Vintage Motorcycle Days

[NancysToy]

Well, we're packing up today to head off to Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course for Vintage Motorcycle Days. Not riding the Spyder, but it will be the first thing in the trailer. Should be a hit at VMD. Big change for my wife from getting around on her Trail 90. For those of you unaware of the event, it is three days (four for volunteers like us) of vintage bike racing, bike shows, rides, and the largest swap meet in North America. Incredible spectacle! This is the Year of the Triumph, but the Bonnie battery crapped out at the last minute, so I am riding and showing something else. If any Spyder enthusiasts are in the Mid-Ohio area, ride on out. I guarantee you will enjoy yourselves. Be prepared for incredibly long, slow lines getting in the gate, however. Last year they stretched all the way into Lexington by Saturday at noon. Could overheat a Spyder.

Hope I don't experience SpyderLovers withdrawal while I'm gone! I'll miss you guys and gals.
-Scotty

 

[jeuchler]

Well, we're packing up today to head off to Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course for Vintage Motorcycle Days. Not riding the Spyder, but it will be the first thing in the trailer. Should be a hit at VMD. Big change for my wife from getting around on her Trail 90. For those of you unaware of the event, it is three days (four for volunteers like us) of vintage bike racing, bike shows, rides, and the largest swap meet in North America. Incredible spectacle! This is the Year of the Triumph, but the Bonnie battery crapped out at the last minute, so I am riding and showing something else. If any Spyder enthusiasts are in the Mid-Ohio area, ride on out. I guarantee you will enjoy yourselves. Be prepared for incredibly long, slow lines getting in the gate, however. Last year they stretched all the way into Lexington by Saturday at noon. Could overheat a Spyder.

Hope I don't experience SpyderLovers withdrawal while I'm gone! I'll miss you guys and gals.
-Scotty

Sounds like a blast, Scotty! Take photos!

(Say, are you almost ready to start that restoration on my 1974 xl 175 yet??! :joke

 

[Stuart49]

I'll be there, riding out very early Friday morning. I'll be on my Spyder, although I considered riding my Buell XB12R. Was out there a few years ago and it is really cool if you like vintage machines. The racing - solo and sidecars - is spectacular.

I waited til this week to make final arrangements and the nearest rooms available, as of 2 days ago, are in Wooster, some 40 miles east from the site. Just staying over one night, so we'll need only one round trip to hotel.

Stuart - look for my yellow Spyder with the black top trunk and Iron Butt License plate surround. :2excited:

 

[NancysToy]

I'll be there, riding out very early Friday morning. I'll be on my Spyder, although I considered riding my Buell XB12R. Was out there a few years ago and it is really cool if you like vintage machines. The racing - solo and sidecars - is spectacular.

I waited til this week to make final arrangements and the nearest rooms available, as of 2 days ago, are in Wooster, some 40 miles east from the site. Just staying over one night, so we'll need only one round trip to hotel.

Stuart - look for my yellow Spyder with the black top trunk and Iron Butt License plate surround. :2excited:

We'll be around the infield a good deal of the time. Camping at the track. Nancy will be selling raffle tickets at the AMA tent Friday afternoon, and I'll be working the bike shows Saturday and Sunday, and going on the Ride 'Em - Don't Hide "Em. Spyder will probably be in the infield handicap lot, or near the show field or AMA tent. Yellow Spyder, nothing striking. Hyper-Lites and handicap plate on the rear. I will have my factory pink "Tokyo Rose" 1960 Honda Benly in the ride and the show. I'm using her 1968 Honda Trail 90 for basic transportation. Tricycle is staying home this year.

Hope to meet up with you there.
-Scotty

 

[spydsense]

Have a good time and a safe trip.

 

[NancysToy]

We're Home!

Got back last night just before midnight. Totally exhausted, so the Spyder and bikes stayed in the trailer until today. The Spyder Demo Team was there at Vintage Motorcycle Days, doing gangbuster business. Nancy stopped by to say "Hi", but they had little time to chat, even early Friday, before they were "discovered". I passed one of the tour rides going out as I was coming back from the Ride-Em, Don't Hide-Em show ride. Saw a silver Spyder amongst the crowd of spectator bikes. If that was you, Stuart49, sorry I missed you. Also saw you heading up the hill the opposite way on the main road, in traffic.

If you think stopping to get gas causes you to be surrounded by a crowd and delayed by questions, try parking your Spyder at an event attended by 40,000 motorcyclists!!! Questions wherever we went Thursday and Friday, even with some folks flagging us down. Saying the Spyder Team was in the paddock and could answer their questions better than we could, didn't stop the questions in the least. Saturday the Spyder was mostly parked at the far end of the show field where we were working, so we watched the continuous crowds around it with a chuckle, from afar. Usually you couldn't even see the Spyder. Sunday Nancy parked right next to the show tent, where we were working, and we were inundated with questions at every break we took, or whenever we wandered by. We really should get a commission for this!

Anyway, great event, great time, lots of "rock star" moments, and thousands more are now interested in the Spyder. Life is good!
-Scotty

P.S. - Took home an award for the vintage Honda I showed on Sunday.

 

[bjt]

P.S. - Took home an award for the vintage Honda I showed on Sunday.

Congrats Scotty. :firstplace:

 

[dltang]

I thought about you on Sunday Scotty, as I was traveling through Battle Creek (kind of) in I-94 on my way home from Berrien Springs. I was seeing road signs that brought back some childhood memories. Let's see, my grandmother used to live on Beckley. I remember Sullivan's Ice Cream downtown. I thought since you were at a Vintage bike show, I should reminisce too. Glad you had a good time and congratulations on your win.

 

[NancysToy]

I thought about you on Sunday Scotty, as I was traveling through Battle Creek (kind of) in I-94 on my way home from Berrien Springs. I was seeing road signs that brought back some childhood memories. Let's see, my grandmother used to live on Beckley. I remember Sullivan's Ice Cream downtown. I thought since you were at a Vintage bike show, I should reminisce too. Glad you had a good time and congratulations on your win.

We only live about a mile north of I-94 and Beckley Rd. Too bad we were elsewhere. We are imports here, from Kalamazoo, and previously elsewhere. I don't remember if Sullivan's was still here by the time we landed in 1979. For us, Murch's in Kalamazoo was the best ice cream in town. Thanks for thinking of us, and thank you both for the congratulations.
-Scotty