No Matter Where You Go. . .: Modern Classics Bike Show

Martins Motorsport in Boyertown PA
"Modern Classics Motorcycle Show"
3/12/2011

First bike in the door was a friends 1952 Vincent Black Shadow. This bike is the labor of love and sweat and tears. The ride to this show was its first long shake down run. The rest of the bikes are in reverse alphabetical order, since that is the way it is ordered in the folder on the computer.

Here is a bike a have never seen before. A Yankee dirt bike. Made in the US powered by a twin cylinder torquey engine.

A very nice Yamaha XS650 street tracker. Modeled after a Kenny Roberts flat track bike., this was what I wanted to make out of the XS650 that I had purchased for the motorcycle restoration club at Annandale High School in VA. But then we had a baby and I wound up selling it as a basket case.

Triumph Tiger T-100. My father had a Tiger T-110.

Triumph single drag bike. Note the tiny carb in the photo above.

Another Mac-Pac owned bike.

Suzuki GS1000ES. This was a single year model and are rare. This bike was pretty and awesome.

The first Katana. Polarizing visually many hated it, but I always thought it was cool. I really liked the two tone treatment on the front fender and seat. Fore runner of all the modern sportbikes that would follow it truly is a classic.

Anther bike I had never seen before a Silk.

Norton Commando. Nothing more needs to be said.

Nothing looks better than a bright orange Laverda Jota.

I dreamed of owning one of these as a young adult in the early 80's. I would still like one.

A lesson learned. When Honda produced the GB500 is was for Europe only. Thousands wrote to them and begged them to send it to the U.S. "It will sell like hotcakes" they were told. They did, and it didn't. I always thought it would be a cool bike to have.

A Honda Dream. My father owned one of these. He always said it was his dream that turned into a nightmare. I forget the issues he had with it, but it made him swear off of Japanese motorcycles for a very long time. Beside a couple of months on a loaner Yamaha from the dealership that Dad worked at he never owned another.

This CX500 turbo is owned by the father of the friend that I rode to the show with. Very pretty and excellently maintained.

Six Cylinders on a CBX.

My friend owns one of these, but it is not together right now. After seeing this he has vowed to have it done by the end of the year.

Harley Sprint.

You do not often get to see the Desmodromic gears that run the valve train on a Ducati. This is on a Mike Hailwood replica Ducati that was produced in 1986. It was celebrating Mike Hailwood coming out of retirement and winning at the Isle of Mann in 1978. He was 38 years old. He was killed a year later when a truck turned in front of his car. Another picture of the bike is below.