Classic bike show

Yamaguy55

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Martin Motorsports in Boyertown PA is having their second classic bike show soon, in the beginning of March.

Details here: http://www.martinmoto.com/default.asp?page=modern-classics-home

I went last year (the first one) and it was quite good. Like old home week seeing the bikes I grew up with. Hopefully by then, the weather will be good enough to ride. It has been unusually mild this winter, but we still have salt on the roads here, which is the show stopper for me. The low temp doesn't do it, the corrosive does. It is bad enough my car slowly rots away, I refrain from dissolving my bikes.

Anyway, I hope to attend, and hope to see some of you there. It was well worth the door charge last year, I expect this year to be even better.

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Yamaguy55

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It was even better than last year. I will post photos when I get a chance.
 

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Yamaguy55 said:
It was even better than last year. I will post photos when I get a chance.
I didn't bother to head over. How does this show compare to Bill's Bike Barn over in Bloomsburg?
 

Yamaguy55

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Don't know about Bill's personally: I understood it is mostly Harleys and other US brands from the 60s and earlier, so I've never bothered to go. I've seen enough of that to last several lifetimes. Doc ( Pratt, I think his name was) had an invite only show frequently in Bechtelsville, and he had all sorts of older US and Euro stuff. FNs, and there usual collection of WWI and WWII Harleys. Some pretty rare stuff at that. After the third or fourth time, I sort of glaze over.
The Martin's show was a good mix of all sorts of things. They call it the modern classics as it is 60s-70s-80s. The stuff many of us rode when we were learning to ride. Last year the Vincent was the biggie, this year they had a nice mix with some really oddball things, like a 250 single BMW from the 60s. Shaft drive and all, but a vertical single. The theme was cafe bikes, and there were quite a few nice Brit bikes: Nortons, lots of Triumphs, and even a Triton. Probably the most BSAs I've seen together in years.
I'll try and get photos up tomorrow.
 
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