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12-08-2005, 07:50 AM
ATV World's Fair Comes to an END (http://www.atvriders.com/atvnews/2005atvworldsfair_end.html)

Gardnerville, NV (12/7/05) - With the rapid growth of the ATV market, ATV Industry Magazine figured it was time for the ATVs to finally have their own industry show, so in 2004, they made it a reality with the Suzuki sponsored ATV Expo held in the Louisville, KY at the Kentucky International Convention Center.

The show was setup as a dealer/consumer show with a dealer only day followed by two day consumer show, but unfortunately very few dealers actually attend the show in 2004 and again in 2005. The consumer traffic was busy both years, but it wasn’t enough to keep the exhibitors coming back for another year, ATV World's Fair Promoter and ATV Industry Magazine Editor, Rick Campbell, said “Unfortunately we have decided to discontinue producing the ATV World's Fair. The 2005 event, last October, had half the number of exhibitors that we had in 2004. It seems that the exhibitors did not come back, as well as the original equipment manufactures, like Honda, Kawasaki, Suzuki and Yamaha.”

The ATV World’s Fair really needed a major OEM sponsor, and Suzuki fulfilled that role in 2004, but they dropped their sponsorship for 2005, which left the huge financial burden of hosting the event on the promoter, Campbell said “We are not a large enough company to be able to absorb huge amounts of losses, so I could not invite the risk of an even smaller event in 2006. The truly unfortunate part of it is that we had grand plans for expanding the show, to include a sanctioned race, an Olympic-type event, etc. in future years. Now there is no such event and consumers and dealers will be left to a few farm shows, etc.”

ATVriders.com applauds the efforts of Rick Campbell and ATV Industry Magazine for hosting an ATV exclusive show/expo, and the event will truly be missed by all of those that have attended the past two years and hopefully the show will be back again in the future with the support of a major company or OEM.