Eight IMS Outdoors motorcycle shows scheduled for 2022

The shows shifted from off-season, mid-winter indoors events featuring static displays of new motorcycles and products to outdoors events that provided thousands of demo rides, featured more activities for children and were more welcoming to new and aspiring riders. That formula continues this year with eight shows in seven states.

The organizers of the shows were already working on reimagining the events when the pandemic hit in 2020, and that just made the change of format necessary instead of desirable.

At the first round of IMS Outdoors events in 2021, more than 35,000 demo rides took place and nearly 1,700 kids rode two-wheel balance bikes and battery-powered bikes, according to the organizers. They added that 44 percent of the attendees were new or prospective riders and the Discover the Ride by IMS program gave more than 1,600 adults and teens their first taste of motorcycling on easy-to-ride Zero electric motorcycles. All of that sounds like a better way to get people exciting about motorcycling than going to sit on a parked motorcycle in an indoor convention center in the middle of a snowstorm.

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Tickets for this year's events go on sale March 24. Here's the schedule.

2022 Progressive IMS shows
Colorado	The Ranch Loveland, Colorado	June 17-19
Chicago	Goebbert's Farm Pingree Grove, Illinois	June 24-26
Pennsylvania	Carlisle Fairgrounds Carlisle, Pennsylvania	September 16-18
New York	Nassau Coliseum Uniondale, New York	September 23-25
Atlanta	TBA	September 30-October 2
Northern California	San Mateo County Event Center San Mateo, California	October 21-23
Arizona	Westworld of Scottsdale Scottsdale, Arizona	October 28-30
Southern California	OC Fair and Event Center Costa Mesa, California	November 4-6