but was fun nonetheless. If you’re a Ducati fan you can’t sit on the display bikes – but their display is quite impressive. It is a completely-enclosed area with a front entrance and actual models strategically positioned with adequate space for standing and gawking with your friends.

The Honda display wasn’t that great, it was too easy to see the four-wheelers over the actual bikes. Yamaha and Suzuki’s displays were nice, but couldn’t spend much time at them.

Harley and Buell had great displays. I’m a fan of Buell motorcycles, just haven’t found one that has emptied my wallet yet. Sat on a couple Harleys, one was nice – the rest weren’t worth the effort.

The Guzzi models were cool to look at, but strange to sit on. Aprilia had some very nice machines available to sit on, but for me it’s more difficult to own a Aprilia than a Triumph. There were some Vespa scooters, but as usual I was the only one out of the group that was impressed.

Some of the accessory vendors were missing, yet still plenty of opportunities to spend money. I liked the vendor demonstrating a new type of motorcycle stand for pickup beds or trailers; wish we had ordered one before leaving.

If you’re a Toyota fan, they had this tricked-out FJCruiser on display. Complete with onboard gaming and GPS System. There’s a couple additional highlight pics of it in my photo Album. For all of the pictures, go to the 2006 Show in the TriumphRat.Net Photo Album.