Mark, quite frankly it was a wasted day and a six-hour round-trip drive. I probably won't even consider going next year.
I took my camera but only photographed Yoshi's MV Triple (for personal reasons to be explained later this year) and some shots of Joker Machine's new billet CB750 accessory parts. Creative designs but
very "billet." I really didn't see anything else that even interested me enough to take out the camera.
The turnout at the meet on Sunday was maybe 60% of last year's showing and last year wasn't any great shakes. Lots of CB160's, NO CB750's or 550's. A goodly number of vintage Honda twins. Some well-worn Kawasaki triples. The usual field of nice Manx's was there along with a number of other Brit twins. Two very nice Vincent
Gray Flashes (Vincent single-cylinders) and at least one well-prepped sidehack outfit. However. the majority of the bikes at the meet looked just plain worn out and almost ratty. Overall, a really uninspiring (slightly depressing) day. You didn't miss much.
Maybe someone who attended on Saturday when the bike show was on will post some inspiring photos.
After seeing the incredible vintage bike art and pride at SPA last year, I still can't believe that SoCal has such an anemic vintage racer scene.
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