Get a $35,000 Custom Bike for $50!
One of the things I enjoy every year at the Daytona Beach Bike Week is the raffle for a custom motorcycle. They always have a nice custom bike that is worth about $35,000 based on current pricing. The kicker is that there are only 4,000 tickets sold, making your odds pretty nice. At $50 each it’s a pretty affordable raffle for most people with better odds than the lottery.
Bike Week sweetens the pot by having several alternative prizes that range from magazine subscriptions to leather. The consolation prizes are worth up to $200 each. This year’s prizes include a Ten-Year Subscription to American Iron Magazine ($250), a Ten –Year Subscription to Road Bike Magazine ($200), a Beach Photo Gift Certificate ($200), BMW Motorcycles Gift Certificate ($200), Chopper’s World Gift Certificate ($200), Crane Cams Leather Jacket ($200), Harley-Davidson Gift Certificate ($200), Worldwide Embroidery Leather Jacket ($200), Bike Week “Biker Gift Pak†($200), and Gift Certificate ($200). It means you have a chance of winning something, even if it isn’t a dream bike.
Of course, a raffle has to have a purpose. This one benefits the Daytona Beach Community Foundation, which supports the needs of this town that hosts a great event like this twice a year (Bike Week and Biketoberfest). Simple mathematics points out that this program generates $200,000. The prizes are donated so the overhead is very small. The purpose of the Foundation is to fund community building activities that include historical, educational and/or cultural initiatives. The Foundation also serves to manage endowed funds on behalf of other non-profit community building organizations.
Click here to get your entry in for this year’s bike. You can justify spending $50 on a $35,000 motorcycle.