For our first 4 years on the road, we worked exclusively on motorcycles dealership showrooms, entertaining their customers and painting on their new bikes before they were sold.  The first time we decided to try our skills at a rally was at the Gold Wing National Rally at the Tan-Tar-A resort in Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri.  We were cruising through the midwest in 1984, as we did each summer.  Several of our customers suggested we set up at this event and we figured... "Why Not?".  My multi-colored stripes were so unique and different from anything riders were used to seeing that we were swamped... lined up out the door!  After that,  we set up and worked at every national Wing Ding rally until the show shut down for Covid in 2020.  I painted on hundreds of Gold Wings at these rallies.  Click through to my Gold Wing Photo Galleries to see some of the Gold Wing artwork that I did at some of these events.  FUNNY STORY (at least I think it's funny):  A lot of Gold Wing riders like scenes & murals their bikes. Their bike shows were always broken down into categories... stock class, pinstripe class, mural class, etc.  Throughout the 80s and 90s, bikes I painted on won a lot of trophies at these events, to a point where judges started reassigning bikes I'd striped into their mural class because of the small signature Scarecrow that I painted on every bike. They obviously couldn't compete against bikes with full blown murals, so I started painting my Scarecrow signature small enough to cover with a dime... in case they wanted to enter the bike in a bike show without getting bumped into a mural class.