This past weekend my father-in-law (Erik), his friend Ed Haas and myself made the trip to Birmingham, Alabama to attend the 7th annual vintage motorcycle race and show. I gotta say that it couldn't have been a better weekend for a lot of reasons. It was a real treat to watch the old bikes run flat out around such a professional and beautiful track, the museum was absolutely amazing, the "real" museum was all around outside everywhere you looked and the weather could not have been nicer.
A little racing action above with the rarely seen in the US sidecar racers below.
Some of these pictures are a little fuzzy but I was a little ways away and had the camera on full zoom. You can see the "monkey" move from side to side on the sidecar in order to shift weight so the bike will go through the corners faster without tipping over...hopefully.
Don't be fooled, these guys are moving at a pretty good clip and if you look closely and some of the "monkeys" you can see that they are women! Now that's trust!
I'll be posting more on all the great things that went on at Barber this year with quite a few pictures to come.
2 comments:
I want to be drug around on the ground in a sweet suit.
ha! molly that's great.
na, those are awesome photos. i never knew they did that.
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