< Previous10 • Lone Star Rally • 2019‘In Motion’ is back for third year at Lone Star RallyAfter two incredible shows, In Mo-tion is back in Galveston with an incredible line-up for 2019. May-be you missed year one, where some of the best builders on planet earth were invited to display their masterpiece motorcycles during the Lone Star Rally for 2017. At that first event Donny Loos walked away with the big check and became the very first In Motion Cham-pion. Year two saw the addition of a few more key names from the top of the custom motorcycle world, and this time it was Jeff Cochran that took the $10,00 cash prize. With year three featuring more than 50 percent of the 14 invited builders as first-timers, it’s anybody’s guess who will win. One thing is for sure, with the lineup that is set, the bikes will be world-class and unlike anything you have seen before. FOR 2019 THE PRESENTERS WOULD LIKE TO WELCOME 14 IN MOTION BUILDERS: Roadside Marty - Flat Broke Chops & Rods Brian Buttera - Buttera’s Metal Works Austin Andrella - Austin Martin Originals Mike McFadden - M&M Customs Rick Bray - RKB Kustom Speed Steve Peffer - Steel City Choppers Kyle Brewer - Paughco Bill Dodge - Bling’s Cycle Mike Rabideau - Majic Mike Designs Xavier Muriel - Providence Cycle Workx Stacy McCleary - McCleary’s Motors Nick Pensebene - Mad Pen Cycles Brandon Keene - B. Keene Custom Built Cycles Rich Pitoniak - Pitoniak Cycles 2019 • Lone Star Rally • 11Many of these builders have been featured in national magazines and have displayed their work at prominent shows such as Michael Lichter’s “Motorcycles As Art” and “The Golden Bolt.” First Runner Up Brian Buttera is coming back this year after winning the Golden Bolt and a check for $30,000. He will be go-ing to Germany to represent America in the AMD World Show with the very same bike that will be on display at the Lone Star Rally. But this is not just another bike show with a big check, this is In Motion! The first of its kind in 2017, In Motion has one main stipulation… If They Don’t Run, They Can’t Be Judged! To ensure that this criteria is met, all riders will meet at Rally Central at Seawall on Thursday Oct. 31, by 2 p.m. to leave for a sev-enty-mile shakedown ride with three checkpoints. This insures that the bike is road ready and eligible to compete for the big prize. After the ride, there is a meet and greet with the builders at the In Motion Showcase (Hendley Green) on the corner of 21st Street and Strand. The public is welcome to come hang out with the returning riders as we place the bikes, and from there the game is on. This year, there will be a new feature from the good people at Progressive Insurance. Each bike will have a com-plete back story and biography available for rally attendees who are interested in a little more. As they walk up to a bike they will see the instructions for launch-ing Progressive’s “Chop Talk” app that will give them some behind the scenes info about the bike and the builder who created it. Judging, as you can imagine, is a very se-rious part of this show. Our system is what we call a 20-40-40 system that is unlike any in the custom motorcycle world today. 20 percent of the vote is comprised from peer-based judging or the builders them-selves. 40 percent is based on industry judges, and, this year, we welcome back some of the original In Motion crew: JC and Jimmy Lee from Three Two Choppers, Jeff Cochran of SpeedKing and Will Ram-sey of Faith Forgotten, and those are just a few industry judges. The last 40 percent is one of the most critical parts; these are the vote from members of the trades. We invite welders, sheet metal workers, painters and fabricators out to judge each bike based on how well it was executed. From those votes, the winners are tallied. Sunday afternoon, at Sangerfest Park, we present the $10,000 check on behalf of Lone Star Rally and Progressive Insur-ance. That monetary award will also come with a handmade trophy that will rival the likes of the great Biker Build-off trophies. Plan to swing by this incredible display of builder talent at Hendley Park from Thursday evening through Saturday; 21st Street and Strand. Go to www.lonestar-rally.com for more event information.D 12 • Lone Star Rally • 2019Lone Star Rally parking and map2019 • Lone Star Rally • 1314 • Lone Star Rally • 2019It’s hard not to think of superheroes and their superhero cars when you see a Polaris Slingshot rolling down the road lit up in multi-colored neon pur-ple, red or blue. But you don’t have to be a caped crusader to drive a Slingshot — though you should probably have fantasized about being one to fully enjoy the impractical yet “loaded with fun” experience. Also, you must be willing to put up with all the attention, smiles, sneers, guffaws and wonderment from folks wanting to get a picture with your… car? Motorcy-cle? “What the heck is that?” With two wheels up front and one in the back, a Slingshot is technically an autocycle or three wheeled motorcycle. Definitions vary and seem only to be relevant when pertaining to licensing or insurance laws; 45 states allow a regular driver’s license to be sufficient while others require a motorcycle license. In Texas, anyone with a valid driver’s license can operate one on the road. Regardless of license, a helmet must be worn in states where helmets are required for motorcycle riders. The more important definition of this ride, however, is a subjective one — the one the driver puts on it. At a base price of $20,000, a Slingshot is too expensive for most people to buy on a whim, yet affordable enough to tickle the fancy of a driver looking for a thrill of the most primordial vehicular type. Think back to when you were a kid, and Slingshot Showdown: Let the fun begin!2019 • Lone Star Rally • 15 : first drove a go-kart or wished you could. This could be a prime motivat-ing factor for Slingshot owners — just getting out there and having some honest to goodness, low-to-the-road, engine-roar-ing, wind-in-your-face roadster madness! Of course, there are always add-ons like a roof, or a small windshield for those less interested in a 70-mile-per-hour mosqui-to face-smashing. By all accounts no one needs a Slingshot, but everyone kind of wants one — or at least a little part of them would like to get in one for an after-noon and cut loose. This is probably one reason why renting Slingshots by the day or hour has become a popular trend. Galveston Slingshot Rentals owner Billy Wiesner says his business is growing every year and he knows why. “When you drive a Sling-shot, you feel like a rock star,” Wiesner said. Which brings us to the question of whether you drive a Slingshot or do you ride one? It’s more drive than ride, according to Sherry Ashford, a League City resident, Slingshot owner and member of the Sling-shot Houston club. “I say ‘drive,” Ashford said. “It just feels more like driving a car than riding a bike to me.” Attending Lone Star Rally every year, Ashford went through a series of bikes including a Harley-David-son Fat Boy, a Sportster and a Can-Am before buying a Slingshot. “I always have my girl-friends around, and we can just get in and go to the beach or wherev-er and get some wind therapy,” Ashford said. “Because there is a pas-senger seat, and you’re buckled in, you feel safer. It’s just better for when you’re out with another person to have them beside you instead of on the back.” Ashford and her hus-band Randy, who rides a Harley-Davidson, still enjoy riding together and take their respective modes of transport to the rally, where they pick and choose where they go and how they get there depending on parking and the nature of the event. There are 3 days of Sling-shot events at Lone Star Rally this year, beginning at 5 p.m. on Halloween with an exhaust compe-tition, parade drive down The Strand, a costume contest and a sound competition. There is also a group ride planned, leaving at noon Saturday from Mancu-so Powersports on Gulf Freeway and heading back to Galveston as an awesome spectacle driv-ing across the causeway. People’s Choice awards for Slingshots will be held at 7 p.m. Saturday on Pier 21 off Harborside Drive. For more information about Lone Star Rally Slingshot events contact TheSlingExperience@gmail.com.16 • Lone Star Rally • 2019Saturday EventsNoon Zach Tate Band2 pm Piedmont Boys4 pm Miss Intent6 pm Xavier And Friends8 pm Bobby Friss9:30 pm Miss Lone Star Rally and Bike Giveaway10:15 pm Highway To Hell1 pm 3 pm 5 pm Saturday EventsBUDWEISER STAGE AT SAENGERFEST PARKWATCHMONTGOMERY GENTRY: 9:30 PM ON THE PROGRESSIVE STAGE AT BEACH CENTRALWATCH BOBBY FRISS LIVE: 8 PM ON THE BUDWEISER STAGE AT SAENGERFEST PARK2019 • Lone Star Rally • 171 pm Stone Senate3 pm The Merle Travis Show5 pm ZZ37:30 pm Creed Fisher9:30 pm Montgomery GentrySaturday EventsPROGRESSIVE STAGE AT BEACH CENTRALZZ318 • Lone Star Rally • 2019Galveston Naval Museum: ‘Land of the free because of the brave’Just inside the entrance of the Na-val Museum grounds at Seawolf Park in Galveston there is an ex-pression engraved in a large commem-orative rock that honors the freedom so many Lone Star Rally attendees embrace; “Land of the Free Because Of The Brave.” First-hand military expe-rience gives a perspective to the word “freedom” that relatively few have. Step-ping inside the USS Cavalla submarine, however, may just be the perspective everyone needs to better appreciate the sacrifice submariner veterans of WWII made, along with the sacrifice today’s enlisted men and women make.Located on Pelican Island, accessible by causeway from 51st Street off Harbor-2019 • Lone Star Rally • 19 y side Drive in Galveston (a scenic 4-mile ride), the Naval Museum at Seawolf Park provides an opportunity for visitors to board two WWII US Naval vessels; the USS Stewart Destroyer Escort and the USS Cavalla, a 311-foot submarine used in a mission to sink the Japanese Navy Carrier “Shokaku” used in the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. Seawolf Park, named after the sunk-en submarine USS Seawolf (part of a nationwide salute to the 52 subs, 374 officers and 3100 crewmen lost at sea during WWII) also provides a world-class fishing pier, picnic and playgrounds with wide open spaces and beautiful views of the Gulf of Mexico and the Port of Gal-veston, including a view of the unique partially sunken 425-foot cement WWI-era tanker, SS Selma. Naval Museum director Ann Hobing recognizes the strong connection many motorcyclists have to the military and has made the museum available to Lone Star Rally attendees at a special rate of two for the price of one during the rally. Mention “Lone Star Rally” at the entrance to Seawolf Park to receive the discount. “If any civilization doesn’t remember their past, it just disappears,” Hobing said. “Our veterans served valiantly, they sacrificed, their families sacrificed. It’s incumbent upon every to appreciate the past.”For real history buffs, the Naval Muse-um’s gift shop is filled with books on Galveston and Texas history, along with commemorative items honoring the U.S. Military. Separate rates apply for park and museum entrance, fishing and parking rates are posted on the Naval Museum website www.galvestonnavalmuseum.com.Next >