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Motorcycle Shows

Goldmember by Roger Goldammer – 2008 Freestyle 1st place
The results are in for the 2008 AMD World Championship of Custom Bike Building held this past week in Sturgis. Some very familiar faces and names are trophy winners, foremost among them, Roger Goldammer with Goldmember took top honors in the freestyle class. Coming in 2nd was [...]

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Vintage Motorcycle Days 2008 Photos 2

by Paul Crowe - "The Kneeslider" on 7/31/2008

in Motorcycle Shows, Vintage Motorcycles

After posting some photos yesterday of the motorcycles assembled at Mid Ohio for Vintage Days, several commenters posted links to other sites with many more photos, so I’ll leave those links and just post a few more photos here, in response to questions and a random selection of several more.
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As mentioned before, AMA Vintage Motorcycle Days at Mid-Ohio is one of those events you really should attend if you have any interest in motorcycles beyond the latest and greatest factory offerings. I’ve already pointed out a couple of bikes, the Doublewhiz and the Munch Mammut replica, but there were thousands of motorcycles at the [...]

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If you have any interest in vintage motorcycles whatsoever and you have the chance to get to Mid Ohio July 25-27, 2008, you really should try to be there. This is the best assemblage of old motorcycles, riders and racers you’ll see in one place. There’s a huge swap meet, vintage racing, motorcycle shows and [...]

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Next month the Vintage Japanese and European Motorcycle Club of North America will hold their 5th annual International Vintage Motorcycle Show and Swap Meet, August 15-17, 2008 at the Outagamie County Fairgrounds, Seymour, Wisconsin. Dave sent in a question about whether there would be a show this year and I thought I better find out.
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World Champion Indoor Trials Riding Skill

by Paul Crowe - "The Kneeslider" on 6/23/2008

in Motorcycle Shows

Dougie Lampkin, World Trials Champion puts on, what might be called, an extreme indoor trials riding exhibition, riding through your basic English estate … indoors, through hallways, up stairs, through the library and offices, storage rooms and patios, you know, just where you would expect to see a trials bike while you’re sipping tea.
In this [...]

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Denny, one of The Kneeslider’s regular readers from Portland, Oregon, sent us a note saying he just returned from a trip to Italy where he and three of his friends, had the opportunity to tour the Morbidelli Museum. Denny says Giancarlo Morbidelli was a most unassuming, gracious and wonderful host. Not only that, they [...]

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With all of the press Buell is getting these days, their PR department must be working till the wee hours of the morning or maybe the producers just thought a Buell was the best choice. Either way, according to this leaked call sheet for the upcoming Transformers 2 movie, there is a Buell Firebolt that [...]

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