Vintage days 2008 As interpreted by Tim Birt
Left my place about 2:30. nice beautiful ride up. planning on getting beer
right before we got there, but ended up passing everything and arriving at
midohio, beerless, so we passed it and went into town. arrival at 4pm-ish
with a tent, 2 tiny blankets, and a case of beer between the 2 of us.
a quick drive through and stop under a tree by the track, and 4 beers are
gone nearly instantly (we were really thirsty). watch a couple practice
races and that calls it for the night as far as racing goes. so we're off
again. rolling around the midohio property, checking things out. We end up
at the rice paddy/ CO-OH VINMOTO area in the swap meet section. this was
home base. we set up tent. talked to everyone, hung out, and drank beers.
Everyone was super nice and friendly. We got the tent up and started walking
around the swap meet. holy crap, so much cool old shit. tons and tons,
acres of old bikes of all makes and models, parts galore. the rice paddy had
a big area set up with bins full of parts. He had an interesting sale ploy.
for instance, buy one gauge set for $5 or buy 2 gauge sets for... $5. Buy
one header pipe set for $15, or buy 2 for... $15. He said it really cut back
on the haggling headaches. We laughed all weekend over that one.
Dark sets in, the drunk is coming on. we decide to take a spin around camp.
so we head up through the swap meet area, immediately pass cops in a golf
cart, so we head the other way and loose them. somehow, on accidentally on
purpose, we end up at our old friend, the hill climb. pitch black rolling
through the grass and up we go, only to find out that the hill is roped up
on top. I'm right on Kevin's ass and he pulls a kickturn on this steep ass
hill, so we're headed back down. stop at the bottom to laugh a bit and shoot
the shit, decide to lay a couple patches and dig holes with our tires in the
grass, just kinda raising hell. head back up the way we came in and BLAM,
there's 5 cop golf carts parked at the top, we though for sure we were had,
but rolled through, got back to our camp spot, off of the bikes and decided
that was enough riding around for the evening. we're off again walking
midohio in search of food and drink. checking things out. tons of fun
laughing at people and whatnot. got to bed about 1-2 am I think, I couldn't
sleep at all, just laid there getting pissed all night.
we wake up about 8am and look outside our tent and there's a 4000 person
line right in front of our tent, waiting to test drive bikes. so, we get up,
go get coffee and a bagel and hang out the rest of the day watching races.
we saw the cage of death with some balloon tittied Russian and her American
handler going nuts in the thing. that was cool. the races were sweet saw
some 2 man sidecar racing that was nuts. saw a few guys go down, all in the
same curve . one guys bike caught on fire. we didn't see anyone get hurt
bad, but heard later that one guy got life flighted out in another accident.
cruised around the camp on our bikes some more, checking out various stuff.
so many cool bikes and accessories. Kevin took about 10 million pics.
