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Italian Market Pasta Salad

Who doesn’t love an awesome pasta salad this time of the year?
Makes: 4 main-dish servings
Start to Finish: 30 minutes
ingredients
•4 ounces packaged dry mafalda, large bow tie, or campanelle pasta
•6 cups mesclun or other spring greens
•1 cup grape tomatoes or cherry tomatoes, halved lengthwise
•1/2 cup crumbled Gorgonzola, blue, or feta cheese (2 ounces)
•3 tablespoons olive oil
•3 tablespoons white wine vinegar or Balsamic vinegar
•Salt and freshly ground black pepper
•1/4 cup pine nuts, toasted
directions
1. If using mafalda, break into irregular pieces, 2 to 3 inches long. Cook pasta according to package directions. Drain, rinse with cold water, and drain again.
2. In a large salad bowl, combine cooked pasta, mesclun or other spring greens, tomatoes, and cheese. Drizzle with olive oil and vinegar, tossing to coat. Season to taste with salt and freshly ground pepper.
3. Divide salad evenly among four dinner plates. Sprinkle with pine nuts. Makes 4 main-dish servings.
nutrition facts
•Servings Per Recipe 4 main-dish servings Calories319 Total Fat (g)20 Saturated Fat (g)5, Monounsaturated Fat (g)11, Polyunsaturated Fat (g)3, Cholesterol (mg)11, Sodium (mg)246, Carbohydrate (g)27, Total Sugar (g)4, Fiber (g)2, Protein (g)10, Vitamin A (DV%)87, Vitamin C (DV%)12, Calcium (DV%)102, Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet
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Cycle Source Magazine’s 5th “Run Through The Black Hills”

For the fifth year in a row, the Cycle Source Magazine will be holding their annual “Run Through The Black Hills” for readers attending this years Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. Anyone who loves the Black Hills as much as these cats needs to make sure they are in line by noon on Tuesday August 9th at the West Gate of the Buffalo Chip for a ride you will not forget.   Our own Garage-Girls Sara Liberte has done this ride several years with the magazine and she personally guarantees you will have loads of  and meet the coolest people!   The ride is scheduled to Leave the Chip at noon and the run will head right through the town of Sturgis then out Vanocker Canyon to the famous Nemo Guest Ranch. At the ranch, guests of the ride will be treated to a picnic style lunch before heading back to the Buffalo Chip for the remaining festivities of the day.

Join the Limpnickie Lot builders, the cycle Source staff and many illustrious guests from the motorcycle industry on a perfect afternoon with breath taking sights and killer bikes. Each attendee will get a commemorative VIP pass from the ride and there is no cost to attend. It’s the perfect way to mark the passing of another year, with cool friends in a place we all love!

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Trike Twins; sister built and powered!

Check out these dueling Garage-Girls and the monster trike they built on their own.  Meet Heather and Jessy Perts from Marsdale PA, at the young age of 16 they took on this build for their senior project. The twins decided to build this massive monster bulldog trike and required just a little help from dad Steve. now age 20 the girls enjoy taking this bad boy out for a spin, of course after waiting over a year to get some legal tags for it.   If you have a project you worked on or helped workout in your garage we want to see it! Please send pics to sara@garage-girls.com  Nice work Heather and jesy, can’t wait to see what you tackle next!

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Winners get “Hooked Up” at the Garage-Girls Ultimate Biker Makeover, Carlisle Edition brought to you by GEICO powersports.

After a month of public voting the 2 winners of the Garage-Girls Ultimate Biker Makeover finally claimed their prizes during Carlisle Bike Fest. In Carlisle PA July 23rd 2011.  Talk about a fun filled day!  Everyone knows as we get older it’s more fun to give than to receive and let me tell you myself, Crystal and Millicent had a blast watching the winners Mary and Pat  take in all the prizes they had just won.  The weekend was brutal hot, temps over 100 but that didn’t stop us all from having a good time and enjoying each others company.  This is our 3rd year doing the Ultimate Biker Makeover and every year each winner has been just amazing! All of us here at Garage-Girls consider ourselves so lucky to meet and spend the day with these wonderful people.
As you all know we asked Contestants (guys and girls) to submit a 600 words or less essay – describing why they are most in need of a biker makeover by May 10, 2011. Submissions were narrowed down to the final four by selected judges from Garage-Girls and Carlisle Events. The final 4 were then placed on Garage-girls.com for the public to vote for who they felt most deserved the Ultimate Biker Makeover.  Runner up Mary Pinkerton shared her story of experiencing the loss of her mother and then being informed she was diabetic. After focusing on her health and making changes to her new condition she has found herself many pounds lighter and with riding gear that no longer fits her properly.  Grand Prize Winner Pat Henderson shared her story of continually making self-sacrifices to provide her children with all she could, which included giving up her motorcycle. With her children grown she is asking for help in fulfilling her dreams of getting back out on the road.
Mary and Pat were both treated to a fun filled day at Carlisle Bike Fest.  Each receiving all-new gear and accessories including a new riding jacket from HOT LEATHERS, riding gloves and helmet by Z1R, riding boots by HARLEY-DAVIDSON FOOTWEAR, riding glasses from 7 EYE, clothing by REBEL GIRL, a $50 gift certificate to OTTERBOX.com, a cool kit filled with cleaning supplies by WIZARDS PRODUCTS, and each a case of full synthetic oil by SPECTRO OILS. Pat, the grand-prize winner, also received accessories for her motorcycle including a new seat by MUSTANG SEATS, a set of tires by AVON TYRES, a set of fork springs by PROGRESSIVE SUSPENSION, and lots of chrome goodies by KURYAKYN including grips, hiway pegs, chrome accents, the sound of chrome speakers and a tour pack luggage bag.  GEICO Insurance the presenting sponsor surprised Mary the runner up with a $200 gas gift card since she trekked all the way from Houston Texas!  The retail value of the prizes for Mary, the runner up was $1,034.95 and for grand prizewinner Pat,  $2,746.62!   Can you imagine scoring all of that!   Stay tuned to Garage-Girls for next years contest, this could be you!
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The 2nd Annual Jedediah Thomas Smith Memorial Luncheon is quickly approaching!

For those of you who have been with Garage-Girls for a while, you will remember our first years Ultimate Biker Makeover’s winner Kristin Buckley.  Her story of why she needed a biker makeover was very compelling to us and hit home with all of our readers. Kristin had been helping her son Jed fight childhood cancer for 11 years.  Sadly Jed passed 2 years ago and Kristin is still fighting to keep a cure on the horizon for children everywhere fighting childhood cancer in Jed’s memory.
We wanted to share this info about the memorial luncheon in Jed’s memory, if you are in the Eastern PA area, maybe you could stop by and support! If you are not in that area perhaps you would like to donate.
The 2nd Annual Jedediah Thomas Smith Memorial Luncheon event will be held Saturday, August 27th from 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. at the Great American Saloon in Red Lion, Pennsylvania. Featuring buffet style casual fare, cash bar, live music, homemade baked goods, as well as a large raffle and silent auction, all proceeds benefit the Jedediah Thomas Smith Foundation to raise funds and awareness towards the fight against childhood cancer. 

Donations are still needed for the silent auction and raffle for the luncheon! To donate, please contact the Jedediah Thomas Smith Foundation at jtsfoundation@gmail.com.   Join us in the fight against childhood cancer and make a difference in the life of a child! 
For tickets or more information, check out the blog – jtsfoundation.blogspot.com or follow us on Twitter – @JTSFoundation
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Rally TV, The Show you Watch Before you Go Anywhere! Is headed to Sturgis.

All of us here at Garage-Girls are psyched about this project because our very own Sara Liberte is co-creator along with Cycle Source Magazine’s Chris Callen. We just got word that Rally TV will be riding into the Black Hills and will be set-up with the Limpnickie Lot at the Buffalo Chip Campground. That isn’t where it stops, they will be at all the hot spots all over Sturgis including rides, events, shows and just roaming Mainstreet. With over 32,500 views of their videos from Laconia Motorcycle Week and Daytona it’s no wonder that Wizards Products, Garage Leathers , Black Hills Harley-Davidson, Pingel/Shifters Bar and Grill, Las Vegas Bike Fest and Sick Boy have signed on to sponsor segments during Rally TV’s Sturgis reporting.  Rally TV will be out among the bikers to document all the action and be the #1 online news source for all your Sturgis Bike Week information. Rally TV is the only grassroots video production company that allows bikers to interact and share their lifestyle with other bikers. Each day Rally TV will upload “Daily News” and an “Event Guide” to everything Rally TV sees as a fun thing to do which, can be viewed www.rallytvonline.com day or night. In addition Rally TV will be uploaded to a variety of motorcycle focused social media platforms including Bikernet.com, CycleSource.com, our own site Garage-Girls.com, Facebook and the Rally TV Youtube Channel.

Rally TV is known for their fun biker segments and knowing where the action is at every motorcycle event they attend, then immediately uploading them to the internet so anyone can have a look into the action just after it happens. So if you see the Rally TV crew out with a microphone and camera make sure you go up and say hi.

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David Uhl Annual Sturgis Piece

As most of you know, every year Garage-Girls favorite moto-artist David Uhl creates a new masterpiece for the Sturgis Rally and for Daytona Bike Week.  This year’s Sturgis piece, titled “Sly Hill Showdown”  combines some of David’s favorite things in life and joins past offerings such as “Stranger in Town”, “An August to Remember” and “Whiskey Business” in this collection.
In David’s words, “Approaching this years commemorative piece was highly influenced by my March Daytona release.  As I did earlier in the year,  I wanted to portray some unusual moment that may happen during the course of the Rally.  In this case, I chose the depiction of a classic hot rod interacting with one of the largest growing segments of the riding community, a woman.  Last year, I followed 3 of the coolest Rat Rods out to the Buffalo Chip, and intrigued with what these guys had done with their cars, I realized that they were amazingly similar to the custom bike builders I know.  As an artist, I am always looking for a unique angle, so I decided to put them together, way outside the fray of the huge crowds on Main Street.  They are on Sly Hill Road, just underneath the Sly Hill Sturgis sign that we all have come to know and love. I hope you enjoy this years commemorative.
As always, David is offering this piece at special commemorative pricing through the end of the rally on August 14th and including shipping within the contiguous U.S. for orders placed now.   Matching edition numbers are available for those collecting the entire Sturgis Commemorative series.  Each canvas print will come hand-signed and numbered and framed with Certificate of Authenticity.  The final edition size will be established at the end of the rally when we total the number of prints sold by that time.
Edition specifics:
“Regular” canvas print – image size 30” x 20”, $895 framed and shipped within the contiguous U.S.
“Large” canvas print – image size 42” x 28”, $2,850 framed and shipped within the contiguous U.S.
To reserve your print, simply contact Greg at 303-913-4840.
to see more of David’s work visit Uhlstudios.com