Hey, I'll be there the whole weekend working for Yamaha/Motos Illimitées. I'll try to come and say hi
I know Dave Minnett pretty well, is he working your stand also, or is it just his rig there with no driver ?
He will be here tomorrow. He had hand surgery right before he hit the road to get here. We told him to not come today and rest up.
20 years ago me and 6 of my buddies from the CBX club drove up for the show. Good times. Going into Canuckistan my buddy was driving my Suburban when we crossed over. The guard asked him if we owned any guns? He paused for a pregnant second (as I sh*t in the back seat) until he finally figured it out. "Of course we own guns, we live in the States...but we don't have any with us now!" Perfect answer..."OK, you're clear to go"
Likewise ! Yamaha Canada and the dealership I was working for had their teardown crew, I just took off at 5:00 and went home Sold 3 bikes in my weekend, pretty happy about that.
We were able to get both our trucks in and loaded right away. We were loaded and back at the hotel in under 30min.