Trends? The inclusion of several un- and restored and vintage bikes was heartening, as I've always said the future of the old bike movement rests with young Custom devotees. While it's still popular to tart up CB Hondas into café bikes, the real go-fast scene is increasingly wicked, and serious about performance, as displayed by Revival itself with its J63, the Burly Brand tracker, the Apogee Monster, and the sick trellis-fork Ducati of Ian Halcott. Choppers are continuously refining the old school and keeping paint skills fresh, and a few builders managed to surprise even this old dog. Jeremy Cupp of LC Fabrications caught everyone's eye with his—dig this—speedway custom, which mated a Blast crank to a Duc head, in a handbuilt chassis featuring a gutted upside-down fork with external springs and hydraulics. Jeremy's work was clever and clean, with some seriously Falconesque tricks, like a spring-and-ratchet tuckaway kick lever, at which I went 'oooh!' It was the bike everyone talked about, so it was no surprise it won the People's Choice award, announced long after those choosing people were gone on Sunday, so just the builders could show their appreciation, which was sweet. Be there next year, y'hear?