Festival Role Reversal
Bikes, Blues & BBQ contributes to charities in more ways than one
Posted: September 23, 2012 at 4:52 a.m.
A motorcycle passes by a line of parked cruisers on Dickson Street on Sept. 13. Thousands of riders will invade Fayetteville during the Bikes, Blues & BBQ rally, which begins Wednesday.
Bikes, Blues & BBQ has long claimed to be a different kind of rally, one friendly to families and with charitable goals at its heart.
At A Glance
Largest Charity Rally
Bikes Blues & BBQ is an open rally, so its exact size isn’t known. Organizers call it “the fastest growing and largest motorcycle rally in the country benefiting local charities,” having grown from an estimated 200,000 participants in 2004, 300,000 in 2005, between 300,000 and 400,000 participants from all 50 states and several other countries in 2006, 2007 and 400,000 in 2008, 2009, and 2010.
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