My Town Belding: New troubles for Rivertown Bike Week Expo
BELDING, Mich.—A motorcycle event that’s expected to attract tens of thousands of bikers to Belding is running into more troubles.
Mark Mensch of the Rivertown Bike Week Expo told the city council this week the event’s presenting sponsor has withdrawn. Organizers are now looking for other funding solutions, but are still planning on holding the the Bike Week Expo July 17-19, 2015.
The organizers of the expo are part of the same group that began planning Rivertown Bike Week in Grand Rapids in 2010, but had to repeatedly delay the event because of regulations and a lack of sponsors. They tried moving it to July 2014 in Belding, but ended up postponing the event again after failing to secure venues and sponsorships in time.