Mountains, Music & Motorcycles 2011

Mountains Music Motorcycles

This motorcycle event started six years ago with no budget and heavily dependent on volunteers.  The first event drew about 350 motorcyclist. 2010 saw an estimated 10,000 bikes.

It is free to the public and features many family activities.  It is a major fund raiser for the March of Dimes, and raises thousands of dollars to improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth and infant mortality.

mmm 2011The event offers a bug run, poker run, bike show, biker games and two free concerts, one on the town square, one at a local business, vendors and a biker church service that was attended by 500 bikers in 2010 in the natural setting of the city park amphitheater.

Parking around the historic town square is restricted to motorcycles only during Saturday’s activities.  It has grown from the town square to encompass many side streets and other business parking lots.  The event brings in visitors that are exposed to the unique culture of this area and generates thousands of dollars in tax revenue for the region.  Mountains, Music, and Motorcycles focuses on the fact that Mountain View and the region is a motorcycle destination for motorcycle enthusiasts from around the nation.  As Roadrunner Magazine states in an article that focused on Ozark Mountain Rides (June 2010) “This is some of the finest motorcycling in the US, period.”

This is a great example of how tapping into a passion of several local residents can produce an event that has a tourist impact on this region that extends beyond the event and its impact is felt as motorcyclist return time after time to enjoy the hospitality and wonderful scenic rides.

Visit www.MountainsMusicMotorcycles.com

Schedule of Events

Thursday August 18

  • Flat Woods biker event – TBD

Friday August 19

  • Ride Day – Explore the many routes around Mountain View
  • Vendors set up by 4 pm
  • 6:00 Bug Run – register at the Chamber Office (winner announced at 9 pm)
  • 8:00 pm – Hippie Holler Band on Court Square – Sponsored by El Tres Amigos Mexican restaurant
  • After concert – block streets for motorcycle parking only on Saturday

Saturday August 20

  • 8:00 am – Begin Parking bikes
  • 8:00 am – registration opens for
    • Biker games,
    • Bike show at Centennial Bank – Classes include
      • Vintage, Modern, Rat, Trike, Custom, Chopper
    • Poker run – Benefiting the March of Dimes
  • 10:30 am – Bike Games start on Washington Street in Biker game Stadium
    • Winnie Bite
    • Granny Pants
    • Balloon toss
    • Slow Race
  • 12 – 4 – Live music on the square – Bands TBA
  • 1:30 – registration for poker run closes
  • 3:30 – Last bike in for poker run (winner announced at 4)
  • 3:30 – Bike Show voting closes
  • 4:00 – Poker Run and Bike Show winners announced at Registration area
  • 8 pm – Wing Shack Parking Lot Dance featuring the Danny Dozier Band and the Light House Orchestra – sponsored by Wing Shack

Sunday August 21

  • 10:00 am – Biker Church Service at the Mountain View City Park Amphitheater – Free lunch following the service and Blessing of the Bikes – Speaker TBA

Check out some of the bikes in the 2009 Festival