Rockerbox

Rockerbox

Love motorcycles but can’t drop $28,000 on a suite at the Iron Horse Hotel for Harley-Davidson’s 110th anniversary? Check out Rockerbox, a more approachable way to hail the hog. Last year’s event saw more than 3,000 bikes, 60 vendors and 6,000 attendees, and this year’s gathering celebrates some major milestones: the 10th anniversary of the Riverwest street fest and the 20th anniversary of Fuel Cafe, the festival’s home base. Helping celebrate will be the Skid Lid silent auction, featuring artist-painted helmets from around the world, including famed L.A. street artist Haunted Euth. Proceeds from the auction and other events support…

Love motorcycles but can’t drop $28,000 on a suite at the Iron Horse Hotel for Harley-Davidson’s 110th anniversary? Check out Rockerbox, a more approachable way to hail the hog. Last year’s event saw more than 3,000 bikes, 60 vendors and 6,000 attendees, and this year’s gathering celebrates some major milestones: the 10th anniversary of the Riverwest street fest and the 20th anniversary of Fuel Cafe, the festival’s home base. Helping celebrate will be the Skid Lid silent auction, featuring artist-painted helmets from around the world, including famed L.A. street artist Haunted Euth. Proceeds from the auction and other events support the Steel Shoe Fund, a Wisconsin-based nonprofit benefiting injured flat-track motorcycle racers.

(Aug. 3). Outside of Fuel Cafe. 818 E. Center St., rockerbox.us.

Abby Callard was an assistant editor at Milwaukee Magazine from 2012-2014. Her journalistic pursuits have seen her covering the Hispanic community in mid-Missouri, politics in Washington, D.C., art and culture for Smithsonian magazine, the social enterprise space in India and health care in Chicago. Abby has a degree in journalism from the University of Missouri.