Scenes from the Barber Vintage Festival Leeds AL Oct 2006

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There are several big vintage motorcycle meets around the country where one can enjoy a 3 day immersion into motorcycling as it was years ago. The AMA Vintage Days Meet at MidOhio in July is probably the largest one. But in the last couple of years a new star has been rising with the Barber Vintage Festival held in Oct near Birmingham AL on the grounds of the Barber Motosport Park. The grounds are off to themselves and large enough to accomodate very large events without seeming to be crowded. The race track is very nice with many good view points. Then there is the wonderful Barber Motorcycle Museum which is likely the best motorcycle museum in the country. During the festival they had it open until 9pm each evening to allow visitors to see it without missing the day activities.

This year the festival ran from Friday-Sunday Oct 20-22. One could get in as early as Thursday afternoon. Attending the event was very easy on the pocketbook with a $25 entrance fee and a $25 camping fee for the 3 days. Considering the non stop list of events going no matter what your motorcycle interest happens to be this was a good deal. The American Historic Racing Association (AHRMA) was busy all weekend with practise and racing of antique and vintage bikes. The swap meet was pretty large but not quite up to MidOhio standards yet but the potential is there. This is a different area of the country so this is a totally different group of bikes than seen in the Ohio area. I saw plenty of good deals. There had been recent rains which muddied up the swap meet area a little bit but the weather was clear and nice during the meet. There were many other things going on such as the Trials and Motocross events and the VJMC events and a nice Bridgestone exhibit and a bike judging.

I arrived at 2pm on Friday after a 1200 mile drive (Toyota pickup) and set up camp and began photographing. I was up early Saturday and was busy all day and began the journey back to NH at 10pm Saturday night. I took over 4000 photographs and did not come close to photographing all I wanted to but plan to do a better job in 2007.

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