Ten years of Spring Motor Mania — and the open house that started it all. Browse the photo archives from every event, beginning with the very first Combined Open House in April 2008 through the final Motor Mania in June 2018. Bikes Built Better and Injection Connection built something special in that Horsham parking lot, and these galleries are the proof. This is the community archive — every year, every show, preserved for anyone who was there and anyone who wishes they had been.
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Combined Open House 2008 — Where the Idea Was Born
Before there was a Spring Motor Mania, there was a combined open house. On Saturday, April 18th 2008, Bikes Built Better and Injection Connection opened their doors together for the first time — 10am to 4pm at 131–135 Horsham Road in Horsham, PA. Performance and custom motorcycles, cars, hot rods, trucks, and more filled the…
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Spring Motor Mania 2009 — The First Annual
The 2008 Combined Open House had proven something — when Bikes Built Better and Injection Connection got together, people showed up. So on April 18th, 2009, they did it again, this time with a name and a mission. The first Spring Motor Mania was on. April made sense — cabin fever was at its peak…
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Spring Motor Mania 2010 — The 2nd Annual
The second annual Spring Motor Mania rolled in on April 17th, 2010 and the word was getting out. Bikes Built Better and Injection Connection brought back the cars, bikes, and good vibes — and this year added a few things to sweeten the deal. T-shirt sales benefited the Sunshine Foundation. Motorcycle riders tackled a 50-mile…
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Spring Motor Mania 2011 — The 3rd Annual
The third annual Spring Motor Mania took place on May 14th, 2011, and the crew behind it Injection Connection, Bikes Built Better, and new co-host Air Gas Welding Products came back with a longer menu and a lot more going on. Main Street Pizza joined the burger and hot dog spread, vendors like Keystone Automotive,…
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Spring Motor Mania 2012 — The 4th Annual
Spring Motor Mania 2012 arrived on May 12th with the event’s identity firmly established. As the original description put it, this was “a celebration of how much we love things with wheels and the biggest engine you can squeeze between them.” Bikes Built Better and Injection Connection had built something real — a local event…
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Spring Motor Mania 2013 — The 5th Annual
The fifth annual Spring Motor Mania ran on May 11th, 2013 — and by now the event had a rhythm all its own. Cars, bikes, food, music, door prizes, vendors, and a crowd that kept growing year after year. That same fall, Bikes Built Better and Injection Connection held their first Customer Appreciation Day on…
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Spring Motor Mania 2014 — The 6th Annual
Six years in, Spring Motor Mania on May 10th, 2014 was firing on all cylinders. The car show and custom motorcycle show kept getting more impressive, the live band and vendor lineup continued to grow, and the free food and raffle prizes made it as much a community cookout as a motorsports event. That November,…
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Spring Motor Mania 2015 — The 7th Annual
The 7th Annual Spring Motor Mania on May 9th, 2015 brought everything the event had become known for — custom cars, custom motorcycles, a live band, motorsports vendors, raffle prizes, games of chance, and food. That fall, Bikes Built Better added something special: a Customer Appreciation Day on October 10th to mark 10 years in…
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Spring Motor Mania 2016 — The 8th Annual
May 14th, 2016 marked the eighth year of Spring Motor Mania, and it remained exactly what it had always been — unique. The event’s roots as a cooperative brainchild of Bikes Built Better and Injection Connection still showed in every detail. No pretense, no velvet ropes — just cool cars and motorcycles from mild to…
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Spring Motor Mania 2017 — The 9th Annual
The 9th Annual Spring Motor Mania rolled out on May 20th, 2017 — still growing, still the same authentic community event it had always been. Later that year, Bikes Built Better helped kick off something new: the first annual Horsham Toys for Tots Toy Run on November 5th, staging at Hannum’s Harley-Davidson in Sellersville and…
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Spring Motor Mania 2018 — The Final Show
The 10th and final Spring Motor Mania took place on June 16th, 2018 — and nobody knew at the time that it would be the last. The plan was always to skip 2019, build some anticipation, and come back bigger than ever in 2020. COVID had other ideas. What was supposed to be a brief…
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Bikes Built Better — The Beginning | Grand Opening June 2005
The idea for Bikes Built Better didn’t start in a showroom or a business plan. It started the way most good things in the motorcycle world do — between two people who rode, wrenched, and talked too much about what a shop should be. By the early 2000s Joe Heffernan and I had been spending…