2024 Americade Bring It Bike Show Winners

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2024 Americade Bring It Bike Show Winners

Winner of the 2024 Americade Bring It Bike Show Adventure category on Day 2: Dan Verkleir and Harley the Dog with their 1981 Honda GL1000 Gold Wing Terraplane Sidecar.

We were excited to return to Lake George, New York, for the 41st annual Americade rally and our Bring It Bike Show. Held at Fort William Henry on the southern shore of Lake George in the Adirondack Mountains, few rallies are in such a beautiful location surrounded by world-class motorcycling roads.

For the second year in a row, Rider and American Rider magazines co-hosted the Bring It Bike Show. With thousands of cool motorcycles at Americade, we invited attendees to Bring It!

Warm, sunny days with a cool breeze off Lake George made the 2024 Americade rally one of the best yet. The Bring It Bike Show was held at the corner of Canada Street and Beach Road, and the event drew steady crowds.

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The 2024 Bring It Bike Show was sponsored by Americade, Spectro Performance Oils, SMK Helmets, Monimoto, Wild Ass, and The Lighthouse Grill. For three days, May 30 to June 1, we gave daily awards in several categories as well as a daily $200 cash prize for Editors' Choice. All daily winners were eligible for the Best of Show award, which included $1,000 in cash plus several prizes.

The bike that won Best of Show was truly a showstopper, a motorcycle that was built from the ground up by a talented 25-year-old mechanical engineer named Hunter Leonard who lives in Crown Point, New York, an hour north of Lake George.

Best of Show: Leonard Motor Works Starrettania created by Hunter Leonard (center). The award, including $1,000 cash, was presented by Americade Executive Director Christian Dutcher (left) and Rider Magazine Editor-in-Chief Greg Drevenstedt (right).

The Leonard Motor Works Starrettania is one-of-a-kind. Named after a small town in Pennsylvania (with a slightly different spelling), the Starrettania is a vintage-style electric motorcycle that Leonard started designing as a college project. It took about three years to go from the original concept to the final version entered in the Bring It Bike Show.

Although its styling is inspired by a 1930s-era motorcycle, the Leonard Motor Works Starrettania was designed using the latest CAD software, and some of its parts – fenders, headlight nacelle, tank, and instrument panel – were built using a 3D printer. Leonard fabricated the frame and many other components, and only a handful of off-the-shelf parts were used.

Modern meets classic on the Leonard Motor Works Starrettania, a vintage-style electric motorcycle with 3D-printed components. If you’re wondering what that gear on the front wheel does, it runs the speedometer. The electric motor is in the rear wheel hub.

The Starrettania is powered by four lithium batteries from a Nissan Leaf, and its electric motor is built into the rear wheel's hub, which allows for efficient packaging of the drivetrain. Leonard says the bike has a range of about 100 miles and a top speed in excess of 92 mph.

Hunter Leonard entered the Starrettania all three days of the Bring It Bike Show, and it drew a steady stream of crowds, questions, double takes, and photos. It won the Editors' Choice award on Thursday, and at the end of the show on Saturday, it was the unanimous winner for Best of Show. We know we'll be seeing much more from the creative, energetic, and enthusiastic Hunter Leonard, and we'll follow up with a profile of him and the Starrettania in the near future.

There was a little bit of everything at the 2024 Americade Bring It Bike Show, from a tiny motorcycle powered by a weedeater motor to the massive orange-and-black Gold Wing trike with custom trailer seen in this photo.

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We thank our show entries, our sponsors, and all Americade staff and volunteers for making our second Bring It Bike Show such a success. We'll be back next year, so Bring It!

Bring It Bike Show Day 1 Winners:

American Bagger (Day 1): a highly customized 2010 Harley-Davidson Ultra Classic with a stunning paint scheme inspired by 19th century Buffalo Soldiers, owned by Douglas Alexander.

Adventure (Day 1): 2012 Honda Gold Wing with matching Tote “floating” trailer, owned by Barry and Lisa Woodcock.

Anything Goes (Day 1): 1967 Harley-Davidson Sprint Electric, owned by Tom Fisher. Tom used to race the gas-powered Sprint in the AHRMA 350GP class, and then he converted it to an electric bike with a 3kW (15 hp) motor.

Editors’ Choice (Day 1): Leonard Motor Works Starrettania, designed and built by Hunter Leonard. The Starrettania also won Best of Show.

Bring It Bike Show Day 2 Winners:

American Bagger (Day 2): 2022 Harley-Davidson Road Glide Apex owned by James Pitman.

American Cruiser (Day 2): 2012 Harley-Davidson Softail Deluxed owned by Coby Borwell.

Best Custom Paint (Day 2): 2020 Harley-Davidson Road Glide Special with a stunning “hellscape” paint job owned by Frank Dumond.

Adventure (Day 2): Dan Verkleir and Harley the Dog with their 1981 Honda GL1000 Gold Wing Terraplane Sidecar.

Anything Goes (Day 2): Boss Hoss V8 owned by Kevin Taylor (not shown).

Editors’ Choice (Day 2): 1974 Honda CB750K owned by Tim Curley. Tim also won Editors’ Choice on Day 3 at the 2023 Americade Bring It Bike Show.

Bring It Bike Show Day 3 Winners:

American Bagger (Day 2): 2010 Harley-Davidson Road Glide owned by Stephen Luczkowec.

American Cruiser (Day 3): 2007 Harley-Davidson Sportster 1200 owned by Pete Ashak.

Anything Goes (Day 3): Razer Minibike powered by a 43cc weedeater motor, created and owned by David Kerl. Yes, he rode it to the show!

Editors’ Choice (Day 3): 2006 Honda Gold Wing Hannigan Trike with custom 1955 Chevy Bel-Air trailer. Ed’s trike (sans trailer) won Best Japanese (Day 2) at the 2023 Americade Bring It Bike Show.

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