If you're planning to visit a number of biker rallies this summer you're probably going to purchase event patches to commemorate your visit. This is normal practice among bikers all over the country. As you shop for patches you will notice that you have two basic options: you can purchase official event patches with the design approved and sanctioned by the rally's organizers or you can purchase stock patches designed by various manufacturers just for the event. However, if you're part of a motorcycle club interested in your own custom event patches there is a third option.
Retailers like The Cheap Place offer customers the opportunity to take their designs and create custom patches from them. So your third option is to design an event patch just for your club and no one else. That would make it exclusively just for you and your fellow members, thus making it a bit more valuable than some of your other event patches. If you want to shoot for maximum exclusivity you could designate that only bikers who actually attended the rally that year can purchase and wear these patches. This would ensure the fewest number in circulation which would then increase the value.
This is actually such a good idea I'm surprised not more motorcycle clubs do it. Today's clubs are so protective of their identities and their brotherhood it seems to me this would be a great tool. It would be a tool not only to identify those members who went to a rally, but also to encourage more members to attend. And if you designated a certain position on the cut to place these rally patches, the uniform displaying of them would add to the honor and dignity.
I'm just sayin'.
