The Berdoo Bikes & Blues Festival in San Bernardino, Calif., scheduled for early May, has been postponed to 2010 because the economic recession made it difficult to attract sponsors, reports the San Bernardino County Sun.
The inaugural festival was last year, and it drew about 8,000 people. It was an offshoot on the Route 66 Rendezvous, a massive classic- and custom-car show held each September in San Bernardino.
The motorcycle event is organized mainly by the local firefighters union. The recession is severe in California and in San Bernardino County in particular; the region had a large housing bubble that burst.
The Sun reports that organizers are shooting to resume the festival in April 2010.