Just one of the many side roads filled with a variety of vintage bikes, parts and interesting people.
The Antique Motorcycle Club of America holds a vintage motorcycle festival each summer in the rural community of Rhinebeck, New York. A two-hour ride north of Manhattan takes you to this quiet and beautiful area, with Catskill Reserve, a large state park just west of the Hudson River, quite nearby. The Reserve has light traffic and smooth roads, which wind through mountains and follow rivers.
For $35,000, this historic Indian could’ve been yours.
As we entered the Duchess County Fairgrounds for the 2017 gathering, a motorcycle, long and brown, whirred quietly by. My buddy Doug and I exclaimed, ?What was that"? This became our catch phrase for the next two days. You never know what you will see at this vintage show. Here is a two-wheel Barnum that rides along on wooden wheels.
We looked at beautiful and unusual parts on vendors? tables and viewed unfamiliar motorcycles and contraptions on wheels. We watched with delight as two fellows from Boston pushed carts full of cherished parts, and I laughed as a man maneuvered a complete motorcycle front end across the field, arms outstretched comically as if operating a lawnmower.
Impeccably restored 1948 Indian once used by the Police Dept. of New York City.
Program organizer Don Spence and chapter president Keith ?Mudfish? Moser told us they like to maintain a family-friendly festival. The atmosphere is open, lightheart...