I brought a small group with me this time—a friend with his R100R, another with a new-to-him R100T mated to a Velorex, and one more who tagged along in his car, too nervous to make the 3.5 hour trek on one of his old steeds.
We got in around 12:30. I was getting nervous as we got closer to the museum because we were seeing some older bikes seemingly coming from the museum. Did we miss the memo? Is it closed? Was the turnout so poor due to the previous day’s hurricane that people didn’t find it worth sticking around? Thankfully when we showed up, there were still enough bikes to consider the drive worth the effort. It was nice to see the museum layout updated with a few new exhibited machines.
Hopefully next year they go back to the clearly marked partitions separating each country of manufacture. I suspect bringing the modern bikes onto the pavement this year was due to soggy conditions in the grass, and the storm didn’t allow for time to get everything as organized as in years past (or at least the previous couple years I’ve been there).
Hoping next year I can bring the R80/7 to the show. As much as I love my ‘16 Guzzi—btw, the Owl Museum trip marked the one year anniversary of my engine breakdown, pretty neat to return on the same machine—I don’t want to me relegated to the Modern Bike section at a vintage show anymore ;) Regardless, this vintage show at a cool museum with old planes flying around is 100% still worth the annual 3.5 hour ride up.
PS-apologies if I met anyone there, and forgot who you were on the forum. Faces come and go through my memory like a fart in the wind these days.
