Bike Week in Key West is hard to miss. Â Everyone knows when all the big bikes arrive because they rumble all day and into the night across the island. Â The Bike Week happenin’s are down on Duval Street, but even bikers need to go the Publix or Kahoots, both at the other end of the island. Â Back and forth all day, rumbling and making lots of Hog noises. Â It’s great!
It’s officially a Poker Run, starting near Miami and through the Keys over the Overseas Highway to the end point in Key West. Â In a grand gesture that thumbs its nose at all the DUI education done in the past twenty years, bikers stop at bars along the route and are supposed to pick up a playing card at each bar. Â The best poker hands, once they get to Key West, win prizes. Â
The bikes are beautiful, and they cost lots of money too. Â They are parked up and down Duval Street, which is closed off until the 500 block. Â Here are a few. Â The Hooters Bike is nice, and so is the alligator bike. Â I think it must be real alligator skin covering the entire bike. Â
