International Motorcycle Show 2014 - Continued

 

Is this kid smitten with Miss Ducati or the 1199?

Nate's friend in the Indian booth

Josh Grant JGR Yamaha

Ryan Dungey KTM

The next Ryan Dungey's KTM

Tom S Indian Hillclimber

Tom S Henderson

Tom S Knucklehead Hillclimber

While walking through the Triumph booth in my 1950's Jimmy Phillips Johnson Motors/Triumph replica race sweater and this young lady Callie made me pose for a photo. In turn I then made her jump the display ropes to pose for a photo with Emma. She rides MX and seemed genuinely excited about my stinky old Triumph. Given the chance I think she would have jumped right up there and kick started it. Cool girl.

International Motorcycle Show Seattle 2014

Emma was invited to participate in vintage motorcycle exhibit at the Seattle International Motorcycle Show. I wasn't all that excited about going to the show before I saw some of the other bikes in the vintage display. Is it wrong to like it when the quality of vintage bikes is so high at a show they make my bike look like a Toyota Corolla?

Thanks to Flathead Rob for helping me clean Emma up for the display

Emma's new Brough buddy.

Anytime my wife or daughter is around and All Girls Garage happens to come on they give me limitless crap. I was pretty amused to see that one of the hosts is apparently working the Triumph booth. I need to get a picture of her sitting on Emma to give to them.

HIllclimb Warpath

I went to drop Emma off for a vintage motorcycle display and found this vision of loveliness. More to come later.

Crusty

Ran When Parked

1930 Indian 4 - I'd have no problem making room in the garage for this one.

Full Face

Just in case you ever wondered why I almost always wear a full face helmet. I've seen the helmet impact diagram lots of times but never done on a helmet before. Kinda cool.

Supercross Charity Auction 2014

Just in case you're loaded and have always wanted some real-deal Supercross gear it looks like the fund raising auction is finally live. As far as I can tell Monster Energy Supercross never did link to it as promised. The proceeds go to Operation Homefront.

Mail Slot

Another wonderful photo from LowTech

Drag Zia

With minimal Photoshop work this decal would make a great logo for a New Mexico based car club or event.

Ran When Parked

1968 Harley Davidson XLH - The late 60's XLH's could well be the homeliest motorcycle Harley Davidson ever built. Aaermacchi's don't count.

Ran When Parked

1965 Triumph Bonneville T120C (TT) - I never know if half the bikes that claim to be TT's really are TT's but this one sure would make a cool rider. I've never dreamed much about owning a TT because unless you vintage raced one it would pretty much just have to be a decoration...

16th Annual Teddy Bear Run

Today was the 16th Annual Teddy Bear Run. The Teddy Bear Run is usually the first Seattle Cossacks show of the season. The record breaking snowfall the previous night had a huge impact on the number of bikes that turned out. I think I counted about 6 diehards that rode in. The number of people that showed up was probably 1/50 of last year. It didn't prevent the Cossacks from performing though. The guys did a really solid show despite not having ridden for a couple of months.

This little girl was a rockstar!