BLUE COMET MC BIKE EVENT

Defunct Lansdale Bike Night lives on in Sunday's Blue Comet MC Bike Event in Skippack

For $20 at the door, you get a meal and enjoy live music, games galore, and a bikini bike wash.

For $20 at the door, you get a meal and enjoy live music, games galore, and a bikini bike wash.

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With no Bike Night happening this year in Lansdale, Blue Comet Motorcycle Club in Skippack Township is hosting its own Bike Event on Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The $20 entry fee includes food at the 4042 Mensch Road event.

Blue Comet MC Bike Event boasts a bikini bike wash, horseshoes, a cornhole competition, air-soft shooting games, bike games, and Splitting Edge Axe Throwing.

Live music from Mr Mody & Friends and The Helitrope Band rocks from noon to 3 p.m.

Plus, there will be 30-plus vendors to browse and shop, and dessert vendors.

Sponsors for the Bike Event include Big Mike’s Bike Detailing, PJV Novelties, Quinn Creations, Freeburn Law, Shangri-La Leather Shop, Strip Club Choppers, Splitting Edge Axe Throwing, and Cloud Castle Cigar and Lounge.

    Blue Comet MC at Richmond. Virginia Gypsy Tour, 1938. L to R: Howard Wiley, George Wiley, Irene Gular, Rudy Gular, Kay Jackson, Pat Hager, Unknown, Larry Gular, Paul Ely, Marion Ely, Ralph Bookheimer, Unknown, Unknown, Jim Clemens, Bill Albright, Laura Albright. The Club won the prize for best dressed club at this event.
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Blue Comet is, according to its website, one of the oldest and continuously-operated American Motorcyclist Association-sanctioned club in the country, located near Skippack Village. The family-oriented group is comprised of motorcycle owners of all genders, motorcycle passengers, and supporters of the lifestyle.

All bike models are welcome at the event and in the club.

Blue Comet MC’s HQ is a 18-acre swath of well-maintained property whose dirt trails are used for the AMA Hare Scramble dirt bike races.

The club offers rental of its clubhouse and outdoor pavilion for special occasions and functions.

According to its website, the club was organized in 1913 in Lansdale under the name of “BLACK CATS” with an original membership of 13 riders; the club notoriously hung out at a bar of the same name they frequented in Point Pleasant, Pa. Today, the Black Cats bar still stands and is known as “Apple Jacks,” per the website.


 Black Cats Club at Valley Forge Park on Inner Line Drive, by the flag pole near the observation tower on Mount Joy, ca. 1925-1930. The club started in 1918 in Lansdale, PA., with 13 members who called themselves the Black Cats. The Black Cat was the name of a bar in Point Pleasant which was a frequent destination for the group.
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In 1937, the club changed the name to the Blue Comet Motorcycle Club – the call letters “BCMC” never changed.

The club name’s origin is from the Blue Comet train that club members came across in many of their travels.

“The club was formed by a group of people that wanted to promote a positive image of motorcyclists, to take part in events, travel as a group, and eventually be involved in motorcycle racing,” states the website.

Call 610-413-6580 with any questions.


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Tony Di Domizio

Tony Di Domizio is the Managing Editor of NorthPennNow, PerkValleyNow, and CentralBucksNow, and a staff writer for WissNow. Email him at tony@northpennnow.com. Tony graduated from Kutztown University and went on to serve as a reporter and editor for various news organizations, including Patch/AOL, The Reporter in Lansdale, Pa., and The Morning Call in Allentown, Pa. He was born and raised in and around Lansdale and attended North Penn High School. Lansdale born. St. Patrick's Day, 1980.

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