European Motorcycles at Larz Anderson Oct 2003

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Motorcyclist in the New England area are a hardy bunch of riders and they need to be. Who else would think of having a major motorcycle gathering in the almost certain painfully cold or wet weather of October. Leave it to those macho Yankee Beemers. I do know that the English like to suffer on their bikes and I have seen photographs of German meets in the snow so I guess it is not totally crazy. But chances are about 9 in 10 for cold or rain. I am not complaining though as it is one my favorite motorcycle gathering because of its audacity and the caliber of rider and bikes that show up. It is a riders meet with a very large portion of the visitors arriving on motorcycles.

This was the 10th year the Yankee Beemers have put on this show at the Larz Anderson Museum of Transportation in Brookline (Boston area) MA. The event was on a Sunday from 9-4. General admission was $5 adults and $3 students and seniors. It cost $10 to enter a bike for judging. Vendor fee was $50. Cycles can park within the museum grounds. Cars can find free parking on the streets.

We arrived around 8am Sunday morning after only getting a little lost. We hit a little rain driving down but it was not raining when we arrived. We set up a simple booth because of the threatening weather. As always a great bunch of bikes and riders began arriving. A truely breathtaking array of bikes began being assembled on the judging lawn which was laid out very systematically. We took pictures as fast as we could. And then the rain began but we still were taking lots of photos. Things still went on and the crowd still admired the bikes but a lot of people were getting very wet. At least it was relatively warm as it could get a lot worse than it was. So we left wet but happy and look forward to next year.

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