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BIKES: 2012 Barber Vintage Festival
Neale Bayly travels to Alabama to attend the Barber Vintage Festival with over 57,000 other enthusiasts and fans of vintage bikes.
(Photo: Neale Bayly) Classic bikes like this Motobi are common at the Barber Vintage Festival
The annual Barber Vintage Festival in Birmingham, Alabama is fast becoming my favorite motorcycle event of the year. Spending the weekend with my good friends at Motus, and mingling with some of the most incredible motorcycle people in the industry against the backdrop of the Barber Motorsports Park is hard to beat.
In its eighth year, the festival drew a record crowd of over 57,000 people, which included AHRMA racers, official, participants, vendors, and spectators.
Fabulous stuff. Mr. Barber was on hand, walking the grounds and making sure he spoke to everyone who came across his path.
Our good friend Richard Backus from Motorcycle Classics was working their booth and putting on his usual suave, sophisticated display. Triumph motorcycles were the featured marque and they had a fabulous area to view new and old Triumphs, and a chance to meet with their people.
With great racing throughout the days, and swap meets, vendor areas, vintage off road racing, and a special Ace Café area and Café Racer village showing all sorts of incredible Café bikes, it’s almost stimulation overload. Here I hung out with Kevin Dunworth from Loaded Gun Customs, as he introduced me to all the colorful characters that are making this genre so exciting and fun.
If you haven’t been, put it on the calendar for next year, as there are few better ways to spend a weekend than with over 50,000 of your closest friends enjoying vintage and café motorcycles.
In its eighth year, the festival drew a record crowd of over 57,000 people, which included AHRMA racers, official, participants, vendors, and spectators.
Fabulous stuff. Mr. Barber was on hand, walking the grounds and making sure he spoke to everyone who came across his path.
Our good friend Richard Backus from Motorcycle Classics was working their booth and putting on his usual suave, sophisticated display. Triumph motorcycles were the featured marque and they had a fabulous area to view new and old Triumphs, and a chance to meet with their people.
With great racing throughout the days, and swap meets, vendor areas, vintage off road racing, and a special Ace Café area and Café Racer village showing all sorts of incredible Café bikes, it’s almost stimulation overload. Here I hung out with Kevin Dunworth from Loaded Gun Customs, as he introduced me to all the colorful characters that are making this genre so exciting and fun.
If you haven’t been, put it on the calendar for next year, as there are few better ways to spend a weekend than with over 50,000 of your closest friends enjoying vintage and café motorcycles.
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