This Sunday, December 14, will be the South Florida Toys in the Sun Run.

The Party will start at Pompano Harness Track. Gates open at 7AM and the parade of bikes will pull out at 9:45AM.

The parade of bikes will travel down Atlantic Blvd to I-95 South. They will the proceed south on I-95 to I-595 West. The parade will exit I-595 at 136th St and proceed into Markham Park.
All parade roads will be closed to other traffic during this time.

Cost of entrance is $10.00 plus one unwrapped toy. If no toy is present, entrance cost will be $20.00.

There is no fee or registration to be in the bike parade.


http://www.toysinthesunrun.com/


At Markham park there will be a large Party/concert, as well as a bike and car show. There will be 2 concert stages featuring Slip & the Spinouts, Limerock, My Soul to Keep, Not Fragile, Rambler, Because We Can, Trucker, and headliners Low Cash Cowboys and Mark Chesnutt.

Special guests inclue many customer chopper builders, as well as Big Kenny from Big & Rich, Captain Phil Harris from the deadliest catch (discovery channel), Jim Belushi, Darrel Gwynn, Kyle Petty, Dennis Rodman, "Vanilla Ice", Robby Knievel and many more.

And of course there will be Food, beer, and women!


The Toy Run was started in 1987 with nearly 700 motorcycle and has now grown to over 30,000 motorcyclist participating each year.

If your in the South Florida region, I encourage you to come out and be a part of this historic event.

How did it go?

Wow, been so busy with Christmas and everything else that I completely forgot I posted this.

It was great! We didn't end up riding in the huge main parade, but we did ride in a smaller parade to the park. We rode with around 2,000 bikes, had a police escort there, and had a lot nicer route to the park then the main parade. Plus we got there before the main parade, which meant it only took a few minutes to get in rather then hours.

Definitely a great time. I have some pictures I will try to post up.

I also saw another 250 there in the smaller (if 2,000 is small) group I went with. No clue who's bike it was though as no one was by it, but whoever it was needs to find this forum, the bike still had the mudflap on it! And it was green, so it was an 08, not brand new.

We'll start with the parking....

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b368/scrait123/2008%20Toys%20in%20the%20Sun/DSC01556.jpg

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Here is some bike from the front of the main parade driving in. We only stayed to watch about 20 mins of it, but I was told it goes on for about 4 hours straight of non stop bikes.

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You can barely see it because my phone took the picture before I wanted it too, and it was really out of focus too, but the girl in red and white in the very right of the picture was wearing nothing but body paint....very nice:thumbup:

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b368/scrait123/2008%20Toys%20in%20the%20Sun/DSC01554.jpg

I'm not sure if there is a picture limit per post here, so I'm breaking it up a little.


This was a bike front the parade was was just awesome. The dragon head on the front o the bike was spitting out smoke, unfortunately the picture didn't get that. There's even a nest of baby dragons on the back under the tail.

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After gettin in they had this wheely truck that pretty pretty unique. Unlike most wheely trucks you see that have to run the quartermile to do it, this truck didn't even have to be moving. It uses a system of water pumps to transfer water between various tanks for balance. He could put the truck back on 2 wheels and just drive around and spin in circles.

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Here was a jagermeister barstool racer....its a seat ontop a v8....

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b368/scrait123/2008%20Toys%20in%20the%20Sun/DSC01560.jpg



Despite being beautiful and completely unique...this guy looked like he was dieing while trying to ride this bike. There is NO way this thing can be ridden on the street, you wouldnt be able to turn a corner with it because the handle bars were too far spread.

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b368/scrait123/2008%20Toys%20in%20the%20Sun/DSC01559.jpg



Yes, thats a turbocharger on a harley fatboy.

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And this bike I just loved, something about it just grabbed my attention.

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b368/scrait123/2008%20Toys%20in%20the%20Sun/DSC01563.jpg

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And that about wraps up the pictures I took. Wasn't many, just whatever I happened to remember to snap a picture of with my phone. Definitely a fun event though and I will definately be going again next year.

Wow, that is simply amazing!! :eek: Thank you for sharing!

You need to get a video camera and telephoto lens for next year and hopefully the girl in the body paint will be back!! ;)

Great Pic...I'd love to ride the Barstool :D

:eek::eek:! AWESOME pics! I was blown away by this one :p

Here was a jagermeister barstool racer....its a seat ontop a v8....

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b368/scrait123/2008%20Toys%20in%20the%20Sun/DSC01560.jpg


:D I can't imagine sitting atop a small block Chevy with a helmet and a grin :eek: That's got to take huevos rancheros!

:eek::eek:! AWESOME pics! I was blown away by this one :p


:D I can't imagine sitting atop a small block Chevy with a helmet and a grin :eek: That's got to take huevos rancheros!

Nah, no big ones needed, just plenty of the stuff on the back! Notice it has a shot dispenser on the back of it :thumbup: